Japanese civil society in global governance: the case of 2015 UN World Conference on disaster risk reduction

Climate Change and the Voluntary Sector: An Introduction

“…Approximately 25 (30%) of the 83 articles explored “policy integration” or “governance integration” questions related to the growing call for collective approaches to mitigation and adaptation. These include work on the “new environmentalism” (e.g., Connors & McDonald, 2011), “green economy” (e.g., Mukonza & Mukonza, 2015), collective approaches to climate governance (e.g., Glemarec & Puppim de Oliveira, 2012), multi-sector climate adaptation policy (e.g., Henstra, 2017), and the role of non-state actors such as civil society institutions in implementing United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and in shaping “global normative frameworks” (e.g., Hickman et al, 2021; Jain et al, 2021; Szczepanska, 2017, p. 167). Two articles are also interested in critiquing voluntary sector participation in climate mitigation, such as conservation NGOs that generate moral hazards when they benefit from carbon offset programs (Gilbertson, 2021), or the legitimacy problems a global actor such as Greenpeace India encounters in the context of domestic politics (Thrandardottir & Mitra, 2019).…”