Duan Hanxiao, Zhao Zhirong

Keywords： Global Climate Governance; Cross-border Governance; Low-carbon Action; Polycentric Governance; Collective Action

Abstract：

Cross-border cooperation is becoming one of the most essential approaches to moving forward the practice of global climate governance. Based on Ostrom’s Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework and the three elements of collective action, this study develops an integrated multi-scenario IAD framework to analyze the Western Climate Initiative, a transboundary low-carbon action across the US and Canada. This paper summarizes five external factors for successful WCI cooperation, including a consensus based on climate policy, a particular economic structure, an appropriate institutional environment, a facilitative local politics, and a pioneering sense of environmental protection. By analyzing the interaction and cooperation effectiveness of actors in several action scenarios, we find that the provision of carbon trading legislation and policy system, the establishment of credible commitments, and multi-subject supervision structures are conducive to the sustainable development of cross-border collective action. This paper illustrates the possibility of collaborative efforts at the local and regional levels to solve the climate crisis, which provides an important reference for crossborder cooperation on climate governance.

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