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The Global Climate Network

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Overview

How can the dangerous deadlock at the heart of international climate negotiations be broken? What policies are needed at the national level in the world’s leading economies to clear the way for a new climate change accord? How can legislators ensure that policies are fair and that the costs of addressing climate change do not fall to those least able to pay?

Visit the new Global Climate Network website.

The Global Climate Network (GCN) is a collaboration of independent, progressive research and policy organisations committed to answering these questions. Working with institutes and thinktanks in Brazil, China, Germany, India, Nigeria, South Africa and the USA, IPPR is striving to help bridge the divide between industrialised and developing countries on climate change policy.

The network will commission, conduct and publish joint research and analysis which addresses the political and policy constraints to international action on climate change. Its work will address the main areas of the international negotiations, such as the targets needed to avoid dangerous climate change and the policies needed to achieve the targets, but through the lens of national policy and politics in each of the member countries.

IPPR has long recognised that progress on climate change at the international level is constrained by political, economic, social and development concerns at the national level. GCN will address these issues by promoting fair national and international solutions and by attempting to reframe the debate in order to promote action on climate change as a means of enhancing economic and social wellbeing and improving quality of life.

GCN’s secretariat is based at IPPR. Together its members are already at work on an ambitious research programme that includes:

analysing how targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in line with avoiding dangerous climate change can be agreed internationally
investigating technology needs in different countries and promoting policies to remove the barriers to its rapid development and transfer
looking at how different sources of finance can be mobilised to help scale up the global effort.