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Global Challenges and Multi-Level-Governance<\/h1>\n

Dominic Roser and Jack Baker<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of today\u2019s key challenges are global. Finding fair and effective solutions to these challenges would benefit significantly from global coordination and, presumably, from shifting political authority from the national to the global level. This requires strengthening existing global institutions (e.g. with the possibility to arrive at binding decisions and accompanying sanction mechanisms) as well as setting up new ones. However, governance at the global level is only building up slowly, it is accompanied by grave legitimacy deficits, and the resulting decisions score low in terms of effectively and fairly solving the challenges they are meant to address. As prominent as some global governance mechanisms may seem in public debate, the lion\u2019s share of decision-making power still lies at the national level.<\/p>\n

Importantly, where global governance is emerging it is interwoven in complex ways with national decision-making. The resulting multi-level governance and contains much potential for inefficiency and inconsistency. Coordinating the interplay between national and global governance and ensuring the transmission of legitimacy from one level to the other brings up a host of novel questions, often hidden in the messiness of the intricate decision-making structures which combine national and global inputs.<\/p>\n

One paradigmatic example of the challenges involved in multi-level governance can be found in the area of climate governance. Given the empirical features of the climate challenge, international negotiations first aimed the vision of a grand top-down binding international treaty. In the wake of the 2009 Copenhagen negotiations, this vision slowly lost ground and the Paris negotiations in 2015 resulted in a more bottom-up approach. This back-and-forth raises the question whether it is realistic and desirable to shift authority as quickly as possible from the national to the international level. Also, further levels of governance \u2013 such as cities or business \u2013 stepped in where the formal national and international process only made slow progress. This contributes to a just solution but it further exacerbates legitimacy questions which were already pressing given the unclear division of labour between the global and the national level. The Paris approach relies much on pledges by individual nations. However, nations often struggle to live up their promises which they regularly undershoot or overshoot. It is unclear whether such disharmony between international commitments and domestic implementation should be seen as a serious flaw or as a minor problem on the slow, tortuous, and complex road towards shifting authority from the national to the global level. These are just illustrative examples from one area. Further topics include:<\/p>\n