Unit summary

This unit focused on the role of institutions and governance structures in promoting climate change adaptation, mitigation, and justice, and on the key institutions for promoting climate change adaptation, mitigation, and justice. The following points are worth noting:

• Climate change is a major global challenge for human society. Therefore, climate governance is no longer solely a state-centric issue. The structures of climate change governance are at local, regional, national, and global levels.
• The international organisations dealing with mitigation and adaptation measures and at the same time formulating effective ways of managing the consequences of these measures range across different sectors.
• Local institutions drive awareness of climate change issues, raise voices for action, and influence policy makers to integrate climate risks and actions into development. They also implement different projects to tackle climate change effects.
• Climate change advocacy involves multiple organisations gathering consumers, community activists, policymakers, artists, families, and other to step up and save the planet.