Negotiating the Climate Long-Term Global Goal

What is it about?

The negotiation of the main goal in climate governance is understudied. This article examines the negotiation, adoption, and refinement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Long-Term Global Goal (LTGG), from the late 1970s to date. The study shows that agential, ideational, normative, structural, and contextual factors co-interacted in negotiating, adopting, and refining the decision to "hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels "

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