Fragmentation

The document addresses the rise of climate change initiatives operating outside the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It proposes that the UN process can maintain a leading position by shifting its role toward institutional orchestration and complexity management rather than pursuing traditional high regulatory ambitions.

• Global climate governance is experiencing increasing institutional fragmentation, characterized by a growing number of initiatives occurring outside the UNFCCC framework.
• To remain effective in a fragmented environment, the UNFCCC should move away from overburdening negotiations with high regulatory ambitions and instead act as a complexity 'manager' or 'orchestrator'.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2015). Fragmentation. https://www.sei.org/publications/fragmentation/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Fragmentation. 2015. https://www.sei.org/publications/fragmentation/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Fragmentation |date=27 November 2015 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/fragmentation/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2015fragmentation, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Fragmentation}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2015}, month = nov, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/fragmentation/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }