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In this viewpoint, I use the sustainability transitions research perspective to identify the lock-ins of the climate governance regime and to explore possible ways through which a transformation of climate governance could take shape. By shifting focus from analysing and addressing negative impacts of an unsustainable economy to supporting possible and potential sustainability transitions in sectors, transformative climate governance can create enabling contexts for positive futures. This requires a better understanding of the dynamics of (desirable) sustainability transitions. But it also requires new sets of governance strategies, instruments and capacities fully dedicated to empowering such positive futures. This would imply a more interdisciplinary approach integrating natural sciences with social and behavioural sciences. But it could also require more action oriented, transdisciplinary, approaches that actually explore in and with practice how to make transitions to positive futures happen in specific contexts.
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Loorbach, D. (2020). Transforming Climate Governance? Why Climate Governance Is Failing and What to Do About It. In: Hölscher, K., Frantzeskaki, N. (eds) Transformative Climate Governance. Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49040-9_13
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