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Global climate and environmental governance in a shifting global order

Bauer, Steffen
Staff - Other (2026)

in: Mark Furness / Niels Keijzer (eds.), International development cooperation and the emerging global order, Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 31-34

ISBN: 978-3-96021-288-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.23661/idp4.2026

At the beginning of this decade, it briefly appeared that there might be space for enlightened optimism: As world leaders and international organisations grappled with the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, momentum had been gathering to “build back better” while also address­ing the global ecological crisis (Bauer, 2021). However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine heralded a different turn of events and accelerated an already burgeoning renaissance of geopolitics. Combined with a surge in post-truth right-wing populism and corresponding shifts in national agendas across major democracies, these developments do not bode well for sustainable development, let alone a deep transformation towards global sustainability and planetary justice. Now what? This contribution seeks to address three overarching questions: What are the most important implications of the geopolitical turn for global climate and environmental governance? Why is international cooperation (still) relevant in this context? How can international cooperation bring its assumed relevance to bear and contribute to a more sustainable global order?

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