WWViews participants expect COP15 negotiators to ensure that new or stronger international institutions are put in place to advance the objectives of a new climate deal.

OBSERVATIONS

• Many of the recommendations from the WWViews participants reflect a judgment that existing international institutions will have to be strengthened or supplemented. The participants consider such institutions essential to implementing a new global deal on climate change and, more generally, to responding adequately to the challenges of global warming.

• Roughly one-third of the recommendations call for the creation of new international institutions.

• About half of the institutional recommendations from WWViews participants ask to establish a new global fund or financial institution to collect and redistribute funds in support of climate change-related activities.

• Additional recommendations include creating new international institutions to develop or transfer technologies, practices and know-how. Participants from different nations variously suggest governmental, non-profit or private sector institutional innovations for this purpose.

• Many recommendations foresee a need to augment UN capabilities, or else to establish a new international institution that will monitor both national government and corporate compliance with climate change-related obligations.

ASSESSMENTS

The WWViews participants give a clear mandate to their COP15 negotiators to strengthen existing international institutions or establish new ones.

It is noteworthy that participants – except when calling for a new global funding institution – frequently proposed institutional innovations that are neither discussed in the WWViews background informational materials nor mentioned in the questions that they answered during the WWViews meetings.

Some notably forceful and original recommendations come from participants in low-income nations that are especially vulnerable to the consequences of global warming.