Climate communications of international organizations and sub-national subjects as actors of global climate change settlement

To inform and disseminate knowledge among key stakeholders about a variety of climate policy topics, the Adelphi platform offers several tools, including file documents on the project site about more than 120 environmental conflicts around the world; exhibitions and their Internet version with a demonstration of the dramatic impact of global environmental change, links to conflicts and opportunities for collaboration; video interviews with leading experts and thematic videos; newsletters about the most interesting current events, research, events and initiatives and more. Adelphi receives information on specific climate projects and initiatives from partners around the world. Among the largest partners of the project are the Energy Poverty Research Group (EPRG) of the University of Queensland (British Columbia), the Manipal Advanced Research Group (MARG) of India, the leading African Center Institute Institute for Security Studies (ISS) from South Africa, The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University, USA; Fund for the Future of Latin America (Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano, FFLA); Center for Non-Traditional Security Studies (NTS) of Asia Pacific at the University of Singapore; Environmental and Security Change Program at the US Wilson Center; Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands with “the Planetary Security Initiative” (PSI) and others.

So, scientific research, the activities of international projects and research centers stimulate new developments in energy efficiency, the use of alternative energy sources, startups around the world. However, all of these projects, although quite specific, cover a limited number of people and territories and operate within the limits set by national law.

Conclusions

Today, projects aimed at addressing global climate challenges are being implemented by international organizations and sub-national actors. However, the results of their activities differ in the nature of the decision, the audience reach, the range of used tools, the speed of implementation of climate initiatives and other parameters. Thus, international organizations make mostly advisory types of climate decisions, which are implemented through the establishment and financing of specialized structures, the implementation of environmental projects, the financing of climate researches, the development of recommendations for decision-making by political leaders, the involvement of opinion leaders, and so on.

Their implementation speed of climate tools and initiatives is slow. At the same time, one of the most powerful structures that defines global climate policy for mitigation and adaptation to global climate change is the United Nations and its structures that adhere to a system-wide approach in solving climate change issues.

Sub-national and non-state actors' initiatives are increasingly becoming the platform for demonstration, testing and dissemination of new, cutting-edge technologies for addressing climate challenges.

They often take action to tackle climate change through a number of networks and initiatives. Over the last two decades, the number of such coalitions has increased significantly. On the other hand, non-state actors cannot act as a dominant actor in overcoming global climate problems due to a number of factors. First of all, non-state and sub-national actors need to gain the support of national governments and ruling parties to carry out their activities. Secondly, the data that would allow a comprehensive assessment of the potential impact of subnational actors on climate change is limited.

The tools served by sub-national actors include, in particular, the adoption of local development programs, regional, city-level action plans, implementation of joint environmental projects and initiatives at local level, involvement of business entities, cooperation with partner cities, dissemination of information and sharing experiences through forums, roundtables, seminars, trainings, websites and more. Given the local nature of projects in practice, they are being implemented fairly quickly. global climate ocean world

The results of research and projects of educational institutions and research centers are advisory and informative. The conclusions of scientific developments are the basis for political and managerial decision-making at all levels. Therefore, the target audience of the research centers is quite narrow and segmented. Their tools include, particularly, conducting their own research and disseminating their results to decision-makers, opinion leaders, media means, conducting joint research with partner organizations, disseminating ideas through training courses, developing and disseminating educational literature. It can be concluded that the findings of their studies are implemented in practice at medium speed or even slowly because of a large number of decisionmaking units at the relevnt structures.

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