ABSTRACT
There are certain social transformations that are to a large extent socially accepted as desirable, and yet they fail to happen, or at best they progress very slowly. Today some of these transformations are supported by global governance tools, such as international protocols and treaties, signed in supranational forums and afterwards transposed to national legislative frameworks (Castro, 2012; Giddens, 2009). Climate change (CC) is a case in point, and it is perhaps the best current example of a global governance effort, that is of an issue being tackled around the world through governance tools that are developed at the global level and then passed on to the national and local levels (de Búrca et al., 2013; Uzelgun & Castro, 2015). This type of global governance requires the new meaning – that is values, norms, information – incorporated in the new policies to travel from more global to subsequently more local levels. It moreover requires the new meaning to travel from the legal/policy spheres to the consensual, everyday, national and local universes (Castro & Mouro, 2011; Uzelgun & Castro, 2015).
