ABSTRACT
Climatic changes have occurred many times in the Earth’s history. However, only in the latter half of the 20th century has the sum of human activities become the dominating cause for climate change, the reason being massive release of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere. Adaptation to climate change is as complex an issue of climate change governance as climate mitigation or protection by means of the reduction of GHGs, and it will gain importance with the accelerating and self-enhancing process of global warming. The deadlock in international climate change governance that had been reached in the course of the post-Kyoto negotiations was broken in 2015 by the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is a major caesura in global climate change governance and “a step change in multilateral efforts to address climate change”. Climate governance in Latin American and Caribbean countries is embedded in cross-sectoral policies, which interlink domestic policymaking with United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change processes.
