ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book highlights the great puzzle of why a rising succession of climate shocks, manifested as extreme weather events and supported by ever more certain climate science, did not spur all Group of Seven countries (G7) and Group of twenty countries (G20) summits since 2015 to stronger performance on climate change. It offers a new account of global summit governance of climate change from 2015 to 2021. The book is centrally a story of the growing gap between the proliferating physical demand for climate change control, and the increasingly inadequate, if periodically improving, political supply of such governance from the G7, G20 and United Nations summits, reinforced by the reconfiguring special climate summits since 2017. Together, this new configuration of old institutionalized and ad hoc, plurilateral summitry worked together on climate action.
