ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some closing thoughts of key concepts discussed in this book. The book presents an analysis that brings a message of hope about the prospects for producing an adequate global climate change control regime in time. This analysis begins with the small set of globally predominant democratic major powers acting through their Group of Seven (G7) in 1979 to create the most ambitious, effective, inclusive, environment-first climate change control regime to date. Controlling climate change is a uniquely difficult global challenge. Leadership in global climate governance has passed through three phases of creation, retreat, and return, driven largely by changes in the causes highlighted by the models of concert equality and systemic hub governance. The process of replacing the old, divided, development-first, failing, UN-led climate control regime with a new, inclusive, environment-first, effective one led by the G7/8 and the Group of Twenty (G20) is now well underway.
