ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has been to challenge that idea by arguing that regionalization processes with a transnational scope can better provide solutions to global problems such as climate change. The book proposes has been to think of governance as processes of coordination among different actors and government levels in diverse constructed formal and informal relations expressed in multiple layers, with a leader granted legitimate authority. This book has argued that the emphasis should be put on the leading actors in provision of global public goods, namely, local governments (LGs). LGs have formed new transnational institutions of climate governance that deal with the regionalization process in relation to climate and energy policy innovation. TGERs in North America filled this gap through a different form of climate governance scheme.
