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ABSTRACT Despite mounting evidence of the devastating effects of climate change and repeated calls to scale up the mitigation and adaptation to climate change, states are still failing to adopt meaningful and concrete measures to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement. The outcomes of COP26, which resulted in the adoption of pledges deprived of concrete implementation mechanisms, constitute one illustration of such failures. Given the nature of climate change and the bounded rationality of individuals and groups, the article applies the psychology of group decision-making to shed light on such inaction. As time is running out, all tools should be mobilised to incentivise states to adopt concrete and significant measures, and psychology is one of them. The article first starts by addressing the challenges presented by climate change for decision-makers bounded in rationality. It then continues by considering group dynamics at play in national governments and their implications for climate governance both domestically and internationally.
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The objective of Transnational Legal Theory is to publish high-quality theoretical scholarship that addresses transnational dimensions of law and legal dimensions of transnational fields and activity. Central to Transnational Legal Theory''s mandate is publication of work that explores whether and how transnational contexts, forces and ideations affect debates within existing traditions or schools of legal thought. Similarly, the journal aspires to encourage scholars debating general theories about law to consider the relevance of transnational contexts and dimensions for their work. With respect to particular jurisprudence, the journal welcomes not only submissions that involve theoretical explorations of fields commonly constructed as transnational in nature (such as commercial law, maritime law, or cyberlaw) but also explorations of transnational aspects of fields less commonly understood in this way (for example, criminal law, family law, company law, tort law, evidence law, and so on). Submissions of work exploring process-oriented approaches to law as transnational (from transjurisdictional litigation to delocalized arbitration to multi-level governance) are also encouraged. Equally central to Transnational Legal Theory''s mandate is theoretical work that explores fresh (or revived) understandings of international law and comparative law ''beyond the state'' (and the interstate). The journal has a special interest in submissions that explore the interfaces, intersections, and mutual embeddedness of public international law, private international law, and comparative law, notably in terms of whether such inter-relationships are reshaping these sub-disciplines in directions that are, in important respects, transnational in nature.
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