Mapping the Institutional Architecture of Global Energy Governance

Abstract

This technical report is a deliverable of the CONNECT project (Coping with Fragmentation: Assessing and Reforming the current Architecture of Global Environmental Governance), funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW). CONNECT (1) takes stock of the existing level of fragmentation across a number of issue-areas in global environmental politics; (2) explains the causes of fragmentation of global governance architectures; (3) analyses the implications of fragmentation across different scales of governance; and finally, (4) suggests policy responses to increased fragmentation. This technical report presents a novel mapping of the global energy governance architecture. It presents a data-set and initial descriptive statistics that can be used for further analysis of fragmentation and institutional complexity of global energy governance