The UNFCCC and Paris Agreement haven't worked (yet) in part because the wrong scale has been emphasized. Clearly top down at the national scale hasn't worked and grassroots individual/household efforts have limited agency. Since the 1970s and 80s the idea of decentralized but coordinated efforts toward sustainable/resilient communities has been promoted by folks like Schumacher and Lovins... and the UNFCCC envisioned the public being informed and engaged in developing adequate responses to climate change.... and the Paris agreement touches on capacity-building through education and engagement.... but follow-through has been lacking because the VIP experts have been in charge, leading to massive Bill Gates- style solutions rather than meso-scale efforts at a scale where global and local converge... which we find to be between 10,000 and a million people, where most interventions can be deployed and the largest reductions of GHG and financial savings can be acheived. Focusing our catalytic efforts at this "glocal" scale just makes good sense. See our paper Powers of 10: seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales for more: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed0
The UNFCCC and Paris Agreement haven't worked (yet) in part because the wrong scale has been emphasized. Clearly top down at the national scale hasn't worked and grassroots individual/household efforts have limited agency. Since the 1970s and 80s the idea of decentralized but coordinated efforts toward sustainable/resilient communities has been promoted by folks like Schumacher and Lovins... and the UNFCCC envisioned the public being informed and engaged in developing adequate responses to climate change.... and the Paris agreement touches on capacity-building through education and engagement.... but follow-through has been lacking because the VIP experts have been in charge, leading to massive Bill Gates- style solutions rather than meso-scale efforts at a scale where global and local converge... which we find to be between 10,000 and a million people, where most interventions can be deployed and the largest reductions of GHG and financial savings can be acheived. Focusing our catalytic efforts at this "glocal" scale just makes good sense. See our paper Powers of 10: seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales for more: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ed0