TY - T1 - Building Authority and Legitimacy in Transnational Climate Change Governance : Evidence from the Governors’ Climate and Forest Task Force SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/317767 T3 - A1 - Di Gregorio, Monica; Massarella, Kate; Schroeder, Heike; Brockhaus, Maria; Pham, Thuy Thu A2 - PB - Y1 - 2020 LA - eng AB - Transnational climate change initiatives have increased in number and relevance within the global climate change regime. Despite being largely welcomed, there are concerns about their ability to deliver ambitious climate action and about their democratic legitimacy. This paper disentangles the nature of both authority and legitimacy of a specific form of transnational networks, transgovernmental networks of subnational governments. It then investigates how a major transgovernmental initiative fo... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 1172 Environmental sciences; 4112 Forestry; Transnational climate change governance; Climate change mitigation; Legitimacy; Authority; Forests; Transgovernmental networks; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE; REGIME COMPLEX; POLICY INNOVATION; ACCOUNTABILITY; STATE; UNFCCC; SYSTEM; PARTICIPATION; ORCHESTRATION; CONSERVATION N1 - PP - ER -