Dealing with climate change is one of this century's most difficult challenges demanding new strategies to steer societies towards common transformational goals. A growing literature involving “climate governance” is evolving and should advance the discussion on transformations and the involvement of different actors in climate action. However, it is unclear that the Global South's particularities are being integrated. This study has a three‐fold goal: (a) identify the different approaches to climate governance found in the mainstream literature, (b) explore the degree of integration of the Global South in those approaches, and (c) contribute to the ongoing discussion on this issue from a southern perspective. A systematic literature review on “climate governance” was conducted, distinguishing different approaches and their significance for the Global South. Results clustered in six groups use the characterizations: multi‐level, global, adaptive, transnational, polycentric, and experimental/transformative. These terms account for different levels of decision‐making, emerging values, and the importance of non‐State and sub‐national actors. Approaches vary, in relation to change and participation, from an incremental improvement focus to a more transformative perspective and from the promotion of community influence to processes based on traditional institutions. In the Global South, multi‐level, multi‐actor climate governance occurs in a context of deep inequality and asymmetric power relations, rising environmental conflicts, and a lack of adequate mechanisms for community participation. Addressing climate change here will require, acknowledging the State alone cannot solve the issue, that different views must be considered and that contextualized perspectives from the Global South must be integrated.

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探索气候治理的轮廓：从南方角度对跨学科的系统文献进行回顾

应对气候变化是本世纪最困难的挑战之一，需要采取新的战略来引导社会走向共同的转型目标。涉及“气候治理”的文献不断发展，应推动有关转型以及不同参与者参与气候行动的讨论。但是，目前尚不清楚南半球的特殊性是否正在整合。这项研究具有三个目标：（a）确定主流文献中发现的不同的气候治理方法，（b）探索全球南方在这些方法中的整合程度，（c）促进正在进行的讨论从南方的角度来看这个问题。对“气候治理”进行了系统的文献综述，区分不同方法及其对全球南方的意义。分为六组的结果具有以下特征：多层次，全局，适应性，跨国，多中心和实验/变革。这些用语解释了不同级别的决策，新出现的价值以及非国家和次国家行为者的重要性。在变革和参与方面，方法有所不同，从逐步改进重点到更具变革性的观点，以及从将社区影响力提升到基于传统机构的流程。在全球南方，多层次，多参与者的气候治理是在严重的不平等和不对称的权力关系，不断加剧的环境冲突以及缺乏适当的社区参与机制的背景下进行的。