Engaging 
Indigenous Peoples and local communities using just-transition and 
rights-based decision-making approaches, implemented through 
collective and participatory decision-making processes has enabled 
deeper ambition and accelerated action in different ways, and at all 
scales, depending on national circumstances (medium conﬁdence). 
The media helps shape the public discourse about climate change. This 
can usefully build public support to accelerate climate action (medium 
evidence, high agreement). In some instances, public discourses of 
media and organised counter movements have impeded climate 
action, exacerbating helplessness and disinformation and fuelling 
polarisation, with negative implications for climate action (medium 
conﬁdence). {WGII SPM C.5.1, WGII SPM D.2, WGII TS.D.9, WGII TS.D.9.7, 
WGII TS.E.2.1, WGII 18.4; WGIII SPM D.3.3, WGIII SPM E.3.3, WGIII TS.6.1, 
WGIII 6.7, WGIII 13 ES, WGIII Box.13.7}
2.2.2. Mitigation Actions to Date
There has been a consistent expansion of policies and laws 
addressing mitigation since AR5 (high conﬁdence). Climate 
governance supports mitigation by providing frameworks through 
which diverse actors interact, and a basis for policy development and 
implementation (medium conﬁdence). Many regulatory and economic 
instruments have already been deployed successfully (high conﬁdence). 
By 2020, laws primarily focussed on reducing GHG emissions existed in 
56 countries covering 53% of global emissions (medium conﬁdence). 
The application of diverse policy instruments for mitigation at the 
national and sub-national levels has grown consistently across a 
range of sectors (high conﬁdence). Policy coverage is uneven across 
sectors and remains limited for emissions from agriculture, and from 
industrial materials and feedstocks (high conﬁdence).