Global Environmental Politics

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Volume 25, issue 2, 2025

Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice by Kian Goh pp. 165-168

Valeria Zambianchi

Volume 25, issue 1, 2025

The International Politics of Governing the Anthropocene pp. 89-94

Peter M. Haas

Volume 24, issue 4, 2024

The Climate-Changing Context of Inflation: Fossilflation, Climateflation, and the Environmental Politics of Green Central Banks pp. 1-9

James Jackson

The Rise of Sustainability Provisions in International Investment Agreements pp. 10-36

Marius Dotzauer, Lisa Biber-Freudenberger and Thomas Dietz

Transnational Climate Governance and State Capacity: A Multilevel Analysis of Green Bond Certification pp. 37-60

Jiun-Da Lin

Lithium's Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec pp. 61-82

Donald Kingsbury

Organizational Autonomy Beyond the Secretariat: Lessons from the Green Climate Fund pp. 83-104

Thomas Gehring and Patrick Vizitiu

From Apocalypse to Empowerment: Reframing Climate Action pp. 105-128

Paul F. Steinberg

Bucking the Trend: Civil Society and the Strengthening of Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean pp. 129-151

Hayley Stevenson

Zooming In on Agreement-Making: Tracing the BBNJ Negotiations with the MARIPOLDATAbase pp. 152-178

Alice B. M. Vadrot, Arne Langlet, Paul Dunshirn, Simon Fellinger, Silvia C. Ruiz-Rodríguez and Ina Tessnow- von Wysocki

Environmental Justice Research and Praxis pp. 179-185

Carolina Marques de Mesquita

Volume 24, issue 3, 2024

The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue pp. 1-23

Paul Tobin, Dave Huitema and Elke Kellner

Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda pp. 24-47

Elke Kellner, Daniel Petrovics and Dave Huitema

How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries' NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort? pp. 48-74

Paula Castro, Marlene Kammerer and Axel Michaelowa

Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India pp. 75-99

Jens Marquardt, Shyamasree Dasgupta, Chris Höhne, Markus Lederer and Pooja Sankhyayan

A Cautionary Tale for Polycentric Climate Governance: Sweden's Roles in Orchestrating Decarbonization pp. 100-120

Oscar Widerberg, Karin Bäckstrand, Eva Lövbrand, Jens Marquardt and Naghmeh Nasiritousi

Unpacking Polycentric Climate Governance: Tracing the Evolution of Transnational Municipal Networks over Time pp. 121-143

Kristine Kern, Peter Eckersley, Elisa Kochskämper and Wolfgang Haupt

Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs pp. 144-167

Jale Tosun, Emiliano Levario Saad and Denise Gutiérrez

Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets pp. 168-190

Paul Tobin, Andreas Duit, Niall Kelly and Ciara Kelly

Understanding the Blue Acceleration: What It Means, How It Works, and Why It Matters pp. 191-199

Elizabeth Mendenhall

A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis by Ed Atkins pp. 200-203

Sezen Kaya-Sönmez

Volume 24, issue 2, 2024

Realpolitik in the Anthropocene: Resilience, Neoclassical Realism, and the Paris Agreement pp. 1-8

Peter Ferguson

Generative AI and Social Media May Exacerbate the Climate Crisis pp. 9-18

Hamish van der Ven, Diego Corry, Rawie Elnur, Viola Jasmine Provost and Muh Syukron

The Politics of Youth Representation at Climate Change Conferences: Who Speaks, Who Is Spoken of, and Who Listens? pp. 19-45

Jens Marquardt, Eva Lövbrand and Frida Buhre

The Role of Translation in Enacting Multiscalar Climate Action: Insights from European Christian Faith-Based Actors pp. 46-68

Bregje van Veelen and Alice Hague

Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions pp. 69-97

Chris Höhne, Christian Kahmann and Mathis Lohaus

Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex pp. 98-121

Arne Langlet and Alice Vadrot

Plastic Politics of Delay: How Political Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses Produce and Reinforce Inequality in Plastic Waste Governance pp. 122-145

Jessica Vandenberg

The Public Legitimacy of Multistakeholder Partnerships in Global Environmental Governance: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States pp. 146-169

Faradj Koliev and Karin Bäckstrand

Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism by Mike Hulme pp. 170-173

Casey Stevens

Volume 24, issue 1, 2024

Environmental Terrorism Twenty Years On (Environmental Terrorism Twenty Years On) pp. 1-9

Elizabeth L. Chalecki

Valuing Nature to Save It? The Centrality of Valuation in the New Spirit of Conservation (Valuing Nature to Save It? The Centrality of Valuation in the New Spirit of Conservation) pp. 10-30

Sylvain Maechler and Valérie Boisvert

From Gender-Blind to Gender Bind: Foregrounding Gender in the History of the UNFCCC (From Gender-Blind to Gender Bind: Foregrounding Gender in the History of the UNFCCC) pp. 31-51

Joanna Flavell

Faith in Science: Religion and Climate Change Attitudes in the Middle East (Faith in Science: Religion and Climate Change Attitudes in the Middle East) pp. 52-75

Nimah Mazaheri

Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective (Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective) pp. 76-99

Anouk Fransen and Harriet Bulkeley

Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award (Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award) pp. 100-123

Aron Teunissen and Sander Chan

The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations (The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations) pp. 124-137

Robert Falkner

Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel (Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel) pp. 138-154

Rina Kedem, Eran Feitelson, Suleiman Halasah and Yael Teff-Seker

The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism by Keith Makoto Woodhouse pp. 155-157

Jennifer Hadden

Volume 23, issue 4, 2023

Introduction pp. 1-2

Susan Park, Henrik Selin and D. G. Webster

Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency? pp. 3-16

Peter Dauvergne and Jennifer Clapp

All Hands on Deck: Solutions-Based Pedagogies for Global Environmental Politics pp. 17-25

Ellen Alexandra Holtmaat and Mimi Alford-Hamburg

Most (Un)wanted: Explaining Emerging Relationships Between "Invasive Alien" Species and Animal Governance pp. 26-51

Cebuan Bliss, Ingrid J. Visseren-Hamakers and Duncan Liefferink

Diversifying Boundary Organizations: The Making of a Global Platform for Indigenous (and Local) Knowledge in the UNFCCC pp. 52-72

Andrés López-Rivera

Green Financial and Regulatory Policies: Why Are Some Central Banks Moving Faster than Others? pp. 73-93

Bhavya Gupta, Ruijie Cheng and Ramkishen S. Rajan

China in Transnational Extractives Governance: A Mapping Exercise pp. 94-118

Hyeyoon Park

Degrowth, Air Travel, and Global Environmental Governance: Scaffolding a Multilateral Agreement for a Smaller and More Sustainable Aviation Sector pp. 119-140

Ryan Katz-Rosene and Terhemba Ambe-Uva

Market Masquerades? Corporate Climate Initiative Effects on Firm-Level Climate Performance pp. 141-169

David Coen, Kyle S. Herman and Tom Pegram

Keeping Promises? Democracies' Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments pp. 170-200

Jack Kessel Baker

Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change? pp. 201-216

Angela Chesler, Debra Javeline, Kimberly Peh and Shana Scogin

Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies by Johannes Urpelainen pp. 217-219

Inkyoung Kim

African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics by Cajetan Iheka pp. 220-221

Marielle Papin

Erratum pp. 222-222

Danielle Falzon

Volume 23, issue 3, 2023

Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage pp. 1-11

Lisa Vanhala, Elisa Calliari and Adelle Thomas

The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations pp. 12-31

Olivia Serdeczny

From “Loss and Damage” to “Losses and Damages”: Orthographies of Climate Change Loss and Damage in the IPCC pp. 32-51

Friederike Hartz

Resilience and Nonideal Justice in Climate Loss and Damage Governance pp. 52-70

Ivo Wallimann-Helmer

What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions pp. 71-94

Elisa Calliari and Ben Ryder

Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations pp. 95-119

Danielle Falzon, Fred Shaia, J. Timmons Roberts, Md. Fahad Hossain, Stacy-ann Robinson, Mizan R. Khan and David Ciplet

Pipeline Politics and the Future of Environmental Justice Struggles in North America pp. 120-126

Amy Janzwood

Greening China’s New Silk Roads: The Sustainable Governance of Belt and Road by R. James Ferguson pp. 127-129

Usman Ashraf

AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Peter Dauvergne pp. 130-131

Rachel Tiller

Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici pp. 132-134

Peter J. Jacques

Volume 23, issue 2, 2023

Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security pp. 1-10

Cameron Harrington, Phellecitus Montana, Jeremy J. Schmidt and Ashok Swain

The Politics of Environmental Consensus: The Case of the World Commission on Dams pp. 11-30

Christopher Schulz and William M. Adams

Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance pp. 31-53

Noémie Laurens

The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy pp. 54-73

Justin Alger

Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol pp. 74-101

Shiming Yang

The Homogenization of Urban Climate Action Discourses pp. 102-124

Linda Westman, Vanesa Castán Broto and Ping Huang

Multilateral Climate Finance Coordination: Politics and Depoliticization in Practice pp. 125-147

Jakob Skovgaard, Kevin M. Adams, Kendra Dupuy, Adis Dzebo, Mikkel Funder, Adam Moe Fejerskov and Zoha Shawoo

Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists by Mary Alice Haddad pp. 148-149

Ming-sho Ho

Volume 23, issue 1, 2023

Introduction pp. 1-2

Susan Park, Henrik Selin and D. G. Webster

Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance pp. 3-10

Michael W. Manulak

The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics pp. 11-19

Michal Kolmaš

The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North pp. 20-41

Thea Riofrancos

Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity? pp. 42-67

Ana Maria Ulloa

Backlash to Climate Policy pp. 68-90

James J. Patterson

Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Norm Localization to Norm Subsidiarity? pp. 91-116

Yixian Sun and Bowen Yu

Differentiation in Environmental Treaty Making: Measuring Provisions and How They Reshape the Depth–Participation Dilemma pp. 117-132

Deborah Barros Leal Farias and Charles Roger

Comment: Global Climate Policy and Collective Action pp. 133-144

Amanda Kennard and Keith E. Schnakenberg

Reply: The Persistent Absence of Empirical Evidence for Free-Riding in Global Climate Politics pp. 145-151

Michaël Aklin and Matto Mildenberger

Climate Change, Security, and the International System: It’s Still the Same Old Story pp. 152-157

Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah pp. 158-159

David Downie

The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now by Henry Shue pp. 160-161

Coralie Boulard

Agency in Earth System Governance edited by Michele M. Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney, and Andrea K. Gerlak pp. 162-163

Philippe Evoy