Global Environmental Politics

2001 - 2025

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Volume 25, issue 2, 2025

The Missing Ingredients for a Polycentric Governance System of Orbital Debris pp. 1-26

Jean-Frédéric Morin and Cynthia Couette

The Ambition Trap: How Overpromising on Climate Action Could Undermine the Paris Agreement pp. 27-54

Vegard Tørstad, Jon Hovi, Manjana Milkoreit, Håkon Sælen and Andreas Kokkvoll Tveit

Climate Change, Vulnerability, and the Propensity for Climate Migration: Evidence from Guatemala pp. 55-85

Tofigh Maboudi, Todd A. Eisenstadt, Moisés Arce, Ludovico Feoli and Felipe Antonio Giron Palacios

Challenging the Narrative of Inclusion: Feminist Decolonial Perspectives on Climate Governance pp. 86-105

Miriam Gay-Antaki

Is It Just About Sustainability? Politics at Home and the Trade Impacts of Voluntary Standards Abroad pp. 106-140

Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar, Juliana Camargo and Eduardo Mello

Agriculture at COP27: Antagonistic Political Framing and Fragmentation of Agricultural Issues Within Climate Negotiations and Beyond pp. 141-164

Marie Hrabanski and Jean-François Le Coq

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

Valeria Zambianchi

Erratum pp. 169-169

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

Volume 25, issue 1, 2025

Technology and International Environmental Cooperation pp. 1-20

Florian Rabitz

Right-Wing Populists and the Politics of Renegotiating International Environmental Agreements pp. 21-45

Nguyen Khoi Huynh

Postmaterialism and Environmental Protection Revisited: Domestic Plastic Bag Regulations, 1992–2019 pp. 46-66

Azusa Uji, Jaehyun Song, Nives Dolšak and Aseem Prakash

Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics pp. 67-76

David L. Downie

Plastic Partnerships: How Corporations Are Hedging Against the UN Global Plastics Treaty pp. 77-88

Rob Ralston and Jack Taggart

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