Global Environmental Politics

2001 - 2023

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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

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 Damagesâ€: 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

Volume 22, issue 4, 2022

The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground pp. 1-14

Lorenzo Pellegrini and Murat Arsel

Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders pp. 15-27

Marti Orta-Martinez, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Murat Arsel, Carlos Mena and Gorka Munoa

Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground pp. 28-47

Harro van Asselt and Peter Newell

Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel-Based Accountability Frameworks pp. 48-69

Fergus Green and Declan Kuch

De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners pp. 70-94

Alexander Gard-Murray

Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement pp. 95-128

Pavi Lujala, Philippe Le Billon and Nicolas Gaulin

Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway's and Canada's Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction pp. 129-150

Kathryn Harrison and Guri Bang

Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform pp. 151-172

Laura Mai and Joshua Philipp Elsasser

It's a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance pp. 173-196

Stefan C. Aykut, Felix Schenuit, Jan Klenke and Emilie d'Amico

Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries pp. 197-202

J. Samuel Barkin

Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn pp. 203-204

Charlotte Kate Weatherill

Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade by Rosaleen Duffy pp. 205-208

Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith

Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative System by Hans A. Baer pp. 209-211

Ronnie D. Lipschutz

Volume 22, issue 3, 2022

Introduction pp. 1-1

Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann and Erika Weinthal

Disaster Making in the Capitalocene pp. 2-11

Shannon O'Lear, Francis Masse, Hannah Dickinson and Rosaleen Duffy

How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries pp. 12-37

Ben Lockwood and Matthew Lockwood

Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime pp. 38-58

Maria Jernnas and Eva Losvbrand

Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks pp. 59-80

Sayel Cortes, Jeroen van der Heijden, Ingrid Boas and Simon Bush

Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change pp. 81-103

Laura Tozer, Harriet Bulkeley and Linjun Xie

Input Legitimacy of Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Acceptance Among Southern Producers: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis pp. 104-135

Greetje Schouten, Hilde M. Toonen and Dorine Leeuwerik

Transnational Private Environmental Rule Makers as Interest Organizations: Evidence from the European Union pp. 136-170

Stefan Renckens, Kristen Pue and Amy Janzwood

The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank's Safeguards Regime pp. 171-193

Gus Greenstein

The Survival Nexus by Charles Weiss pp. 194-196

Peter M. Haas

Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy by Stefan Renckens pp. 197-199

Ellen Alexandra Holtmaat

The Untold Story of the World's Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova pp. 200-202

Lucile Maertens

Volume 22, issue 2, 2022

Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization pp. 1-11

Matthew Paterson, Paul Tobin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics pp. 12-22

Jesann Gonzalez Cruz and McKenzie F. Johnson

Crime, Security, and Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecologies of International Conservation pp. 23-44

Rosaleen Duffy

Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation pp. 45-69

Takumi Shibaike

Indigenous Peoples and Multiscalar Environmental Governance: The Opening and Closure of Participatory Spaces pp. 70-94

Maria-Therese Gustafsson and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon pp. 95-116

Roger Merino

Judicializing Environmental Governance? The Case of Transnational Corporate Accountability pp. 117-135

Daniel Bertram

From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization pp. 136-155

Kjersti Aalbu and Tore Longva

Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality pp. 156-179

Zorzeta Bakaki, Tobias Bohmelt and Hugh Ward

Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back pp. 180-193

Lisa Vanhala, Angelica Johansson and Frances Butler

Extractivist States: Contesting and Negotiating the "Commodities Consensus" in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Across Latin America pp. 194-200

Andrea Marston

The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future by Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin pp. 201-203

Mary E. Witlacil

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr pp. 204-206

Christopher D. Gore

Volume 22, issue 1, 2022

Introduction pp. 1-3

Steven Bernstein, Matthew Hoffmann and Erika Weinthal

The Paris Agreement as Analogy in Global Environmental Politics pp. 4-11

Nicholas Chan

Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering Research and Justice pp. 12-18

Olufemi Taiwo and Shuchi Talati

Design Trade-Offs Under Power Asymmetry: COPs and Flexibility Clauses pp. 19-43

Jean-Frederic Morin, Benjamin Tremblay-Auger and Claire Peacock

The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance pp. 44-68

Bryan Maher and Jonathan Symons

The Potential of Co-benefits to Spur Subnational Carbon Pricing in North America: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis pp. 69-93

Daniela Stevens

Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund's Energy Finance pp. 94-116

Diana R. Dorman and David Ciplet

Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries' Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy pp. 117-138

Liam F. Beiser-McGrath and Thomas Bernauer

Nationalist Backlash Against Foreign Climate Shaming pp. 139-158

Matias Spektor, Umberto Mignozzetti and Guilherme N. Fasolin

Using Earnings Calls to Understand the Political Behavior of Major Polluters pp. 159-174

Paasha Mahdavi, Jessica Green, Jennifer Hadden and Thomas Hale

Energizing Comparative Environmental Politics and Comparative Political Economy pp. 175-182

Stacy D. VanDeveer

Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability Through a Volatile Element pp. 183-185

Azusa Uji