OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Environmental Politics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change	131
Future-Proofing Capitalism: The Paradox of the Circular Economy for Plastics	76
Catalytic Cooperation	58
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics	52
Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change	47
The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North	39
Intergovernmental Expert Consensus in the Making: The Case of the Summary for Policy Makers of the IPCC 2014 Synthesis Report	38
Marine Biodiversity Negotiations During COVID-19: A New Role for Digital Diplomacy?	29
Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground	27
Varieties of Crises: Comparing the Politics of COVID-19 and Climate Change	21
Populism and Environmental Performance	20
Big Oil and Climate Regulation: Business as Usual or a Changing Business?	20
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	20
Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering Research and Justice	19
The Potential and Limits of Environmental Disclosure Regulation: A Global Value Chain Perspective Applied to Tanker Shipping	18
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	18
The Practical Fit of Concepts: Ecosystem Services and the Value of Nature	18
Backlash to Climate Policy	17
Participatory Designs and Epistemic Authority in Knowledge Platforms for Sustainability	17
Indigenous Peoples and Multiscalar Environmental Governance: The Opening and Closure of Participatory Spaces	16
Experiments in EU Climate Governance: The Unfulfilled Potential of the Covenant of Mayors	16
The Supply Side of Climate Policies: Keeping Unburnable Fossil Fuels in the Ground	15
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries	14
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	14
Following the Leaders? How to Restore Progress in Global Climate Governance	13

Nationalist Backlash Against Foreign Climate Shaming	12
Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation	12
Beliefs About Consequences from Climate Action Under Weak Climate Institutions: Sectors, Home Bias, and International Embeddedness	11
Counting Carbon or Counting Coal? Anchoring Climate Governance in Fossil Fuel–Based Accountability Frameworks	11
Judicializing Environmental Governance? The Case of Transnational Corporate Accountability	10
Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Maritime Baselines: Responding to the Plight of Low-Lying Atoll States	10
Making Representations: The SDG Process and Major Groups’ Images of the Future	9
The Elusive Governance of Climate Change: Nationally Determined Contributions as Commitments and Negotiating Positions	9
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	8
Massive Institutional Structures in Global Governance	8
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance	8
Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change	8
Environmental Impacts and Public Opinion About International Trade: Experimental Evidence from Six OECD Countries	7
Political Institutions and Supply-Side Climate Politics: Lessons from Coal Ports in Canada and the United States	7
Green Industrial Policy After Paris: Renewable Energy Policy Measures and Climate Goals	7
Design Trade-Offs Under Power Asymmetry: COPs and Flexibility Clauses	6
Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform	6
The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector	6
Rethinking the Climate–Conflict Nexus: A Human–Environmental–Climate Security Approach	6
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	6
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout: Coal Plant Development and Foreign Finance in Indonesia and Vietnam	6
Differentiation in Environmental Treaty Making: Measuring Provisions and How They Reshape the Depth–Participation Dilemma	6
Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation	6
Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Norm Localization to Norm Subsidiarity?	6
Multilateral Climate Finance Coordination: Politics and Depoliticization in Practice	5
Transparency in Environmental and Resource Governance: Theories of Change for the EITI	5
Market Masquerades? Corporate Climate Initiative Effects on Firm-Level Climate Performance	5
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	5
Valuing Nature to Save It? The Centrality of Valuation in the New Spirit of Conservation	5
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	5
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	5
Building Environmental Peace: The UN Environment Programme and Knowledge Creation for Environmental Peacebuilding	4
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics	4
Business for Climate: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Policy Support from Transnational Companies	4
De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners	4
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	4
Build Back Better? Effects of Crisis on Climate Change Adaptation Through Solar Power in Japan and the United States	4
Race, Ethnicity, and the Case for Intersectional Water Security	4
The Paris Agreement as Analogy in Global Environmental Politics	4
Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders	4
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	3
Nature Conservation, Extractivist Conflicts, and Indigenous Rights in the Americas	3
The Homogenization of Urban Climate Action Discourses	3
Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality	3
Using Earnings Calls to Understand the Political Behavior of Major Polluters	3
Value Judgments at the Heart of Green Transformation: The Leverage of Pension Fund Investors	3
International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral	3
Transnational Private Environmental Rule Makers as Interest Organizations: Evidence from the European Union	3
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda	3

Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?	3
Green Financial and Regulatory Policies: Why Are Some Central Banks Moving Faster than Others?	3
Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy	2
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs	2
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	2
The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics	2
Comment: Global Climate Policy and Collective Action	2
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	2
Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime	2
Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award	2
Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets	2
The Politics of Youth Representation at Climate Change Conferences: Who Speaks, Who Is Spoken of, and Who Listens?	2
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	2
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene	2
Energy and the Complexity of International Order	2
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India	1
Embracing the Darkness: Methods for Tackling Uncertainty and Complexity in Environmental Disaster Risks	1
The Politics of Environmental Consensus: The Case of the World Commission on Dams	1
Generative AI and Social Media May Exacerbate the Climate Crisis	1
From “Loss and Damage” to “Losses and Damages”: Orthographies of Climate Change Loss and Damage in the IPCC	1
Introduction	1
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?	1
Degrowth, Air Travel, and Global Environmental Governance: Scaffolding a Multilateral Agreement for a Smaller and More Sustainable Aviation Sector	1
A Cautionary Tale for Polycentric Climate Governance: Sweden’s Roles in Orchestrating Decarbonization	1
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort?	1
Resilience and Nonideal Justice in Climate Loss and Damage Governance	1
Introduction	1
Public–Private Inquiries: Institutional Intermediaries and the Transparency Nexus in Global Resource Development	1
Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action? By Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt, and Johanna Foster, editors. 2018. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.	1
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	1
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back	1
Planetary Disasters: Wildness and the Perennial Struggle for Control	1
Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage	1
Unpacking Polycentric Climate Governance: Tracing the Evolution of Transnational Municipal Networks over Time	1
Keeping Promises? Democracies’ Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments	1
Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Tradeby Rosaleen Duffy	1
Diversifying Boundary Organizations: The Making of a Global Platform for Indigenous (and Local) Knowledge in the UNFCCC	1
China in Transnational Extractives Governance: A Mapping Exercise	1
Fishing Across Disciplines	1
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	1