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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Extractivist States: Contesting and Negotiating the “Commodities Consensus” in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Across Latin America	81
Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries	52
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	47
Introduction	47
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	29
The International Politics of Governing the Anthropocene	27
A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis by Ed Atkins	20
Green Financial and Regulatory Policies: Why Are Some Central Banks Moving Faster than Others?	20
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	19
Degrowth, Air Travel, and Global Environmental Governance: Scaffolding a Multilateral Agreement for a Smaller and More Sustainable Aviation Sector	19
From Gender-Blind to Gender Bind: Foregrounding Gender in the History of the UNFCCC	19
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	18
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	18
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	17
Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies by Johannes Urpelainen	15
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back	14
The Homogenization of Urban Climate Action Discourses	12
Value Judgments at the Heart of Green Transformation: The Leverage of Pension Fund Investors	11
International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral	10
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	9
Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets	9
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance	8
The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector	8
Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy	8
Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Norm Localization to Norm Subsidiarity?	8

Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change	7
Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders	7
The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North	6
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries	6
Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy	6
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics	6
Erratum	6
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics	6
Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn	6
The Potential and Limits of Environmental Disclosure Regulation: A Global Value Chain Perspective Applied to Tanker Shipping	6
Nationalist Backlash Against Foreign Climate Shaming	6
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?	6
Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North	5
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon	5
Fueling Resistance	5
Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability Through a Volatile Element	5
Living Well at Others’ Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity	5
Input Legitimacy of Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Acceptance Among Southern Producers: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	5
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	4
Faith in Science: Religion and Climate Change Attitudes in the Middle East	4
The Paris Agreement as Analogy in Global Environmental Politics	4
Comment: Global Climate Policy and Collective Action	4
What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions	4
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	4
The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	4
Greening China’s New Silk Roads: The Sustainable Governance of Belt and Road by R. James Ferguson	3
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout: Coal Plant Development and Foreign Finance in Indonesia and Vietnam	3
Organizational Autonomy Beyond the Secretariat: Lessons from the Green Climate Fund	3
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	3
De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners	3
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	3
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	3
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	3
Crime, Security, and Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecologies of International Conservation	3
Transparency in Environmental and Resource Governance: Theories of Change for the EITI	3
Populism and Environmental Performance	3
Environmental Impacts and Public Opinion About International Trade: Experimental Evidence from Six OECD Countries	2
Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism by Mike Hulme	2
Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative System by Hans A. Baer	2
Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform	2
Introduction	2
China in Transnational Extractives Governance: A Mapping Exercise	2
Animals: Hierarchies of Life and Death	2
From “Loss and Damage” to “Losses and Damages”: Orthographies of Climate Change Loss and Damage in the IPCC	2
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	2
Building Environmental Peace: The UN Environment Programme and Knowledge Creation for Environmental Peacebuilding	2
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?	2
Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy by Stefan Renckens	2
Energy and the Complexity of International Order	2
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	1

Market Masquerades? Corporate Climate Initiative Effects on Firm-Level Climate Performance	1
Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime	1
Energizing Comparative Environmental Politics and Comparative Political Economy	1
The Practical Fit of Concepts: Ecosystem Services and the Value of Nature	1
Understanding the Blue Acceleration: What It Means, How It Works, and Why It Matters	1
Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award	1
Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change	1
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	1
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	1
Introduction	1
Diversifying Boundary Organizations: The Making of a Global Platform for Indigenous (and Local) Knowledge in the UNFCCC	1
Most (Un)wanted: Explaining Emerging Relationships Between “Invasive Alien” Species and Animal Governance	1
Public–Private Inquiries: Institutional Intermediaries and the Transparency Nexus in Global Resource Development	1
Generative AI and Social Media May Exacerbate the Climate Crisis	1
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	1
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	1
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	1
Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation	1