OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Global Environmental Politics is 6. 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
Big Oil and Climate Regulation: Business as Usual or a Changing Business?	20
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	20
Populism and Environmental Performance	20
Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering Research and Justice	19
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	18
The Practical Fit of Concepts: Ecosystem Services and the Value of Nature	18
The Potential and Limits of Environmental Disclosure Regulation: A Global Value Chain Perspective Applied to Tanker Shipping	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
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
Environmental Impacts and Public Opinion About International Trade: Experimental Evidence from Six OECD Countries	7
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
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