OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Environmental Agreements-Politics Law and Economics is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Unrepresentedness, climate concern and voting behavior: understanding youth voter turnout in European elections	41
Assessing transformative and synergistic capacity in cooperative climate initiatives: A comparative analysis of multi-stakeholder and single-sector partnerships	29
Examining multifaceted constraints to just transitioning agenda in Africa: integrating sustainable social and economic perspectives into policy framework	27
Can democracy accelerate sustainability transformations? Policy coherence for participatory co-existence	26
A perspective on the significance of reporting climate change adaptation information to the united nations framework convention on climate change	22
The distributional effects of the EU’s and China’s climate diplomacy in Central Asia	20
The forest policy outputs of regional regimes: a qualitative comparative analysis on the effects of formalization, hegemony and issue-focus around the globe	19
Governing lofty goals: assessing the potential effectiveness of multi-stakeholder partnerships for the SDGs	19
Climate change litigation against fossil fuel companies: a contextual analysis	17
How domestic political context shapes the topics in UNFCCC conference of the parties decisions, 1995–2023	16
Legal analysis of the CITES convention in terms of Turkish administrative and judicial processes	16
How best to incorporate conjunctive water management into international water law: legal amendment, instrument coupling, or new protocol adoption?	14
Sustainable development an oxymoron?	14
Adaptation in the UNFCCC: how the G77 & China shaped the agenda	13
Progression requirements applicable to state action on climate change mitigation under Nationally Determined Contributions	12
Beyond leading by example: enhanced EU-LAC climate cooperation—the case of Brazil, Chile and Mexico	11
Inspiration from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework for SDG 15	10
The sustainable development goals: governing by goals, targets and indicators	10
Allocating climate adaptation finance revisited: examining three ethical arguments for allocating adaptation finance on the basis of democracy	10
Correction: Analysis of fairness and ambition considerations in nationally determined contributions	10
Pension funds and sustainable investment: challenges and opportunities (Pension research Council Series), edited by P. Brett Hammond, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell, new york: Oxford universit	10
The SDGs as integrating force in global governance? Challenges and opportunities	10
Multistakeholder governance through epistemic authority: exploring the role of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in the global climate regime	9
A discourse analysis of bilateral water agreements between Türkiye and Iraq: legal instruments of water diplomacy in the Euphrates-Tigris river basin	8
Orchestrating initiatives at UN summits on sustainable development from 2000 to 2022	8

Not all risks are equal: a risk governance framework for assessing the water SDG	8
“Climate Bailout”: a new tool for central banks to limit the financial risk resulting from climate change	8
Bridges over troubled waters: Climate clubs, alliances, and partnerships as safeguards for effective international cooperation?	8
Strengthening reflexive governance to achieve the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs	7
Retraction Note: Integrating cultural heritage into climate displacement law: the Carteret islanders case	7
Correction: Beyond leading by example: enhanced EU-LAC climate cooperation—the case of Brazil, Chile and Mexico	7
Green public procurement on EU directive 2014/24: adoption effects of mandatory and voluntary transposition	6
Democratizing environmental treaty development: the Escazú experience	6
Edith Brown Weiss: Establishing Norms in a Kaleidoscopic World	6
Citizen preferences for climate policy implementation: the role of multistakeholder partnerships	6
International biodiversity negotiations: Assessing the outcomes and implications of COP 16	6
Genetic resources are, above all, information: perspectives from law, biology and economics	6
Exploring the links between climate transparency and mitigation policy through a reflexive capacity lens: case studies of Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Mexico	6
The split ladder of policy problems, participation, and politicization: constitutional water change in Ecuador and Chile	6
How does the UNFCCC enable multi-level learning for the governance of adaptation?	6
The Columbia River Treaty’s adaptive capacity for fish conservation	5
Pathways of scientific input into intergovernmental negotiations: a new agreement on marine biodiversity	5
Climate neutrality through green growth? Addressing possible tensions between the European green deal and the precautionary principle	5
Forest management in Türkiye: economic pressures, legal frameworks, and ecological consequences	5
Arctic wetlands, an evaluation of progress towards implementation of the Ramsar convention on wetlands: 1978–2022	5
Investment treaties and the replacement of stranded investment	5
Evaluating legal mechanisms for combating plastic pollution in the Arctic ocean: challenges and future directions	4
The potential of CO2 emission reduction via replacing cement with recyclable wastes in the construction industry sector: the perspective of Iran’s international commitments	4
Intermediaries and complexity: assessing emissions-based governance in the European Union’s EU-ETS	4
Making waves or ripples? The influence of the European Green Deal on the revised IMO GHG strategy	4
Book review of affirmative action for economically weaker sections and upper-castes in Indian constitutional law context, judicial discourse, and critique, by Asang Wankhede, Routledge, 2023, New York	4
Retraction Note: Development of corporate investment funds as a tool to achieve the goals of international treaties in the field of climate change	4
Pollution or protection? The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea’s advisory opinion on climate change and its relevance for marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR)	4
Embracing policy paradoxes: EU’s Just Transition Fund and the aim “to leave no one behind”	4
Correction: The environmental and economic effects of international cooperation on restricting fossil fuel supply	3
Unanimity or standing aside? Reinterpreting consensus in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations	3
Indigenous peoples as trustees of forests: a bio-socio-cultural approach to international law	3
Economic challenges from carbon intensity reduction and energy transition: oil demand shocks, business profitability and market structures	3
Beyond data silos: federated governance as legal response to planetary ecological collapse	3
Wendy Godek and Gabriela Kütting, Reconsidering Global Environmental Governance: Coloniality, Extractivism, and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. London: Routledge, 2025. 268 pp., £130 (hardback),	3
Rethinking UNCLOS dispute mechanisms: jurisdiction, sovereignty, and reform pathways through case law insights	3
Structural constraints and environmental convergence: multilevel governance and $${CO}_{2}$$reduction in Italian provinces	3
Governing synergies and trade-offs between the SDGs: The potential and limitations for multistakeholderism in the context of prioritization	3
Inclusive development, leaving no one behind, justice and the sustainable development goals	2
Strengthening the Paris Agreement through trade? The potential and limitations of EU preferential trade agreements for climate governance	2
The influence of domestic politics on the transboundary water interactions in the Eastern Nile	2
Pension funds and fossil fuel phase-out: historical developments and limitations of pension climate strategies	2
Bridging the divide: EIAs 2.0 as a legal and policy innovation for synergistic climate action in the UAE	2
Dynamic environmental agreements and lower income countries	2
Yixian Sun: Certifying China: the rise and limits of transnational sustainability governance in emerging economies	2
A WTO compatible climate club that solves the free-rider problem in global climate policy	2
WTO negotiations and repurposing agriculture subsidies for a sustainable future	2
Reconciling the Incongruence between the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the GATT/WTO Rules	2
Achieving SDG 14 in an equitable and just way	2
Doomed to fail? A call to reform global climate governance and greenhouse gas inventories	2

Changing marine imaginaries during COVID-19 and the ocean science decade: a study on political fantasies