Global Environmental Governance

Opinion – Geoengineering Is Not Going to Deliver Itself

John Hickman • Feb 24 2024 • Articles

The United Nations COP summits are monuments to the impossibility of effective global governance based on international consensus.

Thinking Global Podcast – Genevieve Guenther

E-International Relations • Jan 8 2024 • Features

Genevieve Guenther speaks about conceptualising ‘climate crisis’, COP28, and the Language, Communication and Misinformation of Climate Politics.

Opinion – US Carbon Border Mechanism in the Twilight Zone

Ann-Evelyn Luyten • Dec 7 2021 • Articles

The US and the EU can cooperate closely to address carbon leakage and create a momentum in significantly reducing carbon emission.

New Practices and Narratives of Environmental Diplomacy

Lau Øfjord Blaxekjær • May 29 2016 • Articles

What the cases of green growth networks such as the Cartagena Dialogue illustrate is how environmental diplomacy is shaped by and shaping the neoliberal world order.

Global Ambition and National Differentiation in the Paris Agreement and the SDGs

Graham Long • Feb 5 2016 • Articles

The apparent success in reaching the Paris Agreement as well as the UN sustainable development goals should be treated with caution

The Corporatization of Sustainability

Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister • Jan 17 2013 • Articles

The accelerating market competition to go “green” is not about ensuring the sustainability of the global environment. Rather, it is a competition to turn the concept of sustainability into a business tool.

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