The Script of the Science–Policy Interface: Performative Routines in Climate Politics

The Show Must Go On? Revisiting the Script of International Climate Cooperation Ten Years After Paris

People are good at stewardship

Environmental sciences and policy have long been framed on the premise that environmental harm is an expression of human nature rather than a product of specific historical and political arrangements. This framing has shaped a generation of interventions designed to constrain human behaviour rather than en...

The cultural politics of risk: egalitarian civil society opposition to solar radiation modification

Solar radiation modification (SRM) has become a focus of climate research and governance debate. While much of the governance literature addresses scientific assessment, responsible research, participation, and multilateral oversight, less attention has been paid to how civil society actors shape what counts as legitim...

Exploring African Agency in Global Politics

African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) are increasingly recognized as important actors in global politics, including in climate governance, where multilateral efforts remain constrained by geopolitical rivalries. However, little is known about how they exercise agency in practice. Across the policy fields of clim...

Policy without politics? Climate politics in Jordan: an understudied field

Jordan has built an expanding architecture of climate commitments, strategies, reporting instruments, and institutional arrangements, yet the political processes through which these are translated into domestic governance remain thinly analyzed in the peer-reviewed literature. This article maps the literature on climat...

Climate change articulations: Co-optive, instrumental, and transformative modalities

With the fracturing of the global order, and as climate negotiations and agreements are increasingly weakened, ignored, or strategically undermined by powerful nations, corporations, and geopolitical actors, we are witnessing a renewed and troubling return to fossil fuel extractivism at the center of global discourse....