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Global Economic and Earth System Governance: A Call for Planetary Justice
The disruptions to the earth’s system have reached an unprecedented scale, posing enormous challenges around the globe. The world has...
29 sep
Solar geoengineering: Growing scientific and political support for a non-use agreement
Global resistance to the development and potential use of solar geoengineering technologies is rapidly intensifying. In a striking recent...
23 sep
Solar Geoengineering Governance: A Fragmented Institutional Landscape Covering Multi-Dimensional Impacts
A widely made claim in academic scholarship is that the governance of solar geoengineering is characterised by gaps in international law...
31 aug
Between a rock and a hard place: unpacking India’s engagement in UNFCCC transparency arrangements
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) increasingly relies on elaborate transparency arrangements – in the...
8 jul
Making transparent the accountability deficit in the global climate regime
Transparency is often extolled as the key means to secure accountability in the global climate regime. In practice, when transparency...
25 jun
The State of the Science for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (m CDR): A Scientific Summary for Policy-Makers
Since net zero greenhouse gas emissions targets have become a keystone of climate policy, there has been increasing debate about the need...
10 jun
Climate transparency’s unmet promises: A necessary stocktaking
The launch of the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework (ETF) in 2024 has been heralded with much fanfare. At the latest...
23 apr
Three Pathways to Nonuse Agreement(s) on Solar Geoengineering
Recent years have seen increasing calls by a few scientists, largely from the Global North, to explore “solar geoengineering,” a set of...
16 dec 2024
Solar radiation modification: SAPEA evidence review report
Solar radiation modification is an exceedingly controversial topic in political debates, society at large, and, perhaps consequently, the...
9 dec 2024
Is Enhanced Transparency the “Backbone” of the Paris Agreement? A Critical Assessment
This article scrutinizes the role of transparency in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Specifically, it...
19 nov 2024
Is transparency furthering clarity in multilateral climate governance? The case of climate finance
Developing countries’ ambitious climate action hinges on the provision of climate finance from developed countries. Yet, despite decades...
9 nov 2024
Transparency is what states make of it: whose climate priorities are reflected in the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework?
In this article, we examine the contestations and compromises that underpin the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework, with...
18 apr 2024
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) – the creation, enhancement, and upscaling of carbon sinks – has become a pillar of national and corporate...
9 feb 2024
Governing-by-aspiration? Assessing the nature and implications of including negative emission technologies (NETs) in country long-term climate strategies
In order to address the pressing challenge of climate change, countries are now submitting long-term climate strategies to the United...
21 mei 2023
The advent of ‘radical’ transparency: Transforming multilateral climate politics?
‘Data is the new oil’ is now a widely heard mantra in our Information Age. But is it? And should this be cause for celebration or...
9 jan 2023
Solar geoengineering: The case for an international non-use agreement
Solar geoengineering is gaining prominence in climate change debates as an issue worth studying; for some it is even a potential future...
17 jan 2022
Capacity building for climate transparency: neutral ‘means of implementation’ or generating political effects?
Elaborate transparency systems are now at the core of the 2015 Paris Agreement, with the assumption that this will enhance...
17 okt 2021
Interrogating the promises and perils of climate cryptogovernance: Blockchain discourses in international climate politics
This article interrogates the assumed promises and perils of climate cryptogovernance or deployment of cryptographic technology (i.e.,...
4 okt 2021
Does climate transparency enhance the reflexive capacity of state actors to improve mitigation performance? The case of Indonesia
Using Indonesia's energy sector as case study , we explore the effects of the domestic measurement, reporting and verification (MRV)...
13 jul 2021
Assessing state compliance with multilateral climate transparency requirements: ‘Transparency Adherence Indices’ and their research and policy implications
Transparency is increasingly central to multilateral climate governance. In this article, we undertake one of the first systematic...
1 apr 2021
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