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Performing accountability: face-to-face account-giving in multilateral climate transparency processes
Securing accountability of states for their climate actions is a continuing challenge within multilateral climate politics. This article...
3 jan 2021
Four approaches to anticipatory climate governance: Different conceptions of the future and implications for the present
In times of accelerating earth system transformations and their potentially disruptive societal consequences, imagining and governing the...
2 sep 2020
Anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering: conflicting visions of the future and their links to governance proposals
This article identifies diverse rationales to call for anticipatory governance of solar geoengineering, in light of a climate crisis. In...
12 aug 2020
Taming equity in multilateral climate politics: a shift from responsibilities to capacities
Equity has remained a deeply contested concept in multilateral climate politics ever since the Brundtland Commission report, with...
25 jul 2019
Governing Climate Engineering: A Proposal for Immediate Governance of Solar Radiation Management
Solar radiation management (SRM) technologies would reflect a small amount of incoming solar radiation back into space before the...
19 jul 2019
Climate financing needs in the land sector under the Paris Agreement: An assessment of developing country perspectives
This paper explores the potential of climate finance to support developing country efforts to shift away from unsustainable land use...
18 feb 2019
Transparency and Accountability in Multilateral Climate Politics
This chapter analyzes the shifting dynamics of state-to-state accountability in the multilateral climate regime established under the...
1 jan 2019
De facto governance: how authoritative assessments construct climate engineering as an object of governance
Analyses of climate engineering (CE) governance have accelerated in the last decade. A key claim is that CE remains a largely ungoverned...
8 apr 2018
Anticipating climate futures in a 1.5 °C era: the link between foresight and governance
The Paris Agreement's aspirational 1.5 degree temperature target has given further impetus to efforts to imagine (and seek to govern)...
21 feb 2018
Evoking equity as a rationale for solar geoengineering research? Scrutinizing emerging expert visions of equity
This paper examines how notions of equity are being evoked by expert advocates of more research into solar geoengineering. We trace how...
18 sep 2017
Transparency in multilateral climate politics: Furthering (or distracting from) accountability?
This article analyzes the interplay between transparency and accountability in multilateral climate politics. The 2015 Paris Agreement...
25 jul 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals and REDD+: assessing institutional interactions and the pursuit of synergies
This paper analyzes potential synergies between two recent sustainable development initiatives, namely the Sustainable Development Goals...
26 mrt 2017
Envisioning REDD+ in a post-Paris era: between evolving expectations and current practice
From its advent in 2005 within global climate change negotiations, reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and other forest-related...
18 aug 2016
Governing by expertise: the contested politics of (accounting for) land-based mitigation in a new climate agreement
This article analyzes the contested politics of including (and accounting for) land-based mitigation in a post-2020 climate agreement....
14 jul 2016
Disclosing or obscuring? The politics of transparency in global climate governance
Transparency is increasingly evoked within public and private climate governance arrangements as a key means to enhance accountability...
28 dec 2015
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