OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Environmental Politics 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral	105
Extractivist States: Contesting and Negotiating the “Commodities Consensus” in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Across Latin America	93
Erratum	66
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	50
Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy	48
Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures	41
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	37
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics	29
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	20
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	19
Patent or Planet? Rethinking IP for Just Climate Tech Transition in the Global South	18
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	17
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon	17
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	17
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	16
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	16
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	15
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	15
Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age by Marc Landry	14
Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality	13
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	13
Is It Just About Sustainability? Politics at Home and the Trade Impacts of Voluntary Standards Abroad	12
Bucking the Trend: Civil Society and the Strengthening of Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean	12
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda	12
The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova	12

Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance	12
Pipeline Politics and the Future of Environmental Justice Struggles in North America	12
Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol	12
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India	11
Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel	11
Introduction	11
Challenging the Narrative of Inclusion: Feminist Decolonial Perspectives on Climate Governance	10
Plastic Politics of Delay: How Political Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses Produce and Reinforce Inequality in Plastic Waste Governance	10
Introduction	9
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene	9
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	8
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	8
The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	8
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	8
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	8
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	8
Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy by Stefan Renckens	7
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	7
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	7
Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds	7
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	7
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	7
The Missing Ingredients for a Polycentric Governance System of Orbital Debris	6
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue	6
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs	6
It All Hinges on China: Environmental Governance in the Twenty-First Century	6
Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists by Mary Alice Haddad	6
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort?	6
The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver	5
Reply: The Persistent Absence of Empirical Evidence for Free-Riding in Global Climate Politics	5
Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies by Johannes Urpelainen	5
Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage	5
The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics	5
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	5
Zooming In on Agreement-Making: Tracing the BBNJ Negotiations with the MARIPOLDATAbase	5
Climate Change, Vulnerability, and the Propensity for Climate Migration: Evidence from Guatemala	5
Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets	5
Surging Eco-Anxiety: Consequences for Global Environmental Politics	4
Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability Through a Volatile Element	4
Organizational Autonomy Beyond the Secretariat: Lessons from the Green Climate Fund	4
Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award	4
Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries	4
The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector	4
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics	4
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?	4
What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions	4
Reconsidering ICSID in the Context of Global Just Transitions	4
Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn	4
Executive Climate Change Attention: Toward an Indicator of Comparative Climate Change Attention	4
De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners	4

Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back	4
Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform	3
The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future by Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin	3
Judicializing Environmental Governance? The Case of Transnational Corporate Accountability	3
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?	3
Navigating Sub-Saharan African Just and Low-Carbon Transitions: Integrated Governance Approaches in Kenya and South Africa	3
The Climate-Changing Context of Inflation: Fossilflation, Climateflation, and the Environmental Politics of Green Central Banks	3
Energy and the Complexity of International Order	3
Introduction	3
Erratum	2
The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr	2
Realpolitik in the Anthropocene: Resilience, Neoclassical Realism, and the Paris Agreement	2
The Potential of Co-benefits to Spur Subnational Carbon Pricing in North America: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	2
Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime	2
Environmental Terrorism Twenty Years On	2
Keeping Promises? Democracies’ Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments	2
From Apocalypse to Empowerment: Reframing Climate Action	2
Agency in Earth System Governance edited by Michele M. Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney, and Andrea K. Gerlak	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions	2
Resilience and Nonideal Justice in Climate Loss and Damage Governance	2
The Politics of Environmental Consensus: The Case of the World Commission on Dams	2
The Politics of Youth Representation at Climate Change Conferences: Who Speaks, Who Is Spoken of, and Who Listens?	2