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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Extractivist States: Contesting and Negotiating the “Commodities Consensus” in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Across Latin America	86
International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral	77
Erratum	53
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	40
Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy	33
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	33
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	32
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics	32
Rights of Nature and World Order: Reimagining Socioecological Futures	32
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon	27
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	18
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	16
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	16
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	15
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	14
Polycentric Climate Governance: The State, Local Action, Democratic Preferences, and Power—Emerging Insights and a Research Agenda	14
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	14
Transnational Governing at the Climate–Biodiversity Frontier: Employing a Governmentality Perspective	13
The Untold Story of the World’s Leading Environmental Institution: UNEP at Fifty by Maria Ivanova	13
Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality	13
Making Industrial Policy Work for Decarbonization	13
Promises and Pitfalls of Polycentric Federalism: The Case of Solar Power in India	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
Marine Biodiversity Negotiations During COVID-19: A New Role for Digital Diplomacy?	11

Is It Just About Sustainability? Politics at Home and the Trade Impacts of Voluntary Standards Abroad	11
Bucking the Trend: Civil Society and the Strengthening of Environmental Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean	11
Toward a Super-COP? Timing, Temporality, and Rethinking World Climate Governance	10
Introduction	10
Disaster Making in the Capitalocene	9
Toward a Typology of Environmental Cooperation in Postconflict Settings: The Case of Jordan and Israel	9
Plastic Politics of Delay: How Political Corporate Social Responsibility Discourses Produce and Reinforce Inequality in Plastic Waste Governance	8
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	8
Challenging the Narrative of Inclusion: Feminist Decolonial Perspectives on Climate Governance	8
Introduction	8
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	8
The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	7
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	7
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	7
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	7
Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy by Stefan Renckens	7
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	7
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	7
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	6
The Missing Ingredients for a Polycentric Governance System of Orbital Debris	6
Participating in Polycentric Climate Governance: The Partnership Choices of Latin American NGOs	6
Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds	6
How Does Polycentric Engagement Relate to Countries’ NDC Ambition and Mitigation Policy Effort?	6
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	6
It All Hinges on China: Environmental Governance in the Twenty-First Century	6
The Empirical Realities of Polycentric Climate Governance: Introduction to the Special Issue	6
Climate Change, Vulnerability, and the Propensity for Climate Migration: Evidence from Guatemala	5
The Failure of CBDR in Global Environmental Politics	5
Reply: The Persistent Absence of Empirical Evidence for Free-Riding in Global Climate Politics	5
Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists by Mary Alice Haddad	5
Understanding the Politics and Governance of Climate Change Loss and Damage	5
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back	4
Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies by Johannes Urpelainen	4
The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector	4
Zooming In on Agreement-Making: Tracing the BBNJ Negotiations with the MARIPOLDATAbase	4
Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries	4
Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn	4
The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver	4
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	4
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics	4
Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets	4
Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North	3
Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability Through a Volatile Element	3
De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners	3
Energy and the Complexity of International Order	3
What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions	3
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?	3
Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award	3
Organizational Autonomy Beyond the Secretariat: Lessons from the Green Climate Fund	3
Executive Climate Change Attention: Toward an Indicator of Comparative Climate Change Attention	3

Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?	3
The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future by Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin	2
The Climate-Changing Context of Inflation: Fossilflation, Climateflation, and the Environmental Politics of Green Central Banks	2
The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr	2
Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime	2
Introduction	2
Resilience and Nonideal Justice in Climate Loss and Damage Governance	2
Keeping Promises? Democracies’ Ability to Harmonize Their International and National Climate Commitments	2
Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform	2
Judicializing Environmental Governance? The Case of Transnational Corporate Accountability	2
Agency in Earth System Governance edited by Michele M. Betsill, Tabitha M. Benney, and Andrea K. Gerlak	2
Realpolitik in the Anthropocene: Resilience, Neoclassical Realism, and the Paris Agreement	2