OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Global Environmental Politics is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Extractivist States: Contesting and Negotiating the “Commodities Consensus” in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Across Latin America	88
Institutional Structure, National Power, and Knowledge in the International Governance of Fisheries	72
The International Politics of Governing the Anthropocene	60
Gender Distribution of Leadership Positions in Global Environmental Politics	58
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It by Alice Mah	38
Value Judgments at the Heart of Green Transformation: The Leverage of Pension Fund Investors	30
Green Financial and Regulatory Policies: Why Are Some Central Banks Moving Faster than Others?	29
Introduction	29
A Just Energy Transition: Getting Decarbonisation Right in a Time of Crisis by Ed Atkins	23
Degrowth, Air Travel, and Global Environmental Governance: Scaffolding a Multilateral Agreement for a Smaller and More Sustainable Aviation Sector	22
Continuity and Change in Norm Translations After the Paris Agreement: From First to Second Nationally Determined Contributions	20
The Longue Durée of International Environmental Norm Change: Global Environmental Politics Meets the English School of International Relations	20
Sustainable Energy for All? Assessing Global Distributive Justice in the Green Climate Fund’s Energy Finance	19
Institutional Adaptation in Slow Motion: Zooming In on Desertification Governance	18
Global Environmental Politics: The Transformative Role of Emerging Economies by Johannes Urpelainen	16
Deploying an Ethnographic Sensibility to Understand Climate Change Governance: Hanging Out, Around, In, and Back	14
The Homogenization of Urban Climate Action Discourses	14
International Ozone Negotiations and the Green Spiral	13
Exploring the Role of Businesses in Polycentric Climate Governance with Large-N Data Sets	12
Supply-Side Climate Policies in Major Oil-Producing Countries: Norway’s and Canada’s Struggles to Align Climate Leadership with Fossil Fuel Extraction	12
The Potential and Limits of Environmental Disclosure Regulation: A Global Value Chain Perspective Applied to Tanker Shipping	11
Unburnable Fossil Fuels and Climate Finance: Compensation for Rights Holders	11
Domestic Provision of Global Public Goods: How Other Countries’ Behavior Affects Public Support for Climate Policy	11
How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries	10
Erratum	9

Nationalist Backlash Against Foreign Climate Shaming	9
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance	9
The Enemy Within? Green Industrial Policy and Stranded Assets in China’s Power Sector	8
Green Industrial Policy and the Global Transformation of Climate Politics	7
The Security–Sustainability Nexus: Lithium Onshoring in the Global North	7
From Gender-Blind to Gender Bind: Foregrounding Gender in the History of the UNFCCC	7
Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change	7
Greening China’s Belt and Road Initiative: From Norm Localization to Norm Subsidiarity?	7
Mercury Stories: Understanding Sustainability Through a Volatile Element	6
Comment: Global Climate Policy and Collective Action	6
Living Well at Others’ Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity	6
Engineering Vulnerability: In Pursuit of Climate Adaptation by Sarah E. Vaughn	6
The Effects of Political Knowledge Use by Developing Country Negotiators in Loss and Damage Negotiations	6
Fueling Resistance	6
Science and Environment in Chile: The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy	6
Conflicting Sovereignties: Global Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Nations in the Peruvian Amazon	6
Cold Rush: The Astonishing True Story of the New Quest for the Polar North	6
Input Legitimacy of Voluntary Sustainability Standards and Acceptance Among Southern Producers: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis	6
What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions	5
Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?	5
The International Politics of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Pathways to Cooperative Global Governance	5
Faith in Science: Religion and Climate Change Attitudes in the Middle East	5
The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank’s Safeguards Regime	4
Lithium’s Northern Buzz: Extractivism, Energy Transitions, and Resource Frontiers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Québec	4
Transparency in Environmental and Resource Governance: Theories of Change for the EITI	4
The Challenges of Coal Phaseout: Coal Plant Development and Foreign Finance in Indonesia and Vietnam	4
Phasing Out Fossil Fuels: Determinants of Production Cuts and Implications for an International Agreement	4
Organizational Autonomy Beyond the Secretariat: Lessons from the Green Climate Fund	4
Populism and Environmental Performance	4
Exclusive Apart, Inclusive as a System: Polycentricity in Climate City Networks	4
The Paris Agreement as Analogy in Global Environmental Politics	4
Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics	4
Market Masquerades? Corporate Climate Initiative Effects on Firm-Level Climate Performance	3
Environmental Impacts and Public Opinion About International Trade: Experimental Evidence from Six OECD Countries	3
Accountability as Constructive Dialogue: Can NGOs Persuade States to Conserve Biodiversity?	3
From “Loss and Damage” to “Losses and Damages”: Orthographies of Climate Change Loss and Damage in the IPCC	3
Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative System by Hans A. Baer	3
Diversifying Boundary Organizations: The Making of a Global Platform for Indigenous (and Local) Knowledge in the UNFCCC	3
The Political Economy of Protected Area Designations: Commercial Interests in Conservation Policy	3
Crime, Security, and Illegal Wildlife Trade: Political Ecologies of International Conservation	3
Greening China’s New Silk Roads: The Sustainable Governance of Belt and Road by R. James Ferguson	2
Building Environmental Peace: The UN Environment Programme and Knowledge Creation for Environmental Peacebuilding	2
Climate Change Isn’t Everything: Liberating Climate Politics from Alarmism by Mike Hulme	2
From Progress to Delay: The Quest for Data in the Negotiations on Greenhouse Gases in the International Maritime Organization	2
Private Governance and Public Authority: Regulating Sustainability in a Global Economy by Stefan Renckens	2
Introduction	2
Animals: Hierarchies of Life and Death	2
Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex	2
Public–Private Inquiries: Institutional Intermediaries and the Transparency Nexus in Global Resource Development	2
Transnational Governance and the Urban Politics of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change	2

Energy and the Complexity of International Order	2
Generative AI and Social Media May Exacerbate the Climate Crisis	2
Surging Biojustice Environmentalism from Below: Hope for Ending the Earth System Emergency?	1
De-risking Decarbonization: Accelerating Fossil Fuel Retirement by Shifting Costs to Future Winners	1
Understanding the Blue Acceleration: What It Means, How It Works, and Why It Matters	1
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization	1
Carbon Emission Performance and Regime Type: The Role of Inequality	1
Introduction	1
Small NGOs and Agenda-Setting in Global Conservation Governance: The Case of Pangolin Conservation	1
Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations	1
Orchestrating Global Climate Governance Through Data: The UNFCCC Secretariat and the Global Climate Action Platform	1
Leveraging “Enabling Power” Through Awarding in Global Climate Governance: Catalytic Impacts of UNFCCC’s Global Climate Action Award	1
Beyond Climate Breakdown: Envisioning New Stories of Radical Hope by Peter Friederici	1
Introduction	1
AI in the Wild: Sustainability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Peter Dauvergne	1
The Practical Fit of Concepts: Ecosystem Services and the Value of Nature	1
China in Transnational Extractives Governance: A Mapping Exercise	1
Most (Un)wanted: Explaining Emerging Relationships Between “Invasive Alien” Species and Animal Governance	1
Energizing Comparative Environmental Politics and Comparative Political Economy	1
Energy Cooperation in South Asia: Utilising Natural Resources for Peace and Sustainable Development	1
The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future by Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin	1