ABSTRACT
This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe.
The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders, pioneers and followers, across multilevel and/or polycentric climate governance contexts. Examining the state and sub-state levels in both the Global South and Global North, as well as regional, supranational EU and international climate governance levels, the authors explore 16 countries across Asia, Australasia, Europe, and Central and North America, plus the European Union. Each chapter employs a comprehensive and consistent framework for analyzing leadership and pioneership, as well as followership. The findings provide new insights into the strategies and actions of sub-state, state-level, and supranational leaders and pioneers.
This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in environmental politics and climate change governance, as well as those interested in political elites, EU studies and, more broadly, comparative politics and international relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|20 pages
Introduction
part 2|100 pages
Global South
chapter 5|19 pages
Rhetoric and reality in New Zealand’s climate leadership
chapter 6|20 pages
Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia
part 3|136 pages
United States and Europe
chapter 7|19 pages
Climate change politics and policy in the United States
chapter 11|17 pages
Governance, green finance and global climate advocacy of the Nordic countries
chapter 12|18 pages
Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on climate change
part 4|20 pages
Conclusion