ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains the climatisation and globalisation processes in all their complexity. It analyses the climate negotiations as a collective drafting exercise, in which text-editing activities are distributed across time and space. The book also provides an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of selective climatisation in a specific policy domain: fossil fuel regulation. It also shows how security and migration are increasingly framed in "climatic terms" and how this, in turn, contributes to a "dramatisation" and "humanisation" of the climate crisis. The book also explores the changing relations between science and politics in the climate regime. It also explores the process that led to the inclusion of a reference to "traditional knowledge" in the adaptation section of the Paris Agreement. The book analyses the private sectors' efforts to project a unified and "progressive" voice in Paris.
