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1st Edition

Climate Governance across the Globe Pioneers, Leaders and Followers

Edited By Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen, Paul Tobin Copyright 2021
300 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part 1: Introduction

1. Introduction: Climate governance across the globe: pioneers, leaders and followers　

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen and Paul Tobin

Part 2: Global South

2. China: Emerging low-carbon pioneers at city level

Xinlei Li

3. India: From climate laggard to global solar energy leader

Kirsten Jörgensen

4. Costa Rica and Vietnam: Pioneers in green transformations

Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Alonso Villalobos, Dang Nguyen Anh and Markus Lederer

5. Rhetoric and reality in New Zealand’s climate leadership: ‘My generation’s nuclear-free moment’

David Hall

6. Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia: Domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South

Markus Lederer, Chris Höhne, Fee Stehle, Thomas Hickmann and Harald Fuhr

Part 3: United States and Europe

7. Climate change politics and policy in the United States: Forward, reverse and through the looking glass

Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer

8. European Union leadership before, during and after the Paris Conference of the Parties

Paul Tobin and Nicole M. Schmidt

9. Climate policy in Germany: Pioneering a complex transformation process

Sibyl Steuwer and Julia Hertin

10. Lessons from climate action in the UK: The limitations of state leadership

Jeremy F.G. Moulton

11. Governance, green finance and global climate advocacy of the Nordic countries: Small state syndrome or novel middle power?

Mikael Skou Andersen

12. Ireland's Citizens' Assembly on climate change: Institutional pioneership by a climate laggard?

Diarmuid Torney, Laura Devaney and Pat Brereton

13. Switzerland: International commitments and domestic drawbacks

Marlene Kammerer, Karin Ingold and Johann Dupuis

Part 4: Conclusion

14. Conclusion: Pioneers, leaders and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance reassessed

Paul Tobin, Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel and Mikael Skou Andersen

Biography

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel is Professor of Comparative European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Studies at the University of Hull where he is Director of the Centre for European Union Studies (CEUS), UK.

Mikael Skou Andersen is Professor of Environmental Policy Analysis at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Paul Tobin is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.

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