Climate governance across the globe : pioneers, leaders and followers /

"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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Other Authors: Wurzel, Rüdiger (Editor), Andersen, Mikael Skou (Editor), Tobin, Paul (Lecturer in politics) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Routledge research in comparative politics.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Climate governance across the globe : pioneers, leaders and followers / Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen and Paul Tobin
  • China : emerging low-carbon pioneers at city level / Xinlei Li
  • India : from climate laggard to global solar energy leader / Kirsten Jörgensen
  • Costa Rica and Vietnam : pioneers in green transformations / Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Alonso Villalobos, Dang Nguyen Anh and Markus Lederer
  • Rhetoric and reality in New Zealand's climate leadership : 'My generation's nuclear-free moment' / David Hall
  • 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
  • Climate change politics and policy in the United States : forward, reverse and through the looking glass / Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer
  • European Union leadership before, during and after the Paris Climate Conference / Paul Tobin and Nicole Schmidt
  • Climate policy in Germany : pioneering a complex transformation process / Sibyl Steuwer and Julia Hertin
  • Lessons from climate action in the UK : the limitations of state leadership / Jeremy Moulton
  • Governance, green finance and global climate advocacy of the Nordic countries : small state syndrome or novel middle power? / Mikael Skou Andersen
  • Ireland's Citizens' Assembly on climate change : institutional pioneership by a climate laggard? / Diarmuid Torney, Pat Brereton, and Laura Devaney
  • Switzerland : international commitments and domestic drawbacks / Marlene Kammerer, Karin Ingold, Johann Dupuis
  • Conclusion : pioneers, leaders, and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance re-assessed / Paul Tobin, Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen.