Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this book examines the role that inter-national public administrations play in global environmental politics in the Anthropocene. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, the book offers fresh insight into how international bureaucracies shape global policies in the complex areas of climate change, biodiversity, and development polic…
The majority of the world’s largest carbon emitters are either federations or have adopted systems of decentralised governance. The realization of the world’s climate mitigation objectives, therefore, depends in large part on whether and how governments within federal systems can cooperate to reduce carbon emissions and catalyze the emergence of low-carbon societies.
Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change is the third part of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was prepared by its Working Group III. The volume provides an updated global assessment of current and projected emissions from all sources and sectors, mitigation options that reduce emissions or remove greenhouse gases from the a…
What would a sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means? Legacy answers these questions, setting out the key features of the sustainable economy. It explains what it would take to properly maintain different types of capital, why polluters would have to pay, why the current generation would have to fund the necessary maintenance of our natural asset…
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is one of the most significant global environmental assessment bodies ever established, providing the most authoritative and influential reports on climate change knowledge. This book examines the history and politics of the organisation and how this shapes its assessment practice and the climate knowledge it produces. Developing a new method…