Abstract The European Union (EU) began developing climate policy in the 1990s. Since
then, it has built up a broad portfolio of mitigation policy measures and governance tools …

Most governments aim for net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050, but none
know fully how to get there. The papers in this special issue examine the role of climate …

While climate change is often understood as a collective action and a market problem, we
look at it as a problem of planning and coordination. Long-term planning is necessary to …

How do welfare state policies affect the political support for environmental action of
economically vulnerable social groups? Two competing hypotheses can be delineated. On …

Over the past decade, the UK has experienced major policy and policy making change. This
text examines this shifting political and policy landscape while also highlighting the features …

Despite the growing consensus surrounding the need to decarbonise power for meeting an
increasingly ambitious temperature target as set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the share of …

This study probes the notable gap between the theoretical endorsement of the UN
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDGs 7, 12, and 13, and their tangible …

Non-technical summary We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important
findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new …

Thirty years after the UN Conference on Environment and Development created the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change, efforts to respond to the issue continue to be …

The urgency and threats of climate change have elevated the issue to a prominent–albeit
often contested–position within the policy process. Resultantly, climate politics and climate …