This article takes stock of the evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) through the prism of three recent shifts: the move away from …

In this article, we outline the multifaceted roles played by non‐state actors within the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and place this within the wider …

Climate change presents a large, complex and seemingly intractable set of problems that
are unprecedented in their scope and severity. Given that climate governance is generated …

Although field-configuring events have been highlighted as catalysts of institutional change,
scholars still know little about the specific conditions that allow such change to occur. Using …

This review critically assesses a large and growing literature on multiactor environmental
governance. The first section provides an historical and conceptual background to the …

Globalization processes have rendered non-state actors an integral part of global
governance. The body of literature that has examined non-state actor involvement in global …

An argument that secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties—are political
actors in their own right. Secretariats—the administrative arms of international treaties …

United Nations climate change conferences have attracted an increasing number and range
of observer participants, often outnumbering national delegates. The interactions between …

Despite growing consensus that Indigenous peoples, knowledge systems, rights and
solutions should be meaningfully included in international climate change governance …

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) was mandated to
focus on:(i) institutional frameworks for sustainable development and (ii) the green economy …