Global Environmental Politics

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Volume 26 Issue 1 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.

Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence Abstract. Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and...

What do the key trends in international relations mean for the study on global environmental politics?

New overview article in @gepjournal.bsky.social by crack team @yixiansun.bsky.social, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, @matpaterson.bsky.social et al.

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I was honored to write this @gepjournal.bsky.social article with a stellar group of environmental politics scholars. As we are entering a new geopolitical order, it's important to bring geopolitics fully back into the study of global environmental politics! @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social

New in @gepjournal.bsky.social: "Historicizing Global Environmental Politics."

The article is part of the journal's 25th anniversary special issue, which is forthcoming later this year.

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📢 Student essay competition on environmental agreements.
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📅 Deadline : Feb 1, 2026
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Silver Lining to Extreme Weather Events? Democracy and Climate Change Mitigation Abstract. Long-standing meteorological research has established that anthropogenic climate change increases the risk and intensity of extreme weather events, such as tropical cyclones, floods, and for...

Do extreme weather events have an effect on climate policy? In this @gepjournal.bsky.social piece, @thisislauri.bsky.social examines the relationship between external shocks and policy action.
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Volume 25 Issue 4 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

GEP's Special Issue on "The North–South Politics of Global Just Transitions" is now out, guest edited by Chuks Okereke, Ken Mbeva, Reuben Makomere. Several articles are available open access, including the introduction. Check them out at the link below!

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Multilateral Climate Finance in Pursuit of Private Capital: How the De-Risking Agenda Is Changing International Organizations Abstract. In the last decade, international financial institutions have advocated that multilateral funding be leveraged to reduce the risk of institutional investors, such as pensions and mutual fund...

New paper @gepjournal.bsky.social

“Multilateral Climate Finance and the Pursuit of Private Capital: How the De-Risking Agenda is Changing IOs”

Thanks to @kellogginstitute.bsky.social for research support!

What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits Abstract. Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass cei...

With Caroline Ahler Christesen and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, we asked: what can the environmental state actually do?
The answer is out now with @gepjournal.bsky.social 👇

If you ever wondered about this, check our paper and let us know what you think: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: We now invite scholars to apply for either a complete Special Issue or a shorter Special Section to be published in Global Environmental Politics in 2027. Proposals due by November 1, 2025. Please repost & share!

Special Issue/Section guest editor guidelines here:
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CALL FOR PROPOSALS: We now invite scholars to apply for either a complete Special Issue or a shorter Special Section to be published in Global Environmental Politics in 2027. Proposals due by November 1, 2025. Please repost & share!

Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene – just published by Bruna Bosi-Moreira & @mattkranke.bsky.social in @gepjournal.bsky.social
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Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira.
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Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press Global Environmental Politics | 25 | 3 | August 2025

Global Environmental Politics' August issue, guest edited by Bruna Bosi-Moreira and
@mattkranke.bsky.social, is a special issue on global green visions and world order in the Anthropocene: direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2... @gepjournal.bsky.social

If you haven't had a chance to swing by table 113 during #APSA2025, now's the time! Come by and browse some of our latest books and journals. Here are some of our recommendations 👇 @apsa.bsky.social

📢 Excited to share that this collection has now been published in @gepjournal.bsky.social – thanks to my wonderful co-guest editor Bruna and all our great contributors!

➡️ The introduction is open access: direct.mit.edu/glep/article....

Featuring work by @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @justinalger.bsky.social, Cristina Inoue, Cristina Espinosa, Esther Wahabu, Nanang Kurniawan, & Bruna Bosi-Moreira, among others, as well as a book review of Jonathan Silver's "The Infrastructural South" by @devoncantwell.bsky.social.

Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press

GEP's Special Issue on "Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene" is now live! This thought-provoking collection was guest edited by Bruna Bosi-Moreira & @mattkranke.bsky.social.

The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization by Jonathan Silver

My new review of "The Infrastructural South: Techno-Environments of the Third Wave of Urbanization" by Jonathan Silver is up on the @gepjournal.bsky.social site!

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I had an interesting conversation with @jfmorin.bsky.social and @cyncouette.bsky.social about their research on the governance of orbital debris. Please watch this video to find out more!

The Missing Ingredients for a Polycentric Governance System of Orbital Debris Abstract. The pollution of Earth’s orbits by debris represents a pressing environmental problem. Recognizing that geopolitical factors hinder the adoption of a multilateral solution, several experts a...

Read @jfmorin.bsky.social's & @cyncouette.bsky.social's #spacedebris paper below, featuring scholarly analysis on #orbital #polycentric governance spiced with amazing interviewee quotes, such as: “I can launch your washing machine right in the middle of the constellation of Elon Musk no problem!”

YouTube video by Global Environmental Politics Journal Jean-Frédéric Morin and Cynthia Couette on the governance of orbital debris

📽️ New GEP Youtube video! Check out this stellar discussion between Associate Editor @yixiansun.bsky.social and GEP co-authors @jfmorin.bsky.social and @cyncouette.bsky.social on addressing the emerging #environmental problem of #spacedebris 🚀. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzR4...

Thrilled to share that GEP ranked in the top quartile of all publications in our field, based on 2024 impact factors! Kudos to all our wonderful authors for their brilliant contributions to global environmental politics scholarship, and to @mitpress.bsky.social for publishing the journal.

Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds Abstract. Considered a regional entity of the Earth system, Amazonia is close to its ecological tipping point. Nonetheless, over the last decades, socioenvironmental alliances have emerged in Brazilia...

New article on @gepjournal.bsky.social with a great group of authors - Amazonia Center of the World: Telling Stories of Socioenvironmentalism as Struggles for a Planet of Many Worlds direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

A great day- celebrating a fantastic OCIS conference & an article acceptance from @gepjournal.bsky.social (a paper on Indigenous v Settler Colonial approaches to fire with the brilliant Brent Steele- more an that soon) at the Sydney venue of Australia’s best brewery, Mountain Culture. Cheers!

We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why Commercial mining of the deep sea could begin soon. But these metals and minerals are not scarce. Mining will be harmful and the economic benefits are overstated.

Check it out.
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