International negotiations on climate change have made slow progress in the past decade. This is difficult to reconcile with broad scientific agreement on the causes of climate change and its impacts and economic arguments about the benefits of early mitigation.

To shed new light on the prospects of climate change governance, we examine both the system of international negotiations and the wider political and institutional context within which it is embedded, and which it is influencing.

The Programme Leader for Climate change governance for a new global deal is Jouni Paavola

Research projects

The programme consists of four projects.

• Project 2a: Politics, institutions and international cooperation on climate change
• Project 2b: Effective climate change governance without the state
• Project 2c: Human rights and climate change
• Project 2d: Equitable mitigation and adaptation

Working papers

• Accountability mechanisms in climate change framework laws
  Catherine Higham, Alina Averchenkova, Joana Setzer, Arnaud Koehl - 5 Nov 2021
• Multi-level governance and power in climate change policy networks
  Monica Di Gregorio, Leandra Fatorelli, Jouni Paavola, Bruno Locatelli, Emilia Pramova, Dodik Ridho Nurrochmat, Maria Brockhaus, Sonya Dyah Kusumadewi, Intan Maya Sari, Peter May - 29 Jan 2019
• The European Union in International Climate Change Negotiations
  Stavros Afionis - 23 Jan 2017
• The ‘power of process:’ how negotiation management influences multilateral cooperation
  Kai Monheim - 2 Dec 2016
• A bargaining experiment on heterogeneity and side deals in climate negotiations
  Greer Gosnell, Alessandro Tavoni - 15 Aug 2016
• Tipping points and loss aversion in international environmental agreements
  Doruk İriş, Alessandro Tavoni - 20 May 2016
• Tipping and reference points in climate change games
  Alessandro Tavoni, Doruk İriş - 20 May 2016
• Strengthening non-state climate action: a progress assessment of commitments launched at the 2014 UN Climate Summit
  Sander Chan, Robert Falkner, Harro van Asselt, Matthew Goldberg - 23 Nov 2015
• Nationally Self-Interested Climate Change Mitigation: A Unified Conceptual Framework
  - 13 Jul 2015
• A minilateral solution for global climate change? On bargaining efficiency, club benefits and international legitimacy
  Robert Falkner - 2 Jul 2015
• Delegation and public pressure in a threshold public goods game: theory and experimental evidence
  Alessandro Tavoni, Jungmin Lee, Doruk İriş - 20 Mar 2015
• Luring others into climate action: Coalition formation games with threshold and spillover effects
  Alessandro Tavoni, Valentina Bosetti, Melanie Heugues - 13 Jan 2015
• Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons to environmental variability
  Alessandro Tavoni, Maja Schlüter, Simon Levin - 1 Jan 2014
• Network economics and the environment: insights and perspectives
  Alessandro Tavoni, Sergio Currarini - 1 Jan 2014
• Observations on the role of the private sector in the UNFCCC’s loss and damage of climate change work programme
  Swenja Surminski, Jillian Eldridge - 1 Dec 2013
• Development aid and climate finance
  Sam Fankhauser, Johan Eyckmans, Snorre Kverndokk - 1 Aug 2013
• The Governance of Corporate Responsibility
  Andy Gouldson, Stavros Afionis - 1 Jul 2013
• Regime shifts in a social-ecological system
  Alessandro Tavoni, Steven Lade, Simon Levin, Maja Schlüter - 1 Jan 2013
• Who should pay for climate? The effect of burden-sharing mechanisms on abatement policies and technological transfers
  Emanuele Campiglio - 25 Nov 2012
• Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements
  Simon Dietz, Alessandro Tavoni, Carmen Marchiori - 1 Aug 2012
• Climate policy integration beyond principled priority: a framework for analysis
  - 1 Jul 2012
• Ethics, equity and the economics of climate change. Paper 2: economics and politics
  Nicholas Stern - 1 Jun 2012
• The emerging geographies of climate justice
  Susannah Fisher - 1 Jun 2012
• Trade, climate change and the political game theory of border carbon adjustments
  Cameron Hepburn, Gianni Ruta, Dieter Helm - 1 Apr 2012
• Public pressure versus lobbying – how do Environmental NGOs matter most in climate negotiations?
  - 1 Dec 2011
• Asymmetry, optimal transfers and international environmental agreements
  Jonathan Colmer - 1 Nov 2011
• Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game
  Alessandro Tavoni, Astrid Dannenberg, Andreas Löschel, Gabriele Paolacci, Christiane Reif - 1 Nov 2011
• The influence of academics as insider-nongovernmental actors in the Post-Kyoto Protocol Climate Change Negotiations: a matter of timing, network and policy-entrepreneurial capabilities
  - 1 Sep 2011
• Emerging markets and climate change: Mexican standoff or low-carbon race?
  Cameron Hepburn, David Frame - 25 May 2011
• Climate change: the ultimate ‘tragedy of the commons’?
  Jouni Paavola - 1 Mar 2011
• The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management
  Alessandro Tavoni, Maja Schlüter, Simon Levin - 1 Jan 2011
• International climate policy after Copenhagen: towards a ‘building blocks’ approach
  Robert Falkner, Hannes Stephan, John Vogler - 1 Jul 2010
• The fourteenth session of the UN commission on sustainable development: The energy session
  James Van Alstine - 22 Jan 2007