The sustainability transitions literature is often biased towards successful cases where policy feedback from win-win solutions stabilizes or reinforc…

Solar Radiation Modification (SRM) has gained prominence within multilateral climate negotiations, raising questions about what counts as valid knowle…

As global demand for lithium increases, emerging economies with lithium deposits face a governance dilemma: should the development of these resources …

How is the ‘climate technofix’ evolving – in light of governance shifts towards Big Tech, sovereignty and security, and faltering multilateralism in t…

The planetary justice and energy justice frameworks have largely developed in isolation from each other. Both frameworks are relevant for the energy t…

The implementation phase of the Paris Agreement increasingly compels the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to evolve in a changing gove…

Governments worldwide have formally adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet a persistent gap separates rhetorical alignment from substan…

Global biodiversity governance has expanded into a dense regime complex of overlapping institutions, generating risks of fragmentation and coordinatio…

Under what conditions do organizations adopt greening measures? Economic and political factors like wealth, democracy, decentralization, and corruptio…

The literature on transformation suggests an imagination gap, or failure to deploy imagination optimally in conceptualising and mobilising sustainabil…

Enhancing the protection of biodiversity urgently requires transformative change. Next to efforts by national governments, international cooperative i…

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Organophosphates and carbamates are widely used yet highly hazardous agricultural pesticides. This study examines the evolution of Israel's agricultur…

As different schools of thought debate whether coherence is a feasible and desirable characteristic for policy mixes, there is a need to gain a greate…

Climate finance is a critical component of climate policy implementation, but disparities in access reflect the broader power imbalances between the G…

Although the SDGs as set out in the 2030 Agenda are in theory indivisible, research has shown that in practice their uptake and implementation is ofte…

The recognition of the Mar Menor as a subject of rights under Spanish Law 19/2022 marked the first instance in Europe of granting legal personhood to …

Wetlands have faced a complex set of environmental, institutional, and governance challenges, leading to biodiversity loss and intensified conflicts a…

The mainstreaming of biodiversity concerns across other governance sectors has been a central goal for multilateral agreements and environmental organ…

A major challenge for earth system governance is how to embed the interests of future generations in democratic decision-making to achieve sustainable…

Limiting global warming in line with the Paris Agreement requires net-zero emissions by mid-century. To address uncertainties in this transition, prio…

While microbes have primarily been viewed as pathogens, contemporary microbiome science and microbial ecology increasingly emphasize their non-pathoge…

Governments have a significant influence in shaping the trajectory of the space industry as investors, operators, regulators and customers. This resea…

Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are interdependent with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet they are often formulated and impleme…

Amid growing climate risks and evolving adaptation-mitigation dynamics, this study analyzes how participatory instruments are integrated into climate …

Seed regulatory frameworks paradoxically often attempt to increase farmers' access to quality seed via restrictions on their production and exchange. …

Satellite infrastructures are indispensable elements of Earth-Space sustainability, including in a North-South context. Using social network analysis,…

Global goals are theorized to catalyze non-state actors' existing strategies and practices to promote sustainable development. This research examines …

Climate change adaptation is increasingly outpaced by accelerating climate risks, resulting in a persistent and widening adaptation gap. Many current …

This study analyses institutional change in the Welsh transport sector, focusing on how the wellbeing economy discourse is being institutionalised in …

This article investigates conditions under which just transition (JT) – a union concept reconciling worker protection with environmental imperatives –…

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), countries report on their climate actions through engaging in ever more elab…

This study examines how China and Japan competed to frame the Fukushima water discharge while constructing domestic and international legitimacy. Usin…