Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

In recent decades, capitalists have largely succeeded in undermining the state's capacity to act, leaving it too weak to carry out social democratic reforms even with a favorable government in place.

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.

Recent debates in global health, including reproductive health, have embraced an attractive proposition: as donor assistance contracts, countries in the Global South might finally define their own…

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

The war in Iran has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun argue the ripple effects and states (non)responses to the crisis represent a

There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmental...

Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...

UK foreign aid helped to develop Chinese fossil fuel extraction in a region where the oil sector is associated with forced labour risks, a new investigation has found.

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Legacy emissions, climate colonialism, and climate apartheid are central themes in contemporary discussions surrounding climate action in Africa. Nevertheless, there exists a scarcity of research f...

Abstract. Supply-side climate policy initiatives that restrict fossil fuel production are gathering momentum. A growing body of academic scholarship seeks to understand this new frontier in global cli...

Retooling of factories comes as cell makers have cancelled enough capacity to produce 2mn electric cars

The Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE), Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD fellow as part of the Danish Research Coun

External consultancies’ involvement in climate governance has grown substantially in recent years. Public sector managers encounter them in government tasks from policy research and design to clima...

Understanding the role of the firm and the corporation is an ongoing concern for political economy scholars. Following the increasing influence of the Multinational Enterprise (MNEs) and its develo...

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD of Social Science from September 1st, 2026, or a

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has become a site of struggle, around which a range of actors at multiple scales and in different legal, political and financial spheres are mob...