Publications

In this paper, we examine the role of trust in the international climate negotiations.

To confront global challenges and to assert itself more firmly on the international stage, the EU has not only expanded its overall budget for external action.

Worauf ist bei der Planung und Gestaltung von parlamentarische Abenden und Frühstücken zu achten? Welche Erwartungen haben wissenschaftliche Organisationen und Abgeordnete an derartige Veranstaltungen?

This paper explores the current scope and direction of the emerging global governance of hydrogen within the broader context of the energy transition, where technological innovation and institutional change intersect.

We are currently witnessing a paradox in climate governance (CG): despite growing awareness of the socio-biophysical impacts of current lifestyles, there remains a persistent commitment to high-consumption habits with large carbon footprints.

The International Seabed Authority (or ISA) is nearing a world-first decision: whether to approve, on behalf of humankind, potentially in the absence of regulations, an application for exploitation rights over deep sea minerals.

In response to the negative effects of the car-dominated transport sector, especially in urban areas, and wider attempts to tackle the climate crisis, cities are reallocating car-dominated areas to promote active mobility, leisure and urban green

Efforts to limit individual consumption to adapt to climate change are regularly subject to controversial debates in politics and society.

Which factors may enable a secure, affordable, and sustainable development of the Kenyan energy system?

Car-centric planning exacerbates the climate crisis, compromises public health, and erodes public space.

Contemporary international organizations (IOs) are routinely portrayed as being more accessible to a wide variety of actors than ever before.

Does e-participation generate more democratic legitimacy in the context of the German Energiewende through more input and procedural justice, better outputs and environmental outcomes that are accepted by the public?

These are dark times for anyone working in the field of climate policy and it’s difficult not to succumb to pessimism.

Shortly before the recently concluded COP29 UN climate conference in Baku, we published a new paper in which we consider the role and effects of group dynamics on negotiations at the climate conferences.

Epistemic plurality and lived experience are the cornerstones of global deliberation. In an increasingly interconnected world, global citizens’ assemblies can offer the tools to bring together individuals ‘from all walks of life’.

In this chapter we provide an overview of hydrogen development in Australia. We begin with a brief overview of Australia’s climate and energy policy and its position in regional and global energy markets.

Green hydrogen will play an essential role in the decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries, including the steel, cement, fertilizer, shipping and aviation sectors.