From climate action to climate agency
Mapping social drivers and the opportunity structure for global decarbonization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13129248 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan C Aykut (0000-0001-9047-5322, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author), Antje Wiener (0000-0002-3882-3331, Universität Hamburg) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Pages | 100322-100322 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Earth System Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2589-8116 • E-ISSN: 2589-8116 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.esg.2026.100322 |
| OpenAlex | W7135038593 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 76 |
Action (physics · Climate change · Climate system · Global climate · Global warming · Government (linguistics · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Beyond Cockpit-ism
Climate policy models need to get real about people — here’s how
Assessing the effectiveness of orchestrated climate action from five years of summits
Reframing the climate debate
Socio-technical scenarios as a methodological tool to explore social and political feasibility in low-carbon transitions
Managing the Anthropocene
Agenda-Setting Effects of Climate Change Litigation
Greening states and societies
Transformations for climate change mitigation
Time to pay the piper
Assessing the plausibility of climate futures
Plausible 2005–2050 emissions scenarios project between 2 °C and 3 °C of warming by 2100
Human agency in the Anthropocene
Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions
Real people or "economic processing units"? The limited understanding of people's roles in energy and climate governance
Stability and climate policy? Harnessing insights on path dependence, policy feedback, and transition pathways
Global conversations
Is the 1.5°C target possible? Exploring the three spheres of transformation
Think tanks and climate obstruction
Climate Governance Antagonisms
Backlash to Climate Policy
NGO Influence in International Environmental Negotiations
It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance
Planting Trees to Mitigate Climate Change
Implementing Long-Term Climate Policy
Between Mandate and Motivation
Conflicted transitions
Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability
Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems
The politics of decarbonization and the catalytic impact of subnational climate experiments
Societal multiplicity for international relations
Regulatory policy outputs and impacts
Transparency in multilateral climate politics
Branding the nation in the era of climate crisis
Transnational Networks and Global Environmental Governance
Supply Chain Linkages and the Extended Carbon Coalition
Shaping the Structure of Legal Opportunities
Litigation in the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement
Asset Revaluation and the Existential Politics of Climate Change
Rethinking agency in International Relations
The Study of Critical Junctures
An agenda for sustainability transitions research
The New Legal Pluralism
Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest
Transnational Climate Litigation
Strengthening the Paris Agreement by Holding Non-State Actors Accountable
New Cultures, Social Movements and the Role of Knowledge
International Relations in the prison of Political Science
Self-reinforcing and self-undermining feedbacks in subnational climate policy implementation
Agency at the Time of the Anthropocene
The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics
The Social Impacts of Supply-Side Decarbonization
The Paradox of Anthropocene Inaction
Civic Action
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |