Climate governance across the globe : pioneers, leaders and followers / edited by Rudiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen and Paul Tobin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate governance across the globe : pioneers, leaders and followers / Rudiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen and Paul Tobin -- China : emerging low-carbon pioneers at city level / Xinlei Li -- India : from climate laggard to global solar energy leader / Kirsten Jorgensen -- Costa Rica and Vietnam : pioneers in green transformations / Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Alonso Villalobos, Dang Nguyen Anh and Markus Lederer -- Rhetoric and reality in New Zealand's climate leadership : 'My generation's nuclear-free moment' / David Hall -- Multilevel climate governance in Brazil and Indonesia : domestic pioneership and leadership in the Global South / Markus Lederer, Chris Hohne, Fee Stehle, Thomas Hickmann and Harald Fuhr -- Climate change politics and policy in the United States : forward, reverse and through the looking glass / Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer -- European Union leadership before, during and after the Paris Climate Conference / Paul Tobin and Nicole Schmidt -- Climate policy in Germany : pioneering a complex transformation process / Sibyl Steuwer and Julia Hertin -- Lessons from climate action in the UK : the limitations of state leadership / Jeremy Moulton -- Governance, green finance and global climate advocacy of the Nordic countries : small state syndrome or novel middle power? / Mikael Skou Andersen -- Ireland's Citizens' Assembly on climate change : institutional pioneership by a climate laggard? / Diarmuid Torney, Pat Brereton, and Laura Devaney -- Switzerland : international commitments and domestic drawbacks / Marlene Kammerer, Karin Ingold, Johann Dupuis -- Conclusion : pioneers, leaders, and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance re-assessed / Paul Tobin, Rudiger K.W. Wurzel, Mikael Skou Andersen.

"This book takes an innovative approach to studying international climate governance, by providing a critical analysis of climate leadership, pioneership and followership across the globe. The volume assesses the interactions between climate leaders, pioneers and followers, across multilevel and/or polycentric climate governance contexts. Examining the state and sub-state levels in both the Global South and Global North, as well as regional, supranational EU, and international climate governance levels, the authors explore sixteen countries across Asia, Australasia, Europe, and Central and North America, plus the European Union. Each chapter employs a comprehensive and consistent framework for analysing leadership and pioneership, as well as followership. The findings provide new insights into the strategies and actions of sub-state, state-level, and supranational leaders and pioneers. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners in environmental politics and climate change governance, as well as those interested in political elites, EU studies and, more broadly, comparative politics and international relations"-- Provided by publisher.