This article maps Latvia's climate narratives across political, media, business, and societal levels simultaneously. It shows Latvia's strategy is driven by EU compliance rather than genuine national vision, failing to inspire action beyond regulatory obligation.
New article!
“What we can do is contribute to EU goals”: Latvia’s strategic narrative challenges in pursuing climate neutrality by Vineta Kleinberga, Lelde Metla-Rozentāle, Kristīne Blumfelde-Rutka, Ilva Skulte & Elina Dace.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2637307
EU's green transition ignores migrant workers' justice needs. The article fills that gap with a novel just access framework combining Fraser's redistribution, recognition and representation with a 3-level model of migrant access to territory, rights & society.
New article!
Towards ‘just access’: a critical framework for analyzing migrant labor governance in the green transition by Berfin Nur Osso.
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doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2640724
New review article!
State capacities for decarbonization: from investable transitions to green transformations by Rosie Collington.
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doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633835
New article!
Big dilemmas, little time: intergenerational climate justice and public support for deep decarbonisation by Manuele Citi & Zhen Jie Im.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633837
The article offers the first empirical application of multispecies justice to a river restoration case, revealing whose species matter and why. It shows the 'successful' Grensmaas project hides aquatic injustice beneath celebrated terrestrial gains.
New article!
The politics of multispecies justice in practice? An analysis of the Grensmaas river restoration project in the Netherlands by Carlota Houart.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633839
New guest post!
The Youth in Climate Politics Isn’t Who You Think by Yi Hyun Kang.
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This week we have published one blog post.
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Climate scepticism and hostility to climate policy are common features of populist radical right (PRR) parties. Yet these attributes emerged first in many established conservative centre-right (CCR) parties, especially in Anglophone countries. Given these overlaps, and the growing support for PRR in many countries, are CCR parties also recruiting PRR or developing their own distinctive brand of nationalist populism to legitimate opposition to climate policy? These questions are addressed via a comparative discourse analysis of opposition to climate policy by the ‘Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party’ (Australia’s signature PRR party) and the influential climate sceptic faction within the Liberal-National Coalition (a CCR alliance). We found a remarkable convergence of discourses grounded in an exclusionary political, economic and extractivist resource nationalism, overlayed/reinforced with populism. Our study challenges the categorical differences between CCR and PRR parties and shows how factions within CCR parties can mobilise PPR to thwart national climate policy.
New article!
Nationalism, populism and climate scepticism in Australia: comparing radical and conservative, centre-right discourses by Robyn Eckersley & René Rejón.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633854
This guest post draws on the recently published article - Greta Thunberg and the transnational youth elite in global climate politics: myth or reality? doi.org/10.1080/0964...
New guest post!
The Youth in Climate Politics Isn’t Who You Think by Yi Hyun Kang.
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The article shows climate obstruction in Australia is not just a fringe far-right story; centre-right actors also deploy nationalist-populist frames. Newly, it compares One Nation with Coalition sceptics and finds that extractivist resource nationalism blurs the PRR/CCR divide.
Climate scepticism and hostility to climate policy are common features of populist radical right (PRR) parties. Yet these attributes emerged first in many established conservative centre-right (CCR) parties, especially in Anglophone countries. Given these overlaps, and the growing support for PRR in many countries, are CCR parties also recruiting PRR or developing their own distinctive brand of nationalist populism to legitimate opposition to climate policy? These questions are addressed via a comparative discourse analysis of opposition to climate policy by the ‘Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party’ (Australia’s signature PRR party) and the influential climate sceptic faction within the Liberal-National Coalition (a CCR alliance). We found a remarkable convergence of discourses grounded in an exclusionary political, economic and extractivist resource nationalism, overlayed/reinforced with populism. Our study challenges the categorical differences between CCR and PRR parties and shows how factions within CCR parties can mobilise PPR to thwart national climate policy.
New article!
Nationalism, populism and climate scepticism in Australia: comparing radical and conservative, centre-right discourses by Robyn Eckersley & René Rejón.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633854
Very excited to announce that the first paper of our special issue, exploring centre-right politics of environment, is now out in Environmental Politics!
Have a look at this great piece by Robyn Eckersley and René Rejón, exploring the variations of #climateskepticism on the right in Australia!
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New book review!
Ecophenomenology and the environmental crisis in the Sundarbans: towards a community-based ethic by Kalpita Bhar Paul.
Reviewed by Dipra Sarkhel.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2640709
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The article shows support for costly decarbonisation rising when people see climate policy as a fairness issue between present and future generations. It uses a 10-country survey experiment to show this effect at scale, and finds it grows nonlinearly at higher income levels.
New article!
Big dilemmas, little time: intergenerational climate justice and public support for deep decarbonisation by Manuele Citi & Zhen Jie Im.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633837
Decarbonisation poses a uniquely complex governance challenge unlike past state projects. This article introduces a five-capacity framework (planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation, & adaptive) to analyse how states pursue economy-wide green transformations.
New review article!
State capacities for decarbonization: from investable transitions to green transformations by Rosie Collington.
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doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633835
New book review!
Waste as a Critique edited by Hervé Corvellec.
Reviewed by Janna Jokela.
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doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2637304
The article empirically tests all 12 climate delay discourses in a representative US survey. Its findings show delay beliefs, especially Whataboutism, & ‘No Sticks, Just Carrots’ independently suppress public support for govt. climate action, beyond ideology or climate concern.
New article!
Beyond denial: climate delay discourses and public opinion on government climate action in the United States by Joakim Kulin & Ekaterina Rhodes.
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doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633831
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This week we have published a new issue, five research articles, and one guest post.
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Navigating the polycrisis: mapping the futures of capitalism and the earth by Michael J. Albert.
Reviewed by James Cairns.
doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2633836
New guest post!
In this interview, Jan Pollex and Lars E. Berker discuss the research and findings of their recent article in Environmental Politics: Exploring the politics of degrowth.
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Their recent article "Exploring the politics of degrowth – first evidence from two cases of repair policies in Austria and Sweden" can be found here. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
New guest post!
In this interview, Jan Pollex and Lars E. Berker discuss the research and findings of their recent article in Environmental Politics: Exploring the politics of degrowth.
@janpollex.bsky.social
environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/interviews/t...