Johannes Urpelainen is the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the founding director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Renewables: The Politics of a Global Energy Transition (2018) and Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor (2018).

Urpelainen provides a masterful primer for the challenges of the new global environmental governance. As developing countries get wealthier, their capacity to destroy the environment increases, but compared to advanced industrialized countries they have weaker environmental preferences and less state capacity to address environmental problems. These developments complicate how global challenges like climate change can be addressed.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics2. Global Environmental Politics in the American Century3. Global Environmental Politics for a New Century4. The Evolution of Three Global Environmental Regimes5. China and India in Global Environmental Politics6. The Rise of the RestConclusion: Bringing It All TogetherNotesBibliographyIndex

Johannes Urpelainen is the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the founding director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Renewables: The Politics of a Global Energy Transition (2018) and Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor (2018).

Urpelainen provides a masterful primer for the challenges of the new global environmental governance. As developing countries get wealthier, their capacity to destroy the environment increases, but compared to advanced industrialized countries they have weaker environmental preferences and less state capacity to address environmental problems. These developments complicate how global challenges like climate change can be addressed.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics2. Global Environmental Politics in the American Century3. Global Environmental Politics for a New Century4. The Evolution of Three Global Environmental Regimes5. China and India in Global Environmental Politics6. The Rise of the RestConclusion: Bringing It All TogetherNotesBibliographyIndex

Johannes Urpelainen is the Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Professor of Energy, Resources, and Environment at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the founding director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Renewables: The Politics of a Global Energy Transition (2018) and Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor (2018).

Urpelainen provides a masterful primer for the challenges of the new global environmental governance. As developing countries get wealthier, their capacity to destroy the environment increases, but compared to advanced industrialized countries they have weaker environmental preferences and less state capacity to address environmental problems. These developments complicate how global challenges like climate change can be addressed.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. International Political Economy and Global Environmental Politics2. Global Environmental Politics in the American Century3. Global Environmental Politics for a New Century4. The Evolution of Three Global Environmental Regimes5. China and India in Global Environmental Politics6. The Rise of the RestConclusion: Bringing It All TogetherNotesBibliographyIndex