Climate Politics

Caroline Kuzemko is a Reader in International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. Her work explores the roles of politics and policy in enabling, constraining, and shaping sustainable energy transformations at international, national, and local governing scales. She is an award-winning author, is a Co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and co-founder and co-lead of the Energy Policy, Politics and Governance research network of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Her publications include the books The Energy Security-Climate Nexus: Institutional Change in the UK and Beyond (2013, Springer) and The Global Energy Challenge: Environment, Development, and Security (2018, Bloomsbury); and a journal special section on New Directions in the International Political Economy of Energy in the Review of International Political Economy (2019). Prior to her academic career, Caroline was a Director at the Union Bank of Switzerland, where she worked in Latin American equities.

'Accessibly and engagingly written, this book expertly guides the reader through the complex world of climate politics, combining interdisciplinary theoretical insights and astute empirical observations to show how and why we have to place politics centrally in understanding societal responses to the threat of climate change.' Peter Newell, University of Sussex, author of Power Shift and States of Transition

• Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1. Introduction: Politics – can't live with it, can't mitigate without it; 2. Perspectives on politics and climate change mitigation; 3. Conceptualising climate change mitigation politics; 4. Phase I: the politics of making climate mitigation a policy area; 5. Phase II: the politics of making mitigation policy choices; 6. Phase III: the politics of mitigation policy outcomes; 7. Phase IV: the politics of accelerating GHG emissions reduction amidst multiple crises; 8. Politicising climate change mitigation policy; Notes; References; Index.