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Silke Beck is a senior researcher at and deputy chair of the Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany. Her research focuses on the relationship between science and governance in global environmental politics. She helped set up the UFZ Science-Policy Expert Group, is senior editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, and is a member of the Governing Council of the Science and Democracy Network, Harvard University.
Steven Bernstein is a professor in the Department of Political Science and co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, both at the University of Toronto. His publications include Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era (co-edited; UBC Press, 2009), Global Liberalism and Political Order: Toward a New Grand Compromise? (co-edited; SUNY Press, 2007), and The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism (Columbia University Press, 2001), as well as many articles in refereed academic journals. His current major collaborative research projects include “Transformative Policy Pathways Towards Decarbonization” and “Coherence and Incoherence in Global Sustainable Development Governance.”
Cyril Cassisa has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy at Tsinghua University since 2012. He has conducted research with French and Chinese institutions since 2006. He has participated in biannual high-level Sino-French expert meetings on climate change, and has also been part of the French expert delegation to the UNFCCC negotiations since COP19. His research focuses on carbon markets, renewable energy, and the Chinese position in the UNFCCC. He has contributed to recent publications including “Low-Carbon Energy in China’s Energy Security Strategy,” with B. Denjean, in China’s Energy Security: A Multidimensional Perspective (Routledge, 2016), and “Emission Trading in China: Progress and Prospects” (Energy Policy 75: 9–16, 2014).
Christian Downie is a lecturer and vice chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales, and also a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. He was previously a foreign policy advisor to the Australian government’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. His first book, The Politics of Climate Change Negotiations (Elgar), was published in 2014.
Todd A. Eisenstadt is a professor of government at American University. Author of an award-winning monograph on indigenous rights, Politics, Identity, and Mexico’s Indigenous Rights Movement (Cambridge, 2011), he has taught at the Latin American Social Sciences Faculty in Ecuador. His recent work has [End Page iii] focused on constitutions, rights, and democracy and on environmental policies worldwide, and has been published by American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, and Latin American Politics and Society, among others.
Alejandro Esguerra is a postdoctoral researcher in the research group “Wicked Problems, Contested Administrations” at the University of Potsdam, Germany. His research focuses on environmental politics, especially the role of knowledge in international relations and transnational private governance. He is a co-editor, with Nicole Helmerich and Thomas Risse, of Sustainability Politics and Limited Statehood: Contesting the New Modes of Governance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Coraline Goron is a PhD candidate in politics in the Erasmus Mundus Globalisation, Europe & Multilateralism Program, under the joint supervision of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB; Belgium) and Warwick University (UK). She holds a master of laws degree in European, International, and Chinese Law from the China University of Political Science and Law, and has a master’s degree in European Studies from the Institute for European Studies at ULB. Her publications include “China-EU Relations: Low Carbon Objectives and the Management of Bilateral Trade Relations,” in China-EU Green Cooperation (World Scientific, 2014), and “The EU Aviation ETS Caught Between Kyoto and Chicago: Unilateral Norm Entrepreneurship in the Multilateral Governance System” (GEM-GREEN Doctoral Working Paper Series, Brussels, November 2012).
Matthew Hoffmann is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is also co-director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs. He has written the books Climate Governance at the Crossroads: Experimenting with a Global Response After Kyoto (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ozone Depletion and Climate Change: Constructing a Global Response (SUNY Press...
