Abstract
What role do great powers play in the international politics of climate change, and what are their special responsibilities with regard to climate change mitigation and adaptation? How does international power asymmetry intersect with the global climate crisis? Should great powers play a more prominent role internationally and take on more great power responsibility for the global climate? Or are they better seen as ‘great irresponsibles’, given their poor record of climate leadership in the past? The study of global environmental politics has highlighted the important impact that global inequalities have on environmental policymaking, but questions of power asymmetry in international relations, the nature of states’ environmental power, and what counts as a great power in the environmental field, have not attracted the kind of systematic attention that they deserve. This book seeks to fill these gaps, and this introductory chapter introduces the main themes and central questions that the contributions to this book address.
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