The Political Economy of Climate Change

Climate change and the reactions against it trigger debates and conflicts on redistribution between and within sovereign states. To make sense of those struggles, the panel covers cases comprising state and non-state stakeholders, as well as intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that deploy environmental regulations through trade rules and collective financial statecraft. Although the literature remains inconclusive about the effectiveness and fairness of each tool, the preliminary conclusion is that one needs to go beyond binary approaches that oppose the Global North and the Global South, democracies and autocracies, and state versus non-state actors.