Zarina Ahmad is a PhD scholar at the University of Manchester, UK, researching environmental sustainability and climate justice with underrepresented groups in society.

Nafhesa Ali is a lecturer in sociology at Northumbria University, UK, specializing in migration and the everyday lives of racialized and minority communities.

Jen Iris Allan is a senior lecturer at Cardiff University, UK. She specializes in global climate negotiations and activism. She has also published on biodiversity and hazardous chemicals and waste governance.

Steven Bernstein is Distinguished Professor of Global Environmental and Sustainability Governance at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research spans the areas of global governance and institutions, change and transformation in global politics, global environmental politics, international political economy, and policy studies.

Marc Debus is Professor of Comparative Government at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His research interests include political participation, party politics, coalition governance, legislative behavior, and decision-making in multilevel systems.

Fay M. Farstad is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway, having been a senior researcher at the Center for International Climate Research (CICERO). Her research focuses on the party politics of climate change and EU climate policy.

Virginia Haufler is a professor in the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, USA, and associate of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management. She is a 2022–25 fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Her research examines the relationship between private actors and public authority in global governance.

Erlend A. T. Hermansen is a senior researcher at the Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway. He has a background in sociology and science and technology studies (STS) and his research revolves around how (scientific) knowledge is produced and used by different actors for different purposes across different contexts, including Norway.

Kathryn Hochstetler is Professor of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. She has published extensively on the relationship between environment and development. Her most recent book is Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Matthew Hoffmann is Professor of Political Science and Codirector of the Environmental Governance Lab at the University of Toronto, Canada. His research and teaching interests include global climate politics, just transition, global environmental governance, and complex systems.

Bård Lahn is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, Norway, and an affiliated researcher at the Centre for International Climate Research (CICERO). With a background in STS, his work focuses on the politics of climate change, fossil fuels, and scientific expertise.

Joanna I. Lewis is Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, USA. She has more than two decades of experience working on international climate and clean energy policy with a focus on China.

Matthew Lockwood is a senior lecturer in energy policy at the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK. His main interests are in the politics of energy and climate policy, in the UK and comparatively.

Sherilyn MacGregor is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Manchester, UK, specializing in the politics of (un)sustainability, (in)equality, and environmental and climate justice.

Michael Méndez is an assistant professor of environmental planning and policy at the University of California, Irvine, USA, an Andrew Carnegie fellow, and a visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). He previously served in California as a senior consultant, lobbyist, and gubernatorial appointee during the passage of the state’s internationally acclaimed climate change legislation.

Matto Mildenberger is Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA, where he explores the comparative politics of climate change. He is the author of the book Carbon Captured: How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics (MIT Press, 2020). At UCSB, Matto directs the 2035 Initiative and coleads the Energy and Environment Transitions (ENVENT) Lab.

Jonas Nahm is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, USA. His research interests lie in comparative political economy, at the intersection of climate policy, environmental politics, and economic and industrial policy.

Matthew Paterson is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester, UK. His work focuses on the political economy, global governance, and cultural politics of climate change.

Wei Shen is a political economist who worked for development finance agencies in China for more than ten years. He is based at the Institute for Development Studies, which is affiliated with the University of Sussex, UK.

Martin Sokol is an economic geographer and associate professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research focuses on geographies of finance, financialization, central banks, and climate justice. He is a founding member of the Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) and Director of the Finance, Economy, Society Research Group.

Jennie C. Stephens is a feminist climate justice scholar-activist. She is Professor of Climate Justice at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, was a 2023–24 climate justice fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and was previously a professor at Northeastern University, University of Vermont, USA, and Clark University, USA.

Yixian Sun is an associate professor in international development at the University of Bath, UK. He studies transnational governance, environmental politics, and sustainable development. His work explains China’s changing role in global environmental governance, including sustainability transitions within China as well as sustainability impacts of China’s overseas engagement.

Paul Tobin is a senior lecturer/associate professor in politics at the University of Manchester, UK. He specializes in the politics and public policy of climate change. In particular, Paul has researched the pathways to climate leadership as well as, in contrast, the processes that enable the dismantling of environmental legislation.

Diarmuid Torney is an associate professor in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. His research focuses on climate change politics, policy, and governance. He is Director of the DCU Centre for Climate and Society and Chair of DCU’s MSc in Climate Change: Policy, Media and Society.

Jale Tosun is Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University, Germany, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research concentrates on climate change governance, the European Union, policy studies, and public administration. She is the editor-in-chief of the Nature Portfolio journal Climate Action.

Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor of Global Governance and Human Security at the John W. McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He was 2023–24 Zennström Visiting Professor of Climate Change Leadership in the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden.