Editorial
We study, teach, and work in regulation and governance. As climate change accelerates, the need for transformation at all levels of society is ever more urgent. Yet, we fail to see transformation in the way our professional communities think, write, teach, advise, design, implement. There is good work, but too often it remains overlooked in academic journals, books, or conversations between specialists. What is there fails to have the impact it deserves and needs to have to spur necessary changes.
Regulation in the Climate Era is for all who care about governance in the climate era, whether you work in academia, government, consultancy, NGOs, think tanks, businesses, or international organisations. It is a place to sharpen our understanding, our ideas and our ambitions. Regulation in the Climate Era is also a place for civil debate: disagreement is welcome. Through it, our aim is to facilitate and thus contribute to transformation in and through governance.
We invite you to contribute your questions and answers; your experience of governance success or failure; your ideas for re-thinking governance in the climate era; your thoughts on the contributions of others so that together we can have a greater impact than any one of us alone. This is not a place for individual grandstanding, but a place to enhance the benefits of collective insight and effort.
The scope of Regulation in the Climate Era is broad: there are a great many challenges and questions to consider where climate change and governance intersect. To guide your contributions, we highlight below five issues we see as important to explore and debate in the series.
- What does climate change do to governance? We invite contributions exploring how global warming affects the capacity of societies to govern and regulate almost anything: work safety, health, housing, education, agriculture, transport, energy, immigration, etc.
- How must the ways we think about governance change to make them suitable for an era of climate change? We invite reflective pieces on whether we need new lenses to design and understand governance on a rapidly changing planet.
- We invite commentaries on ongoing and recent policy developments, including calling out and debunking policy ideas inconsistent with climate science.
- We welcome contributions on important tools, policies and enforcement practices, how they can be supported, and how to avoid them being watered down.
- We invite contributions on climate justice in regulatory governance.
Editorial Board
Dr Julien Etienne, Independent Consultant and Policy Researcher
Dr Aleksandra Jordanoska, King’s College London
Professor Christine Parker, University of Melbourne
Professor Fiona Haines, University of Melbourne
Professor Michael Huber, Bielefeld University
Professor Megan Bowman, King’s College London