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Global Climate Governance

Prof. Dr Franziska Müller will take up the Chair of International Development at the University of Vienna on 15 March 2025. She can now be reached at franziska.mueller@univie.ac.at; emails to franziska.mueller@uni-hamburg.de will be redirected

The Chair of Globalization and Climate Governance focuses on policies, discourses, transformations and conflicts of climate governance. Our theoretical approach is informed by critical governance research and global environmental governance, debates on climate and energy justice, postcolonial studies, international political economy and development anthropology.

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Our research

Three major research topics currently determine our work:

  1. With the BMBF research project H2POLITICS we are looking at the socio-ecological and developmental impacts of producing green hydrogen in the Global South for export to Germany for the energy transition here.
  2. Within the framework of the BMBF research group GLOCALPOWER (University of Hamburg and University of Kassel), our team explores governance and the political economy of African energy transitions with case studies in Ghana, Zambia, and South Africa. We especially aim at identifying the shape and structure of just energy transitions.
  3. Postcolonial climate governance – a newly emerging field of global environmental governance – is relevant for our research with regard to REDD+ programs and political cooperation at the energy/development nexus. We explore modes of governance,resilience, strategies of subjectification and the ‘discovery’ of the subaltern.
  4. Research on the Anthropocene and its challenges for theories of international relations is the third and more abstract pillar of our research.
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In our seminars we focus on global climate governance and energy governance, as well as on debates about climate justice and fair transformation. We seek to deepen this knowledge in courses on green finance, the Anthropocene and green governmentality.

In the summer semester 2020 we offer a digital course on Global Climate Governance and another course on "International Relations in the Anthropocene". Here we use didactic elements of blended learning, e.g. discussion forums, screencasts, research on case studies, virtual reality and serious games.

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27 May 2020|Publikation

Green is a Pan-African Colour! Comparing renewable energy policies in 34 African countries

Renewable energy is flourishing – and so are RE policies. Yet research on Africa's energy transition is still scarce. So how do African countries relate to renewable energy? Which RE policies can we find? How far-reaching and how just are they? These questions formed the basis for an intense stock-taking of African...

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25 May 2020|Publikation

Carbon-saving super heroes? REDD+, educational programmes and carbon governmentality

REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) is a global mechanism, which comprises several global forest protection and carbon sequestration programs, for instance under the umbrella of the Green Climate Fund, the World Bank’s Forest Investment Programme or the Norwegian NICFI Fund. Increasingly, these...

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