Alan Fenna is Professor of Politics at the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University, Western Australia. He specialises in Australian and comparative federalism and public policy. He is co-author, most recently, of Interrogating Public Policy Theory: A Political Values Perspective (2019) and Comparative Federalism: A Systematic Inquiry (2015), and co-editor of Australian Government and Politics (2021). He worked in the Federal Affairs division of the Department of Premier and Cabinet of the Government of Western Australia; was an elected member of local government; and served as President of the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) 2009–10.

Sébastien Jodoin is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law of McGill University, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Health, and the Environment. He is the founding director of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme, a pioneering initiative to generate, co-produce, and translate knowledge at the intersections of disability and climate justice. His work in the field of climate change has been cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Joana Setzer is Assistant Professor at the Grantham Research Institute, at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. She leads the Institute’s research on climate litigation as well as the Climate Change Laws of the World project – the most comprehensive global resource on climate policy, legislation, and litigation. She regularly advises a range of international organisations, governments, and non-governmental organisations in the field of climate law and policy.

Yalemsew Adela is a senior professional specialized in development studies and environmental technology, who is working as an innovation analyst at the Forest Sector Transformation Unit, at Ethiopian Forestry Development. Previously he has held research-post lectureships in environmental engineering, and leadership roles at the Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute, Jimma University as well as at the University of Rostock. His interests in research and development are in the areas of sustainability, climate and environmental governance, as well as rural livelihoods and development.

Mariachiara Alberton is a senior researcher in environmental law at the Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. Her research focuses on the multi-level governance of the environment and climate change. She investigates in particular how intergovernmental arrangements and dynamics at multiple levels enable or hinder environmental protection, participatory processes, and the emergent transition and transformation processes toward sustainability and climate resilience.

Mercedes Alda-Fernandez is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid (Spain). Her main research interests are intergovernmental relations, public policies, particularly environmental, climate, and energy policies, electoral behaviour, governments, and legislative studies. She has taught, published, and participated in different projects in these areas.

Fabiana Barbi Seleguim is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo–USP, Brazil. She obtained her PhD in Environment and Society from the University of Campinas–Unicamp. She is a research fellow of the Earth System Governance Research Network and Urban Climate Change Research Network. She has consulted for national and international organisations such as ICLEI and GIZ.

Shuai Cao is a PhD student at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University. His research interests focus on network analysis, collective action, public decision-making, and policy process in the context of energy and the environment. He has expertise in research on water governance and policy.

Beatriz Corral is Director of Evaluations Planning and Management at the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change in Mexico. She has a doctorate in Government and Public Administration, and experience in the analysis, monitoring, and evaluation of federal public programmes and policies. Between 2006 and 2009 she worked at COLEF, a Mexico–United States cross-border study centre, and since then she has worked as an official of the federal public administration in Mexico where she has collaborated in the social, health, finance, and environmental sectors.

Monica Di Gregorio is Associate Professor of Environmental Politics and Governance and the Co-director of the Sustainability Research Institute at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. Her research examines contentious environmental politics, governance, and development themes including multi-actor and multi-level governance of climate change and natural resources in the Global South. She is a Research Associate of the Priestley International Centre for Climate and the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and has been a Senior Associate of the Center for International Forestry Research. The research that informed her contribution to this book was funded by a grant of the German Federal Ministry for Environment.

Navroz K. Dubash is a professor at the Centre for Policy Research, a New Delhi-based think tank, and an adjunct senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (NUS). He has been engaged in global and national debates on climate change, air quality, energy, and water as a researcher, policy advisor, and activist for over twenty-five years. Navroz is a co-ordinating lead author for the chapter on policies and institutions for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 6th Assessment Report and has worked to inform and advise Indian government policymaking over the last decade.

Peter Eckersley is a senior research fellow in public policy and management at Nottingham Trent University, UK, a Research Associate at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, Erkner, Germany, and Managing Editor of Local Government Studies. As an interdisciplinary researcher who draws on political science, public administration, and geographical perspectives, he focuses on multi-level governance, climate change, public policy, austerity, and public accountability, with a particular focus on Germany and the UK.

Susana Galera Rodrigo is Associate Professor of Administrative Law at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid and collaborates with other academic and research institutions and publication boards. From her earliest works she has focused on the European integration approach and particularly on the implementation of EU law at the national level. From this perspective she has explored many specific fields such as customs law or judicial protection, also environmental and energy transition policies. In addition to her teaching and research activities, she also occasionally acts as a public law expert both for national and international bodies.

Maria Gallmann completed her masters in Climate Sciences at the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research (OCCR) of the University of Bern in Switzerland, specialising in research on climate change policy networks. She previously worked with Skat Consulting Ltd. in international development cooperation and currently works with South Pole, developing and monitoring carbon compensation projects in Switzerland. She is passionate about understanding the world’s complex socio-ecological systems through interdisciplinary perspectives and driving positive action leading to a sustainable and inclusive future.

Kathryn Harrison is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Before entering academia, Harrison worked as an engineer in the oil industry and a policy analyst for Environment Canada and the United States Congress. She has published widely on Canadian and US climate policy. Harrison is currently chair of the Mitigation Expert Advisory Panel of the Canadian Climate Institute, and a member of the British Columbia Climate Solutions Council.

Wolfgang Haupt works as research associate and postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner, Germany. He has a background in geography and urban regional development and holds a PhD in urban studies from the Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila and Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa. His research focuses on local and regional climate governance (mitigation and adaptation) as well as the governance of climate change within multi-level systems. Further research interests and foci include transnational municipal climate networks, urban resilience, and policy learning.

Marco Heredia is an environmental and climate law and policy expert. He has expertise in policy design, implementation, and evaluation at local, federal, and international settings. He served several years as programme manager for environmental law at the Commission for Environmental Co-operation in North America. He holds bachelor, masters, and doctorate degrees in Law, and a bachelor degree in English Education from the National University in Mexico.

Karin Ingold is Professor at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern. She heads the research group of Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance that is affiliated with the Oeschger Center of Climate Change Research at the University of Bern and with the Environmental Social Science Department of Eawag, the Water Research Institute of the ETH Domain, in Zurich, Switzerland. In her research she is interested in public policies and how they originate, with a special focus on political network analysis, advocacy coalitions, and policy instruments and mixes.

Marlene Kammerer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Bern. She is also affiliated with the Oeschger Center of Climate Change Research at the University of Bern. She obtained her PhD from the Centre for Comparative and International Studies at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich in 2018. Her main research interest is the intersection between sub-national, national, and international environmental policy, particularly focusing on contemporary problems such as climate change and plastics pollution.

Kristine Kern is a professor and head of the research group Urban Sustainability Transformations at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner (Germany) and is also affiliated with Åbo Akademi University (Finland). Her research interests concentrate on environmental governance and sustainability transformations in multi-level systems, in particular on local and regional climate and energy governance, the sustainable development of cities and regions, and transnational city networks.

Mario Kölling is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Spanish National Distance University (UNED), and senior researcher at the Manuel Giménez Abad Foundation, Zaragoza. From 2011 to 2014 he was Garcia Pelayo Researcher at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC) in Madrid. He works and publishes on issues related to comparative federalism, the EU budget, and national and sub-national parliaments in EU affairs.

Moira Moeliono is a Senior Associate at the Center for International Forestry Research. She works on community management of forest resources, the social aspects of resource uses, and adaptive collaborative management of forest resources, decentralisation, tenure, and climate change policy issues.

Sean Mueller is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (‘Eccellenza’ grant). He obtained his PhD in Politics and Government from the University of Kent/UK (2013), and his MA from the University of Fribourg/CH (2006). His main research areas are Swiss and comparative federalism as well as sub-national politics and multi-level governance more broadly.

Hannah Müller is an urban researcher and activist, currently completing her masters in Historical Urbanism at the Technical University of Berlin. Her main areas of interest encompass the critical analysis of urban, ecological transformations, and social movements with a focus on housing rights and the new municipalism, as well as feminist and activist research methods.

Tilaye Nigussie is currently Director of the Forest Sector Transformation Unit, providing programmatic, policy, and strategic support to Ethiopian Forestry Development through the United Nations Development Programme. Previously he worked with several national and international organisations in senior leadership and management positions inside and outside Ethiopia, including Burundi, DR Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania. He has trained in Ethiopia, the USA, and the UK in forestry and environmental management. He was a lecturer and academic dean at the Wondo College of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Aditya Valiathan Pillai is Associate Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, a think tank in New Delhi. He studies climate change policies and politics in India and South Asia. His recent work focuses on institutional themes, covering areas such as the history of Indian climate governance, the state and adaptation politics, the emergence of climate federalism, and challenges to building a South Asian power pool. In his previous role as a programme officer at The Asia Foundation, he managed support to South Asian civil society working in Himalayan basins, and wrote about the political economy of water and electricity in the region.

Anél du Plessis is Professor of Law and the South African Research Chair in Cities, Law, and Environmental Sustainability, Faculty of Law, North-West University (South Africa). She has published extensively on local government, climate change law and governance, sustainability, and cities. She is editor and co-editor of Environmental Law and Local Government in South Africa (2021) and The Globalisation of Urban Governance (2019). She is also editor of the Special Series on Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability of the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal.

Barry Rabe is the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and the Arthur Thurnau Professor of Environmental Policy at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Rabe is the author or co-author of six books, including Can We Price Carbon? (MIT 2018) and Trump, the Administrative Presidency and Federalism (Brookings 2020).

Fernando Rei is Associate Professor in the PhD Program in International Environmental Law at the Catholic University of Santos, and Professor of Environmental Law in Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation. His research examines environmental politics, governance, and the paradiplomacy of global climate change. He is also Scientific Director of the Brazilian Society of International Environmental Law, and he was twice President of the Environmental Agency of the State of São Paulo.

Hannah Smith is an urban planner who received a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies and a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan, focused on sustainability and land use planning. During her time at Michigan, she was a policy analyst and research assistant focused on climate policy research as well as the role of renewable energy in communities. She is currently an urban planning consultant in southeast Michigan.

Jaap de Visser is Professor in Public Law at the Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape. He has published widely on multi-level government, local government, and federalism in Africa. He has consulted for many national and international organisations, including the World Bank, the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, United States Agency for International Development, and the Forum of Federations. He is vice-president of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies, and an alternate board member of the Commonwealth Local Government Forum.

Adefires Worku is Director for Climate Science Research at the Ethiopian Environment and Forest Research Institute. His main focus is on generating and adopting technologies, knowledge, and information on climate change monitoring, adaptation, and mitigation, and examining the potentials of strategic integration of environmental resources such as forests and products and traditional ecological knowledge systems for enhancing the social-ecological resilience of smallholder farmers, pastoral communities, private sectors, and beyond.

Hongtao Yi is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Professional Studies at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs, Ohio State University. His research interests focus on energy and environmental policy, collaborative governance, and policy process. His works appear in journals such as Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Policy Studies Journal, Governance, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Politics, and Energy Policy.