About this journal

Climate Policy is a world-leading peer-reviewed academic journal, publishing high quality research and analysis on all aspects of climate policy, including mitigation and adaptation.

Climate Policy aimsto make high-quality research accessible and relevant, not only to academics, but also to policymakers and practitioners. The journal provides a platform for new ideas, innovative approaches and research-based insights that can help advance an effective response to climate change in practice.

Climate Policy covers the following topics:

• Adaptation, mitigation, governance, and negotiations
• Policy design, implementation and impact
• Economic, social and political issues at stake in responding to climate change
• Implementation of transformational policies, strategies and approaches aimed at achieving low-emissions and climate-resilient development

Climate Policy is an interdisciplinary journal, and actively encourages submissions from all academic fields. A central requirement is that papers must be written in a language and style that avoids jargon, and is therefore accessible to academics from other fields as well as to policy practitioners and policymakers. Technical content can be included in online supplementary material.

To promote independent commentary and debate, Climate Policy publishes papers in the following formats (see more information here):

• Research articles present the latest research on all aspects of climate change policy (7,000 words)
• Synthesis articles review the state of knowledge in key areas of interest (8,000 words)
• Policy Analysis articles put forward evidence-based objective analysis of particular policy approaches (5,000 words)
• Perspective articles offer rigorous insights and commentary, often from senior policymakers (3,000 words)

The senior editorial team and reviewers look for manuscripts which meet this substantive criteria.

Read the Instructions for Authors .

Prospective authors are welcome to send short summaries of their work to the Editorial office for an opinion on its suitability for Climate Policy. The Editorial Office may be contacted at choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Visit our blog and thematic collections.

After seven years as editors-in-chief (EiCs), Frank Jotzo and Harald Winkler will be stepping down as EiCs at the end of 2023. Climate Policy is delighted to announce that from January 2024, the new EiCs will be Navroz K. Dubash and Yacob Mulugetta.

Mulugetta is Professor in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, University College London (UCL) (see more  here), and Dubash is Senior Fellow, Sustainable Futures Collaborative, and Adjunct Senior Visiting Fellow, LKY School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. (see more here)

Editors-in-Chief
Dr Navroz Dubash - Sustainable Futures Collaborative, India and LKY School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Professor Yacob Mulugetta - University College London, UK 

Editor
Dr Pieter Pauw – Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Editorial Office Team
Assistant Editor: Alister Self -  University of Melbourne, Australia
Assistant Editor: Polona Barber - Slovenia, Italy
Social Media Editor: Leonia Depledge - University of Warwick, UK

Senior Editorial Advisor
Dr Joanna Depledge -  Centre for Environment, Energy and National Resource Governance (CEENRG), University of Cambridge, UK

Associate Editors
Dr Sonja Klinsky  – Arizona State University, USA
Dr Axel Michaelowa - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr Charlotte Streck - Climate Focus, The Netherlands

Editorial Advisory Board
Professor Ibidun Adelekan - University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Dr Chris Bataille – Simon Fraser University and Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Canada and France
Dr Jan Corfee-Morlot – France/USA
Ms Pretty Bhandari – World Resources Institute, Washington DC
Dr Pep Canadell - Global Carbon Project and CSIRO, Australia
Ms Christa Clapp - Center for International Climate Research, Norway
Dr Heleen De Coninck - Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Dr Joanna Depledge - Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Ivan Diaz-Rainey – Griffith University, Australia
Professor Samuel Fankhauser – Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, UK
Professor Dana R. Fisher - American University, USA
Professor Sabine Fuss – Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change and Humboldt University, Germany
Dr Oliver Geden - German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany
Dr Sandra Guzman - Climate Finance Group of Latin America and the Caribbean, México
Dr Erik Haites - Margaree Consultants Inc, Canada
Dr Stéphane Hallegatte – World Bank, USA/France
Dr Steve Hatfield-Dodds - Australian National University, Australia
Professor Frank Jotzo – Australian National University, Australia
Dr Carola Kloeck - Sciences Po, France
Dr Anna Korppoo - Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Academy of Finland, Finland
Mr Michael Lazarus - SEI North America, USA
Professor Andreas Löschel - Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Dr Sandrine Mathy - University Grenoble, France
Dr Ian Noble - Australian National University, Australia
Dr Lily Odarno - Clean Air Task Force, USA
Professor Timmons Roberts - Brown University, USA
Dr Joyashree Roy - Asian Institute of Technology Thailand and Jadavpur University, India
Professor Ambuj Sagar - Indian Institute of Technology, India
Dr P. R. Shukla - Indian Institute of Management, India
Professor Yukari Takamura - University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Diana Urge-Vorsatz - Central European University, Hungary
Dr Gernot Wagner - Columbia Business School, USA
Professor Harald Winkler – University of Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Libo Wu - Fudan University, China
Professor Xiliang Zhang - Tsinghua University, China

Former Editors-in-Chief:
Professor Michael Grubb (founding editor)
Professor Frank Jotzo
Professor Harald Winkler

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Explore our Climate Policy Collections on key topics in the climate policy arena
• Read outgoing EiCs Harald Winkler and Frank Jotzo's parting editorial on polycrisis and opportunities in systems transformations

Meet our partner, Climate Strategies.

Climate Strategies is a leading, independent, not-for-profit, international research organisation based in Cambridge. It is a global network of academic experts which bridges the gap between academia and policy-makers to provide unrivalled analysis for international decision-makers in the field of climate change and energy policy. It is funded through a broad spectrum of national governments and generous donations from businesses and foundations.

www.climatestrategies.org