International Public Administrations in Environmental Governance

Helge Jörgens is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and an integrated researcher at CIES-IUL, the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Lisbon. He has coedited several books on environmental policy, including 'Understanding Environmental Policy Convergence' (Cambridge University Press, 2014), 'A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy' (Edward Elgar, 2017), and the 'Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy' (Routledge, 2023). Nina Kolleck is Full Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Prior to her current role, she held professorships at Leipzig University, RWTH Aachen University, and the Free University Berlin. Additionally, she has served as a visiting Professor at institutions such as the University of California, Berkeley, the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mareike Well is a Ph.D. candidate at the Free University Berlin. She works at the German Federal Foreign Office on international and European climate policy and climate diplomacy. Her research interests include multilateral negotiations on climate change, biodiversity, and educational issues. Her publications have appeared in 'Global Governance', 'Global Environmental Politics', and 'Climate Policy'.

1. Introduction – Studying the role and influence of international environmental bureaucracies Helge Jörgens, Nina Kolleck and Mareike Well; 2. Means of bureaucratic influence – The interplay between formal autonomy and informal styles in international bureaucracies Michael W. Bauer, Steffen Eckhard, Jörn Ege and Christoph Knill; 3. The evolution of international environmental bureaucracies – How the climate secretariat is loosening its straitjacket Thomas Hickmann, Oscar Widerberg, Markus Lederer and Philipp Pattberg; 4. Environmental treaty secretariats as attention-seeking bureaucracies – The climate and biodiversity secretariats' role in international public policy making Mareike Well, Helge Jörgens, Barbara Saerbeck and Nina Kolleck; 5. Moving beyond mandates – The role of UNDP administrators in organizational expansion Nina Hall; 6. Follow the money – Secretariat financing as a window on the principal-agent relationship Lynn Wagner and Pamela Chasek; 7. More resources – More influence of international bureaucracies? The case of the UNFCCC secretariat's clean development mechanism regulation Katharina Michaelowa and Axel Michaelowa; 8. The Marrakech partnership for global climate action: democratic legitimacy, orchestration, and the role of international secretariats Karin Bäckstrand and Jonathan W. Kuyper; 9. The administrative embeddedness of international environmental secretariats – Towards a global administrative space? Barbara Saerbeck, Helge Jörgens, Alexandra Goritz, Johannes Schuster, Mareike Well and Nina Kolleck; 10. Reflections on the role of international public administrations in the Anthropocene Frank Biermann; Index.