Aims and scope
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.