Open Climate Collection

The MIT Press presents the Open Climate Collection, a curated reading list of open access books and journals that expands our understanding of climate change and environmental studies, in support of the Open Climate Campaign. Climate change is one of the world's most pressing challenges and access to multidisciplinary, trustworthy research is imperative for scientists, policymakers, and citizens alike.

"If we are going to solve these global challenges, the knowledge (research, data, educational resources, software) about them must be open."
— Open Climate Campaign

Learn earn more about open access at the MIT Press, and how you can support our mission to make as much scholarship as possible openly available.

Open Climate Collection - Journals

Many of our journals are either fully or partially open access, so we are presenting only a portion of what is available. View a much deeper collection of climate topics on the MIT Press Direct platform, or search for the topics of interest to you (make sure to filter for open content!).

Global Environmental Politics Daedalus Asian Development Review Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization Harvard Data Science Review

Global Environmental Politics

Browse more open access content from Global Environmental Politics.

Backlash to Climate Policy
James J. Patterson
(2023) 23 (1): 68–90.

Resilience and Nonideal Justice in Climate Loss and Damage Governance
Ivo Wallimann-Helmer
(2023)

Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations
Danielle Falzon, Fred Shaia, J. Timmons Roberts, Md. Fahad Hossain, Stacy-ann Robinson, Mizan R. Khan, David Ciplet
(2023) 1-25.

Multilateral Climate Finance Coordination: Politics and Depoliticization in Practice
Jakob Skovgaard, Kevin M. Adams, Kendra Dupuy, Adis Dzebo, Mikkel Funder, Adam Moe Fejerskov, Zoha Shawoo
(2023) 23 (2): 125–147.

Growing Apart: China and India at the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol
Shiming Yang
(2023) 23 (2): 74–101.

It’s a Performance, Not an Orchestra! Rethinking Soft Coordination in Global Climate Governance
Stefan C. Aykut, Felix Schenuit, Jan Klenke, Emilie d’Amico
(2022) 22 (4): 173–196.

Accelerating Climate Action: The Politics of Nonstate Actor Engagement in the Paris Regime
Maria Jernnäs, Eva Lövbrand
(2022) 22 (3): 38–58.

Pathways to an International Agreement to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground
Harro van Asselt, Peter Newell
(2022). 22 (4): 28–47.

Policy Characteristics, Electoral Cycles, and the Partisan Politics of Climate Change
Kai Schulze
(2021) 21 (2): 44–72.

Varieties of Crises: Comparing the Politics of COVID-19 and Climate Change
Hamish van der Ven, Yixian Sun
(2021) 21 (1): 13–22.

Daedalus

Browse more open access content from Daedalus

Planetary Humanities: Straddling the Decolonial/Postcolonial Divide
Dipesh Chakrabarty
(2022) 151 (3): 222–233.

Racism as a Motivator for Climate Justice
Mark A. Mitchell
(2020) 149 (4): 96–107.

Water Security in Africa in the Age of Global Climate Change
Allen Isaacman, Muchaparara Musemwa
(2021) 150 (4): 7–26.

Ghana's Akosombo Dam, Volta Lake Fisheries & Climate Change
Stephan F. Miescher
(2021) 150 (4): 124–142.

Seeing Is Believing: Understanding & Aiding Human Responses to Global Climate Change
Elke U. Weber
(2020) 149 (4): 139–150.

Task Force Climate Change: A Patron Saint of Lost Causes, or Just Ahead of Its Time?
David W. Titley
(2020) 149 (4): 125–138.

Slow Disaster in the Anthropocene: A Historian Witnesses Climate Change on the Korean Peninsula
Scott Gabriel Knowles
(2020) 149 (4): 192–206.

Is Shale Gas Good for Climate Change?
Daniel P. Schrag
(2012) 141 (2): 72–80.

Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory & Experience
Joseph E. Aldy, Robert N. Stavins
(2012) 141 (2): 45–60.

Climate & Water in a Changing Africa: Uncertainty, Adaptation & the Social Construction of Fragile Environments
Harry Verhoeven
(2021) 150 (4): 260–277.

Asian Development Review

Browse more open access content from Asian Development Review

Does Climate Change Bolster the Case for Fishery Reform in Asia?
Christopher Costello
(2018) 35 (2): 31–57.

Special Issue on The Climate Change Challenge to Asia's Development
(2018) 35 (2): iii–V.

Will Climate Change Cause Enormous Social Costs for Poor Asian Cities?
Matthew E. Kahn
(2017) 34 (2): 229–248.

Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization

Browse more open access content from Innovations

Leading Sustainability Transitions
Matt Gitsham
(2023) 13 (3-4): 64–68.

On Its Own: Bangladesh Can Save Itself from Some Climate Change
Robert Litan
(2021) 13 (1-2): 86–93.

From Home Runs to Base Hits: Rethinking Green Impact Investing in Emerging Markets
Duncan Duke, Erik Simanis
(2017) 11 (3-4): 112–125.

Conservation and Climate Change: The Immediate Need to Adapt
James N. Levitt, Charles C. Chester
(2008) 3 (4): 119–128.

Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Global Climate Change
Thomas W. Malone, Mark Klein
(2007) 2 (3): 15–26.

The Energy Innovation Imperative: Addressing Oil Dependence, Climate Change, and Other 21 st Century Energy Challenges
John P. Holdren
(2006) 1 (2): 3–23.

Energy for Change: Introduction to the Special Issue on Energy & Climate
John P. Holdren
(2009) 4 (4): 3–11.

Harvard Data Science Review

Browse more open access content from Harvard Data Science Review

Looking at the Weather: The Politics of Meteorological Data
Elaine LaFay
Published on July 27, 2023

Critical Data Challenges in Measuring the Performance of Sustainable Development Goals: Solutions and the Role of Big-Data Analytics
Mehrbakhsh Nilashi, Ooi Keng Boon, Garry Tan, Binshan Lin, and Rabab Abumalloh
Published on July 27, 2023

Combining Statistical, Physical, and Historical Evidence to Improve Historical Sea-Surface Temperature Records
Duo Chan
Published on February 8, 2021

Perspectives on Data Reproducibility and Replicability in Paleoclimate and Climate Science
Rosemary Bush, Andrea Dutton, Michael Evans, Rich Loft, and Gavin A. Schmidt
Published on Dec 16, 2020

Urban Sustainability Observatories: Leveraging Urban Experimentation for Sustainability Science and Policy
by Harvey Miller, Kelly Clifton, Gulsah Akar, Kristin Tufte, Sathya Gopalakrishnan, John MacArthur, Elena Irwin, Rajiv Ramnath, and Jonathan Stiles
Published on May 14, 2021

Building a More Robust Data Science, Toward a More Robust World
by David C. Parkes
Issue 4.3 / Summer 2022

Open Climate Collection - Books

We are presenting a selection of open access books on topics related to climate change, but we have hundreds of additional open access titles. To explore the complete open library, please visit the MIT Press Direct platform.