Teaching Global Environmental Politics: Looking Back to Move Forward
2026-01-26
Global environmental politics (GEP), as a scholarly field and a focus of teaching, has changed over the past quarter century. In this Forum article, we reflect on our collective and varied experiences teaching GEP and the relatively limited coverage of teaching in the journal Global Environmental Politics. Reflecting on the authors’ experiences, we pay special attention to the evolution of GEP across different higher education contexts and to emerging themes and perspectives, especially as students seek pressure points in a changing world. This essay also recommends ways the journal can take on a more significant role in enhancing GEP teaching and learning in both the Global North and Global South. Our intent is to call for collective reflection, provoke and inspire, and affirm the role of teaching and learning in the field of GEP, which is moving into the center of political studies in the context of climate change.