Pioneers, Leaders and Followers in Multilevel and Polycentric Climate Governance focuses The book focuses on pioneers, leaders and followers as central drivers for international climate change governance innovations.

Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel is Professor of Comparative European Politics and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Studies at the University of Hull, UK, where he is Director of the Centre for European Union Studies (CEUS).

Duncan Liefferink is Assistant Professor in the Environmental Governance and Politics group, Institute for Management Research, at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Diarmuid Torney is Associate Professor in the School of Law and Government in Dublin City University, Ireland.

1. Pioneers, leaders and followers in multilevel and polycentric climate governance Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Duncan Liefferink and Diarmuid Torney 2. Leadership and lesson-drawing in the European Union's multilevel climate governance system Martin Jänicke and Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel 3. Environmental, climate and social leadership of small enterprises: Fairphone's step-by-step approach Katja Biedenkopf, Sarah Van Eynde and Kris Bachus 4. Climate pushers or symbolic leaders? The limits to corporate climate leadership by food retailers Johann Dupuis and Remi Schweizer 5. The oil and gas sector: from climate laggard to climate leader? Matthew Bach 6. Oil and power industries' responses to EU emissions trading: laggards or low-carbon leaders? Per Ove Eikeland and Jon Birger Skjærseth 7. Cities as leaders in EU multilevel climate governance: embedded upscaling of local experiments in Europe Kristine Kern 8. Climate pioneership and leadership in structurally disadvantaged maritime port cities Rüdiger K.W. Wurzel, Jeremy F.G. Moulton, Winfried Osthorst, Linda Mederake, Pauline Deutz and Andrew E.G. Jonas 9. Follow the leader? Conceptualising the relationship between leaders and followers in polycentric climate governance Diarmuid Torney