Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Climate action in a globalizing world: An introduction -- Introduction: From the Warsaw walkout to the Paris Agreement -- Climate activism and global governance -- National comparisons in the context of political globalization -- Green governance - a critical view -- Social movements - national, international, transnational and global -- Movement institutionalization and globalization -- Advanced liberal government, resistance and responsibilization -- Institutionalization and (de- )politicization -- National cases in a global context -- Main arguments and structure of the book -- Notes -- References -- PART I: Global perspectives: COP as a space for climate activism -- 2. Climate justice, equity and movement mobilization -- The emergence of climate justice as a movement concept -- Climate justice as a nodal point of global climate activism from Warsaw to Paris -- Justice and/or equity? - a struggle over interpretation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Governing dissent in a state of emergency: Police and protester interactions in the global space of the COP -- Protest policing and summit protests in the twenty-first century -- The state of exception in practice and in principle -- Climate protests and their policing prior to COP21 -- Protest and its policing in Paris 2015 -- The run-up to COP21 -- November 29: Place de la République -- False Solutions COP21 -- Red Lines -- Governing (through) uncertainty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4. Mobilizing emotions in the global sphere: Global solidarity and the regime of rationality -- Introduction -- Emotions in social movements -- Climate justice and global political solidarity -- Solidarities and COY