Peter Newell is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. Prior to this he was Professor of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and held posts at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization at Warwick University, the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex), FLACSO Argentina and Climate Network Europe in Brussels. He is associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics. His climate publications include Climate for Change (2000), The Business of Global Environmental Governance (2005), Climate Capitalism (2010), and Governing Climate Change (2010).

Maxwell Boykoff is an Assistant Professor in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado-Boulder. In addition, he is a Senior Visiting Research Associate in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. His publications include the books Who Speaks for Climate?: Making Sense of Media Reporting on Climate Change (2011), and the edited volume The Politics of Climate Change (2009).

Emily Boyd is a Reader in Environmental Change and Human Communities in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Reading. Previously Emily was a lecturer in Environment and Development in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds, and deputy director of the Leeds University Centre for Global Development. In addition, Emily is also a visiting researcher at Oxford University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Her publications include Climate Change a Beginners Guide (2010) and Adapting Institutions, Governance and Complexity: Insights for Social-ecological Resilience (2011, in press).