Basic Information

Email Address

• Email Address

  weinger.benjamin.7wkyoto-u.ac.jp

Professional Memberships

• From 2020, To Present

  Earth Systems Governance Network
• From 2020, To Present

  Climate Social Science Network, Working Group on Obstruction in the UNFCCC and IPCC
• From 2019, To Present

  American Association of Geographers
• From 2025, To Present

  Sustainability Transitions Research Network
• From 2020, To Present

  Political Geography Speciality Group of the American Association of Geographers
• From 2025, To Present

  LGMA Working Group on Multilevel Governance

Language of Instruction

• English

ID,URL

• ORCID ID

  0000-0002-6317-4206

• J-Global ID

  202601006808131461

• External link

  https://benjaminweinger.cargo.site/

researchmap URL

• https://researchmap.jp/benjamin-weinger

Research

Research Interests

• global climate policy
• climate governance
• climate justice
• UNFCCC
• sustainability transitions
• political geography

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences, Human geography, urban climate governance

Papers

• Overcoming the implementation gap: everyday barriers and enablers of urban climate governance

  Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 05 Feb. 2026, Peer-reviewed

  
• Institutionalizing global climate governance: Expertise, sovereignty, and scalar mismatch

  Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  Environmental Development, Jul. 2025, Peer-reviewed

  
• When the World Collapses in Palestine

  Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  Jerusalem Quarterly, 20 Sep. 2024, Peer-reviewed

  
• Thirty years on: Planetary climate planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee

  Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  Global Environmental Change, May 2023, Peer-reviewed

  
• Infrastructural occupations: waste and electricity in Palestine

  Mohammed Rafi Arefin; Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  cultural geographies, Jul. 2021, Peer-reviewed

  
• Scripting climate futures: The geographical assumptions of climate planning

  Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  Political Geography, Jun. 2021, Peer-reviewed

  

Misc.

• COP30 at the crossroads of climate history: Overcoming obstruction and reimagining the planetary climate system

  Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Oct. 2025

  
• Climate Obstruction in the UNFCCC

  Sarah Thompson; Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  Climate Social Science Network, Oct. 2025

  
• The COVID-climate moment: Approximating planetary crisis in Palestine/Israel

  Benjamin Kaplan Weinger

  Antipode, Feb. 2021

  

Presentations

• The institutional life of climate governance

  Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, Mar. 2026, Invited

  
• The institutional life of climate governance

  Program in Climate and Environmental Studies, Vanderbilt University, Mar. 2026, Invited

  
• Barriers and enablers of urban climate governance in Los Angeles

  American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Mar. 2026

  
• One-Dimensional Climate: Los Angeles at the Crossroads of Climate History

  UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Sep. 2025

  
• One-Dimensional Climate: Los Angeles at the Crossroads of Climate History

  Environmental & Extractive Politics, American Association of Geographers Political Geography Specialty Group Preconference, Mar. 2025

  
• Geopolitical ecologies of the climate transition: Ecologically unequal exchange in the carbon city

  Engaging critical geopolitical ecology, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Mar. 2025

  
• Climate dissenters in Bolivia: Mesa 18 and the critique of climate governance

  Just Transitions in the Global South, University of Bristol, May 2024

  
• Climate dissenters in Bolivia: Mesa 18 and the critique of climate governance

  American Association of Geographers, Apr. 2024

  
• The inertia to do nothing is so strong: Territorial politics of climate governance in Los Angeles

  UCLA Department of Geography, May 2023

  
• Consequences of fragmentation in the urban climate transition of Los Angeles

  California Center for Sustainable Communities at UCLA, Mar. 2023, Invited

  
• Opening the black box of urban climate planning: Embedded autonomy and city diplomacy in Los Angeles

  HDGC Symposium: Global change and local people III - Urban adaptation policy and practice, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Mar. 2023

  
• Opening the black box of urban climate planning: Embedded autonomy and city diplomacy in Los Angeles

  Environmental & Extractive Politics, American Association of Geographers Political Geography Specialty Group Preconference, Mar. 2023

  
• Climate obstruction and challenges to implementation at COP 27

  Climate Social Science Network Side Event at COP27, Nov. 2022

  
• Thirty Years On: Planetary Climate Planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the UNFCCC

  Political Geography session, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, Western Washington University, Oct. 2022

  
• Thirty Years On: Planetary Climate Planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the UNFCCC

  UCLA Department of Geography, May 2022

  
• Thirty Years On: Planetary Climate Planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the UNFCCC

  Politics of Sustainability, American Association of Geographers, Political Geography Specialty Group Preconference, Feb. 2022

  
• Thirty Years On: Planetary Climate Planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the UNFCCC

  Liberalism's Limits for Climate Justice, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Feb. 2022

  
• COP26 and the Role of Cities

  Los Angeles Mayor’s Youth Council for Climate Action, Nov. 2021, Invited

  
• Thirty Years On: Planetary Climate Planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the UNFCCC

  Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate & Climate Change, New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Oct. 2021, Invited

  
• Scripting climate futures: Geographical assumptions of planetary climate planning

  Radical Climate Justice for the Global Commons, UC Santa Barbara Environmental and Climate Justice Hub, Oct. 2021

  
• Thirty Years On: Planetary Climate Planning and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the UNFCCC

  Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, San Diego State University, Oct. 2021

  
• The COVID-climate moment: Geographies of abandonment and discontent

  Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: Vulnerability & Adaptation to COVID-19, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Apr. 2021

  
• Approximating planetary crisis: Geographies of abandonment and discontent

  The Present and Future of Activism and Social Mobilization in Times of COVID-19, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Apr. 2021

  
• The COVID-climate moment: Geographies of abandonment and discontent

  American Association of Geographers, Political Geography Specialty Group Preconference, Jan. 2021

  
• Geographies of abandonment and discontent in Palestine/Israel

  UCLA Department of Geography, Nov. 2020

  
• COVID-19 and the climate crisis in Israel/Palestine: Converging geographies of exception

  American Association of Geographers, Middle States Regional Division Annual Meeting, Oct. 2020

  
• Geographies of abandonment in Israel/Palestine: The COVID-climate moment

  Confronting the Climate Crisis with Systemic Alternatives in the Age of the Coronavirus, UCSB Environmental and Climate Justice Hub, Oct. 2020

  
• Planning for Uncertain Climates in Palestine/Israel

  New York University Research Conference, Apr. 2020

  
• Landscapes of the 'Anthropocene': Reading NYC's Pasts, Presents, and Futures

  The Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Presentations, NYBG Humanities Institute, Aug. 2019

  

Academic, Social Contribution

Academic Contribution

• The Institutional Life of Climate Governance I and II

  Panel moderator

  From Mar. 2025