The work under review is the third edition of Géopolitique du climat by François Gemenne, a researcher in environmental geopolitics and migration dynamics at the University of Liège and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The book sheds light on what lies behind “climate geopolitics” and outlines major recent developments in the field, such as extreme weather events, catastrophic warming prospects and their impacts, and how the international community is dealing with climate change (via international conferences and COP summits).
Through the texts, charts, and graphs chosen, Gemenne skillfully elucidates a topic in which physical considerations (the climate itself) and political ones (decisions on reducing greenhouse gases and adaptive strategies) constantly overlap. Due to this extreme interconnectedness, unprecedented for an environmental issue, the clima
