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This book is the product of work done over many years, in many different places, leaving us with a long list of people to thank. We began working together in 2009 when the MediaClimate network, headed by Elisabeth Eide and Risto Kunelius, met for the first time in Istanbul, Turkey. The book would not have been possible without Elisabeth’s and Risto’s continuous, inexhaustible support. We are grateful for their invaluable intellectual input throughout the years, for the wonderful example they set as collaborative leaders, and for the opportunities they created for us to travel to UN climate summits as well as several relevant conferences and network events. We also wish to thank the other contributors to this network, researchers from more than 20 different countries (the exact number has varied slightly over the years). We are grateful to them for the data they contributed—which we draw on in this book—and for creating such a dynamic, fruitful environment at network gatherings. A special thanks goes to Dmitry Yagodin for helping us to access and process this network data.

We are grateful to several students and research assistants who helped us in various ways over the years. For coding of the Swedish press material, thanks to Maria Kabatanya (2009), Markus Mattisson (2011) and Emilia Roosvall (2013, 2015). At York University, Bryn Ludlow provided valuable research support prior to our fieldwork at the Paris climate summit (2015). ← xiii | xiv → Kristina Stenström at Stockholm University helped to...