Climate change now constitutes a major issue in world politics, intersecting with and shaping many other political domains, and wider patterns of social and economic life. Global climate governance is also no longer restricted to multilateral negotiations under the UN Climate Convention: it increasingly extends beyond the international climate regime to climatize other areas of global politics. This concept of climatization points to a powerful but uneven process of extension, translation, and social coordination, as climate change becomes the frame of reference through which other policy issues and forms of global activism are mediated and hierarchized. This special issue brings together contributions on both theoretical aspects and empirical cases of the climatization process. The introduction sets out a conceptual framework to systematize these observations and guide further research. First, we identify the preconditions for, and driving forces behind, climatization. We then sketch the contours of an emergent ‘climate logic’ that reshapes affected domains, and examine the wider implications of climatization for global politics. Beyond the climate case, we hope this will provide new ways to observe and understand contemporary transformations of global society and global governance.

气候变化现在是世界政治中的一个主要问题，与许多其他政治领域以及更广泛的社会和经济生活模式相交并塑造着它。全球气候治理也不再局限于联合国气候公约下的多边谈判：越来越超出国际气候制度来climatize全球政治的其他领域。气候化的这个概念指向了一个强大但不平衡的扩展、转化和社会协调过程，因为气候变化成为了其他政策问题和全球行动主义形式通过它进行调节和分级的参考框架。本期特刊汇集了对气候化过程的理论方面和经验案例的贡献。引言提出了一个概念框架，将这些观察结果系统化并指导进一步的研究。首先，我们确定气候化的先决条件和驱动力。然后，我们勾勒出重塑受影响领域的新兴“气候逻辑”的轮廓，并研究气候化对全球政治的更广泛影响。除了气候案例，