Return to international environmental governance in the political agenda and academic research

2022 is an important one for international environmental governance, which has lost none of its dynamism fifty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, often regarded as the birthplace of environmental diplomacy. But international environmental governance has a much longer history. In the introduction to this special issue, we first briefly retrace this history. We then look back at its place in international studies, before specifying its place in French-speaking international studies. These overviews enable us to identify a number of avenues for further research, which this special issue aims to explore. Finally, we present the contributions to the special issue, which as a whole offers a detailed insight into current diplomatic processes, while opening up new horizons for the field of international studies.