Mark is an expert in the emerging field of comparative environmental politics, which combines elements of comparative politics, public policy and international relations. An associate professor at the Département de stratégie, responsabilité sociale et environnementale de l’ESG UQAM, Mark was recently awarded the Chair in Decarbonisation. He is particularly interested in the relationship between climate change policy and political economy, with extensive experience in the developing world. Other recent elements of Mark's research include the international politics of climate finance as well as the political economy of the nascent North America carbon market. His objective is to build a bottom-up understanding of global climate change politics through rich, contextualized comparative research as well as rethinking international relations theory to better accommodate domestic politics and public policy. For further information on Mark's academic work, goto:https://uqam.academia.edu/MarkPurdonhttps://decarbonisation.uqam.ca