Norichika Kanie is Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University and Senior Research Fellow at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. Frank Biermann is Research Professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and the author of Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene (MIT Press). Norichika Kanie is Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University and Senior Research Fellow at United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability. Frank Biermann is Research Professor of Global Sustainability Governance with the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and the author of Earth System Governance: World Politics in the Anthropocene (MIT Press). Peter M. Haas is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Oran R. Young is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Institutional Dynamics: Emergent Patterns in International Environmental Governance (MIT Press) and other books. Arild Underdal is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. Aarti Gupta is Associate Professor in the Environmental Policy Group of the Department of Social Sciences at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Steinar Andresen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway.