European Climate Pact Ambassadors
Motivations, Strategies, and Experiences
As an outcome of the European Green Deal, European Climate Pact Ambassadors (ECPAs) were established to promote climate action within their networks at both a local and an EU level. This book focuses on the volunteers who commit to the role of ECPA and unpacks who steps up, how they advocate for policy change and what they experience along the way.
Bridging political sociology, policy analysis and multi-level governance, the book offers a rare insight into EU-level civic participation.
About the authors
Jale Tosun
Dr. Jale Tosun is a Professor of Political Science at Heidelberg University in Germany with a main focus on the comparative study of regulation in environment, energy, and climate change as well as distributive conflicts within the EU and the influence of the EU on regulatory measures in third-party states.
Her area of expertise comprises Europeanisation research, comparative public policy, comparative political economy, public administration, and research methods.
Christin Heinz-Fischer
Christin Heinz-Fischer studied political science (B.A.) at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen from 2015 to 2018, and from 2018 to 2021 completed a master’s degree in political science with sociology as a complementary subject at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg. During her studies, she worked as a student assistant in the research project “Change through crises? Solidarity and de-solidarisation in Germany and Europe (Solikris),” where she had previously also completed her research internship.
She wrote her master’s thesis on party effects on social housing promotion in the German federal states. Since August 2021, she has been a research associate at the chair of Prof. Dr Jale Tosun. As part of her PhD, she focuses on climate forums and the related mechanisms of international country clusters. She also teaches seminars on policy research as well as economic and social statistics.