"Migration, identity and the distribution of wealth and power were some of the key mobilising themes for movements classed as populist over the 2010s. This paper examines the potential of climate change to be drawn into populist politics, as a factor that aggravates existing concerns and one that raises new questions.

The paper suggests that populism finds resonance in the critique of political necessity, and prospers in situations of emergency where policy is rationalised in these terms. As climate change comes to be framed as an emergency to which governments must respond by imposing policies, it becomes a natural target for populist critique. The paper's aim is to shed light on the politics of climate change, as well as to revisit what populism is and how much utility the concept retains."

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