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Climate change poses unique and profound challenges to organizations of every type, prompting a variety of organizational responses. The drastic depth of cuts in emissions of greenhouse gasses proposed by many governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is likely to require radical and fundamental shifts in socio-political structures, technological and economic systems, organizational forms, and modes of organizing (Hoffman 2005; Okereke 2007; Wittneben 2007). As a result, climate change is not just an environmental problem requiring technical and managerial solutions; it is a political arena in which a variety of organizations-state agencies, firms, industry associations, NGOs, and multilateral organizations-engage in contestation as well as collaboration over evolving regimes of governance (Levy and Egan 2003; Levy and Newell 2005). There is therefore an urgent need to better …