ABSTRACT

In order to portray the significance of environmental issues within International Political Economy (IPE), the current state of the environment is first briefly presented. Next, and in order to grasp the diversity of approaches for understanding the extent to which international socioeconomic relationships contribute, in one way or another, to the current ecological crisis, a review of IPE’s main theoretical perspectives, focus, debates and gaps, is offered. Multidisciplinary experiences for knowledge cogeneration at an international scale are revisited. The IPCC and IPBES cases, which deal with two core planetary boundaries due to their fundamental importance for the earth system function and, thus, their capacity to push the Earth into a new state if crossed, will allow exploration of how such cogeneration of knowledge impacts science–policy interface. After recognizing the benefits and limitations of such multidisciplinary experiences, amply studied by IPE&E scholars, inter- and trans-disciplinary collaborative opportunities are explored in order to enable within IPE&E transformational ecological pathways thinking.