Helge Jörgens is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and an integrated researcher at CIES-IUL, the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Lisbon. He has coedited several books on environmental policy, including 'Understanding Environmental Policy Convergence' (Cambridge University Press, 2014), 'A Guide to EU Renewable Energy Policy' (Edward Elgar, 2017), and the 'Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy' (Routledge, 2023).