In line with the forthcoming (2009) publication of the book ‘The Economics and Politics of Climate Change’ by Helm and Hepburn (eds.) the contribution of Ngaire Woods and Arunabha Ghosh to this book has been published as a GEG Working Paper: ‘Governing climate change: lessons from other governance regimes‘. This paper will also be published by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment as a Smith School working paper.