This Comment builds on the strong, fruitful and long-term collaboration with numerous fellow researchers on climate change adaptation and mitigation governance from across the EU-28. That collaboration runs under the name EURO-LCP Initiative (www.lcp-initiative.eu). I thank all members of the initiative for their invaluable contributions over the years, that is, since 2009. I also thank V. Viguié, C. Cassens and A. Clark for discussions on an early version of the paper. My work was partly funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101036458 (2021–2025).
