This unit aims at understanding contemporary transformations by investigating long-term changes with a focus on their spatial and social-ecological dimension. Contemporary ecological transformations (e.g., climate change and biodiversity loss), geopolitical and geoeconomic transformations (e.g., rise of the Global South and militarization) and socio-political transformations (e.g., crises of liberal democracy and social cohesion) manifest themselves in multi-scalar structures and scale-sensitive forms of agency by policymakers, business, social movements, and civil society to reproduce and/or transform uneven dynamics of social-ecological provisioning, international relations, trade, and finance. The research objects in this unit are international political economy of climate change with a particular focus on the places and territories in the Global South and their entanglements with places and territories in the Global North.