The International Journal of Climate Governance Research (IJCGR) is committed to the principle of open access and believes that making research freely available to the public supports the global exchange of knowledge and promotes wider dissemination of scientific findings.

All articles published in IJCGR are made immediately and permanently available online without subscription fees, registration requirements, or access restrictions. Readers are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and use the full texts of published articles for lawful purposes without requesting prior permission from the publisher or authors, provided that proper attribution is given to the original work.

IJCGR operates under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, adaptation, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author(s) and source are appropriately credited.

The journal does not charge readers for access to its content and does not impose embargo periods on published articles. All published content is freely accessible immediately upon publication.

By adopting an open-access publishing model, IJCGR aims to increase the visibility, accessibility, and impact of scholarly research in climate governance, environmental policy, sustainability, and related fields worldwide.