COMPON – Comparing Climate Change Policy Networks is a long-running international research collaboration investigating why countries differ in their responses to climate change. Established in 2007, COMPON studies climate policy networks and media discourse networks across around twenty countries, focusing on the organizations involved in climate policymaking, their beliefs and relationships, the coalitions they form, and their connections to political institutions. This meso-level network perspective helps explain how broader political and economic conditions are translated into political influence and climate-policy outcomes.

COMPON provides a common comparative framework for studying climate politics across different political systems. Country teams employ shared research protocols, including organizational policy-network surveys and analysis of climate-related media discourse, enabling both national and cross-national analyses. REL-POL's collaboration with COMPON provides an international comparative context for its research on Czech climate governance and contributes to a broader research programme examining coalition structures, information exchange, influence, policy beliefs, and the evolution of climate policy networks.