His research focuses on global environmental governance and he is especially interested in the global response to climate change. Professor Hoffmann has a number of ongoing research projects in the areas of global governance and environmental politics. In April 2013 he began a new research project on developing pathways to decarbonization, with a number of collaborators from Canada, the US, the UK, and Sweden funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council.

Matthew Hoffmann is a Research Partner in the Greening Growth Partnership project.