The effort to address climate change has been inadequate, in spite of decades of work and growing certainty on the science, technology, and policy solutions. A key reason for the lack of progress in developing local, national and global governance adequate to the problem is the obstruction of climate action by a sophisticated and well-funded […]
CSSN is hosting an online event on how three scholars are using webscraping methods, parsing, named entity recognition, large language models, machine coding and topic models to research climate obstruction. We are going to highlight inductive and deductive approaches to large data modeling. Our guests are Travis Coan, Exeter; Ian P. Gray, Columbia; and Florian […]
What will the next four years look like for environmental politics? How can you protect yourself and your work as a climate researcher? We will be joined by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse to speak on the previous-era political landscape, the new challenges the next 4 years may bring, and what we can expect as researchers and environmentalists. […]
Link to recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTiEffrOcz_7UyCtZeYK5eN7tV0tJdjrP Join us for a series of four panel discussions on COP30, the Amazon, and climate: "COP30 Belém: Why does it matter? What’s the most we can hope for? How can we make that happen?". Panelists and audience members will have a chance to learn about the UNFCCC COP process; learn why […]
For this year's conference, we will be breaking it up into two parts. Our member's only event on May 22 will include a Q&A with Rachel Rothchild, who developed the legal theory behind the climate superfund laws passed in a pair of states and being considered in a half-dozen more. Jennifer Jacquet will be moderating, […]
In this year's conference, we’re focusing on the ways in which climate obstruction tactics are transforming, and how the research is changing with it. We will think about how we can make meaningful progress in a new field while academic institutions are under attack in the US and abroad, and what the future of climate […]
How do we make our academic work make a difference? What does knowledge production look like when it is being threatened from outside forces? We are thrilled to share that we will be hosting Dr. Dale Jamieson as the keynote speaker for our upcoming online annual conference. Dr. Jamieson is a Professor of Environmental Studies […]