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 the Amazon is critical […]
Climate Action Against Disinformation would like to invite you to Techno-Feudalism: Big Carbon and Big Tech’s Disinfo, a webinar on Wednesday about how Big Tech and Big Carbon’s team-up makes disinformation an even bigger problem than ever before. Fortunately, we’ll be talking about some big solutions, as Brazil takes the reins on international climate negotiations […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 is the lack of understanding of organizations obstructing climate action. This year’s CSSN conference features eleven national studies of climate obstruction across Europe and a study of influence […]
How can we manage major challenges like climate change, food security, and biodiversity loss in the face of accelerating human pressure, increasing complexity, and persistent inequality? Join us for a day-long symposium featuring globally renowned social scientists discussing how different governance systems are experimenting, learning, failing, and succeeding at managing resources under stress.
Various forms of opposition (denial, delay and other forms of obstruction) to ambitious climate policy are the single most important reason for the lack of sufficient progress to meet the Paris treaty goals and climate efforts more generally. Since time is critical in climate politics and the window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change […]
A presentation from 2023–2024 Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow and Climate Social Science Network scholar Jennie C. Stephens At Radcliffe, Stephens is completing her book manuscript, provisionally titled Climate Justice University: Another Education Is Possible (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), which reimagines how higher education could accelerate transformative social innovation toward a more just, healthy, and stable fossil […]
Panelists will discuss new tactics from the Atlas Network, PragerU, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship; and animal agriculture. Panelists include: Brendan DeMelle, Executive Director, DeSmogBlog Viveca Morris, Research Scholar and Executive Director of the Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School Dieter Plehwe, Senior Global Horizon Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies Moderated […]
The Environmental Governance Lab at University of Toronto is excited to launch the first issue of a new magazine: We Did It!? The launch event will be in hybrid format - for those unable to join us in person, please register for online tickets and a zoom link will be provided closer to the event […]
Can we survive the future without reducing our reliance on fossil fuels? Is a fossil fuel free society even attainable? Can we wait for technology to solve the problem or do we need social change now? These are just a few of the questions that will be explored at our upcoming conference, “Fossil Fuel Phase […]
Indigenous Climate Justice for Planetary Health Governance Symposium IV This symposium offers Indigenous perspectives on enacting/embodying climate justice via Indigenous-led resurgence for planetary health.
