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 […]
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 […]
Climate change mis- and disinformation can influence publics and decision makers to block or weaken climate solutions. Please join us for a conversation moderated by YPCCC Director Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz with Philip Newell from Climate Action Against Disinformation, Cristina López from Graphika, and Dr. Sander van der Linden from the University of Cambridge. We will discuss […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]