Why This Conference?
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 in Brussels, as we launch the first comprehensive volume of climate obstruction in the region. Authors from the book’s chapters will boil down their core findings, revealing actors and the strategies and discourses they use delay and block action in Europe.
Host and MotivationThe
Climate Social Science Network (CSSN),
a global network headquartered at Brown University in the USA, was launched in October of 2020 to create community, collaboration, and communications for researchers studying actors obstructing action on climate change.
Format
Most of the conference will be open to the public, discussing key issues of how climate action is being framed in public discourse. Parts of the online event will be closed working meetings for the working groups of CSSN, and the full network.
