Hi colleagues, On May 31-June 2nd, the Climate Social Science Network will host "Climate Obstruction in 2023 <https://conference2023.cssn.org/e/cssnconference2023>," a free virtual conference, and we'd love for you to attend all or any of the sessions. The conference will be a great way to get story ideas, learn about the forces opposing climate action, and find new sources for stories.
You can learn more about the conference and speakers and *register here <https://conference2023.cssn.org/e/cssnconference2023>.* Sessions include: - *Obstruction of Loss and Damage Finance in the Negotiations Under the UN Climate Regime. * - *Multilateral Climate Finance, Humanitarian Aid and ODA * - *Opposition to Renewables Siting and Fossil Infrastructure - Lessons & Limitations * - *Climate Opposition by State-owned Enterprises and Petro-states* Learn more about CSSN here: cssn.org and reach out through the contact page if you're interested; and we'll get back to you. The conference includes several member-only sessions. Let me know if you have any questions, and hope to see you there! Timmons Climate Obstruction In 2023 By Climate Social Science Network 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 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 network of organizations, connected to but going far beyond the fossil fuel industry and other "vested" interests. The strategies of those obstructing climate action have evolved significantly, recently including far less denial of the scientific reality of human-caused climate change, and far more delay tactics and discourses. The nature, role and strategy of these organizations is our focus of research in the Climate Social Science Network. Host and Motivation The Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) <https://www.cssn.org/>, 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. -- J. Timmons Roberts Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, Brown University <https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jr17> Executive Director, Climate Social Science Network <http://cssn.org/> Director, the Climate and Development Lab <http://www.climatedevlab.brown.edu> Institute at Brown for Environment and Society <https://www.brown.edu/academics/institute-environment-society/> Brown Department of Sociology <https://www.brown.edu/academics/sociology/people/j-timmons-roberts> On Twitter @timmonsroberts <https://twitter.com/TimmonsRoberts> For Office Hours appointments visit here <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/selfsched?sstoken=UUprdHRuTEdzaXRifGRlZmF1bHR8NmZiMWQ3MDY4Nzk0YzFhZGQzNGFmN2U0Yjk1YmFlOTQ> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CAHWRWaqvoWgt9LGcQwBEk7C7TCoZw%2BQkcBmZLRhGGs4va2sGKw%40mail.gmail.com.
