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Climate conferences provide platforms for collaboration among countries, venues for interaction across levels of governance and critical events to mobilize civil society and media coverage. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

November 30, 2022

COP27 failed. So why continue with these UN climate summits?

David Tindall, University of British Columbia; Maria Brockhaus, University of Helsinki; Mark CJ Stoddart, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Marlene Kammerer, University of Bern

There have been 27 UN COP meetings. Despite these negotiations, the planet is on target to exceed emission thresholds for global warming. Given these failures, why continue with this process?

The consensus-based nature of the UN climate change summits means any single country with a significant fossil fuel interest can either weaken or sink an otherwise stronger multilateral agreement. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

November 18, 2021

Climate change denial 2.0 was on full display at COP26, but there was also pushback

David Tindall, University of British Columbia; Mark CJ Stoddart, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and Riley E Dunlap, Oklahoma State University

The recent climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, shows that climate change deniers have shifted their tactics to thwart the efforts of countries to phase out fossil fuel use.

A protester opposed to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is lowered to a police boat after spending two days suspended from a bridge in Vancouver in July 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

August 27, 2018

Lessons from Clayoquot Sound for the Trans Mountain pipeline protests

David Tindall, University of British Columbia; Joanna Robinson, York University, Canada, and Mark CJ Stoddart, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Based on the success of the Clayoquot Sound protests 25 years ago, we can expect the TransMountain pipeline expansion protest movement, and its related civil disobedience, to continue.

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