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Russia, Moscow Oblast · RussiaCSSN Scholar Anna Korppoo writes on climate obstruction in Russia. Excerpt from executive summary: “Russia’s climate policy has never focused on mitigation actions because of its ‘hydrocarbon culture’ built around dependence on fossil fuel exports. Due to the accelerating global low-carbon trend, and emerging carbon costs for Russian exporting industries, climate policies of other countries appear as a threat. Even though Russia has set up domes…Read Article
Russia’s Non-Western Climate Coalition: Genuine Consensus or Just Hot Air?

United States · United StatesCSSN Scholars Galen Hall, Joshua A. Basseches, Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, and Trevor Culhane win the outstanding award from the American Political Science Association for their article which utilizes a novel technique to analyze state position data. Congratulations to this team for their hard work and contribution to science. The CHORUS dataset of state lobbying data grew from a five-year project of the Climate and Development Lab at Brown Univer…Read Article
"CHORUS: A New Dataset of State Interest Group Policy Positions in the United States" wins APSA Best Journal Article Award

Economy · CanadaFossil fuel companies make money and block climate action by playing the victim. See this informative new study from CSSN scholars Kyla Tienhaara and Fergus Green on how companies leverage investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) to further their goals. The post Climate obstruction and capital accumulation by feigned victimization: TC Energy and the political economy of investor-state dispute settlement appeared first on Brown Climate Social Sci…Read Article
Climate obstruction and capital accumulation by feigned victimization: TC Energy and the political economy of investor-state dispute settlement
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