New research from CSSN Director of Research Robert Brulle and Cartie Werthman finds public relations firms are a major force in U.S. climate change obstruction
CSSN scholars Jennie Stephens, Prakash Kashwan, Duncan McLaren and Kevin Surprise critique the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine 2021 report on solar geoengineering research
In anticipation of the COP26 Glasgow United Nations Summit on Climate Change, this position paper draws attention to a series of research themes and potential questions to ask on the role of climate obstruction in the Global South.
What are the new roles of regional actors, locations of productivity, interscalar relationships, and socio-economic outcomes for city renewable energy transitions? CSSN Scholar Christina Hoicka et al.'s new paper explores these questions conceptually and empirically.
A study by Mary Sanford and CSSN scholar James Painter et al. examined the Twitter discourse around the IPCC's Special Report on Climate Change and Land, finding that meat consumption became one of the most discussed and contentious issues in response to the report - despite being a minor part of the report.
New research by CSSN Scholar Mark CJ Stoddart et al. finds that media coverage of climate change has slowed in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that new framing possibilities have opened up that link environmental and economic sustainability.
A new study by CSSN Scholar Benjamin Franta shows how the fossil fuel industry funded biased economic analyses to oppose climate policy for nearly 3 decades.
An article in frontiers by CSSN Scholar Magnus Boström examines the connections between social relations and consumption in order to better understand how to disrupt overconsumption.
A new research article by CSSN scholar Debra Javeline and coauthors shows that global risks from toxic pollution and climate change are highly correlated and should be jointly analyzed in order to inform and better target efforts to reduce or mitigate both risks.
Research from CSSN Scholar Christina Hoicka and colleagues asks whether demand-side low-carbon energy innovations are meeting energy justice criteria, using indicators from existing energy justice frameworks applied to a range of demand-side innovations offered to energy users in Ontario.
CSSN Scholar Angela V. Carter's latest book Fossilized, on the rise and environmental costs of Canada's oil development boom, has won the 2021 Donald Smiley Prize for the best book published in a field relating to the study of government and politics in Canada.
