Explore the article collection: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas. Published in Climate and Development.

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Explore the article collection: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas. Published in Climate and Development.

Based on event ethnography conducted at the UNFCCC COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, this article examines the contradictory ways in which China, as a key actor in global climate negotiations, has s...

In this article, we focus on the advocacy of youth from the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region in the U.N. COP process through interviews (n = 12) with youth from the MENA region who particip...

This paper explores equity in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations during a time of multiple overlapping global crises. Drawing on a combination of semi-s...

Small islands are at the frontline of climate change – and of climate negotiations. Yet while the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) has allowed small islands to collectively become a key play...

How do agrarian justice movements factor into the UNFCCC annual global climate Conference of the Parties (COP)? How have they appeared and erupted, been excluded, appropriated, and barely allowed –...

The emotions of youth climate justice activists are often demeaned or misrepresented both by popular media and by COP organisers. The COP itself, as a cold, bureaucratic, and repressive space that ...

In 2021, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change initiated a two-year work programme that, in part, would work to determine how to assess progress in achieving the Global Goal on ...

We explore representations of Indigenous and local ecological knowledge (IEK/LEK) within the cyberspace of COP27 through a digital ethnography of the UNESCO-UNFCCC Webinar Series organized to suppl...

Although art and cultural events have been part of the COPs from the very beginning they remain largely absent in the literature. Conversely, the symbolic, dramaturgical, performative, and narrativ...

Published in Climate and Development (Ahead of Print, 2024)

As global leaders call for overhauling the COP process, new documents show it’s been flawed from the start.