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🎭 Youth climate activism prefigures just futures, not distant utopias

October 17, 2025

Towards feminist climate justice in Ireland and the EU 

September 25, 2025

Not just carrots and sticks: why states implement environmental obligations

August 13, 2025

Canal Istanbul: balancing development and security

June 27, 2025

Climate change denialism and the crisis of the centre in Spain

November 11, 2024
July 25, 2024

How urban climate action is fuelling populist backlash

Mahir Yazar In Germany, climate protesters are demanding diesel bans in cities. Norwegian activists are calling for the abolition of urban road tolls. But in cities across the world, writes Mahir Yazar, populists are rising up to challenge these progressive climate movements Read more
May 14, 2024

Why communal conflict should be viewed as a wartime phenomenon

Claudia Wiehler Violent local conflicts over land and resources are taking place almost exclusively in civil war-affected societies. Claudia Wiehler and Sebastian van Baalen argue that analysts and peacebuilding practitioners therefore need to involve civil war parties in communal conflict management and resolution — and view them as potential conflict management parties. Read more
April 17, 2024

Left and right's climate support affected differently by cost increase

Sofia Henriks As climate policy costs rise, right-leaning voters experience cognitive dissonance. As a result, Sofia Henriks writes, they lower their worries about climate impact when there is an increase in private costs. But what about the left-leaning voters? Read more
March 14, 2024

Domestic fossil fuel reserves help determine right-wing populist positions on green policies

Mehmet Haşim Çevik Right-wing populist parties have divergent positions on policies that seek to combat climate change. Key to understanding why, writes Mehmet Haşim Çevik, is whether the country relies on domestic fossil fuels Read more
July 12, 2023

Small green firms beat big polluters in clean shipping negotiations

Benjamin Hofmann When some companies lobby for ambitious environmental policy and others against it, the larger ones usually win. New regulations for cleaner shipping in the Arctic and Baltic Sea show, however, that David can beat Goliath. Benjamin Hofmann explains how small green businesses can prevail in international environmental negotiations Read more

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