In April 2025, the Climate Obstruction and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective project (PROBAL CAPES DAAD UERJ/GIGA), coordinated by Prof Ana Paula Tostes, invited German political scientist Detlef Nolte to conduct a series of activities associated with the inter-institutional partnership between the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). On 3 April, the emeritus professor of Political Science at GIGA took part in the short course Europe and Brazil in the New International Conjuncture, promoted in partnership with UERJ’s Jean Monnet Chair, by giving the lecture Latin American Regionalism and the European Experience – Contemporary Challenges in the auditorium of the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH-UERJ).

The following week, on 7 April, the project invited Prof. Nolte to give a lecture at the Institute for Social and Political Studies (IESP-UERJ), promoted by the Laboratory of World Political Analysis (LABMUNDO), with the support of the Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change. During the meeting, the associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) shared ideas and information from his current research agenda with the teams from the two research groups and the general public.

Coordinated by Prof. Tostes in its activities in Brazil and by Prof. Miriam Prys-Hansen in Germany, the research network Climate obstruction and foreign policy in comparative perspective has as one of its missions to produce mobilisation and interaction between academics from countries in the North and South, with a view to joint and innovative reflection on global climate obstruction.