On 16 and 17 January 2025, the Climate Obstruction and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective project (CAPES/DAAD PROBRAL), an international partnership between OIMC and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), organised an online workshop to present and debate the scientific output being developed by its team. In addition to general questions about the project and updates on the initiatives already underway, seven articles were presented at different stages of the partnership’s development:
- Blaming Nature: Legitimising the mismanagement of natural resources, presented by Prof Christiane Fröhlich
- Brazilian Actors and Practices of Climate Obstruction in the Midst of Amazon Deforestation: A First Look at What Society Denounces, by Janaína Pinto and Jesus Renzullo
- Climate Obstructionism as a Fundamental Barrier to Sustainable Climate Adaptation: A Case Study from São Paulo, Brazil, by Eduardo Gresse and Mariana Castro
- Climate obstructionism and the extreme right in Brazil, by Anna Fünfgeld and Diogo Ives
- Climate policy and climate obstructionism in the stalled EU-Mercosur agreement, by Detlef Nolte and Prof Ana Paula Tostes
- Populism in the Global South and Climate Obstructionism, by Johannes Plagemann
- The right to development and climate obstruction in foreign policy: the cases of Brazil and India, by Prof Miriam Prys-Hansen and Prof Carlos R. S. Milani
The meeting was attended by the authors of the articles and also by researcher Beatriz Triani, all of whom contributed comments on specific texts and a general discussion of the issues raised. Coordinated by Prof. Tostes on the Brazilian side and Prof. Prys-Hansen on the German side, 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.
