In the first week of September 2024, Professors Ana Paula Balthazar Tostes and Carlos R. S. Milani, researchers from the OIMC Strategic Committee, went on an academic mission to Hamburg (Germany), where they took part in a seminar and work meetings at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). As part of the Climate Obstruction and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective project, coordinated by Prof. Tostes, the international seminar Climate Obstruction in Brazil after Bolsonaro: Opponents to Climate Protection and how to deal with them was organised on the 3rd, with the participation of both researchers alongside Eduardo Gresse (CLICCS-University of Hamburg) and Anna Fünfgeld (GIGA / University of Hamburg).

In addition to the event, meetings were held to methodologically and theoretically debate the concept of ‘climate obstruction’ and its application in the research contexts of the teams involved, to plan publications and co-authorships for 2025, to organise a round table to be offered at the 66th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), scheduled for March 2025 in Chicago (USA), and, finally, to evaluate the first international exchanges promoted by the project started in 2024. In its first year of development, this project includes the mobility of researchers Mariana Castro (June to November 2024) and Janaína Pinto (November 2024 to April 2025), both PhD students in the Political Science Graduate Programme at IESP-UERJ. New activities involving the partnership between the Observatory and GIGA are planned for next year.