As climate action intensifies and becomes more globalized, efforts to obstruct it have become more widespread, well-funded, and dangerous. "Climate obstruction" refers to the blocking of climate change policies that are grounded in scientific consensus—such as obstruction efforts carried out by certain fossil fuel, energy, transportation, and agribusiness companies, as well as by communication and public relations agencies and radical conservative organizations. The event aims to discuss ways to counter climate obstruction, including regulation, legal action, and civil society movements.

Partnership: Interdisciplinary Observatory on Climate Change (OIMC), Climate Social Science Network (CSSN)

PROGRAM

10:30 am - 10:40 am| Welcome and Introduction

• Carlos Milani (OIMC-UERJ and Senior Fellow - CEBRI) 

0:40 am - 11:10 am | Seminar

• Timmons Roberts (Brown University, CSSN Director)
• Jennifer Jacquet (University of Miami, CSSN Associate Research Director)

1:10 am- 11:30 am | Comments

• Gabriel Gama (Journalist - Folha de São Paulo)
• Andrea Hoffmann (Associate Professor, PUC-Rio)

11:30 am - 11:55 am| Debate with audience 

11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Closing remarks 

• Carlos Milani (OIMC-UERJ and Senior Fellow - CEBRI)