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Skill, Sticky Hands, and the Serenity Prayer
Eleanor AndrewsArticle 9.1 and the Road to Implementation
Marium SheikhUNFCCC SB62 Evaluation: Participation, Power, and Pluralism
Vera da Silva Sinha‘Aboriginal-realism’ as a Perspective of Living to Understand the Rural Life of India
Dhiraj Kumar and Keyoor PathakIs the UNFCCC climate governance truly pluralist? Examining the Loss and Damage Fund
Aritra Chakrabarty and Alexis Belle TaterIntroducing a New Blog Editor and the Revitalized EnviroSociety Blog
Emily HiteRising from the Ashes: Rural Communities in Portugal’s Fiery Landscapes
Filipa Soares, Luísa Schmidt, & Ana Delicado. Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.From the Archives
In our "From the Archives" Series, we link archived blog material to current themed collections.
Hey Max Planck! You can help us and join the line: On badges and the politics of visibility at COP30
Arne HarmsOn most days, delegates are rushing through the gate on their way from the city into the premises of COP30’s restricted Blue zone. Not today. On this morning, activists are blocking the gate. On this side of the fence, throngs of delegates congest the street. It is a motley crew of diplomats, lobbyists, activists and… more...
Skill, Sticky Hands, and the Serenity Prayer
Eleanor AndrewsI was hesitant when, in 2009, my then-boyfriend, Tyler, asked if I were interested in keeping bees. I did not much care for honey and was alarmed by the prospect of stings. But when we ended up renting an apartment with a small orchard in the yard, we decided to give it a shot. We… more...
Article 9.1 and the Road to Implementation
Marium SheikhPhotograph captured by Marium Sheikh during the Sharm el-Sheikh Mitigation Ambition and Implementation Work Programme negotiations/ The sixty-second sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) and the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), colloquially referred to as SB62, emphasized a shared understanding… more...
UNFCCC SB62 Evaluation: Participation, Power, and Pluralism
Vera da Silva SinhaAs a researcher who has a deep involvement in Indigenous communities in Brazil, I frequently receive questions from community members about how climate decisions are made and who has the authority to speak for whom. These questions, and the urgent need for more transparent and equitable processes, prompted my participation at UNFCCC SB621 in Bonn… more...
Themed Collection: Toxicity
This series of posts will accompany the 2021 special issue of Environment and Society on “Toxicity.”
“Images abound of plastic bags riding the currents of the Pacific Ocean and collecting in the Mariana Trench; stockpiles of nuclear waste pumped deep into earth’s outer crust; smoke and smog (a fusion of particulate matter and ozone) settling in above sprawling urban colonies, slowly killing its denizens; spent oxygen containers pockmarking the snows of Everest; and billions of pieces of space debris endlessly falling in Low Earth Orbit, just beyond a thin and rapidly changing breathable atmosphere. So goes the narrative of the Anthropocene, a purportedly new geological epoch demarcated by the planetary effects of human activity…” Call for Papers for the Environment and Society Special Issue on Toxicity (Jerry Jacka & Amelia Moore).
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Sensing Cumulative Toxicities
Anita Hardon, Wageningen University, Tait Mandler, University of AmsterdamChemical Colonialism: Environmental justice and industrial epidemics
Yogi Hale Hendlin, Erasmus University RotterdamThemed Collection: Oceans
This series of posts builds upon and expand the issues raised in the 2020 special issue of Environment and Society on “Oceans.” Featuring new content as well as additional perspectives from the authors of the special issue.
“For many, the ocean is the epicenter of evolution as well as the ultimate bellwether for the continued vitality of living systems. It is vast, deep, and mysterious, and simultaneously familiar, intimate, and personal… It is also the site of scientific exploration, geopolitical territorialization, Romantic imagination, capitalist extraction, and shifting everyday relations of love, death, and livelihood… The ocean is both an epic backdrop and an active agent in human activities, at times teeming with living beings and at times emptied of all agency. It is at once dangerous and endangered.” Introduction to the Environment and Society Special Issue on Oceans (Jerry Jacka & Amelia Moore).