Since the major demonstrations organised in Madrid (COP25) and Glasgow (COP26), young people seem to have less and less of a voice at the UN’s major climate conferences. Why?
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Not all activists are in the media spotlight, but they’re crucial to promoting action to slow climate change.
With international climate talks failing to make progress fast enough, activists are radically rethinking how to be most effective in the streets, political arenas and courtrooms.
Media coverage of Extinction Rebellion’s mass protest was muted compared with that of Just Stop Oil’s snooker disruption.
The group has eschewed disruptive protest in the pursuit of ‘building relationships’.
The horse race is likely to be disrupted by activists from the Extinction Rebellion offshoot.
Such groups rarely last more than a few years.
Activists aren’t necessarily more aggressive than in the past, but they are using creative and sometime shocking new tactics that quickly go viral.
People want to shoot the messenger, but they do hear the message.
Global climate movements have espoused nonviolence, but some are adopting more radical tactics in light of the increasing threats posed by climate change.
The environmental movement is now tightly woven into communities across Australia and its demands are clear. Politicians ignore it at their peril.
Extinction Rebellion targeted the department responsible for climate change policy.
Fragile supply chains can handle protests better than massive extra demand.
Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have vowed to strike at the fossil fuel industry.
Resurgence of SUV sabotage highlights the failure of climate policy and an evolving protest strategy.
How Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future upended the rules of environmental activism.
Extinction Rebellion’s 2022 climate action strategy needs to focus on stigmatising the fossil fuel industry if it’s to be successful.
Disruption caused by activists blockading roads is virtually non-existent compared to climate change.
By introducing tactics of direct action and digital mobilisation, Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion have renewed the climate movement and accelerated climate action.
The film showed how a country can win militarily, but still lose the battle for ‘hearts and minds’.
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Lecturer in Global Sustainable Development, Nottingham Trent University
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Lecturer in International Public and Social Policy, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Senior Lecturer, Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
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