Scholars’ Circle – COP29 , its outcome and looking ahead – December 1, 2024

The Scholars' Circle Interviews

COP 29 in Azerbaijan has just ended. These annual meetings are intended to advance the cause of combating climate change. And while the meetings did result in an agreement, there has been intense criticism both within the attendees and critics from outside the halls of the meetings about this agreement. And of course the United States just elected a President who considers climate change to be a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. On this show, we explore what developed at COP 29, and what this means for global action on climate change. [ dur: 58mins. ]

• Shannon Gibson is Associate Professor of Political Science, International Relations, and Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California. She’s also the author of a recent article in the Conversation Throwing soup on a Van Gogh and other ways young climate activists are making their voices heard over Egypt’s climate summit protest suppression and State-led social boundary change: Transnational environmental activism, ‘ecoterrorism’ and September 11.
• Amy Below, Associate Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics at California State University East Bay. She specializes in environmental and climate politics and foreign policy with a regional emphasis in the Americas. She is author of Environmental Politics and Foreign Policy Decision Making in Latin America Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and The Missing Link: Regionalism as a First Step Toward Globalizing U.S. Environmental Security Policy.

This program is produced by Ankine Aghassian, Doug Becker and Sudd Dongre.