The Institutional and Political Obstacles to Climate Action

We have a strong lineup featuring authors of IPCC reports and other academic experts in the Climate Field to discuss in an engaging session regarding Climate Action, followed by

Dr. Kennedy Mbeva

• Research Associate at the Centre for Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge 
• Area of research: governance of global catastrophic risk, focusing on geoeconomics and catastrophic climate change
• Contributed to the IPCC AR6
• Working on chapter 4 of the AR7, Sustainable Development and Mitigation (Working group III)
• Specific area of expertise is the global politics of just transitions 
• Served on Kenya’s official delegation to the UN Climate Change negotiations
• Holds a PhD in International Relations (distinction) from the University of Melbourne, and has studied and worked in several continents, including Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia
• Recent book: Africa’s Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, co-authored).

Dr Ahmad Elabbar

• Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Science and Technology 
• His PhD involves an empirical and philosophical analysis of IPCC reports 
• He has also done research regarding the different kinds of subversion employed by, for example, the Trump Administration, to justify inaction against climate change/ further destructive activity 

William Lamb

• lead author of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, and paper on the rhetorical arguments used to justify climate inaction ("Discourses of Climate Delay")

Dr Ian Higam

• Research Fellow in Environmental Politics at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute
• global environmental politics with a focus on integrating human rights and climate policy

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