Friday 11/12: Kert Davies, The Development of Organized Opposition to Climate Action

[Roberts, J. Timmons]

The IBES Fall Seminar Series: Overcoming Climate Obstruction  The Development of Organized Opposition to Climate Action A virtual seminar with Kert Davies Friday, November 12th | 3:30pm ET Please register for online tickets Kert Davies is the founder and director of Climate Investigations Center. He is a well-known researcher, media spokesperson and climate activist who has been conducting corporate accountability research and campaigns for more than 20 years. Davies was the chief architect of the Greenpeace web project ExxonSecrets, launched in 2004, which helped expose the oil giant ExxonMobil’s funding of organizations and individuals who work to discredit the validity of climate science and delay climate policy action. More recently, Davies established the PolluterWatch program at Greenpeace, which launched the report Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine Also, in case you missed them, here are links to our previous talks in this series: Bill McKibben: What’s Still Possible - September 17, 2021  Neela Banerjee: The American Anomaly - October 01, 2021 Janet Redman: Climate Activism in the 2020s - October 15, 2021 Kate Aronoff: Low-Carbon Populism vs. Fossil Capitalism - October 22, 2021 Add event to calendar         Copyright © 2020 Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: IBES Brown University Box 1951 85 Waterman Street Providence, RI 02912 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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J. Timmons Roberts

Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology, Brown University 

Executive Director, Climate Social Science Network

Director, the Climate and Development Lab 

Institute at Brown for Environment and Society 

Brown Department of Sociology

On Twitter @timmonsroberts