Conference Program

September 10, 2025

8:00 am - 8:45 am  

Registration and continental breakfast (Ground Floor Atrium)

8:45 am - 9:00 am

Land Acknowledgement and Welcome 

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Plenary: Climate Politics in Fossil Fuel-Exporting Jurisdictions:  British Columbia and Canada

Kwatuuma Cole Sayers, Executive Director of Clean Energy Association of British Columbia (CEBC)

Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia

Amy Janzwood, McGill University

George Heyman, British Columbia Minister of Environment and Climate Change, 2017-2024

Chair: Jeff Colgan, Brown University

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Coffee break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Parallel paper session I

i) US Climate Politics (Chair: Parrish Bergquist)

1. • Dahyun Choi (Princeton University) ~ Partisan Bias and the Resilience of High-Quality Science

   • Zikai Li (University of Chicago) ~ Building Climate Coalitions Through Place-based Policies? A Cautionary Tale from the Inflation Reduction Act's Energy Community Designation

   • Florent Pepin-Proulx (Indiana University) ~ Bridging the Carbon-Intensive-to-Green Gap: The Electoral Consequences of the Inflation Reduction Act

   • Eric Scheuch (Yale University) ~ Do Climate Driven Insurance Shocks Shift Public Opinion? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

ii) Deforestation and Conservation (Chair: Mark Buntaine)

2. • Samuel Houskeeper (University of Oxford) ~ Environmentalism as Long-Term Good Provision: Evidence from Forest Conservation

   • Stefano Jud (University of Bern), Quynh Nguyen (University of Bern) ~ The European Union's Timber Regulation: A Driver of Global Deforestation?

   • Luke Sanford (Yale University), Eliot Carlson ~ Electoral Deforestation Cycles: A Subnational Analysis

   • Jiayue Zhang (Brown University), Yunyu Shu (Brown University) ~ Informed Climate Adaptation: Input and Output Subsidies for Shaded Cocoa 

iii) Entrenched Interests (Chair: Michael Ross)

2. • Anthony Calacino (University of Oxford), Federica Genovese (University of Oxford), Mats Ahrenshop (University of Oxford), Hayley Pring (University of Oxford) ~ News Media and Climate Vulnerability: Evidence from Global South 

   • Nicolas Graham (University of British Columbia), William Carroll (University of Victoria), David Chen (University of Toronto), Jean Philippe Sapinski (Université de Moncton) ~ Canada's Climate Lobby: Networks of Fossil-Opposition, Carbon Management and Socio-Ecological Change

   • Johnathan Guy (Columbia University) ~ Electricity Patronage and Energy Transition: Theory and Evidence from Indian States

   • Anil Hira (Simon Fraser University), Stefan Pauer (Clean Energy Canada), Andrew Wright (Simon Fraser University) ~ Carbon Capture and Storage: A Massive Case of Resource Misallocation

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm 

Lunch

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Parallel paper session II

i. Public Support for Energy Transitions (Chair: Amanda Kennard)

1. • Hélène Benveniste (Stanford University), Edgard Dewitte (Oxford University) ~ From Nuclear Distrust to Renewable Endorsement: The Political Economy of Germany’s Energy Transition

   • Amy Janzwood (McGill University), Sam Rowan (Concordia University), Keira Cassidy (McGill University), Kalia Hoechstetter (McGill University) ~ United or divided? Capping Emissions and the Shifting Politics of Canada’s Oil Lobby

   • Laura Kettel (Aarhus University) ~ The Politics of Energy Burden in Germany

   • Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez (University of California, Santa Barbara), Michael L. Ross (University of California, Los Angeles) ~ The Political Impacts of Supply-Side Energy Transitions

ii. Resource Conflicts and Development (Chair: Alice Xu)

1. • Garrett Albistegui Adler (Barnard College), Zinab Attai (Cornell University) ~ Climate Stress, Public Opinion and Civil War: Evidence from Afghanistan

   • Austin Beacham (Georgia Institute of Technology) ~ Endangered and Exported: The Impact of CITES and Conflict on Wildlife Trade

   • Elizabeth Echavarria (University of Washington) ~ Deciding to Restrict: Examining Local Opposition to Fossil Fuels and Transition Minerals in Colombia

   • Magdalena Larreboure (Harvard University) ~ Unequal Waters: How Corporate Water Rights Drive Rural Scarcity in Chile

iii. Institutional Responsiveness (Chair: Luke Sanford)

1. • Christian Baehr (Princeton University) ~ Declining Oil Prices and Democratization

   • Elisa D'Amico (University of St. Andrews), Katelyn Nutley (University of St. Andrews), Aarushi Sharma (University of St Andrews) ~ The Impact of Environmental Protest on Legislative Response: A Comparative Analysis of Western Liberal Democracies

   • Michael Lerner (London School of Economics and Political Science), Charles R. Shipan (University of Michigan) ~ Do Political Institutions Facilitate or Hinder Policymaking in Autocracies? The Case of Environmental Policy

   • Felicia Robertson (Luleå University of Technology), Gregory Poelzer (Luleå University of Technology), Simon Matti (Luleå University of Technology), Caitlin Grady (The George Washington University)  ~ With Their Hands Tied? - Political Strategies to Implement Divisive Environmental Policies 

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm 

Coffee break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Parallel paper session III 

i. Political Impacts of Climate Disasters (Chair: Vally Koubi)

1. • Sara Hughes (RAND), Mark Buntaine (University of California, Santa Barbara), Matthew Barnett (Pennsylvania State University) ~ Floods and Fairness: Environmental Justice of Local Planning for Climate Adaptation

   • Shiran Victoria Shen (Washington University in St. Louis) ~ Henan Flood Drives Public Demand and Government Response on Climate Adaptation in China

   • Aksel Sundström (University of Gothenburg) ~ Thirsting for Women Leaders? Drought Shocks and Public Opinion in South Africa

   • Preeti Nambiar (Vanderbilt University) ~ After the storm - Climate Hazards and citizen behavior 

ii. International Markets  (Chair: Jeff Colgan)

1. • Tim Büthe (Munich School of Politics & Public Policy, Technical University of Munich), Nadine Palmowski (Columbia University) ~ The Sustainability Transition in Multilateral Development Banks' Energy Finance Portfolios

   • Xun Cao (Pennsylvania State University), Mingqin Wu (Wuhan University), Lingbo Zhao (Pennsylvania State University) ~ Have Global Supply Chains Made Developing Country Supplier Firms Greener? Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms’ Pollution and Carbon Emissions

   • Ishana Ratan (University of California, Berkeley) ~ Political Coalitions for the Energy Transition: Firms and the Politics of Renewable Energy Regulation

   • Stefan Renckens (University of Toronto), Graeme Auld (Carleton University) Marlene Terstiege (University of Toronto), Marc Calabretta (University of Toronto) ~ Delegation or Market Creation? A Comparative Analysis of Verification by Audit Firms in Carbon Markets

iii. Climate Attitudes (Chair: Sara Constantino)

1. • Max Bradley (European University Institute) ~ Who Wins and Who Loses? How Human Capital Concentration Shapes the Economic and Political Effects of the Green Transition

   • Emily Huddart (University of British Columbia), Tony Silva (The University of British Columbia), Parker Muzzerall (The University of British Columbia), James N. Druckman (University of Rochester) ~ The Heterogeneous Right: Affective Polarization and Variation in Climate Policy Attitudes among Conservatives

   • Rodolfo Leyva (University of Birmingham) ~ Beyond Individualistic Mitigations: Towards Structural Climate Change Solutions

   • Konstantinos Matakos (King's College London), Maria Cotofan (King's College London and LSE), Karlygash Kuralbayeva (King's College London) ~ Does Warm Weather Cool Voters Down? How Temperature Shocks Impact Climate Concerns, Voting and Policy Preferences

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Closing Remarks, Posters +  Reception

Posters

Timothy Arvan (University of Michigan) ~ A Chilling Effect in a Warming World: How the Threat of SLAPPs Shapes Climate Law

Fiona Bare (Princeton University) ~ Greening Sovereign Debt: Explaining the Rise of Green Bond Issuances

Sara Constantino (Stanford University), Brandon de la Cuesta (Stanford University), and Amanda Kennard (Stanford University) ~ Fragile Ground: Public Opinion in a Warming Africa.

Juan David Gelvez (University of Maryland, College Park), Dr. Isabella Alcañiz (University of Maryland) ~ Climate Disasters, Deservingness, and Public Opinion about Government Assistance

Amanda Kennard (Stanford University) ~ From Fragments to Frameworks: LLM-Assisted Knowledge Cumulation for Climate Politics

John Kenny (University of East Anglia), Lucas Geese (University of East Anglia), Jale Tosun (Heidelberg University) ~ Action for the Environment or for Jobs? Responsibility Attribution to Governments in Africa

Justin Melnick (New York University) ~ Learning and Free-Riding in International Climate Policymaking

Kayla Morton (University of Washington) ~ The Spotlight Effect: Do developing countries hosting UNFCCC COP meetings receive more development aid and increase domestic political support? 

William Scott (Simon Fraser University) and Simran Sarai (Simon Fraser University) ~ Understanding the Climate Change Mitigation Policy Landscape in Canada

Lisa Sundstrom (University of British Columbia) and Kathryn Harrison (University of British Columbia) ~ Climate Policy in an Era of Disruption: The Impacts of COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine on

the United States, Canada, Russian and the European Union

Karl VonZabern (American University) ~ Seeing Green: How Firms Respond to the Exposure and Opportunities of Climate Change Policy through Lobbying