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

Chair: Jeff Colgan, Brown University

Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia

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

Amy Janzwood, McGill University

Kwatuuma Cole Sayers, Canadian Climate Institute

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Coffee break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Parallel paper session I

1. US Climate Politics

   • Dahyun Choi (Princeton University) ~ How Politics Percolates Through Science Assessment

   • 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

2. Deforestation and Conservation

   • 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 

3. Entrenched Interests

   • 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

1. Public Support for Energy Transitions

   • 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

2. Resource Conflicts and Development

   • Garrett Albistegui Adler (Princeton University (but will change in July), 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

3. Institutional Responsiveness

   • 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 

1. Political Impacts of Climate Disasters

   • 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 

2. International Markets

   • 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

3. Climate Attitudes

   • 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 and Amanda Kennard ~ 

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

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