Join Carleton’s Department of History and Department of Geography and Environmental Studies for a series of Monday night lectures on the history of weather and climate. These events are part of the 2023 Shannon Lecture series and will take place at 7PM at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper Street, Ottawa) as well as online.

Associate Professor Ruth Morgan (ANU) will be delivering the fourth and final lecture in this series on 6 February. Register to attend at the Carleton University website.

Climate Diplomacy and its Histories: Inside the IPCC

A planetary challenge such as climate change suggests the logic of an international collaborative response. The climate diplomacy that emerged at Fukuyama’s ‘end of history’ was founded on the notion that its technocratic internationalism, underpinned by climate expertise, offered a politically neutral alternative to liberalism. These origins encouraged the expectation that climate diplomacy would neatly follow scientific advances, and produce multilateral solutions to the climate problem. That this process has proven to be more complicated warrants further inspection. In the wake of the conclusion of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment cycle, this paper reflects on this organisation’s turn towards the humanities and social sciences in its efforts to inform the climate diplomacy of the early twenty-first century.