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Despite mounting evidence of a climate crisis, some fossil fuel industries continue to resist action. Indeed, it is impossible to imagine a clean energy revolution occurring without overcoming the political opposition from oil, gas, and coal industries that have generated great wealth from burning fossil fuels. In this talk, Christian Downie asks what can be done? Based on his latest book, which draws on close to 100 hundred interviews with senior executives and lobbyists in the fossil fuel and renewable industries in the United States, he identifies strategies for policymakers and activists looking to enact clean energy policies, including how divisions within and between fossil fuel industries can be exploited to build coalitions for climate action.

Our speaker, Christian Downie, is an Associate Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University. He holds an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship and was previously a Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of New South Wales. Christian has worked as an advisor to several Australian Government agencies, including the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Christian holds a Ph.D. in international relations and political science from the Australian National University, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first-class honors in economics. He has spent time teaching or researching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Balsillie School of International Affairs among others, and he has worked in policy think tanks in Canberra and Washington D.C. Christian is the author of more than 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters including publications in Regulation & Governance, Global Environmental Politics, Energy Policy, Climate Policy, International Affairs, Business & Politics, and Third World Quarterly. His latest book is Business Battles in the U.S. Energy Sector: Lessons for a clean energy transition.

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