Averting Climate Catastrophe: Environmental Activism, Extinction Rebellion and coalitions of Influence

Abstract

In 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that humanity has 12 years to take radical action to avert an eco-catastrophe. Accordingly, there remains a brief window of opportunity within which to act, and to do so with such force, commitment and ambition as to transform the global economy radically and rapidly from high to net zero carbon emissions. But how might such a fundamental shift be brought about? What forms of climate governance will be necessary to achieve that outcome, and what climate actors, or networks of actors, must be involved?