Matilde Palanque. Each year, world leaders and climate stakeholders gather under the banner of the United Nations Climate Change Conferences, the COPs, promising collective action to confront the climate crisis. However, behind the speeches, the pledges and the polished pavilions lies a critical question: is there a space for allstakeholders? And by that, I particularly refer to those adopting more confronting stances: climate activists…

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Holly Booker. Today, 95% of the world’s direct transportation emissions still come from burning primarily petroleum-based fossil fuels, such as gasoline and diesel (United Nations, 2021a). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) asserts that, as the fourth largest contributor to emissions worldwide, direct emissions from transportation currently contribute to around 23% of global energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (IPCCC, 2022)…

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Aylin Ismayilova. Between 1972 and 1993, the US oil company Texaco released over 30 billion gallons of toxic waste and crude oil into the Amazon rainforest in north-eastern Ecuador, producing severe environmental, health, and social consequences for the native community. The legal struggle documented in "Crude" (2009) foregrounds not only environmental devastation but also the ethical and political narratives…

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