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The Far-Right & Global Environmental Politics

The electoral success of far-right parties appears to threaten many international environmental organizations and agreements. After all, far-right parties question the legitimacy of international institutions and are more likely to be climate sceptics. President Trump, for example, withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement in his first and second term in office. Yet not all far-right parties in government reject multilateral climate cooperation. In fact, anti-environmentalism and climate skepticism is not intrinsic to far-right ideologies and these parties may also champion multilateral environmental action. In fact, many far-right political parties in government have expressed desires to tackle climate change, including Fratelli d’Italia (Italy) and Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) (India). This paper investigates variation in far-right governments engagement in global environmental politics. Existing explanations have focused on far-right ideologies, political opportunities, party competition, public opinion, and peer pressure. However, this scholarship has predominantly focused on domestic climate policy instead of the far-rights’ engagement in international institutions and agreements. This paper thus explores: when and why do countries led by far-right parties engage in, versus withdraw from, international environmental organizations and agreements? And how do they shape international environmental agreements? It examines the US, Italy, Brazil and India under far-right governments, and across three different regimes: climate change, biodiversity and marine biodiversity.

• Working paper presented at: University College London (UCL), European University Institute (EUI), European International Studies Association Annual Conference (Bologna), Goethe University (Frankfurt), Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich), School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS); EISA and Leiden University (the Hague)
• EISA Exploratory Symposia (Rapallo), Collaboration on the “Far Right and International Organizations” with Raffaele Mastrorocco.
• Hosted Workshop at SAIS Europe on “Transnationalization of the Far-Right” (2024/2025); Funded by JHU SNF Agora Faculty Grant
• Co-organising workshop at SAIS Europe on “Obstructionism in International Organizations” (2026). Funded by Thyssen Foundation and co-organized with Inken von Borzyskowski.

Climate Litigation – An effective strategy for NGOs?

• Nature Climate Change Article on “Reorienting Climate Litigation in a time of backlash” with Joana Setzer (LSE), Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni (University of Cambridge), Harro van Asselt (University of Cambridge), and Lisa Vanhala (UCL) and ongoing collaboration.
• Organized Workshop “Green Gravel: Climate Litigation” with Ludovica Chiussi Curzi (University of Bologna, Law Department), funded by UniBo-SAIS Europe Grant (2024)
• Organized workshop on “The Political and Legal Opportunities and Obstacles to Climate Action in Italy“, funded by a SAIS Europe Grant (2024)

Following the Money and the Law: Why legal status and funding models matter

• Forthcoming single-authored article with International Studies Review
• Invited plenary speaker for International Studies of the Third Sector (ISTR) annual conference.
• Hosted workshop on “Transnational Advocacy” at SAIS Europe, Bologna (2023); funded by APSIA Junior Faculty Fund (Top Award 2023) & SAIS Europe.

New Zealand’s Foreign Policy: Champion of Multilateralism, but not of Māori rights?

• Paper under Review. Presented at Race and Multilateralism (RAM) Workshop (Berlin, 2025; and INFERNO, EUI)
• Collaboration with SAIS Europe MAIA student Emma Catteau

“Sensing the Climate”, Festival of Ecological Transition (2025)

• Co-organized festival with University of Bologna and Kilowatt/serramadre (Oct 2025)
• Included: workshops, performance, music, art, and academic discussions.
• Attracted almost 1,000 attendees from Bologna public
• Funded partly by UniBo-SAIS Europe collaboration fund