BISA 2026 Conference

What next for UK climate and environmental politics?

WE03

3 Jun 2026, 15:00

1h 30m

Meeting room 1c, Brighton Centre

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

Description

This panel examines the state and future of UK climate and environmental politics working across ecofascism, populism, democratic participation and resistance.

Subcontributions

• Rootedness and Resistance: Unsettling Whiteness in the Ecological Visions of UK Land Movements
• Reclaiming Populism? Zack Polanski, Eco-Populism, and the Re-articulation of ‘Broken Britain’
• From Climate Crisis to Global Fascism? An Empirical Examination of Ecofascism in the UK
• Evolving electoral pressures over climate policy in the UK
• Innovation and Democratic Participation in the Climate Crisis: learnings from The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022