ANU ICEDS is delighted to host a webinar to launch Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment, a major volume bringing together nearly one hundred scholars to examine how organised interests around the world slow or block climate policy. Co-editor Professor Christian Downie will discuss the global assessment, and reflect on its relevance to current climate policy debates. This timely webinar coincides with the publication of the final report of the Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy.

After his keynote, Christian will be joined by esteemed investigative journalist and author, Marian Wilkinson, to discuss the current state of climate obstruction, and the findings of the senate report.

There will be plenty of time for audience Q&A, facilitated by PhD student, Rebecca Byrnes. Please bring your curious minds.

• Christian Downie is a Professor in the ANU School of Regulation & Global Governance (REGNET). He the Director of the Governing Energy Transition (GET) Lab. Christian is an author and co-editor of Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment, which was listed by The Financial Times in the best environment books of 2025.

• Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist, including two Walkley awards, and a reporter at ABC TV's Four Corners, where she was its first female executive producer. She has been a foreign correspondent and deputy editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. Her books include The Fixer, DarkVictory (with David Marr) and The Carbon Club. Marian recently published a Qarterly Essay Woodside vs The Planet.

• Rebecca Byrnes is a PhD scholar at REGNET. Her research explores the role of transnational advocacy networks in the creation of new international treaties. She is also the Legal Strategy Director of the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, a global initiative working towards new international governance to equitable phase out fossil fuels.