ABSTRACT
This chapter first explores the emotional regimes that activists co-create when they meet in the global sphere in movement spaces such as Conferences of Youth (COY). These emotional regimes help produce and shape the very emotional bases of global climate activism. Climate activism provides a highly pertinent case in point given that climate change, climate change politics and concomitantly the movement itself, are squarely global. It also gains some of its political orientations through these emotions. The chapter then explores emotional processes at stake when climate activists leave movement-dominated spaces and intervene in external political arenas – in this case Conferences of Parties (COPs). Their initial emotional stances become subject to a dominant emotional regime in which they try to intervene through their actions, but which are difficult to alter. COY is admittedly merely one global space where climate activists gather, yet it is the most powerful in terms of its formal connection to COP.
