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August 22, 2026Climate and DevelopmentOpen Access

Navigating while contesting COP28’s paradoxes with international solidarity actions: a youth delegation’s collaborative and feminist auto-ethnography

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KRKatherine RobitailleUniversité LavalLWLaura WilmotUniversité LavalLFLaura FequinoUniversité de Sherbrooke

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Qualitative auto-ethnography reveals youth activists navigating institutional tensions at COP28 through international solidarity, highlighting strategies to contest climate governance disparities.

Key Points

  • To examine how a youth delegation navigated and contested institutional paradoxes at the COP28 climate summit through international solidarity actions.
  • Conducted a collaborative and feminist auto-ethnography based on the lived experiences of young women activists in the AQOCI youth delegation at COP28.
  • Gathered qualitative data through direct observations and reflective journals recorded between September 2023 and December 2024.
  • Analyzed data through theoretical frameworks focusing on climate justice and organizational paradoxes.
  • Identified three primary institutional paradoxes: disparities in country and population representation, disproportionate influence of fossil fuel lobbyists relative to civil society, and discrepancies between stated pledges and real actions.
  • Showed that youth delegates engaged in international solidarity actions to occupy summit spaces, amplify marginalized perspectives, and challenge existing intergovernmental power dynamics.

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Robitaille et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895f0dca7ade938187d707https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2026.2718467
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