Jun.-Prof. Dr. Endre Borbáth The New Climate Divide
DFG-funded Emmy Noether research group
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Funding | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Emmy-Noether-Programm |
Duration | Since June 2025 |
Research Period | 2010 – 2030 |
Project Description
The New Climate Divide (ClimateDivide) is a research group led by Endre Borbáth at Heidelberg University and funded through the German Research Foundation’s Emmy Noether Programme. The project investigates how climate change is moving from a largely consensual valence issue towards a polarising political divide, with consequences for mobilisation, political participation and collective identities in Europe.
It focuses on distributive conflicts and on the relationship between a right-wing camp opposing climate reforms and an increasingly mainstream yet fragmented green camp. The project examines party competition and civil society in France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Romania over the period 2010–2030. It combines computational media analysis with surveys, survey experiments and qualitative focus groups.
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Mobilisation | How parties, movements and civil society organisations build coalitions and mobilise around competing visions of climate politics. |
Participation | How citizens participate in climate politics and how mobilisation strategies shape their engagement. |
Group Formation | How political identities and group boundaries form around climate change. |