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Kristoffer Ekberg is a Researcher at Chalmers University of Technology. His research focuses on the political history of environment and climate change, corporate anti-environmentalism as well as social movements and utopian thought. Recent publications include "A Road to denial – Climate Change and Neoliberal Thought in Sweden, 1988-2000" in Contemporary European History (with Victor Pressfeldt) and "A Question of Utter Importance: The Early History of Climate Change and Energy Policy in Sweden, 1974–1983" in Environment and History (with Martin Hultman).

Bernhard Forchtner is Associate Professor at the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester, UK and works on the far right and environmental communication. Recent publications include "Skepticisms and Beyond? A Comprehensive Portrait of Climate Change Communication by the Far Right in the European Parliament" in Environmental Politics (with Balsa Lubarda, 2022) and the edited volumes Visualizing Far-Right Environments. Communication and the Politics of Nature and The Far Right and the Environment. Politics, Discourse and Communication (Routledge, 2019).

Martin Hultman is Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, is widely published in energy, climate and environmental issues in journals such as Environmental Humanities, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, History & Technology, and Hydrogen Energy. Especially notable are the articles ‘The Making of an Environmental Hero: A History of Ecomodern Masculinity, Fuel Cells and Arnold Schwarzenegger’ and ‘A Green Fatwā? Climate Change as a Threat to the Masculinity of Industrial Modernity’and the books Discourses of Global Climate Change and Ecological Masculinities (Routledge). As part of his academic work he publishes chronicles in a wide range of newspapers and gives public lectures commenting on contemporary politics. Hultman leads three research groups analyzing ‘gender and energy’, ‘ecopreneurship in circular economies’ and ‘climate change denial’.

Kirsti M. Jylhä is a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, Sweden. Her research focuses on climate-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Recent publications include "Climate Change Denial Among Radical Right-Wing Supporters" in Sustainability (with Pontus Strimling and Jens Rydgren, 2022), and "Acceptance of Group-Based Dominance and Climate Change Denial: A Cross-Cultural Study in Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Sweden" in Asian Journal of Social Psychology (with Kim-Pong Tam and Taciano Milfont, 2020). Jylhä is a board member of the Association for Climate and Environmental Communication Science (Ilvies RY, in Finland) that aims to develop both research and public impact of environmental communication and related fields.