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Caroline Bertram

@carolinebertram.bsky.social
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international cooperation | trade policy and climate change | EU and the global south | international political economy | postdoc at Cambridge | www.bertram-caroline.com | all views are my own

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🇪🇺🇮🇳 The EU–India FTA has landed. Two points: (1) The obligation to effectively implement Paris has been weakened: "effectively" has been dropped. (2) The dispute settlement process is 100% political: no expert review, no remedies. All in all, a significant weakening of the trade-climate nexus 🔻
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thank you @wti.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about trade–climate interlinkages in trade agreements. Such great questions from the audience! 👀 💫
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 21/11/2025
COP30 BREAKING NEWS The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirão" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps Here's my snap analysis (pic) unfccc.int/sites/def...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 18/11/2025
Finally on trade measures, para 58 Opt1 take note of response measures / technical w'shops Opt2 dialogues at Bonn meetings Opt3 new info-sharing "platform" on trade measures Opt4 UNSG summit on trade + annual dialogue + report
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🌱 Trade and climate policy shape each other, and no single discipline holds all the answers for how to govern this wisely. Research bridging economics, law, politics, and STEM is essential—but true interdisciplinarity takes time, trust, and supportive funding structures. How do we bring this about?
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The ICJ delivers a landmark opinion, which makes clear that under the #ParisAgreement, NDCs need to: ✅ Become more ambitious over time, ✅ Make an adequate contribution to holding global warming to 1.5°C, ✅ Be implemented by putting in place domestic measures reasonably capable of achieving NDCs ❗
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
📢 Did you miss it? New publication in Geopolitics! 🔥 This is a piece about perceptions, power, politics, and the messy realities of sustainability governance through trade. It foregrounds the perspectives, concerns and agency of EU trade partners. 🌏 ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Known as a climate frontrunner, the world would need 4.7 planets if everyone lived like Danes. Green image, heavy brown climate footprint 🌍🇩🇰 #ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryBoundaries #OvershootDay #GreenTransition #EUClimatePolicy
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
COP30 & the EU’s role 🌱🇪🇺 ⏰ Still no updated EU climate plan; not a priority for the Polish Presidency. 🪖📉 EU’s security & competitiveness is perceived to be clashing with green goals. 1.5°C-aligned 2035/2040 targets? Unlikely. 🌍 If the EU can’t align climate, prosperity & security—who can?
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Klimapolitikken er gledet ned ad den globale dagsorden. Men hvor langt? 2025 vil afsløre, om Parisaftalen stadig har politisk tyngde 🌱 ➡️ Læs min analyse i Berlingske i dag om hvorfor, at 2025 er et afgørende år, og hvorfor Trumps handelskrige gør global klimapolitik meget sværere 🇺🇸💰🥊
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Klimakrise og handelskrig: Derfor bliver 2025 et skæbneår for Parisaftalen
Læs mere her.
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🚀 Calling all EU trade researchers and policy enthusiasts! I’ve just released an updated version of my open access dataset compiling every press release from the European Commission (DG Trade) — now covering 1989 to 2025 (until February 10). Check it out! ➡️ dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🌍🔴 Climate delay or backslide? 📄 7 of the world's 10 largest economies missed the deadline yesterday to submit updated climate action plans (NDCs) under the #Parisagreement. Weak #COP climate talks and a challenging political landscape (🇺🇸 🇦🇷🇷🇺) are putting the ambitions of the Paris deal to the test
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🌏 🌡️ 🇳🇿 Yesterday, a New Zealand coalition partner (ACT) floated the idea of New Zealand withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.🌱 This would not be inconsequential. Under the EU-New Zealand FTA, either party can suspend the trade deal in case the other withdraws from the Paris Agreement 🇪🇺 ⚖️🙅 🇳🇿
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 22/01/2025
🚨📣 We are so back: ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘 - 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence - PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs - All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors) - A-team of instructors 🙏💪 - Mark Blyth 😎 Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!
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Finance & Decarbonization
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State Capital & Green Finance in China
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GreenDeal-NET @greendealnet.eu · 27/01/2025
Can EU trade agreements bolster climate action? @carolinebertram.bsky.social & @herminevc.bsky.social examine how commitments to effectively implement the Paris Agreement raise costs, strengthen duties and foster ambition. Will dispute settlement mechanisms deliver?
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🍾⭐ I am deeply grateful to the European Union Studies Association for granting my PhD dissertation the Wade Jacoby Best Dissertation Award. This would not have been possible without the support of so many incredible individuals who guided me through this journey. A heartfelt thank you to everyone! 🤍
I am deeply grateful to the European Union Studies Association for honoring my PhD dissertation with the Wae Jacoby Best Dissertation Award. This achievement would not have been possible without the support of so many incredible individuals who guided me throughout my PhD journey, including … and many others. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who contributed along the way!
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Just ticked a box for @uaces.bsky.social summer conference confirming I’m *not* submitting a full male panel. As a woman in a male-dominated field, I appreciate the nudge and the reminder that balance matters everywhere 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 –– will I see you at EUSA in Philly and UACES in Liverpool? 🇪🇺 #EUstudies
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GreenDeal-NET @greendealnet.eu · 13/01/2025
Can EU trade agreements bolster climate action? @carolinebertram.bsky.social & @herminevc.bsky.social examine how commitments to effectively implement the Paris Agreement raise costs,strengthen duties &foster ambition. Will dispute settlement mechanisms deliver?👉 www.greendealnet.eu/Strengthenin...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 24/11/2024
I'm so proud of the Carbon Brief #COP29 team for finishing our big summary of the talks It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –NCQG –Stocktake –Article6 –China +Much more …delivered in record time after a brutal fortnight of sleep deprivation! www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🌎🌡️ Big news: The EU-Mercosur trade agreement was finalised yesterday—despite pushback from member states and environmentalists 🌱 @herminevc.bsky.social & I have just published research on the legally binding commitment to effectively implement the Paris Agreement present herein (1/4) 👇
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Really an amazing gang of climate & ecological crisis political economists across Øresund - feat. @jptilsted.bsky.social @carolinebertram.bsky.social @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social @voldsgaard.bsky.social @jonasalgers.bsky.social @lbogner.bsky.social Cornel Ban, Søren Lund Frandsen, Caroline Ahler +++
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Hermine Van Coppenolle @herminevc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Caroline Bertram and I just published a new paper! In this open access article, we explore the role of EU trade agreements in bolstering the Paris Agreement's obligations (a wordy🧵) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Strengthening the Paris Agreement through trade? The potential and limitations of EU preferential trade agreements for climate governance - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Ec...
Since 2019, a commitment has been included in the European Union’s (EU) preferential trade agreements to effectively implement the Paris Agreement. This commitment now exists in nine ratified or pendi...
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