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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think it's also important to categorize "don't worry about data center emissions because general AGI will solve climate change" as a form of climate denial

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Putting aside all the AI hacking incidents, having to triple-verify my humanity to access a single Taylor & Francis article is enough to convince me that the internet is going to become completely enshittified by AI agents

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think you meant to say "Elinor Ostrom was the first woman and the second political scientist to receive a Nobel memorial prize in economics, after Herbert Simon"

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 06/09/2026

Unlike so many others, the @financialtimes.com nails the "OMG, 1.5℃ is gone" message: "Temperature overshoot requires urgent action" Yep. And every 0.01℃ matters. Reminds me of my NYT oped with @costasamaras.com: "The widely recited '12-year deadline' is wrong — and right." gwagner.com/12years

UN report: temperature overshoot requires urgent action to keep warming in line with Paris accord

With children, days might last forever, but years fly by. Something similar applies to climate policy. The current days of delay and debates can seem to drag on forever, but the next presidential election is right around the corner, and so is 2030. Concrete, realistic deadlines focus the mind and jump-start action. And jump-start we must.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Has anyone else noticed a gender gap in responses to interview requests in qualitative research? I just finished several weeks of interviewing in Europe, and the response rate among men was substantially lower than among women. I haven't seen much on this in the methods literature

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.

Carney:

"The wildfire situation has escalated significantly over the last three weeks across the country, and particularly in Northwestern Ontario.

Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their communities, not knowing if their homes will survive.

On behalf of Canadians, I want to thank the brave firefighters, first responders, Indigenous and local leaders who are working tirelessly to keep people safe.

Our government is in close contact with provincial, municipal, and Indigenous partners and stands ready to provide any additional support as needed."

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

3/ Wealthy societies should not be so complacent. “The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here & now" @katemac.bsky.social & I:

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Global Boiling | The Polycrisis

Stocks and flows, action and inaction in the planetary impasse

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is such a long shot, but if anyone is going to SASE and wants to play some tennis, message me, I WILL bring my racket across the ocean

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Alex Cuadros @alexcuadros.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

1/ You've probably never heard of Jeffery Hildebrand. But this billionaire Trump donor is one of the oil industry's top polluters — and the poster boy for a huge climate problem that's actually relatively easy to fix... 🧵

A man in a green jersey and helmet and holding a polo stick sits on a horse.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Makes perfect sense that CDP is literally selling out to a private equity firm. Its continued relevance requires ongoing demand for this voluntary reporting standard. But voluntary disclosure isn’t as important as it once was. But commodifying data to inform investment decisions? That’ll work. 🧵

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Environmental reporting non-profit group CDP strikes private equity deal

Permira to take majority stake in core operations under energy transition strategy

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 08/06/2026

I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...

Text too long; see machine-readable PDF at this link:

https://ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08-Cullenward-resignation.pdf

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 29/05/2026

Vought is trying to destroy American science as we know it. Here's what you can do to stop him: 👉 Visit our action center: zurl.co/Hsflw 👉 Donate to Fuel the Fight for Science: zurl.co/mQlwe LINK IN BIO

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New paper in @internatltheory.bsky.social! In 2020-23, nearly every major financial company worldwide was pledging to reach net zero. By 2024-25, many bailed as political backlash ramped up. Why were net-zero norms so weak? In the paper, I argue that companies were caught in a "hype cycle"

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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

#OpenAccess - Hype cycles or norm cascades? Making sense of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero - cup.org/4uk82Wm - @christianelliott.bsky.social #FirstView

Image for "International Theory" with a globe graphic. Text reads "#OpenAccess".

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INDEP @lndep.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The Green Planning Commission, a @cmmonwealth.bsky.social initiative, has published a report by @brusselermel.bsky.social arguing that markets can't deliver carbonization or affordable essential provisions and that green democratic economic planning is needed. www.indep.network/green-planni...

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Green Planning Commission Publishes Report On Economic Coordination And The Limits Of Markets

The Green Planning Commission, an initiative of Common Wealth, has published a report by Common Wealth US Programme Director Melanie Brusseler arguing that private market coordination cannot deliver…

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Me when all my students reference Strange's "States and Markets" to analyze corporate power in their final papers

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Man's Happy & Satisfied Reaction

ALT: Man's Happy & Satisfied Reaction

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Hilde Eliassen Restad @herestad.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This, by @paulmusgrave.bsky.social, is great. What can political scientists do about all the crises hitting our discipline and institutions? Well, Paul has some answers, and I like them a lot. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

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Political Science In the Polycrisis

My keynote talk to an online APSA conference

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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

📣New scholarship from @bartazsofi.bsky.social on how credit rating agencies (Fitch, Moody’s, S&P) discount long-term climate risks to preserve their epistemic authority - preventing the reallocation of capital away from carbon-intensive assets. justmoney.org/tragedy-hori...

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Current ScholarshipTragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Unfortunately resonant with how financial markets seem to treat climate risk in pactice

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Don't look now the IEA is advocating for degrowth

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

If the euro takes on a more prominent international role, it will undoubtedly evaluate. This creates one huge problem. French wine will get more expensive To secure global support for a new financial architecture, Europe must provide export subsidies for wine producers (and cheese makers)

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

New paper with Stefan Renckens in @ripejournal.bsky.social! Sustainable finance standards are often accused of being highly fragmented. We built an original dataset of 111 Sustainable Finance Governance Initiatives (SFGIs), covering 2000-2020, to see for ourselves. The result? It's complicated.

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 05/02/2026

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

And a very special happy holidays to those of you who actually completed your peer reviews on time #polisky

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Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively? Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7 cup.org/4hZNlcX

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Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️ Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians? 1/

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

hey #polisci, if you're at #APSA2025, set the alarm, grab coffee & come hear about my new book Existential Politics w/ @profkharrison.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social ale.bsky.social @bentleyallan.bsky.social allan.bsky.social @agazmararian.bsky.social rarian.bsky.social & Michael Ross. Deets 👇

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 07/09/2025

I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I wonder which departments will pause the tenure clock for anti-fascist mobilization

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO — World Always Chickens Out. NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take: EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

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Taco is Dead. Long Live Empanada

EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? The last two weeks have seen a flurry of Trump tariff deals before the August 1st...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

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Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants

Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"Despite closures being over twice as likely to occur in the Republican-controlled states that did not expand Medicaid, closures were associated with reduced support for federal Democrats and the Affordable Care Act following local closures." YIKES link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The Politics of Rural Hospital Closures - Political Behavior

Who do citizens hold responsible for outcomes and experiences? Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed or significantly reduced their capacity since just 2010, leaving much of the rural U.S. without a...

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Asset owners have enormous leverage to get their asset managers to implement effective strategies to reduce systemic climate risk. If persuasion doesn't work, replace them, as Sierra Club Foundation has done with Blackrock/ Aperio. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...

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Sierra Club Foundation Leads by Example in Move from BlackRock to More Responsible Asset Managers

Move follows 3+ years of engagement between foundation, asset manager

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

After peer reviewing some public opinion research on international affairs that use US samples, I have come to the conclusion that scholars should not be allowed to make "domestic audience" arguments until they spend at least one ethnographic afternoon at a Walmart or a Target

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

One potentially productive takeaway from this madness: Industrial policies like the IRA were critiqued because they lacked the tools to discipline capital. The exchange shows that derisking strategic sectors nevertheless creates a stick when the gov. can credibly threaten to end the carrots.

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors? I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓 Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies

With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...

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