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Francesco Mellino

@francescomellino.bsky.social
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- Senior economist at C40 Cities (✍🏼 thecentre.substack.com) - Econ editor at the Journal for City Climate Policy and Economy Roman🇮🇹 in London🇬🇧

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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Working on how cities can provide more and better housing? Share some of your research and thought leadership with our mayors. More info: www.c40.org/news/call-fo...
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Call for papers: Special issue on delivering sustainable housing in the climate-changed city: centring affordability and equity in policy
The Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy (JCCPE) publishes timely, evidence-based research that contributes to the urban climate agenda...
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C40 Cities @c40cities.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How can cities ensure everyone has safe, affordable housing without putting unsustainable pressure on the planet? The Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy is seeking research and policy guidelines for our Dec 2027 housing issue. Deadline for abstracts is 30 Oct 2026: c40.me/4yidYRd
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Working on how cities can provide more and better housing? Share some of your research and thought leadership with our mayors. More info: www.c40.org/news/call-fo...
c40.org
Call for papers: Special issue on delivering sustainable housing in the climate-changed city: centring affordability and equity in policy
The Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy (JCCPE) publishes timely, evidence-based research that contributes to the urban climate agenda...
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C40 Cities @c40cities.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy needs you. Cities are advancing climate action, but face growing constraints from limited resources. What financial approaches can support mitigation, adaptation and a just transition? Submit your papers by 30 Jun 2026: c40.me/4ui6ko3
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My latest newsletter for the C40 Centre on cities and data centres—with references to the Railway Mania of 1846 and subsea cables, the poster children for critical yet vulnerable infrastructure. thecentre.substack.com/p/cities-and...
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Cities and the data centres investment boom
With great energy and water demand comes great responsibility
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Ted Chiang writing about AI in 2017 was so on point you would think this article has just been commissioned. On the reason ethical AI is a wild goose chase due to corporations' lack of "insight" and capitalism's proven inability to be ethical. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedc...
an excerpt from the Ted Chiang article linked
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Wondering how #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek could apply to cities? Check out these recent articles from the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy: @wellbeing-economy.bsky.social @weallscotland.bsky.social
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
It's #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek so it's worth sharing our recent journal issue on sustainable prosperity:
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
temporarily re-emerging from parental leave to rejoice in the publication of the latest issue of the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy: utppublishing.com/toc/jccpe/4/2
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Contents | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4, 2
Cities around the world depend on growth, but such growth has become, to use Herman Daly’s term, uneconomic—the costs of growth, within and beyond the cities’ boundaries, far exceed the benefits. Post-growth cities are cities that thrive without growth, ...
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Heartbroken at the prospect that the Fish & Cook stationary shop on Blackstock Road may be turned into a betting shop. Hackney has rejected the application following a small local uproar (www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/vict...), but it's now with the Planning Inspectorate.
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Victory for residents as slots venue bid is blocked again
‘Adult gaming centre’ would replace a family-run stationery shop
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
If you're concerned about wood burning, join us in putting up posters in your area to help inform people about the #AirPollution impacts of burning. #WoodBurning is still a vastly underestimated and misunderstood source of pollution. Order your free posters here: bit.ly/wbposterform
Three posters about the air pollution impact of wood burning. "Like smoking cigarettes, burning wood damages our health". "Wood burning harms". "A wood burning stove is six times more polluting than an HGV".
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
temporarily re-emerging from parental leave to rejoice in the publication of the latest issue of the Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy: utppublishing.com/toc/jccpe/4/2
utppublishing.com
Contents | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4, 2
Cities around the world depend on growth, but such growth has become, to use Herman Daly’s term, uneconomic—the costs of growth, within and beyond the cities’ boundaries, far exceed the benefits. Post-growth cities are cities that thrive without growth, ...
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Belated second installment*: how localising (even a small fraction) of the economy can protect our cities from disruption. open.substack.com/pub/thecentr... *pace will slow further until I return from parental leave in 2026.
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Localisation as a buffer against disruption
Fostering anchor institutions and community-ownership can make cities more resilient in tumultuous times
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C40 Cities @c40cities.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
With the right funding, cities can better protect people from devastating climate impacts like heat, flooding, and storms. But local governments often miss out on the money they need, even in wealthier cities. Read all about it in our latest journal issue: utppublishing.com/toc/jccpe/4/1
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Contents | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4, 1
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C40 Cities @c40cities.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
We're all asking ourselves: how can we navigate uncertain times? Is becoming more self-reliant the answer for cities? Explore the promises and perils of economic localisation with @francescomellino.bsky.social in the latest C40 Centre substack ⬇️ thecentre.substack.com/p/making-cit...
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Making cities more resilient by “localising” their economies?
Can the capacity to be more self-reliant help cities navigate uncertain times? The first issue of a new series on the promise and perils of economic localisation.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
How can cities plan for reduced gas demand? Who pays for maintenance and decommission costs as the gas customer base dwindles? The research team at @c40cities.bsky.social answers these questions and more in this fantastic report.
Cover image of the C40 Cities report "Building a cleaner future: how cities can plan for reduced gas demand"
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
First post of a short series on the promise and perils of economic localisation. Include references to the US' tariffs, autarky in fascist Italy, and the Late Bronze Age civilisation collapse... Read here: open.substack.com/pub/thecentr... and subscribe to get the next ones directly in your inbox.
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Making cities more resilient by “localising” their economies?
Can the capacity to be more self-reliant help cities navigate uncertain times? The first issue of a new series on the promise and perils of economic localisation.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Spare a thought for those of us who built their entire personality around correctly using em dashes in their non-native language.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
How can cities plan for reduced gas demand? Who pays for maintenance and decommission costs as the gas customer base dwindles? The research team at @c40cities.bsky.social answers these questions and more in this fantastic report.
Cover image of the C40 Cities report "Building a cleaner future: how cities can plan for reduced gas demand"
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Your regular reminder to check out the vacancies at @c40cities.bsky.social — lots of exciting roles for those who like to work with cities and on all things urban climate action. www.c40.org/careers/
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Careers at C40 - Job openings at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Current job openings at C40 Cities with positions located in cities around the world. Apply today to join our global team of climate leaders.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Great to see this thoughtful exploration of the role of cities in meeting the migratory adaptation challenges of the coming decades #NomadCentury
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
me on the present and future role of migration on cities around the world, heavily inspired by reading @wanderinggaia.bsky.social's Nomad Century and recent @c40cities.bsky.social research on the topic: open.substack.com/pub/thecentr...
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We need to talk about urban climate migration
Migration can be a powerful climate adaptation solution, but national governments' lack of vision puts cities on the front line, adding to their existing challenges.
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Robin Mazumder, Ph.D @robinmazumder.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
As a neuroscientist who studies urban stress, loud cars/motorcycles should be banned, or fined excessively until drivers reassess their need to broadcast their self esteem with unnecessary noise pollution. I don’t need to hear your car in my apartment.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 The Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy is looking for innovative, thought-provoking research and policy guidelines for our open-call issue to be published in August 2026. Full info utppublishing.com/journals/jcc... @utpjournals.bsky.social @c40cities.bsky.social
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Call for Papers | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy | University of Toronto Press
Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy is seeking new insights on special topics to publish in an upcoming issue. See if this CFP is the right fit for your research.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
in which I manage to shoehorn Horace into a short piece on climate diplomacy and cities—seemingly our last hope for climate action thecentre.substack.com/p/finding-ho...
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Finding hope in climate action
Cities are our chance to defy gloomy expectations, look to them for action and hope
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Your regular reminder to check out the vacancies at @c40cities.bsky.social — lots of exciting roles for those who like to work with cities and on all things urban climate action. www.c40.org/careers/
c40.org
Careers at C40 - Job openings at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Current job openings at C40 Cities with positions located in cities around the world. Apply today to join our global team of climate leaders.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Great to see tha latest analysis by @solveschoolrun.bsky.social in The Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution
Campaigners say pollution levels in street in Herne Hill were far higher when private schools were open
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Marcelo Elizeche Landó @melizeche.com · 20/12/2024
Screenshot:

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek

me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Just published: a great article from the C40 Knowledge Hub team on how cities can restrict carbon-intensive advertising: www.c40knowledgehub.org/s/article/Ho... with links to the work of @adfreecities.bsky.social, @badvertising.bsky.social and others.
people covering an advertisement billboard with a joyful mural saying "Living La Vida Local". Photo credit: Adfree Cities.
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Adfree Cities @adfreecities.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Today @chrisgpackham.bsky.social lent his support to a fossil fuel advertising ban. Adfree Cities and @badvertising.bsky.social have long called for such a ban to help end the social licence of fossil fuels. Chris has started a petition. Sign today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Never quite appreciated how stark the effect of the Aemilian Way (Via Emilia) is in terms of urban development in Emilia-Romagna. This is the sort of influence one expects from a body of water. Instead, it is all because of a Roman road built over 2100 years ago.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
🌱CLIMATE JOBS🌳 A regular reminder to check out vacancies at C40 Cities if you'd like to join a progressive, action-oriented organisation working with cities and mayors around the world. www.c40.org/careers/
c40.org
Careers at C40 - Job openings at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Current job openings at C40 Cities with positions located in cities around the world. Apply today to join our global team of climate leaders.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
It took at least five (5!) years to develop this Selby Urban Village masterplan for green areas, sporting facilities, and 200 council homes and... all the sporting facilities are for predominantly-male sports (football, rugby, cricket)? selbyurbanvillage.commonplace.is
Proposed masterplan for Selby Urban Village, in Haringey/Enfield. London, UK
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Going through old tweets before I make my account dormant and found that my love for cities as catalysts for environmental action goes way back. (this is the New Yorker article in question:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/18/green-manhattan)
screenshot of a tweet from 2017 with a link to a New Yorker article on the environmental friendliness of cities
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Rambling about cities, climate action, and wellbeing at the 7th OECD World Forum on Well-being.
Man talking about cities and climate action.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
I wrote about the latest UNEP, Lancet Countdown, and IMF reports (all published in the past week) before we start spending the month of November going in circles about politics. open.substack.com/pub/thecentr...
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Not much is calm before this storm
A round up of the latest scientific evidence and economic analysis, before November shifts the focus to the politics of the US election and COP29
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
🌱CLIMATE JOBS🌳 A regular reminder to check out vacancies at C40 Cities if you'd like to join a progressive, action-oriented organisation working with cities and mayors around the world. www.c40.org/careers/
c40.org
Careers at C40 - Job openings at C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Current job openings at C40 Cities with positions located in cities around the world. Apply today to join our global team of climate leaders.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
📣CALL FOR PAPERS🏙️ We're inviting contributions to the Journal for City Climate Policy and Economy's Special Issue on sustainable prosperity in the 21st century city (expected publication in Summer 2025). Deadline for abstracts 6th September. More info: jccpe.utpjournals.press/jccpe/resour...
banner of the Journal of city climate policy and economy's special issue on sustainable prosperity.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Markets are a force to be reckoned with, not inherently a force for good. We need them to stop giving people the wrong climate signals. open.substack.com/pub/thecentr...
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The Market is putting you at risk
Markets are a force to be reckoned with, not inherently a force for good. We need them to stop giving people the wrong climate signals.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
More cities are looking to ban high-carbon ads. Great stuff. thecentre.substack.com/p/ads-agains...
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Ads against humanity
Banning advertisements of harmful products is inexpensive and effective, that’s why more and more cities are doing it.
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
A new NBER working paper suggests climate impacts are 6x worse than previously thought, but this also offers opportunities for unilateral action. Me for the C40 Centre for City Climate Policy and Economy newsletter: thecentre.substack.com/p/a-new-worr...
The cover image of the post "a new worrying estimate of the economic damages of climate change"
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Planet- and people-centred economic ideas, coming to a city near you thecentre.substack.com/p/planet-and...
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Planet- and people-centred economic ideas, coming to a city near you
Our first ecological economics special issue, the necessity of climate action amidst a slowing global economy, and a victorious referendum to get polluters to pay in Paris, France
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Milena Büchs 🌎🌻🐌 @mmbuchs.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Good to see a new special issue out on ecological economics by the Journal of City, Climate Policy and Economy out, with several interesting looking papers on wellbeing economy approaches (and other interesting topics)! jccpe.utpjournals.press/toc/jccpe/2/2
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Francesco Mellino @francescomellino.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Next on @politico.eu: climate change, is it really an issue? Presented by Shell
The banner for a webinar organised by Politico and sponsored by Virgin Atlantic, titled "flying towards net zero?'The banner for a webinar organised by Politico and sponsored by Airbnb titled "the housing crisis: the evolving landscape".
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