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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When do we just decide that the Internet had a good run and all get dumb phones?

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yep. They’ve been quite adept at union busting

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

4/ As I argue in Existential Politics, this fixation on emissions is the wrong model for climate policy. It allows industry to pretend like it’s taking action AND walk away when that action becomes too costly. It's time to change course. FIN

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

2/ The recent scandal abt the GHG Protocol shows another weakness of voluntary standards – they can be co-opted by industry. Indeed, the incentives for so-called “green” standard-setters to allow undue industry influence are huge – otherwise these green groups lose their followers.

newrepublic.com

Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

1/ Some enviros / academics have been very big on voluntary standards. But this enthusiasm hasn’t withstood the test of time. Voluntary climate action is unsurprising. It works best under the threat of gov’t regulation, which is ahem, limited, these days. I made this argument 11 years ago here 👇

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The strength of weakness: pseudo-clubs in the climate regime - Climatic Change

The political utility of clubs hinges on their ability to provide excludable benefits to members. But in some cases of climate clubs, membership is not easily demarcated, and excludable benefits may b...

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

ft.com

Starbucks retreats from green goals amid drive for $2bn in cost cuts

Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

IMHO this piece vastly understates the shitshow that currently constitutes space governance. there is no functional multilateral space agreement & the US-sponsored Artemis Accords are fundamentally at odds with basic principles of int'l space law. carving up of this global commons is coming soon

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Who Owns the Moon?

A treaty from the 1960s declared that nobody can own outer space. Half a century later, billionaires and superpowers see fortunes to be made nonetheless.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This 1000% PLUS the fact that private standards often get formally recognized / adopted by governments, thus becoming binding regulation, often without any administrative legal processes

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yah, ISO is all behind closed doors, unless you are part of the drafting process. This is a problem for sure

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No I have not! Can you point me to it?

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5/ This whole mess is managing tons at its worst – an obsessive focus on carbon accounting that literally fails to see the forest for the trees. Managing tons justifies the status quo thru technical processes that can easily slide under the radar. FIN

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

4/ Fortunately, carbon accounting crusader @ghgpolicy.org , who was on the technical board overseeing the revisions, resigned & brought a formal complaint. This has brought the whole process under scrutiny & a reboot of the process.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5/ This whole mess is managing tons at its worst: an obsessive focus on carbon accounting that literally fails to see the forest for the trees. Managing tons justifies the status quo thru technical processes that can easily slide under the radar. This is why so much climate policy has failed.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3/ Why did WRI push this very questionable approach? Because private rulemakers have no authority unless someone adopts their rules. So the pressure is on WRI to ensure that the revisions were palatable to business interests.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2/ Industry captured the process of revising forest methodologies, resulting in an insane proposal that would allow firms to claim emissions reductions credits even as their emissions increased. @worldresources.bsky.social, the institutional home of the GHG-P, backed this new methodology.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

1/ GHG Protocol is how firms measure their emissions. It’s a form of private authority – created by non-state actors and now the de-facto global standard for firm level carbon accounting. My first book explains the history of this now ubiquitous set of rules.

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Rethinking Private Authority

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵

newrepublic.com

Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shout out to @nilskupzok.bsky.social for the thoughtful and generous review of my book, Existential Politics, in @gepjournal.bsky.social! direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is why I argue in my book Existential Politics that “managing tons” is a policy dead end. Too focused on emissions! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Chap 6 of my new book rxains how tax, trade and finance institutions can serve as the foundation for multilateral climate action. 2/2

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

6/ TL:DR: UNEP is doing the best it can given its limited leverage. At the int’l level, real climate action will come from tax, trade and finance institutions, as I explain in my book, Existential Politics. FIN

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Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

5/ BAD BUT UNDERSTANDABLE: Since the real problems of decarbonization are about disempowering fossil asset owners and building the political power of green asset owners, overshoot is not a problem that UNEP can really address.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

4/ YIKES. Notes “credibility risks” to CDR which are basically about measurement. This is what I call “managing tons” in my book, which sidesteps the REAL problem about how we manage dollars in the global economy. Credibility ain’t the issue.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

3/ BAD: Says CDR is now necessary for getting back to 1.5, but ALSO says that its effects will be limited and that “guardrails” will be needed. No acknowledgement of politics or the well-known fact CDR is being touted by fossil asset owners as a way to delay decarbonization.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

2/ GOOD: Emphasising that we have 3 policy imperatives that all have to happen concurrently (don’t love the graphic tho). We are now in a multi-front battle.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

1/ GOOD: Shifting the framing to overshoot is helpful for understanding the magnitude of action required. BUT, it also brings CDR front and center into the convo, which is risky.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Insurance companies are critical to distributing risk in the global economy. Climate catastrophe is destroying the market for risk distribution. Without that market, gov'ts (i.e. taxpayers) will be picking up the tab....if they choose to. This is very dangerous territory.

ft.com

Disasters to cost world $450bn a year from climate change and development

More than half of losses not covered by insurance as carriers carve out risk and cut exposure

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have picked up many very nerdy books in sidewalk boxes in Toronto. But this is the nerdiest, hands down.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

hey academics: i need help. i'm 20 yrs into my academic career. that's a lot of documents and data. my filing and back up systems are shit. crowdsourcing on: 1) what you keep from past projects and what you trash 2) how you back things up (UofT only gives you so much space) all ideas wlecome!

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Taxing the ultra-rich is *very effective* climate policy. -- @greenprofgreen.bsky.social

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Another creative argument for more North Sea oil: make it net zero with (currently non-scalable) CCS! Surely this will work. More magical thinking justified by the myopic logic of managing tons.

ft.com

Here’s how to make North Sea drilling compatible with net zero

Energy project licences should be conditional on carbon dioxide disposal

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

14/ Which brings me to @greenprofgreen.bsky.social Existential Politics. Her argument is that thirty years of counting tonnes has let us avoid the real fight, which is over who owns assets worth trillions and what happens to them. That fight is what a licensing decision is.

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