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Jakob Skovgaard

@jakobskovgaard.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Political Science, Lund University. Great at doing stuff. Author of "The Economisation of Climate Change": t.co/BYTak7y0A2?amp=1

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Pacific deserves better than Australia's policy of continued fossil fuel expansion, says MP Nicolette Boele.
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 09/09/2026
This is a great story from @katearonoff.bsky.social on the new UNEP emissions gap report and a recent ERL paper from @arvindpawan1.bsky.social and @hdaigle.bsky.social
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Carbon Capture Won’t Save Us Anytime Soon
A new U.N. climate report says ​that massive amounts of carbon capture and storage can keep a long-shot climate goal within reach. ​But nobody should be counting on it.
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We need @andyburnham.bsky.social to stick his word now on #ClimateChange
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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Over half the bonds pledged at the Bank of Korea come from fossil fuel and high-emission sectors. Green bonds were under 2%. A new study calls it an implicit subsidy to high-carbon firms. greencentralbanking.com/2026/08/10/…
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
LSE are advertising a tenure track position on IPE with a specialism in global environmental politics - rare to see these positions come up, particularly those in GEP link to application form below
jobs.lse.ac.uk
Assistant Professor in International Relations / International Political Economy
Assistant Professor in International Relations / International Political Economy, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"...
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Renewables-plus-storage is so cheap that in large parts of the world it is cheaper to build a whole new clean power plant than just pay for the fuel and maintenance for a fully-depreciated gas generator. Renewables aren’t just threatening new-build gas — they are undermining existing plants.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas
Winners and Losers
The IEA overestimated gas growth in Asia and underestimated solar

Gas
• Forecast 547 TWh
• Actual 17 TWh

Solar
• Forecast 465 TWh
• Actual 1,333 TWh

Note: Shows expected growth in Asian power generation between 2018 and 2025, based on actual 2018 generation, actual 2025 generation, and the 2018 World Energy Outlook's Current Policies Scenario estimates for 2025. Actual 2025 generation figures are from Ember.
Source: International Energy Agency, Ember, Bloomberg Opinion calculations
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SUS-POL @suspol.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Why would a country leave billions of dollars of oil & gas in the ground? On a narrow economic view it looks irrational: walking away from profit, jobs and geopolitical leverage, and picking a fight with one of the most powerful industries on earth. And yet it's happening🧵
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ceej @ceej.online · 20/05/2026
one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway
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Jakob Skovgaard @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
NEW ARTICLE ALERT Carbon taxes are increasingly being adopted around the world. A key factor is influence from other, similar states. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/04/2026
deep cut here but........are there any euro energy / wind folks who can provide some examples from 2006 that this blog post is referring to? www.windpowermonthly.com/article/9513...
windpowermonthly.com
Wrongly blamed for blackout -- European lights out
Read Wrongly blamed for blackout -- European lights out and other wind energy news & analysis on Windpower Monthly
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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A @ciel.org @foeus.bsky.social report shows global banks have provided $133bn to fuel US petrochemicals over the last 6 years. Despite risks such as hazardous 'forever chemicals', researchers show that ESG-linked investments are linked to petrochemical companies.
greencb.co
ESG funds include petrochemical companies, report finds
Global banks have invested US$133bn into US petrochemical expansion, even as the industry is linked to climate change.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Nobody, literally nobody, could have possibly seen this coming
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What a geopolitical crisis can do. Tbf I believe it when I see it, but at least nominally this Indonesia announcement is important as renewables are incredibly weak there, despite the potential. And no, coal won't be displaced in short term, dont fall for that. This sounds more like a China model.
setkab.go.id
President Prabowo Accelerates Energy Transition, Aims to Build 100 Gigawatts of Solar Panels, Optimizes Geothermal Energy - Sekretariat Kabinet Republik Indonesia
President Prabowo Subianto reaffirmed the Government’s commitment to accelerate the transformation of Indonesia’s national energy sector amid global dynamics that demand stronger energy resilience and independence. The Head of State stated that the Government will implement the national electrification program by developing renewable energy sources, particularly solar and geothermal ones. In his remarks at the […]
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
This is insane.
By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
Article linked below
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Liam F. Beiser-McGrath @liambeisermcgrath.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
New paper out in Ecological Economics with @gonzalezrostani.bsky.social and @aklin.bsky.social! We look at how long-term labor market risk from automation shapes people's environmental attitudes and climate policy preferences 🧵
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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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Sebastian Oberthür @oberthuerseb.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
For anyone who believed the advancing climate backlash would not concern the core of EU climate policy, it's time to wake up. And it is amazing how little key politicians care - all for fighting climate change, but let's abandon the policies that do it. @bundeskanzleramt.bsky.social
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Von der Leyen and Merz clash over future of EU’s core climate law
German chancellor joined industry in attacking the EU carbon market as the Commission president defended its “clear benefits.”
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 12/02/2026
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative @fossiltreaty.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📢El 24 de febrero, en colaboración con nuestros socios locales, @alianzaporelclima.org, organizamos un evento sobre el Tratado de Combustibles Fósiles en Madrid.🇪🇸 fossilfueltreaty.org/events/madri...
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
‘Here’s the final irony. Conspiracy theorists and climate deniers insist governments are exaggerating the threat. In reality, the evidence increasingly suggests the opposite.’ theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...
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A UK climate security report backed by the intelligence services was quietly buried – a pattern we’ve seen many times before
Governments have been warned about climate change for 70 years. They’re still suppressing the worst news.
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 10/01/2026
An interesting case study for Scotland after independence. Uruguay achieves 99% renewables by balancing their grid with 45% hydro - so a little like Norway. In the process they've halved their electricity costs. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...
forbes.com
Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Final document for #COP30 just dropped and here are some hot takes 1/ No decisive language about FF phaseouts. This is a HUGE loss. The consolation prize is a political process toward phaseouts outside the official decisionmaking of the #ParisAgreement
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Louise 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @louiselovehjerte.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Husk at stemme til kommunal- og regionsrådsvalget i morgen ✏️❌🗳️ Din stemme er vigtigere end du tror! #kv25 #valg #dkpol
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Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
As explained at the 🔗, the reviews took place between April 2016 (Beijing) and October 2018 (Rome) and were chaired by the OECD. They were scheduled to continue in 2019 (pairing Argentina and Canada), but were delayed. Then the COVID-19 pandemic created an interruption that proved to be permanent.
quno.org
Introducing G20 Peer Reviews | QUNO
QUNO explores insights from the G20 Peer Reviews, analysing efforts towards sustainable economic practices and global cooperation.
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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jonas Meckling @jonasmeckling.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🌪️As global climate disasters mount, the insurance protection gap is widening. Natural disasters caused US$320 bn in losses globally in 2024, according to Munich Re. But Japan remains an exception: its insurance protection gap isn’t yet pronounced.👇
greencb.co
How Japanese insurers are keeping the climate protection gap at bay
While the insurance protection gap is widening in many countries due to climate change, the same isn't true of Japan as yet even though premiums are on the rise.
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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🌱 @dnb-nl.bsky.social is publishing a guide so pension funds & insurers can integrate climate & nature risk into their risk assessment frameworks—further developing ESG data to help with insight into sustainability exposures  Read the full article by Emma Thomasson 👇
greencb.co
Dutch central bank reviews climate and nature risk to pensions and insurance
DNB shifts from awareness raising on climate to ensuring compliance with regulations.
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Thomas Hale @thomasnhale.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
With all the noise on climate @netzerotracker.bsky.social's Stock Take is the signal. The finding that sticks in my head: 🇺🇸US corporate net zero targets grew 9% over last 12 months, 279 ➡️ 304 Yes, some are blowing with the political wind. But more are stepping up. zerotracker.net/analysis/net...
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Jakob Skovgaard @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Just out! 🚨 Together with my excellent co-author @Hyeyoon Park, I published a new article on how global green finance governance institutions frame climate risks (1/3)
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Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
This is big (and bad) news: New Zealand's government has withdrawn from the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, which a previous NZ government joined at the Glasgow climate summit in November 2021.
rnz.co.nz
NZ pulls out of global coalition for phasing out fossil fuels
The move follows the Budget announcement of $200 million to support new drilling for fossil fuel fields.
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Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I’m obsessed with protecting seals: ‘The flying ring toy was deeply embedded in her neck’ 🦭 It broke my heart to see a seal so injured by a £1 plastic toy. Now I campaign to ban them – and it has changed my life. 👏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I’m obsessed with protecting seals: ‘The flying ring toy was deeply embedded in her neck’
It broke my heart to see a seal so injured by a £1 plastic toy. Now I campaign to ban them – and it has changed my life
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Bentley Allan @bentleyallan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Prime Minister Carney last night: “it’s time to build an industrial strategy that makes Canada more competitive while fighting climate change” 🙌🙌🙌
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 23/04/2025
Treasury Sec Bessent just signaled at a closed-door JPMorgan event that the US-China tariff standoff (currently 145% US tariffs, 125% China tariffs) is "not sustainable" and will de-escalate "in the very near future." Trump later confirmed final tariffs won't be "anywhere near" current levels. 1/
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2025
The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In mid-March, @fredericmerand.bsky.social started an important conversation about whether Canada should consider trying to join the EU and now we have a bunch of thoughtful responses. I was happy to add my take: www.ecsa-c.ca/post/canada-...
ecsa-c.ca
Canada and the EU’s geopolitical enlargement
Maria Popova, McGill Universitymaria.popova@mcgill.ca April 9, 2025 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 jolted the EU into a new enlargement wave now known as the “geopolitical en...
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Precisely nobody on Bluesky cares but WTI is back below $60. Jeez louise.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Another fun analogy is that tariffs to “re-industrialise” the US is a bit like using (massive, sudden) carbon pricing to completely reshape your energy systems.
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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Good morning with good news: 80 nations produced more than 50% of their electricity from clean sources in 2024. 47 nations generated more than 75% from clean sources. Clean sources at 40.9% exceeded 40% of world's electricity for 1st time since 1940s! ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... #energysky
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Harro van Asselt @harrovanasselt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The Call for Abstracts of the Inaugural Conference of the European Association of Climate Law (EACL) is now live! Come join us - and keynote speaker @christinavoigt.bsky.social - in Berlin on 22-23 September. www.ikem.de/wp-content/u...
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 07/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
#FridayFeeling 👇
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Climate vulnerable industries fearful for their assets first, and the planet second. Maybe if they say it, more people will listen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Wind power, which now supplies 25% of Finland's electricity, puts the lid on coal's coffin in Finland by bringing coal's output down from 23% in 2003 to <1% this week with the closure of the Salmisaari coal plant. www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/finland... @christianonre.bsky.social
renewableenergymagazine.com
Finland replaces coal with wind power, boosting energy security and competitiveness
The Salmisaari coal power plant in Helsinki has now officially closed, bring coal generation in Finland to below 1 percent, but by putting in place clear policies, the Finnish government ha...
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
US banks, after pulling out of global agreements to avoid financing climate change, "now expect a 3C world" expected lead to catastrophic heatwaves, floods& economic strife On the upside, the banks think the air conditioning sector could grow by 41% www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive
Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%
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Ricky Clark @rickyclark.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Japanese banks have followed the US and Canada in leaving the Net Zero Banking Alliance, with the future of the alliance in question. greencentralbanking.com/2025/04/03/n...
greencentralbanking.com
NZBA under pressure as Japanese banks leave
Japanese banks have followed the US and Canada in leaving the Net Zero Banking Alliance, with the future of the alliance in question.
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