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Joachim Peter Tilsted

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Political ecological economy of climate change and energy transitions • Postdoc at the University of Copenhagen

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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Beyond reform of the target-framework, the findings thus call into question mitigation pathways that remain committed to existing commercial logics. The paper is open access and freely available. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Science-based climate targets for aviation fall short on mitigation and implementation
Science-based climate targets for aviation fall short on mitigation and implementation, Tilsted, Joachim Peter, Buijtendijk, Harald, Eijgelaar, Eke, Peeters, Paul, Bjørn, Anders
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We find that while airlines through these targets signal ambitiousness, they i) set targets that entail limited absolute emission reductions and ii) pursue circumscribed and risky emission reduction strategies.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We then analyse the links between climate scenarios and sector-level targets, the methods of target setting at the company level, as well as company-level progress and action.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
In a new research article, we take a closer look at the airlines with the most ambitious emission reduction targets. We focus on airlines with verified 'Science-based Targets' - the "gold standard" of corporate climate action - meaning they claim high ambition and have something to back it up.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Airlines are claiming that their climate targets align with the Paris Agreement. We looked into whether this claim holds up. What we find is that even the airlines with the on paper most ambitious targets fall short when subject to scrutiny. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Agree. Thinking about where and how to report them.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yes... I asked the editor to make sure they could not submit to the other journals they control but not sure that will work.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Oh and hey industry funding supported the research. Yay. What a great time for academia. What endless possibilities AI brings. How inspiring for an early career researcher to get to experience the AI praxis of people in the top of the hierarchy.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
And of course the paper presents claim as if they are novel even though a whole bunch of scholars across the social sciences have made them much better. And of course they do not cite them, only to twist the argument and use them to argue in favour of capital.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Just reviewed a paper for a high prestige journal by scholars from a high prestige uni. They cite one example of what they criticise, supposedly from that same journal. I look it up. AI hallucination. I reach out to the claimed author. They have never heard about it.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The workings of fossil capital extend beyond energy into our material world. We have a new paper out on how and why that is. We consider the overlaps between fossil fuels and synthetic materials, analysing global plastics governance from a neo-Gramscian perspective.
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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Has the Danish government quietly abandoned its commitment to the Paris Agreement? 🇩🇰 In this piece for @klimamonitor.dk, Jens Friis Lund, @jptilsted.bsky.social, and I call on the government to reiterate their support for the Paris goals. (English in the replies) klimamonitor.dk/nyheder/deba...
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Forskere: Er regeringen ved at underminere Parisaftalen uden at fortælle os det?
Klimaministeren har med sine udtalelser sået tvivl om Danmarks engagement til ambitiøs klimahandling. Danmarks klimapolitik halter også efter, skriver tre forskere.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We do not claim to have all the answers, but our hope is that this perspective provides a productive entry point for debates on the stability-change dialectic in transitions research. The paper is open access and available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
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Redirecting
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
3) Backlash and retraction in transitions occur, and why actors give up on green initiatives, such as corporations abandoning climate targets. When attending to the political function such initiatives play as a means of diluting social pressure, we see the potential for backlash in another light.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
2) What appears as transformative might not be when redrawing the system. Divesting oil and gas assets, for example, can actually prolong fossil infrastructure, as long as those assets are sold to others with the intention to maintain extraction.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
More specifically, we contend that these questions help navigate debates on how: 1) Socio-technical reconfigurations that look like system change in one analysis constitute system reproduction in political economic terms.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The concept invites us to ask analytical questions about transition processes, namely, "what is (being) (de)stabilised, how, by whom, and for what purpose?" What does this mean in practice and for research? Well, it forces us to consider social relations and distributions of political power.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We therefore introduce a dynamic understanding of the notion of trasformismo, conceptualizing a process of reproduction through reconfiguration. In short, trasformismo theorises "stability through change" or "change in the pursuit of stability."
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The change-stability dialectic is not an arm wrestle with one winner in the end - stability and change are both always there. Change in the absence of stability would be collapse. In the paper, we suggest neo-Gramscian thinking constitutes a promising entry point to these matters.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
We think this issue is really important, because getting it wrong risks driving us to be either overly optimistic about radical change or overlooking the openings that do occur for reforms that pave the way for transformative pathways.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
In discussing sustainability transitions, we often treat stability and change as opposing forces - like an arm wrestle where one side eventually prevails. But what if this is wrong?
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
What if change is actually stability in disguise? In a new perspective paper, @peternewell.bsky.social, Oliver Bugge Hunt and I argue that we should not understand change as the opposite of stability. Rather, we can think of change and stability as co-constitutive of one another.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
As put in the conclusion: "We should engage with the consequences and governance of synthetics alongside the contestations and sources of power that shape such governance."
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Global relations and the inequities they reflect are produced by a set of social structures. In those terms, we can think of defining features of the global order - the causes of socio-ecological injustices - such as extractivism, militarism, oil hegemony, colonial modernity, or growthism.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
What would degrowth imply for petrochemicals? A multilateral treaty enforcing a cap on global production, yes - as forcefully argued by many brilliant voices - but that is not all. In a new paper, I reflect on what remains in place also after a seemingly ambitious policy. doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Wow. Speculating about something is one thing, but knowing that it is taking effect is another.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Ever wondered why there is no accessible book-length introduction to ecological economics and the political economy of transitions in Danish? I know I have, so I tried to write one. It is out tomorrow, asking how we analytically should approach whether it is too little, too late and who benefits.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Det er i morgen, der er deadline på at ansøge til okonomiskolen.dk Kom og vær med når vi sammen med en masse dygtige forskere konfronterer de store spørgsmål om verdens kriser og disses uretfærdighed.
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Hjem | Økonomiskolen 2025
Økonomiskolen er et progressivt kursusforløb, der præsenterer dig for emner og perspektiver på økonomi, som ikke prioriteres på danske økonomiuddannelser, og som sjældent indgår i den offentlige debat...
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Why is it that capping the production of plastics is so contested? Got to provide some input to this great piece by @katharinamau.bsky.social
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Darum ist es so schwer, weniger Plastik zu produzieren
Die Welt verhandelt weiter über ein Plastikabkommen. Warum ist es so schwer, die Plastikproduktion zu senken?
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Klimamonitor sætter i dag sat ord på vigtigheden af en global plastiktraktat for klimadagsordenen. Giver selv lidt perspektiv fra min ph.d.: »Kemiindustrien er fuldkommen sammenfiltret med olie-, gas- og kulindustrien. Dermed er deres skæbner også forbundne.«
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Plast er olieindustriens redningskrans Bliver den punkteret i Genéve?
Skal vi blive fossile brændsler kvit, så er det ikke nok at udfase olie, gas og kul som energiform. Danmark sidder med for bordenden ved de vigtige forhandlinger, der skal lukke plasthanen.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Interesting developments... The contradiction on which the initiative is founded could not be contained.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Gaza is now single deadliest conflict for journalists in history. This is not only an attempt to extinguish a whole people, it is also an attempt to extinguish the story of their genocide. “One day, everyone will have always been against this.” - Egyptian-Canadian writer, Omar El Akkad. #Gaza
The city of Beit Hanoun in the north east edge of Gaza is seen from above. It is completely destroyed, not a single building is standing. It is all rubble, as though the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. The city had a population of 52,000
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
On a global scale, the claimed overcapacity does not lead to oil demand for petrochemicals peaking – the IEA expects demand for oil for petrochemicals to continuously increase throughout the decade.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
The IEA has published its yearly report on the state of oil—a key publication when following trends in petrochemicals and oil as a material. It confirms the increasing importance of synthetics in energy transitions: "Demand growth [is] underpinned almost exclusively by petrochemical[s]."
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Oil 2025 – Analysis - IEA
Oil 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Ethvert folkedrab retfærdiggøres på samme måde: netop denne befolkningsgruppe er unik farlig og kan ikke behandles efter normale regler. Armenerne var forræderiske, tutsierne magtsyge, jøderne konspiratoriske. Nu er det så palæstinensere, der alle er terrorister eller ikke elsker deres børn.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Detoxification alongside defossilisation changes how we should think of and approach climate change www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Just learnt that the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change is now also calling for a climate agenda beyond decarbonisation, including both defossilisation and detoxification.
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A/HRC/59/42: The imperative of defossilizing our economies - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change
The present report clarifies States’ international human rights obligations and businesses’ responsibilities to phase out fossil fuels and related subsidies within the current decade. The interlinked,...
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 24/04/2025
🔹Humanitarian aid and supplies have not entered the #Gaza Strip for over 50 days now. Critical humanitarian supplies are rapidly depleting. UNRWA flour supplies have run out. 📍Full report on the situation in Gaza and the #WestBank: www.unrwa.org/resources/re...
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Notatet er tilgængeligt her. Hovedresultatet er, at vi bør styre efter kraftige reduktioner frem mod 2035.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hvad skal målene for de danske forbrugsbaserede udledninger være? Klimarådet siger det. Klimabevægelsen siger det. Selv Dansk Industri siger det. Vi skal have pejlemærker for drivhusgasudledninger relateret til forbrug. Men hvad skal de være? Det har vi i Klima- og Omstillingsrådet nogle bud på.
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Thanks a lot, Rob!
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The paper is open access and is available here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Synthetic transitions: the political economy of fossil fuel as feedstock
With simultaneous policy and scholarly attention to the pollution crisis and the climate crisis, there is growing recognition that the two are intimately interconnected through the demand for oil, ...
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This paper builds on my PhD thesis and is an effort to unpack the most important conceptual and strategic implications that arise from understanding the role of fossil-based feedstock in production and consumption systems. portal.research.lu.se/en/publicati... 9/10
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Transforming a Synthetic World: The Political Economy of Petrochemical Transitions
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The dilemmas and limitations of defossilization strengthen the need to move beyond "plug and play" approaches to energy transitions, which focus on substitutability and shifts in technology and energy sources but not on ownership, control, modes of provision, or power relations. 8/x
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
1️⃣ Defossilization reveals a petrochemical complex that stretches across key sectors of the economy, from energy and agriculture to transport, health, and the military. 2️⃣ The current petrochemical complex enforces limited or "synthetic transitions," which are neither sustainable nor just. 7/x
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We discuss the dilemmas and put forward a set of conceptual and strategic implications of appreciating fossil fuels as feedstock. 6/x
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We know decarbonization, but what about defossilization? To decarbonize, we need to defossilize. But defossilization also risks entrenching existing inequities and perpetuating environmental and climate injustices. 5/x
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
However, that might very well be a fallacy. Research suggests that we need to defossilize—we need to do away with fossil carbon to begin with and base industrial production on renewables. Otherwise, lock-in ensures that fossil extraction continues at massively problematic scales. 4/x
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Joachim Peter Tilsted @jptilsted.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Around 16% of the oil extracted globally ends up as synthetic materials. With electrification of transportation, this number is set to increase. In fact, in a net-zero world, the International Energy Agency expects that the share of oil for "non-energy purposes" will exceed 50% in 2050. 3/x
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