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Kristina Karlsson

@karlsson-kris.bsky.social
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Dep. Director, Climate Policy at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltinstitute.bsky.social. aspiring used bookshop owner. My opinions.

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
NEW: If you live in the US, your electricity might cost an additional $376/year by 2030. Why? Utilities are passing on $1.4 trillion in costs—largely to deal with AI expansion and climate disasters—to customers over the next five years. stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/the-bl...
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Kristina Karlsson @karlsson-kris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My new paper for @cplusc.bsky.social is out! I estimate the potential household cost impacts from utilities’ planned 1.4T in capex spending in the next 5 years — the majority of which is motivated by data center demand and extreme weather mitigation. Thread 👇🏼
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Kristina Karlsson @karlsson-kris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New comments on #FedLit today! Sarah Bloom Raskin has thoughts about bond market frenzy, Kevin Warsh's anti-info campaign, the longer trend of Fed inflation metrics that miss the reality of household affordability, and what this all means for climate! 👇 fedlit.substack.com/p/comments-f...
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Comments from the Editors 1: Features of Fed Detachment
Oh dear, bond markets are fretting.
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Rakeen Mabud @rmabud.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Brilliance in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social from @cplusc.bsky.social's @pmbigger.bsky.social and @karlsson-kris.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/just...
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Kristina Karlsson @karlsson-kris.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
My new brief for @cplusci is out today! I tried to take on the “tradeoff” question from a different starting point: where decarbonization and affordability are stated political goals, and the task is to find the right policy and market/ownership structure to achieve them.
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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)
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Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute
A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 02/10/2025
Extreme heat is taking a toll on workers. New research shows how a 3-degree Celsius warming scenario will have negative impacts on labor supply globally. Dive into why this is the Fed's business in our latest #FedLit📖 fedlit.substack.com/p/issue-7-extre…
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Issue 7: Extreme Heat → Decreased Labor Supply + Labor Productivity
The summer of 2025’s heat waves took a toll on workers. Many of them—warehouse employees, agricultural laborers, and low-wage workers who spend the day outside—have no choice but to toil on the front ...
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 12/08/2025
🎧 This month's #FedLit is an interview with Sarah Bloom Raskin, @karlsson-kris.bsky.social, and David Barmes, Senior Fellow at @granthamlse.bsky.social. They unpack “adaptive inflation targeting” & how central banks are navigating climate-driven economic shocks. fedlit.substack.com/p/issue-6-ad...
Promo graphic for fed lit with an image of David Barmes
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 08/07/2025
📈 Climate change is driving inflation—and the Fed’s playbook isn’t built for it. Sarah Bloom Raskin & @karlsson-kris.bsky.social break down adaptive inflation targeting: a smarter way to tackle climate shocks without stalling the green transition. #FedLit 🌍💸 fedlit.substack.com/p/issue-5-su...
Two world maps labeled Figure S1, showing the pressure on headline and food inflation rates due to higher average temperatures in 2035 under SSP 585 scenario. The left map shows annual pressure on food inflation, and the right map shows annual pressure on headline inflation, both color-coded from dark red representing higher impacts to light pink for lower impacts. A note indicates SSP 585 is a high-emissions scenario. Source: Kotz et al. (2024).
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 16/06/2025
Curious about how climate risk shapes the future of central banking? Make sure you're subscribed to #FedLit 💡! Each month Sarah Bloom Raskin & @karlsson-kris.bsky.social ‬break down critical research on financial stability and climate’s impact. fedlit.substack.com/
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Fed Lit | Substack
Fed Lit is a monthly newsletter from the Roosevelt Institute offering essential climate reading for Federal Reserve staff, leadership, and other interested parties. Click to read Fed Lit, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 04/06/2025
💡New research shows rising temps could tank sovereign credit ratings—costing the US up to $95B by the year 2100. In the latest #FedLit, Sarah Bloom Raskin & @karlsson-kris.bsky.social break down the bond market risks—and why the Fed should care. 🌍 fedlit.substack.com/p/issue-4-gl...
Key finding from the Roosevelt Institute: Climate risk could decrease sovereign creditworthiness globally, with 63 countries potentially facing downgrades by 2030, increasing to 80 by 2100. Citation includes Sarah Bloom Raskin and Kristina Karlsson from 'Fed Lit: Issue 4 - Global Emissions + Sovereign Creditworthiness + Debt Costs'.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 14/05/2025
Yesterday at a hearing with the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Senators Whitehouse and Wyden sounded the alarm: climate-driven insurance collapse is a threat to families—and to financial stability. The costs are already hitting families. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgjr...
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Suzanne Kahn @suzmkahn.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Another great read from @karlsson-kris.bsky.social and Sarah Bloom Raskin!
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
NEW: "Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis" contains a series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis. A collaboration with @publiccitizen.bsky.social. 🧵 ⬇️
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Mapping the Home Insurance Crisis | Revolving Door Project
A series of interactive maps and tables to help people make sense of the climate change-fueled home insurance crisis.
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Kristina Karlsson @karlsson-kris.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Fed Lit #2 is out now! The paper we profiled demonstrates the role uncertainty plays in amplifying the econ impacts of climate risk. In light of recent "bad vibes" data tracking consumer sentiment/uncertainty - this analysis shows that vibes + material temperature changes = real economy stagnation.
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 21/03/2025
🔥 Rising temperatures + unpredictable economic policy = a recipe for stagnation. States with high policy uncertainty face 10x the economic hit from climate risk. More in the latest #FedLit from Sarah Bloom Raskin & @karlsson-kris.bsky.social: fedlit.substack.com/p/issue-2-cl...
Key finding graphic that reads: Climate risk, measured by temperature increases and temperature volatility, had a statistically significant negative impact on the state-level Coincident Economic Activity Index (CI). This index tracks nonfarm payroll employment, unemployment, average hours worked in manufacturing, wages, and salaries.
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Kristina Karlsson @karlsson-kris.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Our 1st #FedLit post focuses on insurance market dynamics in Florida. We learned a lot from Ishita Sen Parinitha Sastry and Ana Maria Tenekedjieva about how fragile, often insolvent, insurers that dominate the market in Florida, drive increased mortgage delinquencies after climate disasters. 👀👇
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 19/02/2025
🌪️ Climate disasters are hitting insurance and housing markets. In the first #FedLit issue, @karlsson-kris.bsky.social & Sarah Bloom Raskin explore how fragile insurers and mortgage delinquencies are tied to climate risk—and why the Fed must act. fedlit.substack.com/p/issue-1-cl...
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Issue 1: Climate Disaster → Insurer Fragility → Mortgage Delinquency
“When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets”
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Kristina Karlsson @karlsson-kris.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Hi new bluesky friends! Today Sarah Bloom Raskin and I launched a newsletter - FedLit. We'll be discussing critical climate risk literature and the stakes for central bankers. Maybe we'll nag the Fed into reading along with us. I hope you'll consider subscribing, our first issue drops next week!
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It's worth noting that the risks between short-term insurance policies, long-term mortgages, and climate change aren't new, even if we're seeing increasingly dire examples of how it can manifest. I wrote this in 2020: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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