Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026New publication with Lorenz Dögnitz and Théo Konc on endogenous preferences. authors.elsevier.com/a/1nWbnyGFsi... ... It turns out that it is welfare-optimal during a green transition to catalyze preference change early. 030
Reposted by Linus MattauchCentre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 30/04/2026🇮🇳 NEW | #India Quarterly Energy Snapshot is out now! ☀️India’s solar generation rose 24% YoY in Q4 FY2025–26 as energy demand hits new peaks 💡Yet, increasing renewable curtailment points to challenges in integrating clean energy into India’s grid ⤵️ energyandcleanair.org/quarterly-en... 0172
Reposted by Linus MattauchJoseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Today in @theguardian.com, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, @mayor.nyc.gov and I write on Tax Day about the hazards of inequality, how the rich are not paying their share of taxes and why that is a problem locally, nationally and globally www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comTax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph StiglitzThere is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us 43918
Reposted by Linus MattauchDie Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Schon angemeldet? #KlimaLecture: Vom Wissen zum Handeln 📅 17.02.2026, 18:00 via Zoom @linusmattauch.bsky.social, Katrin Schmelz u. Philipp Staab diskutieren, warum Zustimmung zum #Klimaschutz selten zu politischem Handeln führt. Moderation: Hermine Mitter 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/veranstal... 031
Reposted by Linus MattauchDie Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Einladung zur 12. #KlimaLecture! 📅 17.02.2026, 18:00 via Zoom @linusmattauch.bsky.social, Katrin Schmelz u. Philipp Staab diskutieren, warum breite Zustimmung zum #Klimaschutz selten zu politischem Handeln führt. Moderation: Hermine Mitter 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/veranstal... #Klimapolitik 1107
Reposted by Linus MattauchSimon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 08/01/2026DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.dfg.deKünstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung 19614195
Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 02/01/2026www.nature.com/articles/s41... ... how not to do succesful climate policy: overly focus on lifestyle choices.nature.comAn empirically based dynamic approach to sustainable climate policy design - Nature SustainabilityClimate policies based on conventional economic models that assume that citizens are entirely self-interested may trigger negative responses, even among those who support green lifestyles. A more dyna... 092
Reposted by Linus MattauchJoseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025So pleased @theguardian.com's editorial board agrees with our expert committee that it makes a lot of sense to establish an International Panel on Inequality. We are in an inequality emergency, and there are ways to lessen it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded | EditorialEditorial: Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal 07647
Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 12/11/2025www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:... Ein Podcast mit weitem Panorama dazu, warum die Politik doch immer was anderes beschließt als die Klimawissenschaft und die VWL empfehlen würden. Ich darf auch ein bisschen was dazu sagen @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.socialardaudiothek.dePodcast: Starke Fakten, schwache Politik - Wie kann Klimaforschung überzeugen?Haben Forschende nicht klar genug gewarnt? Hat wissenschaftliche Vernunft gegen Lobbygruppen keine Chance? Oder haben Forschende zu viel Schreckensszenarien entworfen anstatt auf positive Nebeneffekte... 075
Reposted by Linus MattauchPIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Starting in January 2026, PIK scientist @falkoueckerdt.bsky.social will join the newly established @ituaustria.bsky.social IT:U in Linz, Austria, as Founding Professor for Energy Transition and Climate Futures - congrats 👏 💐 www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... 2143
Reposted by Linus MattauchClimate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Politicians trying to get carbon offsets to re-freeze the Arctic:media.tenor.coma cartoon character is pointing at a potato with the words `` come on do something '' written above it .ALT: a cartoon character is pointing at a potato with the words `` come on do something '' written above it . 15412
Reposted by Linus MattauchZEW Mannheim @zew.de · 22/10/2025Heute am #ZEW: Akzeptanz der Energiewende⚡🌍Wer zahlt, wer profitiert? 🔹Elisabeth Dütschke @fraunhoferisi.bsky.social 🔹Sara Hagemann @bertelsmannst.bsky.social 🔹Martin Kesternich, Uni Paderborn 🔹 @linusmattauch.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social 🔹 @olischenker.bsky.social 162
Reposted by Linus MattauchBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 19/10/2025This seems like classic Merchants of Doubt techniques, slightly updated for social media, and notable for trying to rupture the alliance between two anti-science groups @naomioreskes.bsky.socialtheguardian.comInside the Republican network behind big soda’s bid to pit Maga against MahaA Guardian investigation finds the US soda and snack-food industries, threatened by RFK Jr’s movement to change Americans’ eating habits, have turned to a group of well-connected strategists, shadowy ... 0123
Reposted by Linus MattauchDer Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 08/10/2025Jahrelang werfen sie Veganern vor, die würden ihnen "das Schnitzel" wegnehmen und jetzt nehmen sie Veganern das Schnitzel weg. 542400519
Reposted by Linus MattauchDie Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Die Junge Akademie hat einen neuen Rat ernannt. "Wir freuen uns auf die konstruktive und kritische Begleitung durch die Ratsmitglieder und danken den ausscheidenden Ratsmitgliedern für ihre Expertise", erklärt Philipp Rothemund, Sprecher der Jungen Akademie. 🔗https://t1p.de/avcez #Wissenschaft 041
Reposted by Linus MattauchBastian Obermayer @bastianobermayer.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Genau, was Zollfahnder Buckenhofer sagt: Wer ein rätselhaftes Vermögen nicht erklären kann, sollte es nicht haben… www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/s...sueddeutsche.deKlingbeil: Steuererhöhungen statt Einziehung krimineller VermögenDie Bundesregierung muss entscheiden, ob sie Steuererhöhungen vorschlägt oder kriminelle Gelder effektiver einzieht. Experten fordern ein Umdenken, um das Vertrauen in den Rechtsstaat zu stärken. 0144
Reposted by Linus MattauchKlimafakten. Die Plattform für Klimakommunikation @klimafakten.bsky.social · 04/09/20251️⃣Elena Dilger und @linusmattauch.bsky.social befassen sich mit dem "Klimaschutzparadoxon" - also mit der Frage, warum die starke Zustimmung der Bevölkerung bisher nicht zu entsprechender Politik führt. www.klimafakten.de/kommunikatio...klimafakten.deDas Klimaschutzparadoxon: Warum öffentliche Zustimmung bisher nicht zu wirksamer Politik führt | klimafakten.de 173
Reposted by Linus MattauchElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 24/07/2025"New civil rights violations will be imagined, new vistas of anti-Americanism on campus will be discovered, and the attacks will continue." My colleague Suresh Naidu nails it. The deal might as well say, "souls will be searched." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves 1237
Reposted by Linus MattauchJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 25/07/2025Is decarbonization dead? @janeaflegal.bsky.social & I join Ezra Klein to talk through how Trump just shredded America's most ambitious climate policy, what survived, and where we go from here. Listen @nytimes.com or wherever you get your podcasts. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o... 710325
Reposted by Linus MattauchProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14 10321501148
Reposted by Linus MattauchZach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll also become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a Professorial Fellow.inet.ox.ac.ukZach Parolin Appointed Oxford Professor of Social Policy, Inequality…Zach Parolin will direct the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Programme at INET Oxford, which seeks to understand the drivers and implications of… 2414211
Reposted by Linus MattauchTeresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 02/07/20251/5 Today, we propose a 90% cut in emissions by 2040 🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...ec.europa.euEU\'s Climate Law presents a new way to get to 2040The European Commission today proposed an amendment to the EU Climate Law, setting a 2040 EU climate target of 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, compared to 1990 levels, as requeste... 43313
Reposted by Linus MattauchChristopher Leisinger @cleisinger.bsky.social · 02/07/2025🧵 Sündenbock Klimapolitik? Klimaschutz wird zuletzt oft für Wettbewerbsverluste, Deindustrialisierung & Wohlstandseinbußen verantwortlich gemacht. In @politischemeinung.bsky.social argumentieren wir: Das ist irreführend. Aus mindestens 3 Gründen führt an einem ehrgeizigen Klimakurs kein Weg vorbei. 194
Reposted by Linus MattauchEAERE @eaere.bsky.social · 18/06/2025🏆𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘆🏆 We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 European Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Forty: Linus Mattauch (TU Berlin & Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) 2257
Reposted by Linus MattauchJan Christoph Steckel @jansteckel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025#EAERE2025 is here! This morning, we already had an excellent pre-EAERE workshop on Climate Policy in Low-and Middle Income countries. Now, I am looking forward to an interesting conference and meeting many old friends and making new ones @eaere.bsky.social 053
Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Some good news about climate change for the weekend: For mitigation, the people are not the problem – at least not for global approaches with redistribution. See our new paper, led by @adrien-fabre.bsky.social , www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nathumbehav.nature.com @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (1/6) 1205
Reposted by Linus MattauchJoseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Reposting with correct handle this time...With @nacho2g.bsky.social and Juan Montecino, our latest in European Economic Review on optimal corporate tax policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comEquity prices, market power, and optimal corporate tax policyWe study the optimal design of corporate tax policy in a textbook life-cycle model featuring two key deviations: (i) firms are imperfectly competitive… 066
Reposted by Linus MattauchTagesspiegel Background @tspbackground.bsky.social · 06/06/2025#Klimaschutz hat es politisch derzeit schwer. Andere Krisen beschäftigen die Gesellschaft, und die globale Kooperation zur Einhaltung planetarer Grenzen erscheint beschädigt, so @linusmattauch.bsky.social vom @pik-potsdam.bsky.social 👉 is.gd/g4mMKa 285
Reposted by Linus MattauchPIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Keine Angst vor Bürgerinnen und Bürgern: @linusmattauch.bsky.social im ausführlichen Interview über die Ergebnisse der heute veröffentlichten Studie zur Akzeptanz globaler #Klimapolitik 👇 www.deutschlandfunk.de/klimaschutz-...deutschlandfunk.deKlimaschutz: Keine Angst vor Bürgerinnen und Bürgern. Linus Mattauch, PIK 067
Reposted by Linus MattauchInstitute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Coming up on Thursday 29 May 2025 @14:00 BST, @linusmattauch.bsky.social on 'New thinking on climate change policy and endogenous preferences' 🔗 www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/inet-... 031
Reposted by Linus MattauchLinus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Looking forward to an insightful discussion on the future of EU climate policy for @jungeakademie.bsky.social and with the Young Academies of Ireland, Italy and Sweden and the Global Young Academy, on May 27 (register under link 👇) www.diejungeakademie.de/en/events/kl... 173
Reposted by Linus MattauchJoseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Now out, a compilation of my writing on inequality and what we can do about it. Published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Available to order and will ship on April 6: global.oup.com/academic/pro... 416154
Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Looking forward to an insightful discussion on the future of EU climate policy for @jungeakademie.bsky.social and with the Young Academies of Ireland, Italy and Sweden and the Global Young Academy, on May 27 (register under link 👇) www.diejungeakademie.de/en/events/kl... 173
Reposted by Linus MattauchHelen Burstin, MD, MPH @helenburstinmd.medsky.social · 25/04/2025“Our job is to evaluate science and evaluate it in an unbiased fashion,” Dr. Rubin said. “That’s what we do and I think we do it well. The questions seem to suggest that there’s some bias in what we do — that’s where the vaguely threatening part comes in.” @nejm.orgnytimes.com‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical JournalThe New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter. 32610
Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not 010
Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 20/04/2025www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRevealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges againBrazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattle 000
Reposted by Linus MattauchDie Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Mitglieder der Jungen Akademie veröffentlichen Maßnahmen zum Schutz der #Wissenschaftsfreiheit. 🕊️🔬 Autor*innen: @andreabinder.bsky.social, Radin Dardashti, Racha Kirakosian, Kornelia Kończal, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Doris Segets Hier lesen: rb.gy/4hy0kc #AcademicFreedom #StandUpForScience 23715
Reposted by Linus MattauchHeard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd. 173105823924
Reposted by Linus MattauchAdrien Fabre @adrien-fabre.bsky.social · 01/04/2025🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER! With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions. In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️ www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... 29434
Reposted by Linus MattauchBrigitte Knopf @brigitteknopf.bsky.social · 26/03/2025#Koalitionsvertrag: ich bin gespannt, wie man genau "Preissprünge im #ETS2 vermeiden" will. Will man auf EU-Ebene noch mal das ETS2 Paket aufmachen? Und will man auch Preissprünge nach unten vermeiden, zb über einen nationalen #Mindestpreis? Denn 2026 haben wir national schon einen Preis von 65€... 13511
Reposted by Linus MattauchAlessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky 549129065481
Reposted by Linus MattauchEuropean Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change @esabcc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025On 21 Feb, the @esabcc.bsky.social will release a report on how to support a rapid and sustainable scale up of #carbon dioxide removals to reach EU climate targets. Webinar on 25 Feb, sign up here: climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/news/eu-clim... #EUClimateAction #ClimateNeutrality #CarbonRemovalclimate-advisory-board.europa.euEU climate Advisory Board to publish new report on carbon dioxide removals on 21 February 0119
Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · 06/02/2025www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/k...tagesschau.deKonzernchefs warnen vor "Zunahme fremdenfeindlicher Positionen"Für die Chefs von Siemens, Mercedes-Benz und Deutscher Bank ist klar: Ohne stabile Demokratie gibt es kein Wachstum und keinen Wohlstand. In einem gemeinsamen Aufruf warnen sie vor einer Zunahme von N... 020
Reposted by Linus MattauchMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 04/02/2025Here is United States law regarding the President's attempts to close our development assistance agency in secret over the weekend. It is illegal. No ambiguity. Americans decide with their actions, today, if the US is a country of laws or—something else. —> crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/... 116083
Reposted by Linus MattauchGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy 511247524
Reposted by Linus MattauchClive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I can’t i just … i can’t www.404media.co/anthropic-cl... 411202357