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Elisabeth Gilmore

@lisgilmore.bsky.social
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Climate scientist, engineer, public policy, and social scientist; SDG and climate action synergies expert group; IPCC lead author AR6 Working Group II; GEO-7 lead author; Associate Professor, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 27/06/2025
In a new Editorial, the editors of PLOS Climate's Policy & Governance section call for transparent, equitable, and impactful research on climate policy and governance journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @lilyhsueh.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social @profangelhsu.bsky.social
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Lily Hsueh @lilyhsueh.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Delighted to share this agenda setting piece, co-authored w/ @lisgilmore.bsky.social, @profangelhsu.bsky.social, Florian Egli, Anjal Prakash, Anamika Barua. We present challenges + opportunities #climatepolicy #governance #transparency #equity #impact @asupubaffairs.bsky.social @woods.stanford.edu
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Kathleen Cunningham @kgcunnin.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Excited to share our new book! Rebel groups can play key roles in addressing environmental and climate related challenges. w/ @dfjung.bsky.social @cloyle.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social @reyhuang.bsky.social & Leo Gentil Fernandes www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
Cambridge Core - Climatology and Climate Change - Rebel Governance in the Age of Climate Change
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 04/05/2025
The increasingly broad application of the phrase "tipping point" can conceal the complexity of processes that can drive rapid change in the climate. "Climate change will surprise us, but so-called 'tipping points' may lead us astray," by @bobkopp.net, @lisgilmore.bsky.social, and Rachael Shwom.
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Climate change will surprise us, but so-called ‘tipping points’ may lead us astray
The increasingly broad application of the phrase "tipping point" across biogeophysical and social phenomena muddles its meaning, and its use can conceal the multidimensional complexity of processes th...
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Climate Policy Journal @climate-policy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
🔓: With federal US #climatepolicy in flux, state #taxincentives could play a bigger role. Yet, they remain limited in scope & focused on #energy. To drive real impact, they must be better integrated into broader fiscal policy, find @lisgilmore.bsky.social @tstclair.bsky.social @carleton.ca @nyu.edu
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Tax expenditures as tools for state-level climate action in the U.S.
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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 12/03/2025
"The response to climate change requires a “whole-of-society” approach... For such a collaboration to be effective, everyone must have free access to a robust body of climate research that can inform sound decision-making." -PLOS Climate Section Editor Desiree Rose latitude.plos.org/2025/03/meet...
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Meet PLOS Climate Section Editor Desiree Rose - Latitude
In this blog post, we speak to Desiree Rose, PLOS Climate Section Editor for Adaptation. Could you tell us a bit about…
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
And that's it! The whole magazine issue is here. You should subscribe to the @thebulletin.org so you can read it all now, but I'll reshare these articles as they become freely available to all, and hope to continue the convo with future web articles thebulletin.org/magazine/202...
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March 2025 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Elisabeth Gilmore @lisgilmore.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
While the US administration may not believe in climate change, armed rebel groups do! We show that rebels are engaging in climate governance with implications for local to international climate action. @kgcunnin.bsky.social @cloyle.bsky.social @reyhuang.bsky.social @daniellejung @leonardogentil
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 18/12/2024
Update: the NIST report, from *twenty* years ago, was called "Factors Affecting U.S. Production Decisions: Why are There No Volume Lithium-Ion Battery Manufacturers in the United States?" and it's no longer available www.greencarcongress.com/2005/09/why_... Update 2: my back hurts
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is a well written and convincing critique of the 'tipping point' framing by @bobkopp.net, @lisgilmore.bsky.social, et al, and I recommend you read it (if you haven't) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Open version: rdcu.be/d3HKC
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‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action - Nature Climate Change
The tipping points framing is widely used in climate discussions but receives mixed feedback. This Perspective critiques it for oversimplifying the complexities of natural and social systems and faili...
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Elisabeth Gilmore @lisgilmore.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Tipping point framings can lead to political paralysis. This video highlights that it may also favour overly technocratic responses. Understanding abrupt changes in the climate system matters. Negotiation and participatory democracy for just and equitable responses matters as much, if not more.
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Flora Graham @floragraham.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In yesterday's Nature Briefing, we considered a Perspective by @lisgilmore.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and colleagues about the use of the climate ‘tipping point’ framing. An interesting read! #ScienceSky 🧪 us17.campaign-archive.com?u=2c6057c528...
‘Tipping points’ cause confusion, not clarity
A focus on climate ‘tipping points’ — moments of abrupt and irreversible shifts in the Earth system, such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest — isn’t helpful, argues an interdisciplinary group of ten researchers that includes climate scientists, science communicators and environmental sociologists. The issues involved are important to study, but the framing is too abstract and frightening to trigger useful action, and not rigorous enough to inform policy, they argue. They recommend that scientists avoid using the idea as a scholarly tool and instead consider it “a fuzzy, boundary-spanning concept akin to ‘sustainability’”.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 03/12/2024
In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵
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‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action
Nature Climate Change - The tipping points framing is widely used in climate discussions but receives mixed feedback. This Perspective critiques it for oversimplifying the complexities of natural...
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