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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Reminds me of receiving the ESG Gospel from Frank Biermann in the Utrecht Cathedral in 2018...

Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Schöner Kommentar. Die Vertiefung der Fahrrinne ist für die Klima-Anpassung in etwa äquivalent zur "one more lane will fix it"-(Auto-)Verkehrspolitik...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Captain Iglu is a Russian Asset...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Get into bicycles. Cool tech without the AI bs...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Lass mich raten. Lehramt will er vermutlich nicht studieren?

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Klingt so als wäre er im KI-Education-Game auf dem nächsten Level angekommen...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Aber DIE SCHILDER. Fehlen die nicht immernoch?

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

At this point, I think the only way he can still serve his Party is by becoming a martyr. And that is a dark scenario...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"Peinlicher Onkel Politik" Tip top Label... Onkel Wolfgang? Ist das nicht der Ex-Mann von Tante Karen?

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Gerade bei Netflix zwei schöne Miniserien vertilgt: Griselda und How to get to Heaven from Belfast.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Same addiction, different dealer.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Well, it's only a lesson if there is someone willing to learn...

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Dr Matt Winning @mattywin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This framing is incredibly helpful and must be repeated until we are sore in the face

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Vielleicht gibts eine Teilnehmerurkunde. Wahlen: die Bundesjugendspiele der Demokratie.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Schau, und in den USA haben sie in den letzen 30 Jahren Deindustrialisierung ganz ohne effektive Klimapolitik hinbekommen...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Der RE IC 56 verspätet sich um ca. 30min aufgrund des desolaten Gesamtzustand der Deutschen Bahn. Oder Alternativ ... Wegen unzureichender Investitionen der vorherigen Dekaden... Ich weiß, Zynismus hilft auch nicht weiter. Alles Gute für die Heimfahrt.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I mean, it is clear that it will have to go back to the exporters. Trump has made it crystal clear that tariffs are not paid by US consumers...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Zumindest mir geht es so, dass diese komplette Schamlosigkeit mich ratlos macht. Was tun wenn einfach sämtliche Mechanismen des sozialen Korrektivs völlig ins Leere laufen?

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Fully agree. This is what we need to unpack and potentially attack/ridicule. My point is that the key to restoring shame is in understanding honour first. See the book "Honor Code" by Appiah. appiah.net/books/the-ho...

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Honor Code | Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

No it doesn't... You can feel ashamed of your own wrongdoing even if no one else knows about it. As Kwame Anthony Appiah put it: shame is the flip side of honour. And honor is an informal code of what is decent and appropriate behaviour in a society. So we need to bring honour back!

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Indeed. Follows the usual playbook to be able to sell a wind at the end of the meeting whatever it may be.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

My favourite quote attributed to HL Mencken: For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Umfangreicher und hoffentlich auch für nicht-Akademiker zugänglich ist unser JT:READY Guidebook. coaltransitions.org/tools/jtready/ Es gibt noch unglaublich viel mehr. Suchst du eher konzeptionell/theoretisches Material oder empirisches?

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A Just Transition Readiness Evaluation Tool for coal regions | Coal Transitions

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Ich habe viel zu Just Transition aus regionaler Perspektive geforscht, mit Schwerpunkt auf Europa. Globale Perspektiven haben da keine zentrale Rolle gespielt. Die Essenz eines großen Projekts ist hier eingeflossen: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Compounding injustices can impede a just energy transition - Nature Energy

Coal and carbon-intensive regions have lagged behind in socioeconomic development, long before any transition-related structural changes were foreseeable. Acknowledging and tackling the compounding ef...

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Wolfgang Obergassel @obergassel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I think the most important issue at stake at #COP30 in #Bélem on mitigation is whether the #UNFCCC continues addressing the transitions needed to achieve the mitigation objectives of the #ParisAgreement - or gets forced back into discussing the global emissions gap only in abstract terms

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

As they say: Conservative politics is progressive politics 10 years later. Either we are seeing an acceleration of this dynamic or maybe the Green proposal wasn't all that progressive in the first place.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

The problem with this proposal is that it assumes it is in everyone's interest to "solve" immigration. It is not! It has proved to be very effective in mobilising discourse and voters. Why would you want to give that tool out of hand?

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Recently German political discourse is replete with attacks on the EU ETS. In an op-ed I argue that these attacks could easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It may help us short term we are shooting ourselves in the foot in the race for the future: wupperinst.org/en/a/wi/a/s/...

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Weakening the EU Emissions Trading System Means Handing the Future Race to China

A statement of Dr. Lukas Hermwille, Co-Head of Transformative Industrial Policy Research Unit

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I have been sitting in Cologne at a conference on industrial policy we're a lot of economists warned against corporate capture and rent seeking. But recent evidence suggests that we can have rent seeking even without industrial policy.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I am just wondering how much of the cult is personal and how much is ideological? And then I am probably too scared to admit that it probably doesn't matter once they have enough raw power..

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

In meinem Kopf entsteht gerade das Bild wie eine große Zahl von Entscheidungen in Schlange ansteht, und darauf wartet, dass der Behördenschalter öffnet... Ich glaube, dieses Bild ist Recht passend für den Zustand des Landes.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Also worked for Putin. Would be a shame to lose such valuable compromat...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Indeed. in GER it is quite clear that not all primary steelmaking capacity will prevail. At the same time massive reinvestments are necessary. We need a mechanism to coordinate this and perhaps compensate between winners and losers. Is we leave it to the invisible hand, everyone loses.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Let them calculate how much 1 million seconds are Vs. 1 billion seconds.

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Guten Morgen deutsche Medien: Diese Studie zeigt: a) dass die AfD unverhältnismäßige mediale Aufmerksamkeit erhält (=mehr als ihre elektorale Größe suggerieren könnte). b) dass diese Aufmerksamkeit mit der strategischen Störung des politischen Prozesses durch die AfD an sich zusammenhängt.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I think they need ICE to secure "safe" mid-term elections. Are you ready for ICE squads at every polling station making sure everyone votes right?

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Not sure they have that distinction clearly in their heads... Interestingly, the phase-out of free allocation was what they mentioned first. But that does not necessarily mean it was the more relevant "trigger". In any case, I do not think that there was one "trigger" anyway. Its always multicausal.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Absolutely. The same people were talking about the "effective carbon price" they are facing. They were clearly not considering opportunity costs...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It may depend on the design, though. I recently interviewed GER steelmakers who clearly said that the outlook of zero free allocation in 2034 and zero new allowances in 39 was the main prompt to investigate alternative steel tech...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

...Panagiotis Fragkos, Ioannis Charalampidis, Eeva Kesküla and Annela Anger-Kraavi

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

And 4️⃣ we need to start acknowledging that social and economic stress caused by the energy transition requires emotional labour from, and support for, those affected.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

3️⃣ We need to promote inclusivity and representation of local community actors identified as particularly exposed to compounding injustices based on a robust empirical foundation.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

2️⃣ We need to establish a robust monitoring system to systematically map existing and prospective injustices and inequalities.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

1️⃣ We need to acknowledge and better address these compounding injustices by focusing more on energy transition processes that also meaningfully address procedural and recognition injustices.

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