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Nives Della Valle

@nivesdellavalle.bsky.social
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Senior Researcher at the Institute for European Energy and Climate Policy, formerly Scientific Officer at the European Commission Joint Research Centre and Policy Analyst at the IEA | Behavioral Econ 🔎 Energy Poverty, Climate Change, Just Transition

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IEECP @ieecp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
💡Want to know more about engaging citizens in energy infrastructure projects? Join #engage4energy  for an interactive webinar on effective engagement strategies! We'll share insights from a multi-country survey exploring citizen views on emerging energy tech. Register here👉 bit.ly/43Se5FW
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Marta García @martagarciap.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Heat is the gravest climate risk in Europe. Today 2/6 is #HeatActionDay to raise awareness global of heat risks and sharing simple ways to #BeatTheHeat. This 2026 theme “the risks of indoor heat” Here some adaptative measures feom #cooltorise @cinea_eu project
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Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg @thinderberg.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Pleased to be part of this publication on Petro Transition Ethics, led by @sidsareen.bsky.social and with: @mettehigh.bsky.social, @janrosenow.bsky.social, @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social, Stephan Niderehe, Lars Gulbrandsen, @alexanderdodge.bsky.social and @shayanshokrgozar.bsky.social
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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 26/03/2026
New Essay by @sidsareen.bsky.social and colleagues: "From petro transition ethics to pragmatic energy efficient transition ethics in Norway" 🔗https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000880
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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🌿 Behavioural ecological Economics is emerging! Our new special issue in Ecological Economics brings together 41 papers that explore behavioural interventions beyond nudges, and link individual and collective action to ecological limits, power and justice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Grist @grist.org · 13/11/2025
‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions. Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet. grist.org/health/lance... #Health #Climate #PublicHealth #Research #Science
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‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions
Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet.
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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🌡️🏢 Who's most at risk of #energypoverty and how can we spot the warning signs early? 📊Our new paper introduces #energyvulnerability index combining building efficiency and people's capacity to adapt. ✊Because energy poverty isn't just about insulation - it's about empowerment.
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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Our new paper in Energy Policy shows how people can shape fairer, more democratic energy systems—and what drives or blocks #energycitizenship. Altruism, patience, and trust boost energy citizenship. But age and energy vulnerability shape it too. #energyjustice 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say: Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows ...
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‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say
‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say: Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows ...
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Rapporteur @euractiv.com · 13/08/2025
WHO group urges Europe to tackle heat health emergency
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WHO group urges Europe to tackle heat health emergency
Experts are calling on governments to immediately implement heat-health plans, cut fossil fuel use, and adopt new measures of progress that put health first
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International Energy Agency @iea.org · 28/07/2025
🗣 “Rising cooling demand is testing the grid, but the right technologies can offer relief” As extreme heat becomes more common, our latest commentary looks at what’s needed to keep cool without straining the energy system 👉 iea.li/44RpQxZ
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Adrien 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=...
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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In a big study the JRC breaks down the EU Green Deal’s broad objectives into 154 sub-targets. This useful! overview showed mixed results: -32 ‘on track’ -64 need acceleration -15 are ‘not progressing’ or ‘regressing’ -for 43 there are no data publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
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Delivering the EU Green Deal - Progress towards targets
This report provides a comprehensive assessment of progress towards the European Green Deal (EGD), the European Union’s transformative agenda for achieving climate neutrality by 2050. The analysis enc...
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hannah Arendt on loneliness as the common ground of terror and how tyrants use isolation as a weapon of oppression
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Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi… but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between t…
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
We have all the solutions we need to beat climate change and create a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world — as these countries, cities, and organisations have proven: theprogressplaybook.com
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The Progress Playbook is focused on the policies and projects that are succeeding in driving sustainable development and could be replicated elsewhere. A solutions journal, we report on proven ideas f...
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Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
🌟🧠💪📝 #BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology. PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025 For more: scienceofboosting.org @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social #policy #behavioralscience 1/ 🧵👇
The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads:

Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches.List with summary points:

1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice.
2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects.
3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy.
4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes.
5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires.
6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments.
7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches.
8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.
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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Looking for some new reading for the new year? While hardcopies of our new book on energy citizenship will be available Jan 2025, the ebook version has already landed! You can download it for free at: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Energy Citizenship
This open access book develops a deeper understanding of what is an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses
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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
💡 10.6% of the EU couldn’t heat their homes adequately in 2023. Tackling this requires more than quick fixes—it’s about addressing energy vulnerability. In our policy brief, we develop an index to start measuring it 🔗 publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h... #EnergyPoverty #EnergyVulnerability
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Identifying energy vulnerability in Europe: a multidimensional index for policy action
We propose a multidimensional framework combining building energy performance and adaptive capacity. Building energy performance varies across EU regions, influenced by local climate and building char...
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Louison Cahen-Fourot @louisoncf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Want to learn more about Behavioural Ecological #Economics ? 👉 Today at 5 pm. CET live webinar @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=YikZ... with @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social, Tommaso Luzzati & Tiziano Distefano discussing the #EcologicalEconomics Behavioural Econ special issue #EconSky #AcademicSky
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What is Behavioral Ecological Economics?
YouTube video by The International Society for Ecological Economics
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Karoline Rogge @karogge.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New method for mapping actors in (UK) policy consultations: helps to track how policy-subsystems are merging due to unfolding multi-system transitions (e.g. to e-mobility) or who participates and how this changes over time (policy, business, society, academia): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Figure shows number and share of actors involved in energy-mobility transitions consultations in the UK (2008-2021).Figure shows changes in the actor types in the emergence and acceleration phase of UK energy-mobility transitions.
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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean: Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politics The resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the clim...
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Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean
Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean: Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politics The resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the clim...
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Energy efficiency needs a radical rethink. Making fossil fuel technologies & processes incrementally more efficient is no longer enough. It might even perpetuate their use. In my new article I explore how energy efficiency needs to evolve to remain relevant. medium.com/p/41741abea59b
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Why energy efficiency needs a radical rethink
Energy efficiency has historically been the most significant contributor to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Over the past few decades…
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Anna Goeddeke @annagoeddeke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Behavioural Public Policy @bppjournal.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
On the challenges of targeting systems for behavioural change, instead of individuals - Latest (open access) article on our Firstview page www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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An s-frame agenda for behavioral public policy research | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core
An s-frame agenda for behavioral public policy research
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Eugenio Verrina @verrinaeugenio.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Super happy to see this finally in print 🏔️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior
We propose a simple utility framework and design a novel two-part experiment to study the relevance of personal norms across various economic games an…
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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Just travelled back from the beautiful Innsbruck, where I had the pleasure of presenting our latest @EU_ScienceHub #economicexperiments on #behaviouralspillovers and #energypoverty at Innsbruck University. Grateful for the opportunity to engage in inspiring discussions with bright minds!
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