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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New paper "The paradox of climate justice" explores trade-off btw climate justice, effectiveness & political feasibility for mainstream & heterodox policies. Ambitious justice goals may inadvertently reduce support for effective policies - resulting in long-term injustice. dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc....

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The Paradox of Climate Justice

Climate justice may paradoxically undermine ambitious emissions-reduction policies, causing greater long-term injustice through insufficient climate action. Heterodox instruments often are not system...

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

‘Beyond GDP’ requires replacement, not just additional metrics. GDP dominates public policy, sidelining social & environmental aims. Dashboards did not change this at all. Solution is to replace GDP by more comprehensive metric. Advantage: low "perception distance". link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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‘Beyond GDP’ Requires Replacement, Not Just Additional Metrics - Social Indicators Research

Social Indicators Research - Political decision-making remains dominated by GDP, often at the expense of social and environmental concerns. Indicator dashboards have so far had limited impact on...

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Keith Smith @ekeithsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Read the full findings, published today in @NatureClimate : rdcu.be/e7Sn4 Also, an article on these finding in ETH News : ethz.ch/en/news-and-... And a blog on the CAPABLE website : capableclimate.eu/the-middle-s...

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Climate policy feasibility across Europe relies on the conditional middle

Nature Climate Change - The feasibility of climate policies hinges on public support. A survey of 13 EU countries shows that ‘middle groups’—citizens whose support across...

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Keith Smith @ekeithsmith.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Climate politics sounds increasingly polarised. But in Europe, support for climate isn’t driven by die-hard supporters or opponents. It tends to be shaped by a large “conditional middle” (33%).

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

"Opinions of EU citizens about climate policy in their own words", with @IvanVSavin. Results from a public survey in 13 EU countries. Inadequate understanding of policy instruments & details may contribute to limited public support for climate policy. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In Nov 2024, a Dutch Court of Appeal overturned a 2021 District-Court verdict on obligations of Shell to reduce carbon emissions. This article examines the scientific basis of both rulings. It suggests legal action against governments enacting weak policies is more effective. doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

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Comparing two court rulings on Shell's carbon emissions with climate-policy science

In November 2024, a ruling by a Dutch Court of Appeal overturned a 2021 District Court verdict concerning the obligations of the oil and gas company S…

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🎙️ Why Cap-and-Trade Beats Carbon Taxes – Even When People Aren’t Rational🌍 #PODCAST @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social from ICTA-UAB explains why carbon markets work better than taxes, how they reduce emissions automatically & tackle human behavior. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSzr...

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#16 Dr. Jeroen van den Bergh – Cap-and-Trade vs Carbon Taxes: When Objectives and Frictions Matte...

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Big congratulations to Dr. Elisa Grugni! 🎓👏 She has successfully defended her PhD thesis on “Agent-based models for macro-financial and climate economics”. Kudos to her directors Ivan Savin & Luca Vittorio Angelo Colombo, tutor @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and family for a great day!

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Deep decarbonization needs lifestyle change. Our new model introduces a “cultural multiplier”: spillovers across consumers boost the impact of carbon pricing. Policies can then achieve emission targets with lower carbon prices - also good news for public acceptance. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The Cultural Multiplier of Climate Policy - Environmental and Resource Economics

To achieve deep decarbonisation, the design of climate policy needs to account for consumption choices being influenced not only by pricing but also by social learning. This involves changes that pert...

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Gabriel Leite Mota @galemo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm very glad to share that the second paper coming from the doctoral research of my PhD student Margarida Casau (which I co-supervise with Marta Ferreira Dias) has just been published at "Environment, Development and Sustainability". Feel free to read and cite ;) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Economics, happiness and climate change: exploring new measures of progress - Environment, Development and Sustainability

This research explores the relationship between environmental sustainability, well-being, and economic output, specifically critiquing the predominant reliance on GDP as the main progress indicator. T...

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

You should expect this as the Paris Agreement includes no mechanism for limiting (rational) free riding by countries. Only an expanding climate club like the EU-ETS can overcome this.

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Climate Action Tracker @climateactiontracker.org · 13/11/2025

CAT Global Update 2025 🚨 Ten years after the #ParisAgreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year. The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook. 🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma. It's *scientific publishing*. We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

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Giorgos Kallis @giorgoskallis.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

How does wealth inequality impact climate change? Alongside my brilliant colleagues @morrison-james.bsky.social & @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social we attempt to answer this in a new article @climate-policy.bsky.social We identify four mechanisms through which wealth inequality impacts carbon emissions

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Pablo Núñez Yebra @pablony.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

@profjeroenbergh.bsky.social y yo escribimos en @publico.es sobre la postura de la derecha española ante la crisis climática y el aumento de fenómenos extremos en los últimos años en nuestro país @icta-uab.bsky.social www.publico.es/opinion/colu...

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Ignorancia o complicidad ante la crisis climática

La inacción ante la crisis climática es una decisión activa que pone en peligro nuestro futuro común.

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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I'm back from vacation (and the huge Oakland No Kings protest). Lots to catch up on posting. In the EI blog today, Jim Sallee has an excellent analysis of the poorly designed, but good direction, of proposed international shipping GHG regulations. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

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Carbon Pricing on the High Seas?

The international maritime organization gets close to a carbon tax. If an environmental economist stumbled upon a magic lamp and got one wish from the genie, most of us would know what to ask for—a…

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James Morrison @morrison-james.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

What can we do about it? Wealth tax are growing in popularity, eg in the UK, France and through a G20 plan for a minimum wealth tax on billionaires. We argue that a wealth tax would do little to reduce inequality-related emissions but would be a valuable source of revenue for decarbonisation.

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James Morrison @morrison-james.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A more effective way of reducing inequality-related emissions would be to directly regulate carbon intensive consumption like private jets and limit the political influence of elites. Free eprint link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WMBDY... @icta-uab.bsky.social

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The impact of wealth inequality on carbon emissions and climate policy

Reducing inequality and carbon emissions represent interrelated global challenges. Whereas research has paid considerable attention to income inequality in relation to emissions and climate mitigat...

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James Morrison @morrison-james.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

How does wealth inequality impact climate change? My co-authors @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and @giorgoskallis.bsky.social and I attempt to answer this in a new article in @climate-policy.bsky.social We identify four mechanisms through which wealth inequality impacts carbon emissions.

Diagram describing the ways that wealth inequality affects carbon emissions. This is through policy influence, high carbon lifestyles of the wealth, status consumption and investment.

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

New publication examines how pricing instruments in environmental & climate policy perform under bounded rationality & social influence. The case is strengthened for cap-and-trade. We also discuss additional policy instruments under such conditions. rdcu.be/eLEyR

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Pricing instruments in environmental and climate policy when polluters are boundedly rational

npj Climate Action - Pricing instruments in environmental and climate policy when polluters are boundedly rational

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Our researcher Daniel Torren Peraire wins prestigious award for research on low-carbon transitions.🌿 The article is coauthored by @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and Ivan Savin, from ICTA-UAB www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

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Daniel Torren wins prestigious award for research on low-carbon transitions

Daniel Torren, researcher at ICTA-UAB, has been recognized with the Best PhD Student Article Award by the Journal of Artificial Societies and...

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🤔 Did you know Europeans support climate policies with subsidies for rail or home insulation, but strongly oppose taxes on polluting behaviors like cars or meat?👎👍 New survey conducted by @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social from ICTA-UAB explores this topic in depth. www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

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The climate policies that EU citizens like (and those they don't)

European citizens show greater support for climate change mitigation policies that allocate subsidies for rail transport or home insulation,...

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Charlotte Liotta @charlotteliotta.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🏙️ Our Perspective Paper is out in Nature Cities! “The growth-vs-environment debate at the urban scale" — with @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social 📖 Open access: rdcu.be/etaiq 🗞️ Link to the paper: lnkd.in/e9Bra7r9

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Here is our review of carbon-pricing studies for developing countries. It provides an overview of national modelling as well as of analyses of the international context. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 50 free copies are available here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RVUUF...

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A review of carbon-pricing studies for developing countries

We review studies that assess hypothetical and actual carbon-pricing schemes in developing countries, focused on policy effectiveness in terms of emissions reduction. The article opens with gatheri...

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🙌 Jim Skea, President of @ipcc.bsky.social met the Catalan climate science community in an event hosted by the Advisory Council for the Sustainable Development of Catalonia. Our director Isabel Pont & researchers @estevecorbera.bsky.social, @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and Victoria Reyes took part.

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

New article on "System complexity vs environmental sustainability": Solutions to environmental challenges often increase #complexity in the overall socioeconomic system. This hampers achieving #sustainability. We discuss key mechanisms and policy cures. doi.org/10.1155/cplx...

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System Complexity Versus Environmental Sustainability: Theory and Policy

We discuss the relationship between environmental sustainability and system complexity. This is motivated by the fact that solutions to environmental challenges often create additional complexity in ...

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Damien Meadows @damienmeadows.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

EU legislation has been adopted today for 20 million EU ETS allowances, estimated at €1.6 billion, to speed up the use of e-fuels and sustainable biofuels for flights where there is also effective carbon pricing #climateaction #polluterpays climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-vo...

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Adoption of EU rules on the ETS support system to accelerate the use of sustainable aviation fuels

The Commission has adopted EU rules for ETS financed support to speed up the use of sustainable aviation fuels.

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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I've kept my posts on energy, but Trump is undermining global democracy, selling out Ukraine to a fellow facist, and running govt as a mafia boss. I'll also be highlighting important non-energy news. Hope govt will some day allow experts to focus on their expertise. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

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Trump’s Attack on Zelensky Signals New World Order Taking Shape

From alienating allies to praising adversaries, President Trump appears set to abandon decades of American foreign policy.

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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

My @bruegel.bsky.social colleagues put together the continuously growing EUROPEAN CLEAN TECH TRACKER. www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro... A great resource for a quick overview on trends in innovation, manufacturing & deployment Here they show how much of the innovation fund money was spent on hydrogen:

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Our new paper in @naturesustain.bsky.social offers a first computational linguistic analysis of all the Paris pledges (NDCs). This identifies 7 thematic groups covering 21 topics. We relate topics to party/country characteristics and assess changes in NDC updating. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics - Nature Sustainability

Parties to the Paris Agreement state their climate goals, and any action plans to meet them, in their nationally determined contributions. This study uses computational linguistic analysis to shed lig...

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Lion Hirth @lionhirth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

124 years of global electricity generation

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Margherita Bellanca @marghebellanca.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I am excited to share the first chapter of my PhD thesis, published in npj Climate Action! 🌍I assess EU and Member States climate policies in a multi-level framework and offer insights for achieving the European Green Deal’s goals: www.nature.com/articles/s44... #climatepolicies #EuropeanGreenDeal

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What, how and where: an assessment of multi-level European climate mitigation policies - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - What, how and where: an assessment of multi-level European climate mitigation policies

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Great study of Paris-pledge implications uses an ultimatum-game experiment. It finds voters apply fairness principles to others but not to themselves. This challenges the political-democratic capacity for (unilateral) climate policies. It also suggests the need to re-negotiate global burden sharing.

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Wolfgang Cramer @cramer-bondeau.fr · 24/02/2024

Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

This illustration gives examples of mechanisms by which automobility harms people and the environment.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

My top mobility policy of 2024: Higher parking fees for huge cars Paris is tripling parking costs for oversized cars. Montreal, Lyon, & Cologne are taking similar steps. Giant cars worsen pollution and safety, and they use more curb space. Owners should pay extra. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...

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Parisians Vote to Triple Parking Fees for Big S.U.V.s and Other Hefty Cars

The city authorities say that large cars pollute more and are dangerous for pedestrians. Opponents say the mayor is on a crusade against motorists.

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John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports where we've trained a model to automatically detect logical fallacies in climate misinformation - part of our project using AI to debunk climate myths www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A technocognitive approach to detecting fallacies in climate misinformation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - A technocognitive approach to detecting fallacies in climate misinformation

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Edgar Hertwich @edgarhertwich.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

1/3 Not long ago, all energy came from the land. The Green Revolution turned our agrifood system into an energy sink, requiring more fossil energy than it provided as nutritional energy. We provide the first global time series analysis in @pnasnexus.org. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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Energy input and food output: The energy imbalance across regional agrifood systems

Abstract. Biomass was the principal energy source in preindustrial societies; their agriculture provided more energy than it required. Thus, the energy ret

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

As low-carbon transitions require deep transformations, one must address out-of-equilibrium dynamics and agent heterogeneity. Agent-based models can tackle this. We "agentize" a general equilibrium model of environmental tax reform, thus offering a robustness test. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Agentizing a General Equilibrium Model of Environmental Tax Reform - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental tax reform (ETR), a shift from labour to carbon taxes, has been mostly modelled using general equilibrium (GE) analysis. Since a low-carbon transition will require deep transformations, ...

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Maren Holthe Hedne @marenhedne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Are low-skilled workers the losers of the green transition? My JMP tests the skill-bias of green technology. I show that firms increase their demand for highly educated workers in manufacturing and transportation – in most other sectors, green technology favours workers without higher education 1/3

Figure: Impact of green technology shock on ratio of workers with higher education to workers without higher education. From Hedne (2024).

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Field Experiments have matured from academic curiosity to bona fide contributor to knowledge in the past few decades. Yet, the political economy of their deployment in government remains ill-understood. We provide insights in a new working paper, available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

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Toward an Understanding of the Political Economy of Using Fi

Field experiments provide the clearest window into the true impact of many policies, allowing us to understand what works, what does not, and why. Yet, their widespread use has not been accompanied by

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Adrien Fabre @adrien-fabre.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

🚨New Paper🚨 Would people support global redistributive policies? Surveys in 20 countries show strong majority support for: - global climate policies - a global wealth tax - a global democratic assembly - transfers from high- to low-income countries 1/N

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Here is a thread that summarizes some of my views and work on climate policy. 🧵

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Just changed our Tesla microwave for a Bluesky!

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Prof Michael Meredith 🌊🧪🥼❄️ @oceanandice.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Your reminder that correlation does not imply causation, except when it does.

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Elisabetta Cornago @elisabettaco.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

New publication: 🚨📑 In a new @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social policy brief, @aslak.bsky.social and I assess the impacts of the EU CBAM, one year after its implementation. What effects do we see on trade flows and trade discourse? What impacts has it had on climate policy? www.cer.eu/publications...

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Learning from CBAM's transitional phase: Early impacts on trade and climate efforts

The EU should use CBAM revenues to fund support for clean industrial investments in least developed and developing countries.

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Tim Donaghy @timdonaghy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Just a reminder that "building lots of RE" only reduces emissions if it leads to shutting down fossil energy, which of course, isn't guaranteed. A good example of why we need more deliberate supply-side climate policies paired with a RE build out. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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AI’s hunger for electric power is threatening U.S. climate goals

The enormous electricity needs of artificial intelligence are driving plans for scores of new fossil fuel plants with decades of expected service life.

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