The Labour leadership have resumed campaigning for the Green Party. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Suspect May is going to be a happy time to be Green. Or Plaid. Or SNP. Or LD. Or anyone on the left except Labour really

👏♻️ New Article Accepted! Towards a circular economy of plastic: exploring the vital role of everyday household disposal. Helen Holmes & Torik Holmes, with Michael Shaver & Kris Kortsen, share insights on recycling & supply chain misalignment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2325...

Spot on by @robfordmancs.bsky.social as usual

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member. We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.

🎈 We're celebrating one year of the JUST Centre: A year of collaboration, community energy and new thinking on climate justice across the North of England and beyond. 👇 Take a look at our researchers’ reflections on the journey so far

The literature on state capacity for decarbonization has grown so much since I started my PhD back in 2020, so this review has been rewritten so many times (and I had to cut a lot in this final iteration). Hope I’ve done it justice. Available open access here 🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📅🌎 Bookmark this post to save the important dates that climate researchers and academics need to know about in 2026: tyndall.ac.uk/news/the-com...

New from @desmog.com: AI vs. Net Zero Opponents of climate action are seizing on the AI boom to attack the UK government’s clean energy goals and push more fossil fuels.

The demographics of the Gorton & Denton ward make by-election predictions almost impossible - but this is an insightful yet succinct analysis from Prof Rob Ford

🗺️ WEBINAR | Be the first to see our new evidence review on JUST climate action Join us 4 March 1-2pm as the authors unpack insights from mapping 140+ actors and initiatives across the North of England. Attendees will get an early look at the review before wider release. Register: bit.ly/4r9D81w

New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below:

🚗💥Revisiting Prof Henrietta Moore’s SCI lecture on Roadkill Cars don’t just pollute — they shape inequality, sprawl & public health. Time to rethink mobility, transport & urban design! Check out the lecture recording🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqWc... #RoadkillBook #UrbanFutures #SustainableCities

🗺️ WEBINAR | Joined-Up Sustainability Transformations: Mapping the current landscape Join us on 4th March 1-2pm to explore the findings of our forthcoming evidence review of 140 actors and initiatives driving JUST climate action across the North of England and beyond. 🎟️ Register: bit.ly/4r9D81w

I was honored to write this @gepjournal.bsky.social article with a stellar group of environmental politics scholars. As we are entering a new geopolitical order, it's important to bring geopolitics fully back into the study of global environmental politics! @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social

What do the key trends in international relations mean for the study on global environmental politics? New overview article in @gepjournal.bsky.social by crack team @yixiansun.bsky.social, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, @matpaterson.bsky.social et al. direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

🌱💰 New article by James Jackson & Matthias Larsen in Green Central Banking How the People’s Bank of China shows that central bank independence can sometimes slow progress toward #NetZero. Read more: bit.ly/4a47T0m 📄Check out the research that inspired it: ideas.repec.org/p/ehl/lserod...

The Department of Politics warmly welcomes Dr. Jake Ainscough who is joining the Department as Lecturer in Environmental Politics. A warm welcome from everyone in the Politics Department!

The Department of Politics warmly welcomes Rebecca Willis who is joining the University of Manchester as Professor of Energy and Climate Governance. A warm welcome from everyone in the Politics Department!

This looks like a great resource for climate campaigners. Very happy just to have been interviewed for it! tacticaltech.org/replaybook-a.... produced by @info-activism.bsky.social

🔬♻️ SCI Research Spotlight Research Fellow Torik Holmes is featured in Chemistry World, discussing why plastic recycling is shrinking and how current policy fails to incentivise investment in recycling infrastructure, drawing on his research on the political economies of plastics.

📖 Read the article: bit.ly/3Z8UDCJ 📄 Explore Torik’s latest report: bit.ly/4t8nFQv

Excited this piece with excellent colleagues is now out! We examine implications of geopolitical turbulence in the world for the GEP research agenda @yixiansun.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

New Swingometer post now out - my look at the Gorton and Denton by-election, taking place down the road from me swingometer.substack.com/p/the-gorton...

A reminder that the BBC have consistently platformed Goodwin as an 'impartial' commentator.

👏 Congratulations to JUST’s Professor Rebecca Willis (@bankfieldbecky.bsky.social) on her move from @lancasteruni.bsky.social to @manchester.ac.uk as Chair of Energy and Climate Governance. We wish Rebecca every success in her new role and a warm welcome to Manchester!

Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

📣 New research in @theguardian.com shows MPs massively underestimate public support for climate policies. This perception gap matters. When leaders only hear the loudest voices climate action slows, even when most people back a fair, ambitious transition. 1/2

The Tufton St lobbyists and their media enablers have been using the 'scary number' playbook again this week. So we've just updated our factcheck to capture this...

📣 Publication alert Just before the break, a special issue co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’ was published in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. /1 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...

💡ICYMI: Catch up on yesterday's webinar where we unveiled our net zero readiness tool! Built on trusted datasets, the tool maps how prepared communities across the UK are for climate adaptation and just transition, from home energy retrofit to supermarket deliveries 🛒 bit.ly/3N5RYXs

Video of this webinar now here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yxz...

The Paris Agreement sent a signal to states to decarbonize & support non-polluting economic sectors. China has seized on that incentive while the United States has not, leaving China in control of the main technologies driving the clean energy transition. That creates geopolitical risks of its own.

A major new book by Paul Tobin, @matpaterson.bsky.social @uompols.bsky.social @officialuom.bsky.social, and Stacy D VanDeveer @umassboston.bsky.social examines why climate strategies often clash—even among those committed to action. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w... @sustainableuom.bsky.social

A “Reform vs Not Reform” strategy is only going to work for Labour if they are seen as credibly “not Reform” by LD/Green curious voters. Every hardline intervention on immigration weakens that credibility but without persuading Reform curious voters.

📣 WEBINAR | Where should we put our energy (transition)? A new place-specific approach to reaching net zero. Explore our new web-based mapping tool to assess the readiness of places and communities across the UK to undergo climate adaptation and/or just transition. 🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/3MpOy1u

📣 Call for Abstracts! Workshop on Emotions & Affect in Transitions 🗓 27 March 2026 | 📍 University of Manchester We’re exploring how emotions shape climate action, mobility, sustainability & change. Open to Master’s, PhD & ECRs. 📝 Submit 250–300 word abstracts by 15 Dec 2025 🔗 bit.ly/48tVSlo

“We can’t all be expected to bike.” Fair. But that’s not the point. “Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.” This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.

Many were optimistic about Carney on climate when he came in, given what he did at the BoE. But the Liberals are clearly back in the incoherent middle where in practice they decisively promote climate collapse when forced to choose. Worse now than when Trudeau came in but similar contradictions.

Bill Gates, Tony Blair, CFR are rethinking climate change in the Trump era: more "realistically." Can we dismiss this trend or do we need to understand what it means global climate politics? 🧵 @fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social #IOFoGG www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Shall we all bookmark this for when the Budget decides the Bike to Work scheme is unaffordable? www.gov.uk/government/n...

📢 SCI Annual Lecture 2025🚗 with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore Join us on Tue 2nd December at AMBS for an inspiring lecture on the hidden costs of car culture, drawn from her new book Roadkill. 🎤 Includes panel discussion + Q&A 📍 AMBS Theatre 2.008 | 🕓 4:00–5:30 👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively? Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7 cup.org/4hZNlcX

The #Fridays for Future Movement and the Repoliticization of #ClimateChange #Policy in #Germany (Chapter 2) - Stability and Politicization in #Climate #Governance - #COP30 #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis @matpaterson.bsky.social @frankbiermann.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

#US- #China Relations and the Competitive Turn of #Green Industrial #Policy-making (Chapter 15) - Stability and Politicization in #Climate #Governance @jonasnahm.com #COP30 #GreenNewDeal #Trade #Tariffs #Energy #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #IndustrialPolicy - www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Can the world quit #coal? #COP30 #energy #ActOnClimate #Brazil #China #India @matpaterson.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social theconversation.com/can-the-worl...

Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction. First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom). Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Canada is such a filthy fossil fuel nation. Even their so-called “good leaders” are filthy fossil fuel fools. Oh Canada!