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Independent researcher and consultant - climate economics
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Marita Freimane
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đ¨ Postdoc opportunity in media economics đ¨ WZB Berlin is hiring a postdoc for 3 years, starting Aug/Sep 2026. Great fit for a media economist interested in experimental work. I am involved in some of the projects and happy to answer questions.
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/455...
#EconJobs
#EconSky
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Postdoctoral researcher (f/m/x) (ID 401)
The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social s...
https://wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/455/postdoctoral-researcher-f-m-x-id-401?page_lang=en
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Michael Jakob
Carbon Brief
7 days ago
#ClosingSoon
â Applications for Carbon Briefâs three-week summer journalism internship close on 01 June 9am BST. If you have an interest in climate change and journalism, find out more and apply here âŹď¸
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Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
https://buff.ly/HbRlgbQ
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Tobias RĂźttenauer
8 days ago
đ˘ Open positions! Iâm recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at CÂłS,
@goetheuni.bsky.social
in
#ClimateJustice
, environmental inequality,
#Demography
&
#ComputationalSocialScience
đđđť 3â4 years + strong support for trainingđ Deadline: 23 June 2026 More:
www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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Hey yâall, Iâve started a blog on working in the climate space. Itâs called âTransition Pathwaysâ and it's available on Substack at
transitionpathways.substack.com
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Transition Pathways | Michael Jakob | Substack
Reflections on a career in climate. Click to read Transition Pathways, by Michael Jakob, a Substack publication. Launched a few seconds ago.
https://transitionpathways.substack.com/
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Michael Jakob
PIK_climate
10 days ago
Du studierst,hast etwas Erfahrung mit Social Media, Design & Video? Das PIK sucht UnterstĂźtzung fĂźr Social-Media-Content & Video. đ Potsdam / hybrid mĂśglich â° 12h / Woche đ Bewerbung bis 31.05.2026 Wir freuen uns auf deine Bewerbung!
#JobsinPotsdam
Mehr Infos:
www.pik-potsdam.de/de/aktuelles...
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Severin Borenstein
9 days ago
The Energy Institute at Haas is hiring an Office Manager. If interested, go to this Berkeley jobs page. External to UC and Internal applicants have separate links. Please search for job number â86265â. More info on EI:
haas.berkeley.edu/energy-insti...
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Home | Berkeley Jobs
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Endre BorbĂĄth
17 days ago
Iâm hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University đ đ Survey Research & Political Participation đŁď¸ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of âThe New Climate Divideâ Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls:
www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/...
Please share!
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Job Vacancies - Institute for Political Science
https://www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/job-vacancies
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Michael Jakob
greenjobs.de
14 days ago
#Job
in
#Berlin
/ hybrid Leitung Personal â Arbeitsrecht & Organisationsentwicklung / Head of HR (gn) - Bund fĂźr Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland
https://www.greenjobs.de/a100152945
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Leitung Personal â Arbeitsrecht & Organisationsentwicklung / Head of HR (gn)
Leitung Personal â Arbeitsrecht & Organisationsentwicklung / Head of HR (gn)Berlin | in Vollzeit 38,5h/Woche I 76.500âŹ/Jahr | unbefristet | Start ab sofortSo kannst Du Dich einbringenFĂźhrung & Steuerung: Leitung der Personalabteilung mit derzeit 8 Mitarbeitenden [...]
https://www.greenjobs.de/angebote/index.html?id=100152945&anz=html
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Michael Jakob
Angela Francis
13 days ago
đ˘GREAT JOB ALERTđ˘ My job, Director of Policy at WWF-UK is up for grabs. If leading the brilliant policy work on systemic change in the food and finance system is for you apply here:
ce0449li.webitrent.com/ce0449li_web...
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Michael Jakob
Carbon Brief
16 days ago
đ¨Internship opportunity đ¨ During the internship, youâll get to: âĄď¸ Assist with research for articles âĄď¸ Help decide how Carbon Brief covers the latest developments in climate change âĄď¸ Create content for social media Find out more and apply here âŹď¸
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Vacancy: Three-week summer journalism internship at Carbon Brief - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief is offering an exciting opportunity for students, or recent graduates, to work with the team for three weeks this summer.
https://buff.ly/HbRlgbQ
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Reasons for climate optimism â final thoughts This series of posts discussed 30 examples of significant progress made in addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation. None is a game-changer by itself. Nor do all of them together bend the emissions curve downward â at least not yet.
about 2 months ago
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Beitrag fĂźr Energiezukunft zur Frage, warum ich trotz allem noch Hoffnung fĂźr den Klimaschutz habe:
www.energiezukunft.eu/politik/zeit...
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Meinung: Zeit fĂźr Klimaoptimismus
Klimaschutz passĂŠ? Ganz und gar nicht! Es gibt gute GrĂźnde positiv auf technologische, soziale und politische Dynamiken in Sachen Klima zu schauen.
https://www.energiezukunft.eu/politik/zeit-fuer-klimaoptimismus
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Es war mir eine Freude, zusammen mit Jacqueline Klingen als Gast beim Zukunftswissen Podcast des Wuppertal Instituts Ăźber Klimaoptimismus zu sprechen:
open.spotify.com/show/5WiBJAS...
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#77: Wie bewahren wir Hoffnung in der Klimakrise, Michael Jakob und Jacqueline Klingen?
https://open.spotify.com/show/5WiBJASqkhhzxXFUkOGO05#login
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 30 Novel ways to adapt to global warming are being developed and can leverage important synergies with climate change mitigation targets and other social objectives.
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If you're in London on April 30, I recommend you to join the Book Launch of the Palgrave Handbook on Carbon Trading in Africa (
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
) at LSE at 5.30pm. You can register here:
www.ticketsource.com/firoz-lalji-...
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https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-00934-0
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Mein Kommentar zu Klimaoptimismus bei Table.Briefings:
table.media/climate/tabl...
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Warum es trotz allem gute GrĂźnde fĂźr Optimismus beim Klimaschutz gibt
Die Welt erlebt einen Backlash gegen den Klimaschutz. Dennoch gibt es GrĂźnde, die Hoffnung nicht aufzugeben, argumentiert unser Standpunkt-Autor: gĂźnstige Erneuerbare, ein wachsendes Klimabewusstsein ...
https://table.media/climate/tablestandpunkt/warum-es-trotz-allem-gute-gruende-fuer-optimismus-beim-klimaschutz-gibt
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 29 Carbon dioxide removal can smooth the transition to net-zero by creating negative emissions; several methods already exist, and further ones are under development.
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Residual fossil CO2 emissions in 1.5â2â°C pathways - Nature Climate Change
Residual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels limit the likelihood of meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. A sector-level assessment of residual emissions using an ensemble of IAMs indicates that 640â...
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0198-6
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Von meinem Klimaoptimismus-Buch gibt es jetzt auch eine deutschsprachige Kurzfassung, die das Wichtigste kompakt auf ca. 40 Seiten erklärt:
link.springer.com/book/9783658...
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Gute GrĂźnde fĂźr Klimaoptimismus
Dieses Buchs zeigt ermutigende technologische, soziale und politische Entwicklungen auf, die Hoffnung fĂźr erfolgreichen Klimaschutz geben.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783658506889
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 28 With the right incentives and regulatory environment, information and communication technologies can help us develop novel solutions to aid the transition to net-zero and adapt to climate impacts.
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Linus Westheuser
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Jobs, jobs, jobs! Please spread the word
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 27 Green hydrogen offers an opportunity to decarbonize activities for which there are no alternative climate-neutral options, and the costs of producing green hydrogen with renewable power keep declining.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 26 Reusing, recovering, and recycling carbon-intensive materials and developing substitutes can help reduce emissions from industry.
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Michael Jakob
Kopernikus-Projekt Ariadne
3 months ago
đđđđ˛ đĄđŽđ°đľđżđśđ°đľđ đąđ˛đ đ đźđťđŽđđ 𼳠In Deutschland herrscht eine einheitliche Gebotszone. Der BĂśrsenstrompreis ist Ăźberall gleich. Aber ist das die beste LĂśsung fĂźr alle? Ariadne-Forschende haben sich eine
#Gebotszonenteilung
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ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/...
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 25 A number of promising technologies to achieve emission reductions in carbon-intensive industries, often based on electrification, are reaching maturity and may soon see widespread deployment.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 24 Heat pumps and more energy efficient construction, which can decarbonize heating and cooling in buildings, are increasingly being taken up.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 23 Electric vehicles are quickly turning into a mature technology whose share in new registrations is growing rapidly, in many cases overachieving national expansion targets.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 22 Energy storage, which greatly facilitates the integration of renewable energy sources into energy systems, has become more reliable and cheaper, especially with regard to batteries.
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Michael Jakob
PIK_climate
4 months ago
Fossile Technologien wie Kohlekraft aus dem Markt drängen: Buch von PIK-Direktor Ottmar
#Edenhofer
,
@ckilimann.bsky.social
&
@cleisinger.bsky.social
erläutert
#CO2Bepreisung
, räumt auf mit 5 populären Irrtßmern. Wissenschaft einfach erklärt. Kostenloser Download.
www.pik-potsdam.de/de/aktuelles...
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 21 Renewable energy has become much less costly, and its rapidly growing share in energy production will soon make it the dominant source of energy consumed globally.
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A little more than two years ago, I started off as an independent researcher. So far, connecting science and policy has worked remarkably well.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 20 In many countries where climate policy is lagging, sub-national actors are taking the lead, helping catalyze progress on the national level (see figure from IPCC AR6 WG3 report).
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 19 Most countries have outlined general strategies that address unavoidable warming and have translated them into specific actions.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 18 Industrialized countries are gradually scaling up climate finance, and partnerships providing financial support, technology transfer and capacity building for clean-energy transitions are gaining traction.
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Dear POTUS, If you promise to leave the climate in peace, I gladly offer you my PhD in climate economics and my google scholar profile. Make the climate great again, Michael
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 17 Trade rules increasingly contain environmental provisions, and financial-market regulations recognize climate change, while rules protecting investments in fossil fuels lose support.
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Check out the Palgrave Handbook of Carbon Trading in Africa:
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
@timbeaufils.bsky.social
, Obindah Gershon and I have contributed a chapter discussing to what extent the EU CBAM might provide an incentive for African countries to adopt a carbon price.
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The Palgrave Handbook of Carbon Trading in Africa
This book The Palgrave Handbook of African Carbon Trading Economics provides a comprehensive guide to the economics of carbon trading in Africa.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-00934-0
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Daniel Spiro
5 months ago
When we wrote this paper we mainly had Russia in mind. The last few days clearly provide a new application.
www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...
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https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/315470
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 16 Many governments provide financial support to accelerate technological progress in clean energy technologies with the aim of increasing productivity and boosting employment.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 15 Carbon pricing, which is an indispensable element of a transition to net-zero due to its flexibility to reduce emissions at the lowest costs, is expanding rapidly.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 14 Targets to phase out coal, internal combustion engines and fossil heating are important elements of the climate policy portfolio to ensure the credibility of long-term targets.
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 13 A growing number of countries are putting into place national climate laws and the institutional structures to implement effective climate policies.
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Michael Jakob
energiezukunft
6 months ago
Waren wir bei fossilen Energien abhängig von
#Russland
, sind wir es bei der
#Energiewende
von
#China
. Wie sich solche Abhängigkeiten Ăźberwinden lassen, hat der KlimaĂśkonom Michael Jakob untersucht. Die Wege sind vielfältig. đ
www.energiezukunft.eu/wirtschaft/a...
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 12 More than 150 countries and many sub-national actors have adopted net-zero targets that guide the formulation of concrete climate strategies.
6 months ago
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New CEEPR working paper on how to address import dependence for clean energy technologies and critical raw materials with
@mkalkuhl.bsky.social
, Robert Marschinski,
@mehling.bsky.social
,
@joschkawanner.bsky.social
kawanner.bsky.social
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The Economic Logic of Policies to Address Import Dependence in Clean Energy Goods -
The fragmentation of global supply chains and rising geopolitical tensions have spurred concerns about import dependence. These concerns are particularly [âŚ]
https://ceepr.mit.edu/workingpaper/the-economic-logic-of-policies-to-address-import-dependence-in-clean-energy-goods/
6 months ago
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New publications with
@indraoverland.bsky.social
on energy trade, emissions and import dependence in Southeast Asia in npj climate action. Open access here:
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Energy trade, emissions and import dependence in Southeast Asia - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Energy trade, emissions and import dependence in Southeast Asia
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-025-00312-8?utm_source=rct_congratemailt&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oa_20251129&utm_content=10.1038/s44168-025-00312-8
6 months ago
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Kopernikus-Projekt Ariadne
6 months ago
Ariadne-Forscher Michael Mehling erläutert, welche Auswirkungen geopolitische Rivalitäten auf Import und Handel haben kĂśnnen. Noch mehr spannende Details im neuen Ariadne-Report! đ
ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/...
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Michael Jakob
Kopernikus-Projekt Ariadne
6 months ago
Ariadne-Forscher
@mkalkuhl.bsky.social
vom
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
erklärt, was Unternehmen tun kÜnnen, um sich gegen Risiken abzusichern. Alle Infos wie sich
#Importabhängigkeiten
bei sauberen
#EnergiegĂźtern
vermeiden lassen, gibt's im neuen Ariadne-Report đ
ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/...
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Hat SpaĂ gemacht, daran zu arbeiten! Vielen Dank und alle Ko-Autoren.
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The Paris Agreement remains a landmark treaty which puts pressure on national governments to act and has been followed up with new commitments for climate finance and loss and damage (see the table).
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Reasons for climate optimism â part 10 The worldâs population is expected to peak before the end of the century, making it easier to provide clean energy for all and reducing the need for adaptation.
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