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....

‘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...

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...

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%).

"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...

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...

🎙️ 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...

Here is a new review of studies assessing hypothetical & actual carbon-pricing schemes for low- and middle-income countries, organized by main world regions. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RVUUF...

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!

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...

Elisabeth Gsottbauer & @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social with no fewer than 8 key arguments in favor of "Pricing instruments in environmental and climate policy when polluters are boundedly rational" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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...

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.

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...

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 👇

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

@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...

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...

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.

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

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.

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

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-...

🤔 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-...

🏙️ 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

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...

🙌 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.

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...

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...

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-...

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:

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...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform!!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

124 years of global electricity generation

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

🚨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

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

Just changed our Tesla microwave for a Bluesky!

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

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...

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...