🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

"A Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) entregou à ministra do Meio Ambiente e Mudanças Climáticas do Brasil, Marina Silva, o prêmio WCS Distinguished Leadership in Conservation, a principal honraria da organização que reconhece o compromisso extraordinário com a natureza e as pessoas."

‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️ Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

New study from Carlos R.S. Milani, Janaina Pinto, and Arthur Facini on the organized obstruction observed in the Brazilian government and industries. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/18 Is China's economy collapsing or dominating? Meg Rithmire's new piece in Current History argues it's doing both simultaneously—and that's the problem.

You really should read this fascinating and profound interview with Columbian President Gustavo Petro. How many other world leaders are acknowledging that "Climate change is just the atmospheric mirror of capital accumulation on Earth"?

New issue! Volume 34, Issue 6 out now. With seven research articles, a review article, and three book reviews. Full details: environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...

Interesting piece by Matias Spektor on Brazil and India making their own way. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

- Rolling back environmental impact assessment - Doubling down on oil and gas production

The updated concept of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility is out. It brings greater clarity+demonstrates progress, after inputs received from governments, Indigenous Peoples + local communities, and CSOs. I'm glad to be helping with the #TFFF design on behalf of the @wcs.org.

I'm pleased to have a contribution in here - and it's open access too, for everyone to see.

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

📢 Quick reminder: Deadline this Sunday (24 Aug) to submit abstracts for the Workshop on Climate Change, Inequality & Policy Contestation (10–11 Nov 2025, LSE). Hosted by @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social in partnership with @gsos-lse.bsky.social 🔗 Submit: forms.gle/x3Css36pU8kb...

BREAKING: Brazil’s partial veto of the “#DevastationBill” stops some setbacks but leaves critical loopholes that threaten Indigenous land rights & environmental protections ahead of #COP30. Read the full press release: amazonwatch.org/news/2025/08... #DefendTheAmazon #VetaTudoLula

📢 Call for Papers! Join us at the Climate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation workshop, hosted by LSE’s @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social, @gsos-lse.bsky.social & the Sustainable Social Policy & Welfare States Hub. 🗓️ 10–11 Nov 2025, London

US & Russia coercing countries to lock in carbon. But "countries w green industrial bases & supportive domestic political coalitions are more resilient to such pressure." Two policy briefs: 1 plataformacipo.org/en/publicati... 2 www.netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-... bsky.app/profile/bhbr...

Very happy to endorse it: While she is clear-eyed about the many problems of extraction, Riofrancos also offers thoughtful steps toward a more humane and decarbonized world. Deeply researched, beautifully written, the book provides an accessible roadmap through difficult concepts and phenomena.

Our 2025 global trends in climate change litigation report shows that climate change litigation is reaching the highest courts in the world. This video illustrates how the number of global cases has changed over the last few years. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Fossil fuel companies will try to sue states that ban new or existing production. When I speak with powerful actors in energy policy, this fear is a central concern in how governments think about the risks of phasing out fossil fuels. Here is an important intervention in how to reduce those risks:

Nace CFAL - la red para la reducción de Combustibles Fósiles en América Latina y el Caribe. Unirse acá @redcfal.bsky.social cf-al.org

Yesterday, Brazil took a dangerous step toward environmental deregulation. The Senate approved a bill that guts licensing rules—letting many projects skip environmental review entirely. Now it heads to the lower house, where it's likely to pass.

@theigc.bsky.social is hiring! Want to be part of LSE's IGC and our new Global School of Sustainability? @gsos-lse.bsky.social

It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables

Colombia approaches 2 GW solar capacity milestone #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...

gente saiu o the chunkiest text já escrito por mim e peço aquele RT da amizade pois DEU TRABALHO climainfo.org.br/2025/05/05/s...

Am grateful that my research on development, climate and social justice has been recognised by NRF A1 rating. In doing research on the crises of climate, poverty, inequality and unemployment, only groups of people can make a difference when knowledge is produced by teams and through collaborations

Useful study shows that oil revenues in Brazil are NOT being used to support energy transition, as the government claims

Two common misconceptions are on my mind today: 1. Overestimating the power of a single day of protest. 2. Underestimating the power of a single day of protest.

Out of the US so missed the protests, but visited a reminder in Bogota that you need to worry about human rights violations no matter where they come from or who they affect

Arresting Quaker women for non-violent protest and breaking into a meeting house to do so. The first time anyone has been arrested in a meeting house in living memory. Despicable behaviour from a Labour government’s Home Office/the Met Police.

Always fascinating to find someone trying to think more systematically about green economy - and across a much wider array of countries than the usual suspects

The English version of the great book by @svampam.bsky.social is out in August, but you can preorder with a discount with the code below. For those interested in the recent history of progressive govts, extractivism and political identities in Latin America, this is your book!

With the Climate Information Integrity Summit getting underway in Brasilia tomorrow, here's our new @climatessn.bsky.social policy brief exploring climate obstruction actors in Argentina and Brazil & how civil society actors can confront climate obstruction in these countries. 📗: shorturl.at/DzYeM

Very useful new handbook chapter by @hochstet.bsky.social, analyzing how, and to what extent we can think of "green transitions as climate action." Necessarily, she shows how this requires a much more global view than is typical. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

Special issue : democratic #backsliding and resistance strategies ! With @jennifermccoy.bsky.social @muratsomer-eng.bsky.social and Ken Roberts along with incredible case study authors www.aapss.org/annals/volum...

What's a small thing you are looking forward to this week? I'm in Bogota and I'm going to have a whole series of conversations about what kind of energy transition might (or might not) be underway here. + Bonus: must try all the local fruits

"Compared to what?" is a question we ask often at @regassistproj.bsky.social. Some raise concerns about wind & solar's impacts but rarely compare them to fossil fuels. A meta-review of 83 studies finds: Fossil fuels cause far greater harm than renewables. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited about the cover of our forthcoming volume! @matthoffmann.bsky.social @paultobin.bsky.social @matpaterson.bsky.social @yixiansun.bsky.social @joannalewis.bsky.social @jonasnahm.com @mattomildenberger.bsky.social @hochstet.bsky.social @conresglobal.bsky.social

New article on energy justice and political economy w/Rosa Lehmann! Thanks ed. A. Mejia-Montero, great job! www.routledge.com/Energy-Justi... #EnergyTransition #Energiewende #LatinAmerica #JustTransition

#Earlyview #Openaccess 'The Green Economy and the Global South' by @hochstet.bsky.social #greeneconomy #globalsouth #RegGov See abstract 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Its been a sad few days around here (just sad, we keep strong and going, but sad, very, deeply). "Brazil’s Lula defends oil exploration in the Amazon as a way to finance green energy" www.euronews.com/green/2025/0...

This was the motto of the civil society movement to resist Bolsonaro’s right wing authoritarianism in Brazil. I learned it from @annagalland.bsky.social and love it. Would love to see American designers do their own interpretations.

What stuck in the mind about many accidents (which were, btw, infinitely more frequent and deadly than they were the week before last) was how often pilots blithely assumed away dangers that in retrospect seemed obvious

Glad to see this insightful piece by @profmichaelross.bsky.social is out

A hot and troubled world of work: how South Africa’s bold new climate act and labour law can align to drive a just transition theconversation.com/a-hot-and-tr...

Looking forward to my research trip to Colombia in March

Excited to announce that our paper, “The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals”, co-authored with @jacobgreenspon.bsky.social @drodrik.bsky.social, is now published in World Development! 🌍📚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Here’s a quick summary 🧵

Here's the reading list for my 6 week graduate seminar this semester on green industrial policy.