EXTRACTION will have its UK debut soon. I will be coming to London, Cambridge and Oxford for events the week after this one. See my website for event specifics and to RSVP www.theariofrancos.com/upcoming-eve...

5 postdocs just advertised: Come work with us at the LSE Global School of Sustainability @gsos-lse.bsky.social. With 150 people working full-time on the political economy of decarbonisation, you'd be joining the largest research community on the topic. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

NEW – Brazil’s biodiversity pledge: Six key takeaways for nature and climate change | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/rjHKA2e

📢 Public Event Announcement Join us for Professor Hertog's inaugural lecture: "How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy" on 21 January 2026 at 6.30pm In-person and online tickets available 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/events/21-ja... #LSEEvents @lseevents.bsky.social @shertog.bsky.social

I wrote about just transition in Brazil for UNRISD - TLDR, lots of different impacts, from new kinds of energy, from old ones, with different implications for different groups (some hit urban, some indigenous, some quilombolos, some labor) www.unrisd.org/en/library/p...

Really interesting and plausible parsing of who was on which side of a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels at COP30

Great to have the book out there...110 authors, it's a Great Leap Forward in our understanding of why we're failing to act on climate change. Book is free at CSSN.org And a whole video of the 30 min presser is up: www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...

Want to learn more about Colombia's energy transition? @npr.org has you covered. 🫡 🇨🇴 🎧 ⬇️

A useful reminder about the heavy environmental and social costs of the existing energy sector www.theguardian.com/environment/...

¡Acompáñanos en el Pabellón Colombia, en la Zona Azul de la #COP30, el próximo sábado 15 de noviembre, de 5:30 a 6:15 pm! 🇨🇴🌍 Conversaremos sobre los discursos de demora en el debate sobre la transición energética justa en Colombia y cómo enfrentarlos. @redcfal.bsky.social @cssn.org

My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements

Many thanks to the author of this piece, Fermín Koop, published by @dialogueearth.bsky.social , for the opportunity to share some comments on the participation of Latin American countries in the COPs and the impact of their regional groups, such as AILAC. dialogue.earth/en/climate/c...

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Fort Collins, CO had so many people, it took an hour for the march to pass through town (city of less than 200,000)

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...

HOT OFF THE PRESSES! Check it out! OPEN ACCESS! #energy #USpol #EU #China #ClimateJustice #ActOnClimate #Brazil #Germany #Protest #coaltoclean #peat #COP30 Stability and #Politicization in #Climate #Governance - www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

🌍 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