🌿 Behavioural ecological Economics is emerging! Our new special issue in Ecological Economics brings together 41 papers that explore behavioural interventions beyond nudges, and link individual and collective action to ecological limits, power and justice. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘A devastating global audit’ shows how climate change is undermining the health of millions. Extreme heat now kills one person every minute, according to a sweeping new report by the British medical journal The Lancet. grist.org/health/lance... #Health #Climate #PublicHealth #Research #Science

🌡️🏢 Who's most at risk of #energypoverty and how can we spot the warning signs early? 📊Our new paper introduces #energyvulnerability index combining building efficiency and people's capacity to adapt. ✊Because energy poverty isn't just about insulation - it's about empowerment.

Our new paper in Energy Policy shows how people can shape fairer, more democratic energy systems—and what drives or blocks #energycitizenship. Altruism, patience, and trust boost energy citizenship. But age and energy vulnerability shape it too. #energyjustice 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say: Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows ...

WHO group urges Europe to tackle heat health emergency

🗣 “Rising cooling demand is testing the grid, but the right technologies can offer relief” As extreme heat becomes more common, our latest commentary looks at what’s needed to keep cool without straining the energy system 👉 iea.li/44RpQxZ

🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER! With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions. In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️ www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

In a big study the JRC breaks down the EU Green Deal’s broad objectives into 154 sub-targets. This useful! overview showed mixed results: -32 ‘on track’ -64 need acceleration -15 are ‘not progressing’ or ‘regressing’ -for 43 there are no data publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Hannah Arendt on loneliness as the common ground of terror and how tyrants use isolation as a weapon of oppression

No biggie, just >2 million dead Europeans this century due to climate change. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We have all the solutions we need to beat climate change and create a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world — as these countries, cities, and organisations have proven: theprogressplaybook.com

🌟🧠💪📝 #BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology. PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025 For more: scienceofboosting.org @arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social @annualreviews.bsky.social #policy #behavioralscience 1/ 🧵👇

Looking for some new reading for the new year? While hardcopies of our new book on energy citizenship will be available Jan 2025, the ebook version has already landed! You can download it for free at: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

💡 10.6% of the EU couldn’t heat their homes adequately in 2023. Tackling this requires more than quick fixes—it’s about addressing energy vulnerability. In our policy brief, we develop an index to start measuring it 🔗 publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h... #EnergyPoverty #EnergyVulnerability

Want to learn more about Behavioural Ecological #Economics ? 👉 Today at 5 pm. CET live webinar @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=YikZ... with @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social, Tommaso Luzzati & Tiziano Distefano discussing the #EcologicalEconomics Behavioural Econ special issue #EconSky #AcademicSky

New method for mapping actors in (UK) policy consultations: helps to track how policy-subsystems are merging due to unfolding multi-system transitions (e.g. to e-mobility) or who participates and how this changes over time (policy, business, society, academia): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean: Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politics The resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the clim...

Energy efficiency needs a radical rethink. Making fossil fuel technologies & processes incrementally more efficient is no longer enough. It might even perpetuate their use. In my new article I explore how energy efficiency needs to evolve to remain relevant. medium.com/p/41741abea59b

Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

On the challenges of targeting systems for behavioural change, instead of individuals - Latest (open access) article on our Firstview page www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Super happy to see this finally in print 🏔️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just travelled back from the beautiful Innsbruck, where I had the pleasure of presenting our latest @EU_ScienceHub #economicexperiments on #behaviouralspillovers and #energypoverty at Innsbruck University. Grateful for the opportunity to engage in inspiring discussions with bright minds!