NEW ARTICLE ALERT Carbon taxes are increasingly being adopted around the world. A key factor is influence from other, similar states. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

deep cut here but........are there any euro energy / wind folks who can provide some examples from 2006 that this blog post is referring to? www.windpowermonthly.com/article/9513...

A @ciel.org @foeus.bsky.social report shows global banks have provided $133bn to fuel US petrochemicals over the last 6 years. Despite risks such as hazardous 'forever chemicals', researchers show that ESG-linked investments are linked to petrochemical companies.

Nobody, literally nobody, could have possibly seen this coming

What a geopolitical crisis can do. Tbf I believe it when I see it, but at least nominally this Indonesia announcement is important as renewables are incredibly weak there, despite the potential. And no, coal won't be displaced in short term, dont fall for that. This sounds more like a China model.

This is insane.

New paper out in Ecological Economics with @gonzalezrostani.bsky.social and @aklin.bsky.social! We look at how long-term labor market risk from automation shapes people's environmental attitudes and climate policy preferences 🧵

New paper with Stefan Renckens in @ripejournal.bsky.social! Sustainable finance standards are often accused of being highly fragmented. We built an original dataset of 111 Sustainable Finance Governance Initiatives (SFGIs), covering 2000-2020, to see for ourselves. The result? It's complicated.

I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

For anyone who believed the advancing climate backlash would not concern the core of EU climate policy, it's time to wake up. And it is amazing how little key politicians care - all for fighting climate change, but let's abandon the policies that do it. @bundeskanzleramt.bsky.social

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

📢El 24 de febrero, en colaboración con nuestros socios locales, @alianzaporelclima.org, organizamos un evento sobre el Tratado de Combustibles Fósiles en Madrid.🇪🇸 fossilfueltreaty.org/events/madri...

‘Here’s the final irony. Conspiracy theorists and climate deniers insist governments are exaggerating the threat. In reality, the evidence increasingly suggests the opposite.’ theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...

An interesting case study for Scotland after independence. Uruguay achieves 99% renewables by balancing their grid with 45% hydro - so a little like Norway. In the process they've halved their electricity costs. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

Final document for #COP30 just dropped and here are some hot takes 1/ No decisive language about FF phaseouts. This is a HUGE loss. The consolation prize is a political process toward phaseouts outside the official decisionmaking of the #ParisAgreement

Husk at stemme til kommunal- og regionsrådsvalget i morgen ✏️❌🗳️ Din stemme er vigtigere end du tror! #kv25 #valg #dkpol

As explained at the 🔗, the reviews took place between April 2016 (Beijing) and October 2018 (Rome) and were chaired by the OECD. They were scheduled to continue in 2019 (pairing Argentina and Canada), but were delayed. Then the COVID-19 pandemic created an interruption that proved to be permanent.

Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌍 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... 🧵

🌪️As global climate disasters mount, the insurance protection gap is widening. Natural disasters caused US$320 bn in losses globally in 2024, according to Munich Re. But Japan remains an exception: its insurance protection gap isn’t yet pronounced.👇

🌱 @dnb-nl.bsky.social is publishing a guide so pension funds & insurers can integrate climate & nature risk into their risk assessment frameworks—further developing ESG data to help with insight into sustainability exposures  Read the full article by Emma Thomasson 👇

With all the noise on climate @netzerotracker.bsky.social's Stock Take is the signal. The finding that sticks in my head: 🇺🇸US corporate net zero targets grew 9% over last 12 months, 279 ➡️ 304 Yes, some are blowing with the political wind. But more are stepping up. zerotracker.net/analysis/net...

Just out! 🚨 Together with my excellent co-author @Hyeyoon Park, I published a new article on how global green finance governance institutions frame climate risks (1/3)

This is big (and bad) news: New Zealand's government has withdrawn from the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, which a previous NZ government joined at the Glasgow climate summit in November 2021.

I’m obsessed with protecting seals: ‘The flying ring toy was deeply embedded in her neck’ 🦭 It broke my heart to see a seal so injured by a £1 plastic toy. Now I campaign to ban them – and it has changed my life. 👏 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Prime Minister Carney last night: “it’s time to build an industrial strategy that makes Canada more competitive while fighting climate change” 🙌🙌🙌

Treasury Sec Bessent just signaled at a closed-door JPMorgan event that the US-China tariff standoff (currently 145% US tariffs, 125% China tariffs) is "not sustainable" and will de-escalate "in the very near future." Trump later confirmed final tariffs won't be "anywhere near" current levels. 1/

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

In mid-March, @fredericmerand.bsky.social started an important conversation about whether Canada should consider trying to join the EU and now we have a bunch of thoughtful responses. I was happy to add my take: www.ecsa-c.ca/post/canada-...

Precisely nobody on Bluesky cares but WTI is back below $60. Jeez louise.

Another fun analogy is that tariffs to “re-industrialise” the US is a bit like using (massive, sudden) carbon pricing to completely reshape your energy systems.

Good morning with good news: 80 nations produced more than 50% of their electricity from clean sources in 2024. 47 nations generated more than 75% from clean sources. Clean sources at 40.9% exceeded 40% of world's electricity for 1st time since 1940s! ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... #energysky

The Call for Abstracts of the Inaugural Conference of the European Association of Climate Law (EACL) is now live! Come join us - and keynote speaker @christinavoigt.bsky.social - in Berlin on 22-23 September. www.ikem.de/wp-content/u...

#FridayFeeling 👇

Climate vulnerable industries fearful for their assets first, and the planet second. Maybe if they say it, more people will listen. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wind power, which now supplies 25% of Finland's electricity, puts the lid on coal's coffin in Finland by bringing coal's output down from 23% in 2003 to <1% this week with the closure of the Salmisaari coal plant. www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/finland... @christianonre.bsky.social

US banks, after pulling out of global agreements to avoid financing climate change, "now expect a 3C world" expected lead to catastrophic heatwaves, floods& economic strife On the upside, the banks think the air conditioning sector could grow by 41% www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Japanese banks have followed the US and Canada in leaving the Net Zero Banking Alliance, with the future of the alliance in question. greencentralbanking.com/2025/04/03/n...

Now our national security team is being determined by right-wing conspiracy theorists. What could possibly go wrong? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/

This is injecting bleach for the entire global economy. And he's not just floating the idea: he's holding the syringe.

Joking aside re: that Atlantic piece. If you read some of the exchanges, you get the sense that various aides believe reopening shipping lanes in the Red Sea will be speedy and straightforward. That's unrealistic, and it touches on an ideological schism in Trumpworld. 🧵

It's gas that is making UK electricity expensive. www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/2

Say you're a Russian assert without saying you're a Russian asset www.yahoo.com/news/defense...

Again, this theory that "more fossil fuel production and less climate stuff = high share price" theory really doesn't seem to hold water

G8 -> G20 -> ? What next for global political leadership? on.ft.com/41xDMeM

As expected: BP will be giving up on greenwashing and misleading targets and instead be honest about its long-term, long-held strategy to expand the sale and use of fossil fuels

A direct view into Donald's mind