🔓️ The US Environmental Protection Agency has the regulatory authority to abate industrial emissions of nitrous oxide, which could deliver important environmental, economic & human health benefits from avoided climate change & stratospheric ozone depletion, find David Kanter et al. ⬇️ 🇺🇸

📣 SPECIAL ISSUE: Our Special Issue "Deep #Decarbonization Pathways for national development consistent with #carbonneutrality" is out now, with the latest research on #NetZero transitions in 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇲🇽 🇿🇦 , across key sectors (energy, transport, land use) & across diverse national contexts ⬇️ 🔗

💰️ #ClimateFinance significantly reduces the risk of resource-related conflict in recipient developing countries, promoting peace & stability alongside #adaptation, find Chin-Hsien Yu et al. In particular, #climatefinance alleviates water scarcity & reduces #fossilfuel dependence💧 Read below🔗 ⬇️

🪙 The average annual willingness to pay for #climatefinance to developing countries among South Korean households is KRW 5,291 (USD 3.87), with perceived public benefits outweighing national costs, find Boram Shin & Sung-Yoon Huh ⬇️🇰🇷

🇷🇺 #Climate #adaptation in Russia is rarely just about climate, as the term becomes a catch-all to advance other political & economic goals, finds @serafimaa.bsky.social. #ClimateChange is not a primary driver of national policy development, but regional plans prioritise issue-specific risks⬇️

🔥 🇨🇳 Heatwaves briefly increase emotional salience of #climaterisks, boosting public receptiveness to #climatecommunication and potentially informing policy interventions, find Yu Feng et al. in new study on Chinese social media ⬇️ 🔗

🌾 Different adoption levels of Climate-Smart Agriculture require different, stage-specific strategies, find Jing Zhao et al. in new study from Henan Province, China⬇️ 🇨🇳

🔓️ Between 39% and 60% of right wing UK newspapers' editorial/opinion sections discussing #NetZero include at least three misleading statements, find James Painter at al. @ox.ac.uk ⬇️ 🔗 🇬🇧

🔓️ As South Africa's electricity generation relies heavily on coal, a #greentransition risks increasing unemployment. Davidson et al. propose a Green Transition Framework which profiles workers who are likely to be impacted, helping inform effective policies to mitigate #energytransition risks ⬇️ 🌱 🇿🇦

📃 EDITORIAL: Scaling up #CarbonDioxideRemoval is unavoidable - but getting the policies right is anything but easy. Malte Winkler & Axel Michaelowa @perspectivescc.bsky.social introduce our upcoming Special Issue, which offers a structured roadmap for policymakers navigating CDR policy design ⬇️

📃 EDITORIAL: Introducing our upcoming special issue, @chrisbataille.bsky.social et al. present advancements in the Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP) methodology to support national #carbonneutral transitions, highlighting the need for wide-ranging sector-focused policy packages⬇️

💡 What are the welfare effects of different hydrogen subsidies? Xinyu Li & Machiel Mulder find: Hydrogen production subsidies ➡️ raise emissions Hydrogen consumption subsidies ➡️ reduce domestic emissions, may raise emissions abroad Both ➡️ benefit hydrogen users but increase electricity prices

🔓️ Increasing public support for a green industrial transition requires balancing emission reductions with job losses. @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social & Max Koslowski propose a sector-specific policy framework with 4 strategies: Protect & proceed; Keep & decarbonize; Decarbonize or decline; & Let live ⬇️

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 4 is out now, with the latest on the #EUTaxonomy, #adaptation, #lowcarbon transitions & labour productivity, climate-influenced #migration & more 💡 🖋️ Insights from @hectorpollitt.bsky.social @frankjotzo.bsky.social @romainweikmans.bsky.social @franticpedantic.bsky.social & more ⬇️

🔓️ Contrary to common assumptions, introducing pull policies before shifting to stricter push policies may not boost public support for tougher #climateaction, find Thomas Bernauer et al. Rather than policy-sequencing, governments may benefit from contemporaneous bundling of pull and push measures⬇️

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 3 is out now, with the latest on #CarbonDioxideRemoval, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), climate literacy, community-led solutions, fossil dependency & more💡 ✒️ Insights from @mohsenfatemi.bsky.social @thisislauri.bsky.social @harrovanasselt.bsky.social & more ⬇️

🇨🇴 22.6% of Colombian employment is linked to green jobs, which are mostly held by wealthier workers: men, urban residents & the higher-educated, find Oscar Becerra & Juana Piñeros-Ruíz. Targeted training programs are key to tackle inequalities & help non-green workers transition to green jobs⬇️

🔓️ #CarbonDioxideRemoval perspectives studies are dominated by the Global North, limiting marginalised voices and potential dissent, find Delaney Pues et al. @uofcalifornia.bsky.social. Vulnerable communities & #climatejustice must be prioritised for more effective, inclusive #climateaction⬇️

🔓️ In Tanzania, #ClimateChange mainstreaming is driven by governance dynamics (institutional mandates, fiscal rules, sector relevance) rather than by policy language, find Abbas Salum Kitogo et al. A multi-level governance approach is key to turn policy commitments into action 🇹🇿 Read more⬇️

🔓️ 🇩🇰 Katrine Skagen @cicero.oslo.no investigates how Denmark became the first country to introduce #carbonpricing on agricultural emissions: through clear long-term #NetZero targets, positive politicisation & integration in a larger policy portfolio with substantial funding & revenue recycling ⬇️

🔓️ Different independent assessments of corporate #lowcarbon transition strategies employ different methodologies, causing gaps. Straub et al. @newclimate.bsky.social propose a centralised repository to track, compare & combine methodologies, supporting their integration into regulatory frameworks💡

🇨🇳 Local government attention significantly enhances both distributive and procedural justice in China's #energytransition, find Xiuyun Yang et al., whereas influence on restorative justice remains statistically nonsignificant⚖️ Marked regional disparities highlight need for region-specific policy⬇️

🔓️ #ClimateChange is driving widespread, unexpected shifts in social cohesion, find Lily Lindegaard & Francis Jarawua in new study from 🇳🇪 & 🇬🇭 : 👫 Losses & gains to social cohesion across different contexts 📉 Significant cascading impacts to socio-emotional & material well-being Read more⬇️

🔓️ 🇪🇺 Rural #climateaction is misaligned with European Green Deal (EGD) ambitions, focusing on energy & transport and neglecting crucial priorities such as #adaptation, biodiversity, water quality & sustainable food systems, find Yuval Damari & Tristan Berchoux @ciheammontpellier.bsky.social ⬇️

🔓️ 🇮🇩 Indonesia's #climatepolicies frame #gender narrowly, focusing on vulnerability & overlooking agency, leadership & structural inequalities. Policies also prioritise top-down institutional knowledge over diverse community-led insights. Pratiwi et al. call for a more intersectional approach⬇️

🇨🇳 China's carbon emissions trading system #ETS encourages governments to allocate more land to low-carbon high-tech industries, driving a green industrial transformation, find Wenjing Fan & Anlu Zhang 🌱

🌍️ International climate agreements greatly stimulate innovation in Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (#CCUS) technologies by providing policy signals and incentives for #lowcarbon technologies, find Truong et al. ⬇️

🔓️ 🇨🇳 China's support for clean technologies is effectively subsidising a global green transition, argue @james7jackson.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. Chinese dominance presents dilemmas for the EU, the US & other countries: compete, cooperate, surrender, or abandon the green transition🌏️

🌱 Earth Observation (EO) is a crucial tool to improve the accessibility, accuracy & consistency of #greenhousegas reporting in the Land Use, Land-Use Change & Forestry (LULUCEF) sector, and yet less than 40% of Paris Agreement parties have reported using EO in transparency reports, find Cima et al.⬇️

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 2 is out now, with the latest on #climateprojections & #adaptation planning, #lossanddamage, the UK #ClimateChange Committee, #carbonoffsetting in cities & much more 💡 ✒️ Insights from @etheokritoff.bsky.social @rachel-james.bsky.social @ailishcraig.bsky.social & more ⬇️

🌱 2 coalitions shape #climatepolicy in 🇦🇷 's agriculture, forestry & land use sector, find Daniel Ryan & Luciana Apaza Laguna: a dominant productivist coalition prioritising growth & competitiveness, & a minority socio-environmental coalition prioritising land use reforms & regulation🌳 Read more⬇️

🇪🇺 The EU #CBAM's one-week price predictability window allows importers to strategically allocate certificate purchases for unpaid #emissions, generating an average 4.36% cost advantage over EU allowances (EUAs) which increases as EUA prices decline, find Jihun Paek & Brian H. S. Kim 💰️ Read more⬇️

👨‍🌾 How does carbon accrual uncertainty affect adoption of #carbonfarming schemes? Photinodellis et al. @univparissaclay.bsky.social find: ▪️ Result-based schemes -> higher allocative efficiency ▪️ Activity-based schemes -> lower MRV costs & risk ▪️ Hybrid schemes may provide an effective compromise

🔓️ What #justtransition approaches do individuals shaping global #climatepolicy favour? Alexia Faus Onbargi & @malerbadaniele.bsky.social @idos-research.bsky.social identify key priorities⬇️ ➡️ Addressing broader sustainable development issues ➡️ Policy coherence ➡️ Accountability for #climatechange

✈️ Air Passenger Duty greatly lowers demand for short & medium haul flights, as well as for reduced fare long haul flights, which in turn reduces CO₂ emissions, demonstrating the potential of aviation taxation as an effective #climatepolicy tool, finds Ziqing Wang @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social ⬇️

🌳 In new study on British Columbia 🇨🇦 , Saska Brill & Eveline Dürr analyse 3 key factors interconnected with forest #carbon embeddedness: 1️⃣ Land & resource decision-making strategies 2️⃣ Regional, supra-regional & national climate policies 3️⃣ Fluctuating voluntary & compliance market dynamics Read⬇️

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 1 is out now, with articles on #EUETS 2, #climatefinance & #climatejustice, #carbondioxideremoval & #carbonmarkets, #climatechange awareness & #climatepolicy support, transformative #climateaction 🖋️ @rbaernthaler.bsky.social @egrossman.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social & more ⬇️

🔓️ Ghana and Kenya's Energy Transition and Investment Plans neglect recognition & restorative justice, overlook the importance of political economy dynamics, and have a reductionist approach to distributional & procedural justice, find Arhin et al. @ucl.ac.uk #justtransition 🇬🇭 🇰🇪 Read below⬇️

🇹🇿 In a new study on smallholder vanilla farmers in Tanzania, Gasper et al. find that #ClimateSmartAgriculture technologies have primarily been adopted by male farmers, who earn higher incomes: CSA should be integrated with targeted gender equality policies to tackle gendered income gaps🤝 Read⬇️

🔓️ : EU #climatepolicy has become increasingly more ambitious and more legally complex, which has reduced effective implementation, even in countries with strong administrative capacity, find @steffenhurka.bsky.social and Yves Steinebach @supaproject.bsky.social 🇪🇺 Read below⬇️

🔓️ Levels of #carbonleakage vary widely across emissions trading systems #ETS. Chen et al. find that ex-ante studies estimate lower leakage when #emissions coverage is broader, anti-leakage measures are included, and computable general equilibrim models are used ⬇️

🇧🇷 As domestic #climate #adaptation #finance is closely embedded within development budgets, it can be protected from climate denialist governments, find Marina Briant & Alexandre Igari in new study on Brazil 💡 Read more⬇️

🔓️ : What determines firms' acceptability of #carbontaxation? Mwang'Onda et al. find: 1️⃣ Firm-specific elements (emission intensity, trade exposure) 2️⃣ Political & institutional elements (business lobbying, governance transparency) 3️⃣ Policy design elements (tax rate predictability, revenue recycling)

🔓️ Briand et al. present national #netzero development pathways for 7 large emerging economies developed by the Deep #Decarbonization Pathways network, displaying country-specific, but also common transformations to net-zero, & extracting lessons for short-term policy packages🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇲🇽 🇿🇦

The effectiveness of #ClimatePolicies depends on a coordinated alignment between policy design and implementation capacity, rather than on policy design alone, find Yu Tian & Bang-Jun Wang in new study on dual-carbon governance in China 🇨🇳 Read more⬇️

🔓️ : Comelli et al. @ucl.ac.uk introduce the Climate Adaptation Democracy Framework, a novel tool for policy makers, practitioners and researchers to scrutinise the consequences of #climate #adaptation policy for democratic life - read about it below⬇️

Institutional overlap leads to divergent priorities in African #climategovernance, such as SADC's (Southern African Development Community) energy focus vs EAC’s (East African Community) forestry emphasis, & competing mandates, which creates challenges for policy coherence, finds Jani Grey Kasunda⬇️

🔓️ : The standard of 'due diligence' under international law requires States to pursue stringent near-term #emissions reductions alongside feasible #carbondioxideremoval strategies, preventing excessive reliance on #CDR to meet #climatetargets, find Rajamani et al 💡 Read more⬇️

🔓️ Using a new methodological toolkit which evaluates individual climate policies within expanding policy mixes, Fernández-i-Marín et al. identify a list of essential #climatepolicy measures that are effective across all contexts - read below⬇️

🔓️ Developed from a unilateral UK policy to a plurilateral initiative, the emergence of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) was conflict-driven, contested & highly contingent, finds @freddiedaley.bsky.social, highlighting the crucial role that conflict plays in global policy action⬇️