🇧🇷 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⬇️

🇰🇪 🇸🇳 African govts must develop elaborate strategies for systematic & effective engagement with private sector actors, to enable them to play a more coordinated & comprehensive role including planning, implementation, monitoring, & evaluation of the NDC process, say Adama Sow Badji & Caroline Gathu⬇️

🎯 Using an LLM to scale up textual analysis, @robinrauner.bsky.social finds that messaging in #sustainability reports is considerably future-oriented, introducing risk of "#futurewashing" when corporate claims create an overly-positive image of expected #climateaction 📝 Read more⬇️

🌳 The additional potential of forest #carbonsequestration should be supported by regulatory instruments, as the reallocation of a significant #emissionreductions & #biomass capacity from the #energy to the forest sector could lead to the optimal integrated #GHG reduction strategy, find Rácz et al.⬇️

🔓 🌱 Switching to #plantbased catering policies is an effective and defensible way for public institutions to lead societies towards delivering on #climatechange #mitigation duties, say Bell, @jkniess.bsky.social et al. @nclpolitics.bsky.social ⬇️

🕑 When do #climatepolicies truly work? ➡️ #Adaptation laws boosted #climate readiness from 1999-2006 but had the opposite effect after 2016 ➡️ External shocks reshape policy effectiveness ➡️ Climate strategies must evolve with time, say @elisaadamico.bsky.social & Tofigh Maboudi

🏦 Exemptions in the #climatepolicies of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) allow public banks to continue financing gas infrastructure, despite introducing policies to limit financial support for #fossilfuel infrastructure, find Maxfield Peterson & @christiandownie.bsky.social @anuregnet.bsky.social ⬇️

Are public banks gaslighting on climate finance? 📢 Our new publication in @climate-policy.bsky.social looks at the role Export Credit Agencies play in financing gas around the world www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TIMFJ... Key findings include 🧵

🚨 Delighted to announce our TOP 10 viewed papers published July 2024 - Dec 2025! Congratulations to all the authors 👏 Great range of topics: #carbonfarming, #climatefinance, #carbondioxideremoval, #CBAM, #EUETS 2, #greenhydrogen Check out the top 10 below, or at www.climatepolicyjournal.org ⬇️

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 10 is out now, with the latest on #energyjustice ✈️, banks' #climate commitments 🏦, #climatechange skepticism in 🇦🇪 & 🇸🇦, energy literacy training in 🇮🇳 , South Korea's carbon contracts for difference scheme 🇰🇷 , & collaborative governance in 🇮🇷 Check it out below💡 ⬇️

🔓 : Sovereign green bonds show great potential as a key #climatefinance instrument, but challenges such as debt accumulation, equitable use of proceeds, and the need for standardised impact reporting require attention, say Owusu-Mante et al. @tufts.edu in new study on 🇨🇱 🇪🇬 🇮🇩 🇳🇬 Read more⬇️

🚜 What influences the adoption of #greenhousegas (GHG) #mitigation measures among European farmers? Ahangarkolaee et al. identify three key drivers: 1️⃣ Previous adoption of technology 2️⃣ Positive peer networks and advisory support 3️⃣ Government support and targeted policy incentives Read more⬇️

🌍 How far is #climaterisk integrated into financial policies in Africa? Paola D'Orazio finds: ➡️ Most climate-related financial policies are voluntary ➡️ Central banks & financial regulators lead on disclosure & prudential oversight, while stock exchanges & banking associations remain underutilised

🌱 Trade and investment rules often act as a barrier to effective green industrial policymaking (GIP), particularly for developing economies, and should be reformed to ensure policy space for GIP, say Bandara et al. @gdp-center.bsky.social ⬇️

🏙️ What drives urban #climatechange #adaptation? Liu et al. find: ➡️ Public awareness, early engagement & management capacity shape adaptation decisions ➡️ City-specific features shape co-benefits derived from adaptation strategies ➡️ Progress differs in funding, preferred actions, & action frequency

🇮🇳 Equitable #climateaction in India is constrained by centralised authority, regulatory weakening & civic exclusion, find Thomas & Antony. India's Panchamrit Policy must embed environmental democracy, restore institutional pluralism & strengthen civic accountability to ensure a #justtransition⬇️

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🏥 China's media frames climate-related health risks as systemic & state-managed, while the US focuses on local, personal impacts, find Cheng Chen & Renping Liu. Divergent narratives shape governance & public response ⬇️

#Adaptation projects cannot and will not deliver transformative change due to their social, spatial & temporal limitations, say @mmikulewicz.bsky.social et al. @sunyofficial.bsky.social. We need to move on and pursue alternative vehicles for transformative adaptation around the world ⬇️

🇨🇳 From an enterprise perspective, China's #emissions trading system #ETS faces three key challenges, find Wang et al.: 1️⃣ Policy uncertainty: increases risk aversion 2️⃣ Block trading: limits market transparency, liquidity & ETS price discovery function 3️⃣ Limited knowledge of marginal abatement costs

🇨🇳 Offshore #carboncapture, utilisation and storage #CCUS is crucial for #China to meet its #emissions reduction goals, but current #environmental risk regulations need improving. Read Jinpeng Wang & Xin Zheng @helsinki.fi's policy recommendations ⬇️

🇧🇪 What drives public opinion of #climatepolicies in Belgium? Gugushvili et al. find: 👎 Strongest predictors of #climatepolicy opposition: lack of perceived responsibility for addressing #climatechange & old age 👍 Strongest predictors of support: biospheric values & political ideology Read below⬇️

🔓 ✈️ How do we make #climatepolicies fair and effective? 💚 Ringhofer et al. @uni-graz.at find that perceived fairness, especially distributional fairness, is crucial for public acceptance of demand-side push policies in leisure air travel ⬇️

🏦 As COP30 kicks off, read Anne Kervers' analysis of the rules & practices that govern commercial, ethical & promotional bank lending, spotlighting overlooked financial tools for aligning credit portfolios. Equity differences shape financial barriers to heat grid lending, the empirical referent ⬇️

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 9 is out now, with the latest on #climatejustice, #adaptation #finance allocation, translating #emissions targets into policy, #carbonmarkets, #justtransition & much more💥 💡 Insights from @marthewens.bsky.social @yarime.bsky.social @chantal-st.bsky.social & more⬇️

🚑 Hu et al. develop an innovative assessment model of #climatechange health #adaptation (CCHA) policy impacts on the healthcare stock market within an integrated macro-micro research framework, theoretically expanding the boundaries of economic evaluations of climate policies⬇️

🇨🇳 Government environmental auditing promotes local #lowcarbon innovation, strengthening government environmental regulation & mitigating the constraining effect of weak rule of law, find Liu et al. in new study from China ⬇️

🔓 International transparency arrangements are often expected to benefit national-level policymaking. Yet, reporting and review are perceived to mainly support minor policy changes, find Pietarila, @harrovanasselt.bsky.social et al. @fiia.fi, with limited influence on policy instruments & goals ⬇️

🔓 🇳🇱 Higher education institutions are increasingly severing research ties with the #fossilfuel industry. This "fossil free research" (FFR) norm has been heavily contested - read @mathieublondeel.bsky.social @ppattberg.bsky.social @ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social analysis of the dynamics at play ⬇️

📈 High inflation tends to reduce public attention to #climatechange, finds Théophile Bassène @upecofficiel.bsky.social. As a result, environmental policies are generally more successful during periods of low or moderate inflation 🌱 ⬇️

🚚 🇪🇺 Powering road freight in the EU with #renewable #hydrogen is unlikely to help reach #NetZero objectives, find Lafaille & Vernay. The European Commission should: ➡️ Fix several methodological errors in its policy framework ➡️ Focus on other road freight #decarbonization levers Read more ⬇️

❗ Inner Mongolian herders are increasingly vulnerable to #climatechange due to government policies that restrict their movement, exclude them from environmental discourse & limit their traditional #adaptation strategies, finds Ruona Qi - a more inclusive, cooperative model is needed⬇️

The world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies should shoulder a major share of the investment needed to develop carbon removal technologies, according to a new peer-reviewed study in @climate-policy.bsky.social. #carbonmajors #CDR #climatepolicy

❗ Large investor-owned 'carbon majors' can be assigned the responsibility of investing in novel #carbondioxideremoval technologies to buy down costs, based on principles of #climatejustice, propose Kellou et al. @climateanalytics.org @iiasa.ac.at ⬇️

Different #climate performance indices can yield contradictory results due to subjective methodological choices. Dhara et al. propose a novel framework to classify indices based on embedded normative choices, enhancing transparency of what the index truly measures and contextualising its outcomes⬇️

🇷🇴 How well adapted are Romanian cities to #climatechange? ⬇️ 👉 Some cities successfully integrate #adaptation into governance, while others lack comprehensive planning & measurable actions 👉 Planning, reporting & implementation gaps remain key challenges Read Falcescu et al.'s findings⬇️

✈️💲🏭 Wealth inequality fuels the climate crisis — not just through luxury emissions, but through power, status, and high-carbon investments. Don't miss out on this paper by our researchers from ICTA-UAB, @morrison-james.bsky.social, @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and @giorgoskallis.bsky.social

💰 Wealth inequality impacts #carbonemissions through four mechanisms, find @morrison-james.bsky.social @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social @giorgoskallis.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social: 1️⃣ Increased power of elites 2️⃣ Luxurious lifestyles 3️⃣ Higher status consumption 4️⃣ Investment in high carbon activities

How does wealth inequality impact climate change? My co-authors @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and @giorgoskallis.bsky.social and I attempt to answer this in a new article in @climate-policy.bsky.social We identify four mechanisms through which wealth inequality impacts carbon emissions.

⚡ #ClimateRisk shocks significantly exacerbate labour outsourcing expenditures, primarily through increased economic uncertainty & investment expenditure, find Zhang et al. ❗ Intensified climate risks increase firms' tax avoidance incentives & partially drive transformation initiatives Read⬇️

🇬🇭 District Assemblies play a critical role in #climatechange education - but how are they perceived by coastal residents in Ghana? Abednego Baffour finds that: ➡️ 72% say that DAs have not sufficiently educated their communities ➡️ 45.5% say they have "very poor" access to #climatechange info Read⬇️

🌎 Latin America's Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) climate models need improvements, find Bressan & Nieto: 1️⃣ Reduce large uncertainty ranges across models 2️⃣ Account for the future not looking like the past 3️⃣ Consider tail risks + improve hazard suites (for physical risks) Read⬇️

🪨 Coal power phasedown is essential for achieving #climate targets, but risks major job losses. Meng et al. find that reducing utilisation rates & implementing workforce resettlement strategies greatly reduces job losses + costs incurred, ensuring a #justtransition ⚖️ ⬇️