🔓️ 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⬇️

🇰🇪 🇸🇳 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