Research fellows Seth Owusu-Mante, Kate Chi, and @tarungk91.bsky.social authored a research article on how sovereign green bonds (SGB) can mobilize capital toward renewable energy and other projects that deliver environmental benefits. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1.5 seems to be textually alive in the #G20 Leaders' Declaration out of Johannesberg. Reconciling that ambition with current emissions trajectories is another question.

🆕 #COP30 Global goal on adaptation text - "takes note of" Glasgow goal to 2x adaptation finance/2025 - "calls for efforts to at least" 3x adaptation finance/2035 - "urges" developed countries to "increase trajectory of collective provision" of climate $$ for adaptation unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

TL;DR: COP30 delivers a very weak outcome on adaptation finance, at what was supposed to finally be the Adaptation COP. Tripling goal pushed back five years. Still might be framed as a "win" by some, but far from the $120bn/yr by 2030 that least developed countries pushed for.

Fletcher experts offer insight into the politics and priorities driving international climate talks at @cop30brazil.bsky.social. @tarungk91.bsky.social @katehkchi.bsky.social #COP30noBrasil #COP30 fletcher.tufts.edu/news-events/...

Exxon lawyer: "We are not going to lose this fight." The US Supreme Court, he said, needs to step in to shut the door on this litigation once and for all #SCOTUS will soon decide whether to take up Exxon's petition in Boulder's climate deception case www.eenews.net/articles/exx...

Brazil’s $125bn forest fund – framed as the “biggest thing to come out of COP30” – goes live tomorrow. Critics point out that TFFF “puts private investors first”, forest payouts last + sets a 🌳 bar too low to be “scientifically credible”. @yaninequiroz.bsky.social and I 🕵🏽‍♀️, for @carbonbrief.org.

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 7 is out now, with the latest on emissions trading systems #ETS, #netzero transition, transformational #adaptation, oil + gas superprofits & more ✅ 📣 Insights from @michaeljgrubb.bsky.social @tarungk91.bsky.social @maksympolyakov.bsky.social @robbieorvis.bsky.social & more ⬇️

"But the generally sunny outlook is darkened by the threat of shrinking access to the data on which the AI models depend."

New analysis for @suspol.bsky.social exploring the fragility of fossil fuel-producing states in an age of competitive decarbonisation from Jared Miller and @tarungk91.bsky.social of @fletcherschool.bsky.social at Tufts University. Quick 🧵 on the main arguments www.sussex.ac.uk/research/pro...

The #Climate Ambition Scenario - a mix of financial incentives and regulation - could reduce greenhouse emissions in #Mexico by 77.1% below business-as-usual in 2050 while also increasing GDP growth, creating jobs and reducing the national debt. sites.tufts.edu/cierp/files/...

"Purely on economic and security grounds it is simply contrary to the U.S. national interest to restrict the continued growth of clean energy technologies." (Not paywalled) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/c...

REPLUG: In EPW, Shibani Ghosh draws on an in-depth review of India’s pollution control boards to examine why these front-line regulators have struggled to curb air & water pollution. Recent amendments to the Water and Air Acts are designed to facilitate ease of doing business. bit.ly/4fWvnFR

What’s next for US energy after US President Trump's inauguration? In this episode from November, the gang discussed: - Potential shifts in energy policy - Potential impacts on renewables like wind and solar - Changes to the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits #EnergySky #ClimateSky #GreenSky

Cop29 deal fails to consider inflation so is not tripling of target, economists say

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku #COP29 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3V5jndk

As global emissions rise, staying within the Paris #climate goals seems a pipe dream. It is not. Our new brief outlines India's progress on #climateaction and projects the next phase for climate policy - if national ambition meets ambitious finance. #COP29 sites.tufts.edu/cierp/files/...

Prioritizing a new climate finance goal over fossil phaseout at this COP makes sense. The finance goal should have been agreed three years ago, the can was kicked down the road. Get finance right, ambitious NDCs will follow.

Some previous work: ‘New climate dis-economies: The political economy of energy transitions in fragile fossil fuel producers’, with Jared Miller in the journal Environment and Security (2024). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...