Fossil fuel use continues to climb, despite the growth of renewables.

A big shift in technology. The purple bars show the sales of cars powered by combustion engines in China. In green, you see the rise of electric cars in recent years.

In many Germanic languages, the word for 'debt' also means 'guilt'. Cevat Giray Aksoy et al. find that using a guilt-laden term reduces willingness to borrow, lowers approval for government debt, & influences firms' financing plans and the framing of fiscal policy. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

🏠 Heat pumps are a key enabler of buildings decarbonisation. After a jump during the energy crisis, their deployment has slowed-down. Reversing this is key for climate, security and competitiveness, as Europe is a leading manufacturer of the technology. See: european-clean-tech-tracker.bruegel.org

9/9 The real lesson is that good things can be taken to extreme. Too much industrial policy can be just as damaging to an economy as too much indifference to industrial policy. www.ft.com/content/583a...

Good news aus Österreich:

Es ist jetzt schon sehr klar, dass 2025 sich unter den 3 wärmsten Jahren seit Messbeginn einreihen wird:

Wer trägt Verantwortung für die Klimakrise? 🌍🔥 Statt Schuld nur bei Konsument:innen zu suchen, nimmt unser Ansatz auch Vermögende in die Pflicht. Mit @nicolasprinz.bsky.social & Judith Derndorfer am @awblog.at 👉 www.awblog.at/klima-energi...

PhD position at SINTEF - sustainability transitions (social science) - CCS in waste-to-energy - fully funded 3 years starting Jan 2026 www.finn.no/428930743

Interesting piece on industrial policy in China "Developed markets are already resisting, the interesting new development is the raft of trade defence measures being put in place by emerging and middle income countries (...) Mexico, India, Vietnam (...) now fear premature deindustrialisation."

💸Warum Ausgabenkürzungen in Zeiten großer Herausforderungen–Klimakrise, Demokratieverdrossenheit, schwache Wirtschaft, steigende Arbeitslosigkeit... – keine gute Idee sind, zeigt der deutsche Wirtschaftsweise @achimtruger.bsky.social gemeinsam mit den tollen Budgetexpert:innen der @arbeiterkammer.at

Innsbruck erlebte heute den wärmsten September-Tag seit Messbeginn von knapp 250 Jahren.

The geography of #decarbonisation is uneven: vulnerability clusters, preparedness is patchy, responsiveness varies. @sbaumgartinger.bsky.social, @balazspager.bsky.social & @michaelatrippl.bsky.social address these contrasts in CEE in their new Economic Geography paper. doi.org/10.1080/0013...

𝟏 | 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰!! Our new paper in 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺 explores how regions navigate industrial transitions. We introduce a transformative resilience lens–looking at vulnerability, preparedness & responsiveness in shaping regional industrial transitions. 1/6 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🫴Wer kümmert sich um ältere Menschen – und wen kümmert es überhaupt, wer diese Pflege übernimmt? Am 24.9. um 16:00 diskutieren wir darüber – Grundlage ist das neue Dossier von @suedwind.at & der AK Wien: www.suedwind-magazin.at/magazin/2025... Anmeldung: veranstaltung.akwien.at/de/who-cares...

Statistically insignificant results are at least as interesting as significant ones (but often end up in the file drawer because deemed less publishable). Results are interesting if they change what we believe. No reason that only non-zero findings should change our beliefs.

Happy to announce that the paper is now published in Regional Studies... please have a look: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... And for an overview of key insights: www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...

Happy to announce that the paper is now published in Regional Studies... please have a look: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... And for an overview of key insights: www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...

🆕 Industrial policy in China: Four key facts Today on VoxDev, Hanming Fang (@upenn.edu), Ming Li (CUHK) & Guangli Lu (CUHK) analyse industrial policy in China across various levels of government: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

In 2014, half of Greece's electricity was generated by coal. A decade later, that share has fallen to just 6%.

Extreme Hitzewelle im westlichen Mittelmeer: Temperatur liegt um rund 5 Grad über den üblichen Werten für Anfang Sommer. Das hat Auswirkungen auf unser Wetter: mehr Hitze->mehr Extrem. (Quelle Bild: European Union, Copernicus Marine Service Data)

For the first time in history, Gen Z and Millenials together made up a bigger share of the electorate than Baby Boomers. They also swung heavily towards Donald Trump. @daniellaraz.bsky.social and I wrote about the Zillennial election: www.economist.com/united-state...

Was zur Hölle? Harvard darf keine ausländischen Studierenden mehr aufnehmen. Derzeit dort studierende müssen gehen. Das ist die Zerstörung der Universität Nummer 1 der USA. Das ist totale Eskalation. Ich habe keine Worte. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

#Innovation should be “in the air,” but for many firms, it’s suffocating. In a new Research Policy article, @martinapardy.bsky.social shows that as MNEs scale up, middle-tier #firms #patent less—outgunned and outpaced in a race where scale has become the strategy. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage and deadly outbreaks. In this article @scientificdiscovery.dev & @spoonerf.bsky.social explain how vaccines were developed and their impact on saving lives. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Gute Nachrichten: In China sinken die CO2-Emissionen. Der radikale Ausbau von erneuerbarer Energie zeigt Wirkung. Details hier: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

Transport now emits more than electricity and heat in some countries

EU countries most exposed to the already announced new US tariffs on cars, pharma, and steel exports: Ireland, Belgium, Slovakia, Germany, Austria. via @danielkral.bsky.social

In 2004, it took the world a year to add one gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day.

🚨 📣 🚨 Job claxon🚨 📣 🚨 We are hiring TWO (senior) researchers for transformative innovation and innovation policy! We are looking for two researchers, one research assistant, and one project manager (25-40 hours/week) to join our team. www.zsi.at/de/object/ne...

🥁New Workinger Paper out: "𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁? 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀’ 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝘀𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆" together with D. Doloreux, R. Shearmur & A. Gauthier! In the CIRCLE WP Series wp.circle.lu.se/upload/CIRCL... A short thread 1/ 🧵👇

#Südwind hat in Kooperation mit der #Arbeiterkammer Wien ein sehr lesenswertes Dossier über die weltweite Ungleichverteilung von Reichtum und deren gravierende Auswirkungen auf die Klimakrise aus der Perspektive des Globalen Südens veröffentlicht! 1/5

New article with Michaela Trippl and Maximilian Benner on how the CORIS approach (challenge-oriented regional innovation system) can inform regional innovation and economic policy practice (in German): link.springer.com/article/10.1... #geoinno #geosky