New paper with Stefan Renckens in @ripejournal.bsky.social!
Sustainable finance standards are often accused of being highly fragmented.
We built an original dataset of 111 Sustainable Finance Governance Initiatives (SFGIs), covering 2000-2020, to see for ourselves. The result? It's complicated.
I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨
What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions
For anyone who believed the advancing climate backlash would not concern the core of EU climate policy, it's time to wake up.
And it is amazing how little key politicians care - all for fighting climate change, but let's abandon the policies that do it. @bundeskanzleramt.bsky.social
NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months
* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor
If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…
www.carbonbrief.org/...
📢El 24 de febrero, en colaboración con nuestros socios locales, @alianzaporelclima.org, organizamos un evento sobre el Tratado de Combustibles Fósiles en Madrid.🇪🇸
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‘Here’s the final irony. Conspiracy theorists and climate deniers insist governments are exaggerating the threat. In reality, the evidence increasingly suggests the opposite.’
theconversation.com/a-uk-climate...
An interesting case study for Scotland after independence.
Uruguay achieves 99% renewables by balancing their grid with 45% hydro - so a little like Norway.
In the process they've halved their electricity costs.
www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...
Final document for #COP30 just dropped and here are some hot takes
1/ No decisive language about FF phaseouts. This is a HUGE loss. The consolation prize is a political process toward phaseouts outside the official decisionmaking of the #ParisAgreement
Husk at stemme til kommunal- og regionsrådsvalget i morgen ✏️❌🗳️
Din stemme er vigtigere end du tror!
#kv25 #valg #dkpol
As explained at the 🔗, the reviews took place between April 2016 (Beijing) and October 2018 (Rome) and were chaired by the OECD. They were scheduled to continue in 2019 (pairing Argentina and Canada), but were delayed. Then the COVID-19 pandemic created an interruption that proved to be permanent.
Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
🌪️As global climate disasters mount, the insurance protection gap is widening.
Natural disasters caused US$320 bn in losses globally in 2024, according to Munich Re.
But Japan remains an exception: its insurance protection gap isn’t yet pronounced.👇
🌱 @dnb-nl.bsky.social is publishing a guide so pension funds & insurers can integrate climate & nature risk into their risk assessment frameworks—further developing ESG data to help with insight into sustainability exposures
Read the full article by Emma Thomasson 👇
With all the noise on climate @netzerotracker.bsky.social's Stock Take is the signal.
The finding that sticks in my head:
🇺🇸US corporate net zero targets grew 9% over last 12 months, 279 ➡️ 304
Yes, some are blowing with the political wind. But more are stepping up.
zerotracker.net/analysis/net...
By mapping 74 institutions, we find the dominant way of understanding climate risk focuses on risks to business actors — shaped by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures under the G20’s Financial Stability Board. Other climate risks — to people & nature — are sidelined.(2/3)
Just out! 🚨
Together with my excellent co-author @Hyeyoon Park, I published a new article on how global green finance governance institutions frame climate risks (1/3)
This is big (and bad) news: New Zealand's government has withdrawn from the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, which a previous NZ government joined at the Glasgow climate summit in November 2021.
I’m obsessed with protecting seals: ‘The flying ring toy was deeply embedded in her neck’ 🦭
It broke my heart to see a seal so injured by a £1 plastic toy. Now I campaign to ban them – and it has changed my life. 👏
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Prime Minister Carney last night: “it’s time to build an industrial strategy that makes Canada more competitive while fighting climate change”
🙌🙌🙌
Treasury Sec Bessent just signaled at a closed-door JPMorgan event that the US-China tariff standoff (currently 145% US tariffs, 125% China tariffs) is "not sustainable" and will de-escalate "in the very near future." Trump later confirmed final tariffs won't be "anywhere near" current levels. 1/
The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK
Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking
YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS
Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵
In mid-March, @fredericmerand.bsky.social started an important conversation about whether Canada should consider trying to join the EU and now we have a bunch of thoughtful responses. I was happy to add my take: www.ecsa-c.ca/post/canada-...
Precisely nobody on Bluesky cares but WTI is back below $60. Jeez louise.
Another fun analogy is that tariffs to “re-industrialise” the US is a bit like using (massive, sudden) carbon pricing to completely reshape your energy systems.
Good morning with good news: 80 nations produced more than 50% of their electricity from clean sources in 2024.
47 nations generated more than 75% from clean sources.
Clean sources at 40.9% exceeded 40% of world's electricity for 1st time since 1940s!
ember-energy.org/app/uploads/... #energysky
The Call for Abstracts of the Inaugural Conference of the European Association of Climate Law (EACL) is now live! Come join us - and keynote speaker @christinavoigt.bsky.social - in Berlin on 22-23 September.
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#FridayFeeling 👇
