@hochstet.bsky.social
Professor of International Development at LSE. Emerging powers, energy, climate
It Crawled into my Hand, Honest
04.02.2026 07:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
An adult Roseate Spoonbill in Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Credit: Juergen Sohns / Alamy Stock Photo
NEW β Brazilβs biodiversity pledge: Six key takeaways for nature and climate change | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social
Read here: buff.ly/rjHKA2e
π’ Public Event Announcement
Join us for Professor Hertog's inaugural lecture: "How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy" on 21 January 2026 at 6.30pm
In-person and online tickets available π
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And here's the shorter, seven page version: www.unrisd.org/en/library/p...
12.01.2026 15:17 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wrote about just transition in Brazil for UNRISD - TLDR, lots of different impacts, from new kinds of energy, from old ones, with different implications for different groups (some hit urban, some indigenous, some quilombolos, some labor) www.unrisd.org/en/library/p...
12.01.2026 15:16 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Really interesting and plausible parsing of who was on which side of a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels at COP30
28.11.2025 14:23 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Not an expert, but googling around a bit shows them as another producer with clearly limited oil reserves and low quality of much of what's left. Would love to hear from someone who was at COP30 about where they were diplomatically.
25.11.2025 16:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Right, othersβ leverage over them. I think Brazilβs position ended up being shaped by its leadership role in the COP and its plausible for Australia too
25.11.2025 09:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of the levers on producer states is that some of them (e.g., Colombia) recognise that they have small and declining reserves and/or high costs of production which mean that their production has an end date. But for the big producers like Saudi Arabia, the only real lever is on the demand side.
24.11.2025 13:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Great to have the book out there...110 authors, it's a Great Leap Forward in our understanding of why we're failing to act on climate change.
Book is free at CSSN.org
And a whole video of the 30 min presser is up:
www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...
Want to learn more about Colombia's energy transition? @npr.org has you covered.
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Fascinante
12.11.2025 22:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In my 2007 book on Brazilian environmental politics, we said the same thing in the first chapter: there are few countries where the pro-environment and anti-environment forces are both so strong. Neither always wins.
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A useful reminder about the heavy environmental and social costs of the existing energy sector www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Β‘AcompÑñanos en el PabellΓ³n Colombia, en la Zona Azul de la #COP30, el prΓ³ximo sΓ‘bado 15 de noviembre, de 5:30 a 6:15 pm! π¨π΄π
Conversaremos sobre los discursos de demora en el debate sobre la transiciΓ³n energΓ©tica justa en Colombia y cΓ³mo enfrentarlos.
@redcfal.bsky.social @cssn.org
My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements
Many thanks to the author of this piece, FermΓn Koop, published by @dialogueearth.bsky.social , for the opportunity to share some comments on the participation of Latin American countries in the COPs and the impact of their regional groups, such as AILAC.
dialogue.earth/en/climate/c...
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27.10.2025 20:43 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Great book!
19.10.2025 19:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#NoKings
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Fort Collins, CO had so many people, it took an hour for the march to pass through town (city of less than 200,000)
18.10.2025 19:30 β π 185 π 49 π¬ 1 π 3BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website:
cssn.org/news-researc...
HOT OFF THE PRESSES! Check it out! OPEN ACCESS!
#energy #USpol #EU #China #ClimateJustice #ActOnClimate #Brazil #Germany #Protest #coaltoclean #peat #COP30
Stability and #Politicization in #Climate #Governance
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π 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... π§΅
25.09.2025 17:03 β π 64 π 24 π¬ 2 π 3"A Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) entregou Γ ministra do Meio Ambiente e MudanΓ§as ClimΓ‘ticas do Brasil, Marina Silva, o prΓͺmio WCS Distinguished Leadership in Conservation, a principal honraria da organização que reconhece o compromisso extraordinΓ‘rio com a natureza e as pessoas."
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βΌοΈ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com βΌοΈ
Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) π www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
New study from Carlos R.S. Milani, Janaina Pinto, and Arthur Facini on the organized obstruction observed in the Brazilian government and industries. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
09.09.2025 20:57 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 01/18 Is China's economy collapsing or dominating? Meg Rithmire's new piece in Current History argues it's doing both simultaneouslyβand that's the problem.
02.09.2025 19:58 β π 35 π 16 π¬ 3 π 2You really should read this fascinating and profound interview with Columbian President Gustavo Petro. How many other world leaders are acknowledging that "Climate change is just the atmospheric mirror of capital accumulation on Earth"?
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