Climate Solutions Lab

Coming up on Monday, March 2! Join IBES & @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @climatesollab.bsky.social for The State of Decarbonization at Brown: Progress, Challenges, and What Comes Next, in person (lunch provided!) or online. #BrownClimateWeek

Learn more & register: events.brown.edu/event/326936...

Come join us at Brown's Climate Week for CSL & IBES's co-sponsored talk 'The State of Decarbonization at Brown' this upcoming Monday March 2nd! Register here to attend: events.brown.edu/climate-solu...

New article by CSL-affiliate Kathryn Chelminski, check it out!

Our new article— co-authored w/Guixing Wei & @gbellocca.bsky.social — on ZIP code-level power outages across communities in Seattle and Portland is out in Energy Policy! This research has important equity implications👇 💡🔌 doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Is the US posing a hidden risk in the West’s critical minerals strategy? The Trump administration’s recent official guidance on supply chain vulnerabilities related to critical minerals reached a striking conclusion. US policymakers are acknowledging that the United States...

The US seeks price floors with allies to build ex-China mineral supply chains.

If US allies and trading partners start pricing US political risk alongside Chinese leverage, Western minerals coordination will get much harder to sustain.

My latest at @piie.com.

www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Climate change risk index and municipal bond disclosures of United States drinking water utilities - Communications Earth & Environment 67 million customers across the US rely on drinking water utilities that face higher climate risk than accounted for, which exposes major gaps in climate adaptation and resilience planning, suggests a...

🚨Our new paper led by Dr. @zialyle.bsky.social looked at how climate change poses risks to US drinking water utilities & if their bonds disclose these risks to investors. Utilities serving 67 million people have high risks, but 36% of their bonds don't mention climate: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Driving decarbonization? Corporate responses to the Paris climate agreement in the global automotive sector Did firms accelerate decarbonization as a result of the 2015 Paris Agreement, particularly in industries where low-carbon options were technologically…

New publication out by CSL Director @jeffcolgan.bsky.social! Check it out to learn more about whether the 2015 Paris Agreement shifted corporate strategy in the automotive sector:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New podcast out by Australian Broadcasting on the history of global oil politics with an emphasis on Venezuela, featuring CSL's Director Jeff Colgan. 🎧

Weila Gong — Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs

Honored to host Weila Gong at the Climate Solutions Lab today where she discussed findings from her insightful new book that explores how local leadership drives low-carbon policy action across China. Watch the talk here: www.youtube.com/live/9Mc-4TJ...

Can climate policies survive the return of Trump? 🎧 Can climate policies survive the return of Trump? Two experts discuss how the U.S. and the world move forward with climate mitigation.

Can climate policies survive the return of Trump? 🎧

Experts discuss how the U.S. and the world move forward with climate mitigation.

Listen from @erikvoeten.bsky.social, @jeffcolgan.bsky.social, & @fgenovese.bsky.social: goodauthority.org/news/can-cli...

Can climate policies survive the return of Trump? 🎧 Can climate policies survive the return of Trump? Two experts discuss how the U.S. and the world move forward with climate mitigation.

New @goodauth.bsky.social podcast with @fgenovese.bsky.social and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social on how the world moves on with climate motigation in the new Trump era goodauthority.org/news/can-cli...

Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026 Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science/ Ecological transitions in/of Europe and the European Union.

Dear friends,

We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies.

Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;).

www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Managing the geopolitics of Europe’s fossil-fuel exit - Nature Energy As Europe gradually phases out its fossil-fuel imports, some producer economies face rising risks. With careful management, the European Union can turn this shift into an opportunity to advance both climate leadership and geopolitical stability.

In this Comment, Thijs Van de Graaf discusses how the European Union can gradually phases out its fossil-fuel imports to advance both climate leadership and geopolitical stability.

Read about a new report from @climatedevlab.bsky.social, led by IBES Professor @timmonsroberts.bsky.social ⤵️

Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance Global governance initiatives addressing sustainable finance, whether for advancing climate risk disclosure or defining green bond standards, have proliferated for over 20 years. Emblematic of a la...

Overlap and fragmentation in the global governance complex of sustainable finance, by Stefan Renckens & Christian Elliott

Will we ever stop fighting over oil? Podcast Episode · What On Earth · 2026-01-07 · 23m

Check out CSL's Director Jeff Colgan on the latest CBC Radio’s What On Earth podcast as he dives into why oil still fuels conflict, from the U.S.’s recent attack on Venezuela to global geopolitics, and asks if a renewable future might be more peaceful. 🎧🌍
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Trump made a clear choice: return to petro-imperialism Trump made a clear choice: return to petro-imperialism. To understand what just happened in Venezuela, look at oil politics and U.S. foreign policy.

US attack on Venezuela is, among other things, a regrettable turn towards petro-imperialism. My take at @goodauth.bsky.social

goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...

Will we ever stop fighting over oil? Podcast Episode · What On Earth · 2026-01-07 · 23m

I spoke with CBC Radio's _What On Earth_ podcast about the US attack on Venezuela.🛢️🌍🔌🇨🇦🇺🇸🇻🇪
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...

Modelling the impacts of policy sequencing on energy decarbonization - Nature Climate Change Green subsidies (carrots) are now becoming a more politically acceptable climate policy option compared with corrective regulations (sticks). However, researcher show that carrots without quick and ap...

This new paper provides important insights into climate policy sequencing to see if technological investments (ie policy carrots like the Inflation Reduction Act) make punitive policies (ie policy sticks) more effective. Unfortunately, the short answer is: NO. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies

The good news? Nearly all the world’s advanced economies are now *cutting* their emissions, while still growing their economies.

(It had little to do with the Paris agreement per se, though. It was due to better technology.)

The bad news? We need to much more.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Lows of the Trump Administration’s Climate Onslaught The government rolled back progress on the environment in at least 180 ways in 2025, and it’s just getting started.

We’ve made a graphic of just 180 lowlights of Trump's all-of-government attack on climate, giving a sense of how his minions woke each morning in 2025 asking fossil fuels just how high they needed to jump that day

gift link from @opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays The global transition away from fossil fuels is dangerously delayed. While climate delays are a complex issue, the fossil-fuel funded Climate Change C…

".. the Corporate Mapping Project compiled a public database of the 1656 organizations and 44,433 people who make up what we shall now refer to as the Climate Change Counter Movement within Canada."

#Canada
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateDelay

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

MACH Energy v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group — Johnson Legal | Australian Environmental Lawyers In the first High Court of Australia hearing on climate change, Johnson Legal is acting for DAMSHEG defending the landmark decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Denman v MACH Energy. The Court found ...

Well, it’s official.

Johnson Legal is off to the High Court of Australia for the first ever climate case to be heard before the Court.

We are representing Hunter Valley residents defending their win against coal company MACH Energy.

Follow the case here 👇👇👇

www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...

New paper just dropped about sticks and carrots in climate policy: “Policy carrots alone do not dramatically reduce future emissions. Only with policy sticks are there unambiguous signals to substantially shrink the size of incumbent fossil fuel industries.”

North: The Future of Post-Climate America — AMERICA ADAPTS The Climate Change Podcast North: The Future of Post-Climate America. Ep. 243.

New America Adapts pod! 🎧

@keenanclimate.com joins me (again) to talk about his new book, North: The Future of Post-Climate America. It’s not about disasters — it’s about how the U.S. is already changing as we adapt. We also touch on Florida through a fictional chapter set in 2079!

#Adaptation

YouTube video by Jesse M. Keenan North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press, 2025)

JUST RELEASED TODAY: North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press)(Discount Code AUFLY30 for 30% or just email me for a copy) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buo2...

Timing matters: analyzing climate policies and adaptive resilience As the world grapples with the escalating impacts of climate change, a vital question that remains for both scholars and policymakers is not just whether climate policies work, but: when do they ma...

Timing matters… ⏱️
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.

doi.org/10.1080/1469...

It's not every day we get to welcome a totally new clean energy technology into commercial operation. Today on Shift Key, we talk with Eavor Technologies CEO Mark Fitzgerald about how the company brought online the first-ever closed-loop geothermal heat & power project this month in Germany! 🔌💡