Johanna Arlinghaus

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

This story was inspired by a conversation with a fossil fuel exec in Paris a few days after the big outage in Spain. He blamed too much renewable energy as the cause.

Was that really it? Turns out: No.

@npr.org takes you through a new report on what happened + impacts of renewable misinformation.

Cool new AER paper uses data from Clean Air Act offset markets to assess the efficiency of air pollution regulation. The analysis finds that marginal benefits of abatement exceed mean offset prices more than ten-fold, across most regions and pollutants.

Three more weeks to apply for Associate/Full Professor of International Economics at the @hertieschool.bsky.social, joint with @kiel.institute. Come join us and be our new colleague in Berlin! Details below👇🏼

Which policies can support the scaling up of geological carbon removal? Our discussion with Francesca Battersby and Paul Davies, led by Steve Smith, is now online to watch at the link below. Thanks to @co2rehub.bsky.social for the invitation!
@hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesustain.bsky.social

I look forward to presenting our work on policy instruments to support geological carbon dioxide removal this Wednesday, 18 June. Webinar details below, and I look forward to seeing you there!

Student Research Assistant - Climate Politics (gn) part-time (10 hours/week)

We are looking for a student research assistant supporting a quantitative climate politics literature review.
@jacobedenhofer.bsky.social
👇
hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Studie: Menschen arbeiten trotz Grundeinkommens nicht weniger 1.200 Euro monatlich - ohne Bedingungen. Das erhielten Teilnehmer einer deutschlandweiten Studie. Sie zeigt: Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen führt nicht zu weniger Arbeit, sondern zu mehr…

Today, the first results of our 3-year Basic Income Study in Germany were released publicly.
Here some initial press coverage by ARD (In German):
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
More details (and several papers) to come in the coming months - stay tuned!

Reine Männerpodien? Sind wieder ~okayer geworden. Ist doch alles eh schon anstrengend und Frauen sagen immer ab. So hab ich's zuletzt wieder sehr häufig gehört.
Nein. Ist nicht okay.

Und wir werden euch wieder und wieder und wieder und wieder daran erinnern.

what a fantastic resource!

JOB OPPORTUNITY ➤

We are seeking a distinguished and high-impact scholar for a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Social Policy in the @dspi-oxford.bsky.social and Director of the Economics, Inequality & Opportunity (EIO) Programme of @inetoxford.bsky.social

🔗 www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

My understanding is that these projections are based on policies submitted via countries’ NDCs under the Paris Agreement and thus don’t reflect the most recent policy developments. And no, the IPCC AR6 has above 4C warming as worst case, 2.7C is “expected” based on 23/24 policies.

We've reached 1.5°C global warming.
With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming.
A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢Veröffentlichung des Zweijahresgutachtens vom Expertenrat für Klimafragen @expertenratklima.bsky.social: Es gibt Fortschritte beim Klimaschutz, aber der Trend reicht noch nicht für 2030. Verkehrssektor ist Sorgenkind mit steigenden Emissionen.
So weit, so schlecht, so bekannt. Was ist neu?
1/n 👇

Submit to present at the Women in Empirical Microeconomics Conference at UChicago. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me to participate in this great event!

Conference is Aug 21-22. Submission deadline is Feb 28.

Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:

Warum es wichtig ist, sich der unglaublich positiven Entwicklungen der letzten Jahrzehnte bewusst zu sein:

Wenn wir fälschlicherweise denken, dass alles schlechter wird, dann können wir zynisch und hoffnungslos werden – was zu Passivität, aber auch zu Extremismus führen kann.

this is fantastic, thanks so much Pedro!

Here are the first five sets of slides:

01 Introduction: psantanna.com/DiD/01_Intro...

02 Classical 2x2 setup: psantanna.com/DiD/02_two_b...

03 Clustering issues: psantanna.com/DiD/03_Clust...

04 Functional form: psantanna.com/DiD/04_Funct...

05 Covariates: psantanna.com/DiD/05_Covar...

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.
www.nber.org/papers/w33289

Study models of naive social transmission of beliefs!

We are hiring! 🌍 

The #ClimatePolicy team led by @chflachsland.bsky.social is looking for a Doctoral Researcher/Research Associate in multi-level climate governance in Germany.

Learn more here:
hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

It is a while since I posted this, but just your annual reminder that Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) will never scale to compensate all emissions (& it would be a ludicrously expensive alternative to reductions).

If you like your money, then the razor-sharp focus would be on reducing emissions!

Webinar: Carbon Brief journalists discuss COP29’s key outcomes - Carbon Brief Less than 48 hours after the gavel came down at COP29, Carbon Brief ran a webinar to talk through all the key outcomes from the summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

For anyone who missed @carbonbrief.org’s COP29 webinar today, you can now watch a recording on our site ⬇️

www.carbonbrief.org/webinar-carb...

CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2025 Scientific Organizer: Maximilian Auffhammer The scope of relevant topics at this conference is broad, ranging from climate mitigation and adaptation to the study of energy and resource markets as wel...

Dear energy & environmental econ folks,

until Dec 16th you can submit your paper to the CESifo Area Conference in Energy & Climate Economics (14-15 Mar 25)!

Keynote: Ryan Kellogg, Chicago

@auffhammer.bsky.social and I look forward to welcoming you in Munich!

www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Global biodiversity offsetting doesn’t work – keep schemes local, say experts Voluntary standards proposed at Cop16 focus on local like-for-like habitat projects, while critics call the issue a ‘distraction’

“My main concern about biodiversity credits is not that they’re harmful – they can’t do much harm if not many people buy them. My main concern is the way they steal the political discourse & political capital away from more important & impactful solutions.” Sophus zu Ermgassen, University of Oxford

Okay, the first Women in Econ starter pack was such a success that we quickly hit the BlueSky starter pack limit (150 accounts). But, I've got a version 2.0 with even more awesome economists you should follow!

go.bsky.app/J6nhkk7

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

Global CO2 emissions keep going up.

Thanks so much, Riley! I would love to be added

Thank you, super interesting!