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New Nature paper "Majority support for global redistributive & climate policies" www.nature.com/articles/s41... cites "Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, & Why?" @dcuclimate.bsky.social @dcu-conflict.bsky.social @greendealnet.eu @retoolproject.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on the theoretical, ...

New Special Issue 'The External Dimensions of the European Green Deal' by @greendealnet.eu: link.springer.com/journal/1078... @simonohnen.bsky.social @earsomj.bsky.social @claraweller.bsky.social ‪‪‪@buzogany.bsky.social @cladupont.bsky.social @gorandominioni.bsky.social @retoolproject.bsky.social

War & warming: Emissions from conflict in Gaza already higher than what 36 countries & territories emit in a year Israel's 15-month war on Gaza has caused unprecedented loss of lives and infrastructure, and has also led to massive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from direct

''emissions from military conflict remain mostly invisible in international climate negotiations and national inventories.'' It is important to report the military and confict emmisions under the UNFCCC.

#climate #ghg #war #unfccc

www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...

📍 1st day of partners meeting at Ghent University

💡Partners gathered to discuss the project's progress and the upcoming work.

The sessions spark valuable exchanges on collaboration and impact.

#EU #HorizonEurope #RetoolProject #climate #democracy #climatedemocracy

The EU's strategic dialogues — are they just 'participation washing'? Most dialogues have taken place behind closed doors, with minimal public information about the agenda, participants, or outcomes. With no detailed records and no clear reporting, the public is left in...

The EU’s #StrategicDialogues could boost #democracy but suffer from corporate dominance, lack of transparency & performative debates. The 2024 #AgricultureDialogue succeeded—why isn’t the #EU replicating it?

Read our consortium partners' article here
euobserver.com/eu-political...

“Rest Is Resistance”: Making Climate Activism Sustainable Can storytelling and a realisation of our limitations help keep climate justice hopes alive against the odds?

“We tend to find it hard to imagine a different world… But I think it’s really important to imagine what climate justice would look and feel like”

#climate #activism #climateactivism

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/rest-is-resi...

Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes - Nature Climate models, impact models and demographic data are used to estimate the number of people projected to experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to extreme climate events across multiple dimension...

From @nature.com: New research shows that with every increment of global warming, the number of people facing unprecedented lifetime exposure to crop failures, droughts, floods, wildfires, and cyclones increases sharply. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Children drink water from a pipeline in the village of Afraaga, Somaliland. Credit: Joe Giddens / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Children born in 2020 will face ‘unprecedented exposure’ to climate extremes | @AyeshaTandon w/ comment from Luke Grant, Kaveh Madani, @harrinluke.bsky.social @marinaromanello.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/Qxw80Un

Climate change: Children suffer the most Millions of children will be affected in unprecedented ways by heat waves, crop failures, river flooding, droughts, forest fires and tropical storms during their lifetime under current climate policy ...

🚨 Research by VUB and ETH Zurich shows millions of children will suffer most from heatwaves, crop failures, floods, fires and storms due to climate change. We must act now to protect their future!

➡️ go.ethz.ch/2i

YouTube video by ACHIEVE What is Voluntary Climate Action?

🌱 Voluntary climate action is about leading with purpose not obligation.
Excited to share a glimpse of our new synergy with the @retoolproject.bsky.social 🌍
www.youtube.com/shorts/5XdUT...

#ClimateJustice #horizoneurope
#voluntaryclimateaction #netzero​ #achieveproject #highintegrity

🌍 NEW Bruegel Blueprint: Green intersections

In the decade since the 2015 Paris Agreement, what has been the outcome of greening in public policy, and is it threatened by a divisive geopolitical environment?

🖊️ With contributions from 16 experts
📕 www.bruegel.org/book/green-i...
#EconSky

A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority

💡𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Why do people support green policies? how can leaders build trust?
✅Democracy works when citizens engage and governments listen

#Climate #Democracy #Retool #climatedemocracy

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What do we want? Climate justice! - Environment and Climate Politics | BISA - Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

New blog by @guyjackson.bsky.social!

"to ensure that climate justice becomes more than just an empty phrase, it is important to unearth and critique what it...means for advocates and the assumptions, strategies and tactics that underpin their theories of change"

www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/wha...

𝐓𝐡𝐞 #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭: 𝐀𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

An interesting article about #ClimatePopulism

👉https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-populism-is-coming-but-not-the-way-progressives-think/

This #EarthDay, the call for collective action is clearer than ever.

From policy shifts to grassroots innovation, meaningful change starts with commitment, not just today, but every day.

🌍 The future of our planet depends on the choices we make now.

sustainabilitymag.com/articles/ear...

✅The KlimaSeniorinnen case didn’t just win, it rewrote the rules.

⚖️ For the first time, an international court held a state accountable for climate inaction under #ΗumanRights law, an important moment for global #ClimateLitigation

Read more👉
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 𝐍𝐞𝐰 #RetoolProject 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫!

Read about project updates, publications and new research from our consortium partners!

𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐰: lnkd.in/dc-7VNbz

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🔔𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞: retoolproject.eu

#EU #HorizonEurope #RetoolProject #climate #democracy #climatedemocracy

Justice must be seen to be done, so why is it hidden? EU environmental laws are a vital tool to tackle the triple, but EU governments are failing to implement the laws they themselves made.

People deserve to know what their governments are, and aren’t, doing 🔍

Yet it’s currently impossible to effectively monitor EU government's daily failure to implement environmental laws.

Read on to discover how transparency is the key to ensuring EU law enforcement 👉 meta.eeb.org/2025/03/18/j...

💡 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 #𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠?

EU Green Deal progress: 32/154 targets on track, 64 need acceleration, 15 lagging.
It highlights key sectors and calls for urgent action to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

👉 dx.doi.org/10.2760/3105...

#retool #EU #climate #democracy #horizonEU

Rebalancing Democracy and Capitalism: A Critical Dialogue Conference | Rebalance The Rebalance project invites scholars to participate in an in-depth meeting at the University of Pisa, exploring the tensions and possibilities at the intersection of democracy and capitalism. The re...

📢 #𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭!

𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 #𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 & #𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐀 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞
🗓️ Sept 16-18, 2025

Explore the tensions between democracy & capitalism in a world reshaped by inequality, corporate power, and democratic backsliding.

📝 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: rebalanceproject.org/events/rebal...

📢 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐮𝐦!

Read the special issue "𝐓𝐡𝐞 #𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲" here 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/geui20/4...

💡It is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of #ClimateAction and #Democracy in Europe.

#EU #RetoolProject #climate #climatedemocracy

🎯Last week, the #RetoolProject consortium came together to review progress across ongoing work. We dedicated time to discuss our empirical research, fostering collaboration and strengthening our collective impact.

Stay tuned for exciting updates!
#HorizonEurope #climatedemocracy
retoolproject.eu

✅ A new study by Vlad Surdea-Hernea, Attack on Climate: The Persistent Effects of Authoritarianism on Climate Policy Equilibria," explores how historical authoritarianism continues to influence climate policy and public attitudes, even after democratization.
#RetoolProject

👉 shorturl.at/HJLqF

💡𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭?

🟢 Research by Dr. Farsan Ghassim & Dr. @markuspauli.bsky.social shows global majorities support a democratic world government to tackle climate change, poverty & peace.

👉 doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

Blog: shorturl.at/pxdxT

#RetoolProject #ClimateDemocracy

@granthamlse.bsky.social

✅ Stakeholder Event: Climate Democracy in the EU.

RETOOL project workshop at LSE explored courts & advisory bodies’ roles in #ClimateGovernance.

Key topics: #ClimateLitigation, #DemocraticGovernance, and resilience amid political challenges.

🔗Learn more: retoolproject.eu
#RetoolProject

💡 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲?

🟢The #ClimateCrisis is more than an environmental challenge. It’s a chance to innovate #Democracy

✔️Follow us to learn more about the #RetoolProject!

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#EU #HorizonEurope #RetoolProject #climate #climatedemocracy

Planet-warming carbon dioxide levels rose more than ever in 2024 The record rise is incompatible with keeping global warming to 1.5C according to the Met Office.

🟢The rapid rise in CO2 levels and record global temperatures underline the importance of climate democracy.

🟢Inclusive decision-making can help drive effective action toward meeting global climate targets.

#ClimateDemocracy #RETOOLproject

Climate change: what the latest science is telling us After another record-breaking year for global temperatures in 2024, pressure is rising on policymakers to step up efforts to curb climate change.

👉The latest climate science reveals alarming trends:

🟢 Global warming is accelerating, potentially surpassing 𝟏.𝟓°𝐂.
🟢Oceans are heating, fuelling extreme weather.
🟢 Coral reefs face irreversible mass bleaching.

Strong #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 is essential for inclusive and effective solutions.