PEGO Research Group

Interview in 20 Minuten zum Thema „Ist vegane Ernährung per se besser für Umwelt und Klima?“ 🌱
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Wissenschaftliche Perspektiven zur Bedeutung pflanzenbasierter Ernährung und notwendigem Systemwandel.

Mehr Details und Quellen in meinem LinkedIn-Post: bit.ly/lnkdn-post-2...

FOKUS: Sonia Seneviratne zu den Folgen von Hitzewellen - 10 vor 10 - Play SRF Welche Folgen haben die zunehmenden Hitzewellen? Über Extremwetter und dessen Auswirkungen spricht Sonia Seneviratne live im Studio. Sie ist Professorin und Klimawissenschaftlerin am Institut für Atmo...

Der Juni 2025 war laut Copernicus der heisseste Juni in Westeuropa seit Messbeginn, also seit über 150 Jahren. @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social zu den Folgen von Hitzewellen speziell für die Schweiz im SRF Fokus:
www.srf.ch/play/tv/10-v...

Today, we held a great final advisory board meeting for the interdisciplinary TRAPEGO project on “Transformation in Pesticide Governance" led by Karin Ingold

Lucca Zachmann presented work in the AECP group

Details project trapego.ch/de/

Details AECP work aecp.ethz.ch and agrarpolitik-blog.com

🙏 Thanks to our team & advisory board for the exchange and support.

@unibe.ch, @ipwunibern.bsky.social, @eawag.bsky.social, @ethz.ch, @swisstph.ch, FiBL

🌿 How can we transform pesticide governance for a more sustainable future?

Monday was the final advisory board meeting of the TRAPEGO project, led by @kariningold.bsky.social — wrapping up 4+ years of research across science, policy & practice.

Read more on the project:
🔗 trapego.ch/de/

🎉 Congratulations - The paper that started as a @pego-group.bsky.social collaboration is now published — a systematic review on plastic policy in Regional Environmental Change.
🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10113-024-02177-x

🌱 What happens when new issues—like food waste or AMR—hit the agenda with no clear policies yet?

This chapter introduces:
✔️ Concept of nascent subsystems
✔️ Typology of belief systems & coordination patterns
✔️ 3 Swiss cases
✔️ Reflections on studying uncertain, early-stage policy processes

The Advocacy Coalition Framework This open access book provides an updated and integrated analysis of the Advocacy Coalition Framework, more than thirty years after its conception.

📘 New book chapter out now! @kariningold.bsky.social, Ruth Wiedemann & Manuel Fischer, together with Frédéric Varone, contribute to The Advocacy Coalition Framework (2025).

🔗 Chapter: Analyzing Beliefs and Coordination in Nascent Policy Subsystems
🔗 Book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The article introduces a typology of three collaboration types:
1. Common base
2. Common destination
3. Sequential link

🧠 Key insights:
✔️ No one-size-fits-all model
✔️ Reflection improves the research design and process
✔️ Institutions should reward collaboration (also at early career stages)

🚀 New publication in Sustainability Science!

PEGO’s Ueli Reber & Milena Wiget, with Benjamin Hofmann, Priska Ammann, Julia Dötzer, Jennifer Mark, Chloe McCallum & Lucca Zachmann, explore how interdisciplinary research unfolds in practice 🌱

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My field trip to Bhutan comes to an end. I am impressed by this beautiful and peaceful country. What I learnt in a nutshell: 🚨more coordination across the levels and strict policies 📚, more education and awareness, and 💰 funding to support the private sector are needed to mitigate plastic pollution.

#POLITKOLUMNE: What are the political consequences of natural disasters like the devastating glacier collapse in #Blatten?

@kariningold.bsky.social et al. show: Severe economic damage is necessary but not sufficient for polisky change. Reform-minded actors are needed www.derbund.ch/naturkatastr...

Cumulate knowledge at science-policy interfaces to inform policy Identifying opportunities from an interface perspective

Read the short version in their new blog post & the long version in their new article published in Environmental Policy and Governance:

🔗 Blog: transforming-evidence.org/blog/cumulat...
📄 Article: doi.org/10.1002/eet....

🧠 How can we better cumulate knowledge at science–policy interfaces?
In their article, Benjamin Hofmann, Manuel Fischer, @kariningold.bsky.social, Eva Lieberherr and Sabine Hoffmann argue that publishing isn’t enough—SPIs must actively integrate, synthesize & translate knowledge to inform policy.

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Our @pego-group.bsky.social members @marlenekammerer.bsky.social & Dechen Lham are currently on a field trip in Bhutan 🇧🇹 as part of their new SNIS project on Investigating Effective Solutions to Regulate Plastics.

Stay tuned for insights from the field! 🌍🧭

Big thanks to the organizers at the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research & all who made it such a thoughtful, energizing space 💬💡

#AcademicLife #ClimateResearch #EarlyCareerResearchers #WritingProductivity #MentalHealth #Resilience #TeamScience

Last week, Laurie, Annika & @maikenmelanie.bsky.social from @pego-group.bsky.social joined the Oeschger Young Researchers Meeting 🌍

2 days of inspiring input & exchange on often-overlooked essentials:
✍️ Writing habits
🗂️ Project & team management
🧘‍♀️ Resilience & well-being

Under which conditions do extreme events support a paradigm shift? Studying focusing events during two centuries of Swiss flood risk management - Regional Environmental Change Extreme weather events affect many areas around the world. How a country or region reacts to it can take many forms. In this article, we concentrate on policy responses, as typically found in laws, ac...

Es gibt sehr interessante Studien von Prof. @kariningold.bsky.social @pego-group.bsky.social dazu, unter welchen Bedingungen Naturkatastrophen in der Schweiz zu politischem Wandel führen: grosser finanzieller Schaden und eine veränderungswillige Akteurskonstellation link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations 🥳

Join us on 11 June for a hybrid event of the "#Gender Lecture Series 2025, with Prof. Susan Harris Rimmer!!
Co-organized @iirprague.bsky.social with @elisafornale.bsky.social (@wti.bsky.social @unibe.ch)!

⏰ 11 June-12.30 CEST
🏠 @wti.bsky.social
✍️ form.jotform.com/251243521522...

Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: @sonjablum.bsky.social and @evrop-anka.bsky.social will talk about #emotions in #publicpolicy and present finding from their research project (cidape.eu). Join us!!

🗓: Monday, June 2, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET
✍: sign up FREE: ecpr.eu/Events/316

Great list, you could also add OCCR and PEGO Research group members @marlenekammerer.bsky.social, @maikenmelanie.bsky.social as well as @maxrud.bsky.social and @brueckmann.bsky.social

Abstract: Representative democracies, with their tendency toward skewed representation and the discounting of future costs, struggle to adopt ambitious climate policies. This opens space for additional legitimation channels, such as expert commissions and citizens’ assemblies. Through conjoint survey experiments in Germany and the US, we show that citizens support ambitious climate policies more when proposed by these institutions rather than the government. Germans favor proposals from both experts and citizens, while Americans prefer expert-backed policies, even when they involve higher carbon taxes. Our findings further suggest that expert commissions can foster greater acceptance of specific climate policies, such as support for low-carbon products and industries, among both left- and right-wing voters. However, neither expert commissions nor citizens’ assemblies reduce polarization on policies with more visible costs like carbon taxes. Additionally, semi-structured interviews and survey data from Germany provide further insights into legitimation channels. Combining representative, technocratic, and deliberative approaches appears promising for advancing legitimate and ambitious climate policies.

New article!

Legitimizing climate action: citizens, experts, and the limits of representative democracy, by Lukas Paul Fesenfeld, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social Lennart Kuntze, and @kariningold.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

‚Why farmers are beginning to take their government to court over climate change‘

In a new paper in @nature.com we analyze how a Swiss lawsuit is recasting agriculture’s role in climate policy. Led by @charlotteblattner.bsky.social with @kariningold.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We are already looking forward to it 😊

Here is an excellent thread by @pego-group.bsky.social on what we did and what we found! bsky.app/profile/pego... polisky

PUBLICATION DAY🚨!

What role do institutions play in shaping public policy?

We bridge two foundational polisky pillars:
policy process🤝 institutional theories

Grateful to @kariningold.bsky.social et al. for such an inspiring collab! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @epa-journal.bsky.social

The vertical policy harmonization indices: assessing the gap between climate mitigation pledges and policies The effectiveness of the Paris Agreement in achieving its global temperature goal relies on countries adopting ambitious mitigation targets and introducing corresponding measures. But do countries ...

Good article about how to measure the distance between countries' commitments on climate mitigation and the policy mixes actually deployed

Jack Baker, Marlene Kammerer, Paula Castro & Karin Ingold

Climate policy
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....