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Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’
25.10.2025 21:54 — 👍 141 🔁 54 💬 5 📌 10
Flooding has already wiped $42B from the value of 🇦🇺 homes
Climate change isn’t a future cost. It’s here, harming our economy and our safety
We can’t keep ✅ fossil fuel projects at expense of communities & property values, and need to get serious about adaptation
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team of postdocs in the lab meeting proposing the 15th joint paper when I ask them when we will find time to write it
16.10.2025 11:56 — 👍 47 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.
15.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 1Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research.
Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊
Abstract of "Offshore Outlaws" paper by Calacino, Genovese and Pring: Globalization has led to various forms of international integration whose effect on environmental behavior has been a long-standing source of debate. Yet, in recent years, there has been a growing backlash against international institutions, in part motivated by the will of taking back control of national borders. Focusing on the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, this paper explores the effects of this type of backlash on firms' environmental standards. Despite being defined as a sovereignist project to enhance state power and national regulatory oversight, we argue that Brexit caused immediate suboptimal environmental outcomes. Specifically, Brexit created policy misalignment, pushing the UK regulators into a capacity vacuum. This led to a transition period of impunity for polluting firms, further catalyzed by accelerating market changes, which led firms with lower environmental compliance to sort into the market. We test our theory with evidence from the oil sector's offshore rigs in the North Sea between 2015 and 2023. A grid-cell analysis of satellite-detected oil spills compares firm behavior in the United Kingdom, European Union, and Norwegian jurisdictions. We first find that, after Brexit, UK waters experienced significantly less environmental protection compared to the EU and Norway. Additionally, we show that the environmental damages following Brexit are not associated to a decrease of UK public salience for environmental protection, but by a new ecosystem of firms that were allowed to reap short-term profits from Brexit.
Looking forward to hopping on a train later today and heading to Paris to present our "how Brexit harmed the environment" paper (cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social) tomorrow 🇫🇷
Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!
Daniel Totabo fishes for eel in the Halmahera rainforest
Nickel mines enroach on the rainforest in central Halmahera
New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2
Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community
Photographed: Daniel Totabo
Psyched for @acalacino.bsky.social and @hayleypring.bsky.social to present our media paper at PECE/APSA!
Come for the giant dataframe of local news, geolocated monthly climate events and coal mines
Stay for the wealth of stories from recent 🇧🇷🇮🇩 fieldwork
Enrage about asset-based climate politics
On my way to Vancouver for APSA and the PECE pre-conference. At PECE, I'll be sharing a look at a project with @fgenovese.bsky.social, @hayleypring.bsky.social & Mats Ahrenshop in which we try to understand when national and local media report on climate change 👇 1/5
09.09.2025 19:14 — 👍 27 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show
04.09.2025 15:04 — 👍 28 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 7
Today’s podcast listen was the Drilled’s episodes on Carbon Bros. Important stuff.
@hayleypring.bsky.social @hannahsalamon.bsky.social and I have work in progress on the intersection between gender and preferences for green jobs, and many things resonate.
Research registration plan: osf.io/qw2xs
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NSW battles heavy rain and flooding as Sydney experiences wettest August for ‘quite some time’
21.08.2025 01:36 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
August rain records smashed across NSW as thunderstorms and more rain loom in final week
23.08.2025 02:52 — 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
Greenpeace HQ in Indonesia.
Skyline of Jakarta, Indonesia
Fieldwork in Indonesia off to a good start (by start I mean finally feeling human after 48 hours of jet lag) @fgenovese.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social
21.08.2025 01:15 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Australian PM Anthony Albanese announces Australia will recognise Palestine in September.
11.08.2025 11:20 — 👍 626 🔁 98 💬 30 📌 9Nice, thanks Jacob!
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Clean energy subsidies should be replaced with ‘market-based incentives’ from 2030, Australia’s Productivity Commission says: Interim report on investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation sets out reforms Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Ge...
04.08.2025 00:37 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Great thoughts by @bhbradlow.bsky.social that resonate with our (@acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social & my) work in GS.
But the divide bw 🛢️ & ⚡️ in each of these countries (bar China?) is still not 💯 determined. Each has an internal battle going on, multidirectional switches are possible.
Interesting.
Another story I’ll raise here is smtg @hayleypring.bsky.social @hannahsalamon.bsky.social and I have seen in our working age UK survey (N=1.5k):
men (non-grad&grad) seek higher paid jobs and would rather have high-pay in fossil fuels (dying sector) than midpay in green jobs (growing).
This is your periodic reminder that “The Great Emu War” is a real thing.
It consisted of a military operation to address emus damaging large amounts of crops in Western Australia.
We couldn’t help but wonder: Does it count as a war if one side has wings instead of arms?
When The Tail Wags The Dog: Climate Exposure and News Media Behavior in the Global South by Ahrenshop, Calacino, Genovese and Pring
Not at #EPSA2025 but there in spirit in an excellent panel on “The Political Economy of Climate Change & The Environment in the Global South” (tnx @melinscribe.bsky.social for chairing)
Room: 1.A.06
Time: 26/6 9:30
We’re presenting a first draft on media, event attribution and climate obfuscation⬇️
9 years ago today, Brexit day. Commiserations to all who are still mad about it.
Looking for ways to feed your outrage?
Here's a 🪡 to a paper on how the immediate aftermath of the 🇪🇺 referendum unleashed very dark behavior in one of the hardest sectors to regulate -- UK offshore oil drilling 🌊🛢️💸
My Climate Vulnerability Project postdocs: @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social and Mats Ahrenshop, who are all incredibly smart, motivated, and just fun to work with 🌟🌟🌟
Also, breaking news: looking forward for @susannagarside.bsky.social to join as fourth postdoc in September!
Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.
Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats
10.06.2025 23:56 — 👍 860 🔁 163 💬 16 📌 21Spent so many summers diving the Ningaloo reef, this is so sad.
06.06.2025 20:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract of "Offshore Outlaws: Brexit and Oil Spills in the North Sea" by Anthony Calacino, Federica Genovese, Hayley Pring (University of Oxford)
🚨 WP w/ @acalacino.bsky.social & @hayleypring.bsky.social
It’s been a turbulent decade of globalization backlash. Populist projects wanna take back control everywhere.
Focusing on the case of oil and Brexit, we offer a story of the danger of this narrative and concrete merits of multilateralism: 🧵
Not the first question, but among the questions here - what does the LNP stance mean for national renewables + emissions targets?
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