Linus Mattauch

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Zach Parolin Appointed Oxford Professor of Social Policy, Inequality… Zach Parolin will direct the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Programme at INET Oxford, which seeks to understand the drivers and implications of…

This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll also become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a Professorial Fellow.

EU\'s Climate Law presents a new way to get to 2040 The European Commission today proposed an amendment to the EU Climate Law, setting a 2040 EU climate target of 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, compared to 1990 levels, as requeste...

1/5 Today, we propose a 90% cut in emissions by 2040

🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

🧵 Sündenbock Klimapolitik? Klimaschutz wird zuletzt oft für Wettbewerbsverluste, Deindustrialisierung & Wohlstandseinbußen verantwortlich gemacht.

In @politischemeinung.bsky.social argumentieren wir: Das ist irreführend. Aus mindestens 3 Gründen führt an einem ehrgeizigen Klimakurs kein Weg vorbei.

🏆𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘆🏆

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 European Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Forty: Linus Mattauch (TU Berlin & Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

https://eaere-conferences.org/index.php?p=515

#EAERE2025 is here! This morning, we already had an excellent pre-EAERE workshop on Climate Policy in Low-and Middle Income countries. Now, I am looking forward to an interesting conference and meeting many old friends and making new ones @eaere.bsky.social

Or the national focus of media is restricting the options discussed by societies. Perhaps also vested interests explain the lack of policy supply if there is policy demand. In any case, the real reason why we see not more global climate action is not the view of the people. (6/6)

All methods suggest that the support is either completely sincere, or the share of insincere answers is limited. Perhaps, then, politicians who wish to advance climate action underestimate the support in the population.

We found that surprising and hence used several methods to assess the sincerity of the support: a list experiment, a real-stake petition, conjoint analyses and an exercise involving the prioritization of policies.

Why do we not see more global climate change mitigation policy then? We hypothesized “pluralistic ignorance” (that is people underestimate that other people also like policies) – but only found a bit of that in Europe and essentially none of it in the US.

We document majority support of Global North populations for global emissions trading with equal-per-capita refund.

That’s right: Even if the Global North populations would pay and the Global South would benefit, Global North citizens still strongly support it. @tuberlin.bsky.social ky.social

Some good news about climate change for the weekend: For mitigation, the people are not the problem – at least not for global approaches with redistribution. See our new paper, led by @adrien-fabre.bsky.social , www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nathumbehav.nature.com @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (1/6)

Equity prices, market power, and optimal corporate tax policy We study the optimal design of corporate tax policy in a textbook life-cycle model featuring two key deviations: (i) firms are imperfectly competitive…

Reposting with correct handle this time...With
@nacho2g.bsky.social and Juan Montecino, our latest in European Economic Review on optimal corporate tax policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Titel des Standpunkts von Linus Mattauch, Arbeitgsgruppenleiter am Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) und Juniorprofessor an der TU Berlin: "Ökonomischer Klimaschutz ist populärer als gedacht – solange er global vereinbart wird" aus dem aktuellen Briefing Energie & Klima.

#Klimaschutz hat es politisch derzeit schwer. Andere Krisen beschäftigen die Gesellschaft, und die globale Kooperation zur Einhaltung planetarer Grenzen erscheint beschädigt, so @linusmattauch.bsky.social vom @pik-potsdam.bsky.social 👉 is.gd/g4mMKa

Keine Angst vor Bürgerinnen und Bürgern: @linusmattauch.bsky.social im ausführlichen Interview über die Ergebnisse der heute veröffentlichten Studie zur Akzeptanz globaler #Klimapolitik 👇
www.deutschlandfunk.de/klimaschutz-...

Coming up on Thursday 29 May 2025 @14:00 BST, @linusmattauch.bsky.social on 'New thinking on climate change policy and endogenous preferences' 🔗 www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/inet-...

Looking forward to an insightful discussion on the future of EU climate policy for
@jungeakademie.bsky.social

and with the Young Academies of Ireland, Italy and Sweden and the Global Young Academy, on May 27 (register under link 👇)

www.diejungeakademie.de/en/events/kl...

Now out, a compilation of my writing on inequality and what we can do about it. Published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Available to order and will ship on April 6: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

@niallfarrell.bsky.social @sverigesungaakademi.se @yai.ie

Looking forward to an insightful discussion on the future of EU climate policy for
@jungeakademie.bsky.social

and with the Young Academies of Ireland, Italy and Sweden and the Global Young Academy, on May 27 (register under link 👇)

www.diejungeakademie.de/en/events/kl...

‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

“Our job is to evaluate science and evaluate it in an unbiased fashion,” Dr. Rubin said. “That’s what we do and I think we do it well. The questions seem to suggest that there’s some bias in what we do — that’s where the vaguely threatening part comes in.”

@nejm.org

‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it? Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattle

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In die Luft gestreckte, mit einem Seil gefesselte Hand. Sie hält einen Bleistift in der Faust. Schwarzer Hintergrund. credits: spukkato @ iStock.

Mitglieder der Jungen Akademie veröffentlichen Maßnahmen zum Schutz der #Wissenschaftsfreiheit.
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Autor*innen:
@andreabinder.bsky.social, Radin Dardashti, Racha Kirakosian, Kornelia Kończal, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Doris Segets

Hier lesen: rb.gy/4hy0kc
#AcademicFreedom #StandUpForScience

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER!

With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.

In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

#Koalitionsvertrag: ich bin gespannt, wie man genau "Preissprünge im #ETS2 vermeiden" will. Will man auf EU-Ebene noch mal das ETS2 Paket aufmachen? Und will man auch Preissprünge nach unten vermeiden, zb über einen nationalen #Mindestpreis? Denn 2026 haben wir national schon einen Preis von 65€...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

EU climate Advisory Board to publish new report on carbon dioxide removals on 21 February

On 21 Feb, the @esabcc.bsky.social will release a report on how to support a rapid and sustainable scale up of #carbon dioxide removals to reach EU climate targets. Webinar on 25 Feb, sign up here: climate-advisory-board.europa.eu/news/eu-clim... #EUClimateAction #ClimateNeutrality #CarbonRemoval

Konzernchefs warnen vor "Zunahme fremdenfeindlicher Positionen" Für die Chefs von Siemens, Mercedes-Benz und Deutscher Bank ist klar: Ohne stabile Demokratie gibt es kein Wachstum und keinen Wohlstand. In einem gemeinsamen Aufruf warnen sie vor einer Zunahme von N...

www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/k...