Florian Landis

Consumption-based responsibility for global warming and the distribution of impacts of swiss climate policy - Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Different consumption patterns have been linked to different levels of responsibility for current greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, and it is well established that the affluent are responsible for highe...

Meinen Artikel im Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics findet man hier: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Ich verstehe, dass der Geldbeschaffungsmechanismus der Initiative (die Erbschaftssteuer) in der öffentlichen Diskussion höhere Wellen schlägt, aber ich finde es gut, sich bewusst zu sein, wie die Verantwortung für Klimawandel verteilt ist, um sich ein vollständiges Bild der Initiative zu machen.

Faktencheck: Hängt Vermögen in der Schweiz mit dem CO₂-Ausstoss zusammen? Die reichsten Haushalte in der Schweiz verursachen mehr Emissionen als ärmere Haushalte. Aber nicht in allen Bereichen. Was eine aktuelle Schweizer Studie über Klima und Einkommen zeigt.

@steffischnydrig.bsky.social diskutiert im verlinkten Zeitungsartikel in der Luzerner Zeitung, wie man anhand meiner Studienergebnisse über die Klimaseite der @jusoschweiz.bsky.social-Initiative «Initiative für eine Zukunft» nachdenken kann.
www.luzernerzeitung.ch/leben/co-emi...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Finland has a goal to be net zero GHG emissions by 2035.

Emissions were declining, the LULUCF removals were strong, the plan was looking good, but then LULUCF collapsed.

Net GHG emissions have actually risen over the last decade!

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Kimmel will probably quadruple his net worth in Federal Court.

New article: sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10....

@florian-landis.bsky.social examines how different consumption goods contribute to household-level responsibility for global greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland and explores climate policies that create equitable outcomes.

#EconSky

Betting on hydrogen as the key solution for decarbonising industry looks increasingly like a very bad idea.

Yes we will need to replace grey and black hydrogen used as feedstock with clean hydrogen but as a fuel the economics look terrible.

Steve Shirley countered sexism by founding her own company The refugee, entrepreneur and philanthropist died on August 9th, aged 91

When she reached London in 1939, rescued from Germany, she resolved to make hers a life worth saving. She would fritter none of it away. We remember the refugee who made billions in software

How we made it: southern Europe’s wildfire summer Guide to the climate graphic of the week

How we made it: southern Europe’s wildfire summer on.ft.com/4oOoNa4

As long as you don't open them it's on them...

An electric utility's email alert program appears to reduce peak demand and provides significant private savings to the utility. Social savings, however, are small, from @GibMetcalf.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34089

In the case of GHG pricing, revenue is generated that can be redistributed in a progressive way. All in all, I find distributional issues to be no argument against CO2 or GHG pricing.

If climate policies for reaching net-zero make consumer prices increase with emissions reductions, these direct costs will impact low-income households most. But the literature shows that there are also indirect costs (changes in wages etc.) that counterbalance this trend.

I find that there are some consumption categories that climate policy could focus on first to make sure that the rich "do their fair share" (looking at you, #aviation), but we will not reach net-zero with addressing only emissions from those consumption categories.

Consumption-based responsibility for global warming and the distribution of impacts of swiss climate policy - Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics Different consumption patterns have been linked to different levels of responsibility for current greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, and it is well established that the affluent are responsible for highe...

Publication alert:
I look at how consumption based responsibility for global warming is distributed across the Swiss population (others have done that before me). Then, I discuss what the consequences of this for climate policy may be.
doi.org/10.1186/s419...

#ClimateSky #EnergySky

EU's pledge for $250 billion of US energy imports is delusional There are strong echoes of Donald Trump's failed trade deal with China from his first term as U.S. president in the framework agreement reached with the European Union.

Eine gute Analyse, warum eine Umsetzung des Energie-Deals zwischen der EU und den USA praktisch unmöglich ist: www.reuters.com/business/ene...

This reiterates the point I’ve made a few times on here: the US’s loss will be other countries’ gain, but overall it will be an enormous loss. There is no other country that can replicate the US research investment or environment, and the primary brain drain will be out of research, not overseas.

Been following the energy sector pretty closely since 2010. Really wouldn’t have believed this back in 2019.

😆 auch Gedanken sind frei. Warum sollten sich dritte Gedanken darüber machen, worüber man sich Gedanken zu machen hat und worüber nicht?

weil Runterkühlen auf 20º Celsius unnötig ist und viel mehr Energie verbraucht als wenn nur auf 25º gekühlt wird

A bar chart comparing two financial figures from 2023. On the left, a blue bar labeled "Global transaction costs for money sent home by international migrants" measures $51 billion. On the right, a taller teal bar labeled "Foreign aid from the United States" measures $66 billion. The chart title indicates that global migrant transfer fees nearly matched total U.S. foreign aid in 2023. The data source information notes the OECD from 2024 and the World Bank from 2025, and it explains that "foreign aid" refers to net official development assistance. The graphic has a "CC BY" copyright indication.

Transfer fees for money sent home by international migrants were nearly as high as US foreign aid in 2023

Modern academic publishing means I don’t have access to the published version of my own paper. 🥲

We need to teach students that LLMs are bullshit -- that is, they have no concept of true or false -- and to critically read every single sentence.

My students find this very hard. The human mind equates perfect and confident prose with intellect, intelligence and integrity.

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Oh, schon geflickt. Jetzt heisst es «Gegenzölle angekündigt»

SRF News behauptet, «China beginnt mit dem Handelskrieg».

Nein, @srfnews.bsky.social, ich glaube nicht dass man sagen kann, dass China das angefangen hat

Emissions reductions + CCS > only emissions reductions according to current NDCs > only CCS

(Also: CO₂ > CO2 > CO₂)

I actually love this because it so succinctly captures the entire MO of this administration and this party — “some people said things that made me feel bad about my beliefs and my actions and my place in this world, so now I’m entitled to cause mass destruction and material suffering”

Well, I read about "fewer traffic-related casualties."

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