Climate Policy

Distributional concerns above all? Exploring perceptions of the fairness and effectiveness of demand-side push measures in leisure air travel

🔓 ✈️ How do we make #climatepolicies fair and effective?

💚 Ringhofer et al. @uni-graz.at find that perceived fairness, especially distributional fairness, is crucial for public acceptance of demand-side push policies in leisure air travel ⬇️

A new lever for climate-consistent banking

🏦 As COP30 kicks off, read Anne Kervers' analysis of the rules & practices that govern commercial, ethical & promotional bank lending, spotlighting overlooked financial tools for aligning credit portfolios. Equity differences shape financial barriers to heat grid lending, the empirical referent ⬇️

Climate Policy, Volume 25, Issue 9 (2025)

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 9 is out now, with the latest on #climatejustice, #adaptation #finance allocation, translating #emissions targets into policy, #carbonmarkets, #justtransition & much more💥

💡 Insights from @marthewens.bsky.social @yarime.bsky.social @chantal-st.bsky.social & more⬇️

Incentive effects of climate change health adaptation policy on the capital market: evidence from China

🚑 Hu et al. develop an innovative assessment model of #climatechange health #adaptation (CCHA) policy impacts on the healthcare stock market within an integrated macro-micro research framework, theoretically expanding the boundaries of economic evaluations of climate policies⬇️

Can government environmental auditing promote local low-carbon innovation? Evidence from China

🇨🇳 Government environmental auditing promotes local #lowcarbon innovation, strengthening government environmental regulation & mitigating the constraining effect of weak rule of law, find Liu et al. in new study from China ⬇️

Transformative transparency in the EU and UNFCCC? Assessing the perceived influence of reporting and review on climate policy in Finland

🔓 International transparency arrangements are often expected to benefit national-level policymaking. Yet, reporting and review are perceived to mainly support minor policy changes, find Pietarila, @harrovanasselt.bsky.social et al. @fiia.fi, with limited influence on policy instruments & goals ⬇️

Toward a fossil free research norm in Dutch higher education

🔓 🇳🇱 Higher education institutions are increasingly severing research ties with the #fossilfuel industry. This "fossil free research" (FFR) norm has been heavily contested - read @mathieublondeel.bsky.social @ppattberg.bsky.social @ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social analysis of the dynamics at play ⬇️

Inflation, public attention allocation, and psychological distance to climate change

📈 High inflation tends to reduce public attention to #climatechange, finds Théophile Bassène @upecofficiel.bsky.social. As a result, environmental policies are generally more successful during periods of low or moderate inflation 🌱 ⬇️

Opening the hood: a critical assessment of European renewable hydrogen trucking policies

🚚 🇪🇺 Powering road freight in the EU with #renewable #hydrogen is unlikely to help reach #NetZero objectives, find Lafaille & Vernay. The European Commission should:

➡️ Fix several methodological errors in its policy framework
➡️ Focus on other road freight #decarbonization levers

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Weathering storms and policies: the vulnerable voyage of inner Mongolian herders amidst climate and policy shifts

❗ Inner Mongolian herders are increasingly vulnerable to #climatechange due to government policies that restrict their movement, exclude them from environmental discourse & limit their traditional #adaptation strategies, finds Ruona Qi - a more inclusive, cooperative model is needed⬇️

The responsibility of investor-owned carbon majors to contribute to direct air carbon capture and storage investment Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) options are critical for achieving global climate objectives. Yet, many proposed removal technologies are in their formative phase. Significant near-term investments ar...

The world’s largest fossil fuel and cement companies should shoulder a major share of the investment needed to develop carbon removal technologies, according to a new peer-reviewed study in @climate-policy.bsky.social. #carbonmajors #CDR #climatepolicy

The responsibility of investor-owned carbon majors to contribute to direct air carbon capture and storage investment

❗ Large investor-owned 'carbon majors' can be assigned the responsibility of investing in novel #carbondioxideremoval technologies to buy down costs, based on principles of #climatejustice, propose Kellou et al. @climateanalytics.org @iiasa.ac.at ⬇️

Interpreting climate performance indices: implications for equitable and effective policy Browse all journals

Different #climate performance indices can yield contradictory results due to subjective methodological choices. Dhara et al. propose a novel framework to classify indices based on embedded normative choices, enhancing transparency of what the index truly measures and contextualising its outcomes⬇️

A framework-based assessment of climate adaptation readiness in Romanian cities

🇷🇴 How well adapted are Romanian cities to #climatechange? ⬇️

👉 Some cities successfully integrate #adaptation into governance, while others lack comprehensive planning & measurable actions
👉 Planning, reporting & implementation gaps remain key challenges

Read Falcescu et al.'s findings⬇️

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Wealth inequality fuels the climate crisis — not just through luxury emissions, but through power, status, and high-carbon investments.

Don't miss out on this paper by our researchers from ICTA-UAB, @morrison-james.bsky.social, @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and @giorgoskallis.bsky.social

The impact of wealth inequality on carbon emissions and climate policy

💰 Wealth inequality impacts #carbonemissions through four mechanisms, find @morrison-james.bsky.social @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social @giorgoskallis.bsky.social @icta-uab.bsky.social:

1️⃣ Increased power of elites
2️⃣ Luxurious lifestyles
3️⃣ Higher status consumption
4️⃣ Investment in high carbon activities

Diagram describing the ways that wealth inequality affects carbon emissions. This is through policy influence, high carbon lifestyles of the wealth, status consumption and investment.

How does wealth inequality impact climate change?

My co-authors @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and @giorgoskallis.bsky.social and I attempt to answer this in a new article in @climate-policy.bsky.social

We identify four mechanisms through which wealth inequality impacts carbon emissions.

Climate risk shocks and corporate outsourcing

⚡ #ClimateRisk shocks significantly exacerbate labour outsourcing expenditures, primarily through increased economic uncertainty & investment expenditure, find Zhang et al.

❗ Intensified climate risks increase firms' tax avoidance incentives & partially drive transformation initiatives

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Local government and climate literacy: exploring community perspectives in Ghana’s coastal zones

🇬🇭 District Assemblies play a critical role in #climatechange education - but how are they perceived by coastal residents in Ghana? Abednego Baffour finds that:

➡️ 72% say that DAs have not sufficiently educated their communities
➡️ 45.5% say they have "very poor" access to #climatechange info

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The tale of two climate risks in Latin America: the perspective of the NGFS climate scenarios

🌎 Latin America's Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) climate models need improvements, find Bressan & Nieto:

1️⃣ Reduce large uncertainty ranges across models
2️⃣ Account for the future not looking like the past
3️⃣ Consider tail risks + improve hazard suites (for physical risks)

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Mitigating regional employment disparities through flexible coal power phasedown and workforce resettlement

🪨 Coal power phasedown is essential for achieving #climate targets, but risks major job losses. Meng et al. find that reducing utilisation rates & implementing workforce resettlement strategies greatly reduces job losses + costs incurred, ensuring a #justtransition ⚖️ ⬇️

Global public perceptions of climate change risks and their determinants Addressing climate change requires global cooperation and individual efforts, with public awareness playing a crucial role in shaping willingness and commitment to engage. However, research on glob...

🌍 Over 86% of people worldwide are concerned about #climatechange, with higher concern in developed economies, find Chen & Liao. Key drivers of climate change concern include:

🌪️ Extreme weather experience
🎓 Education level
💭 National worry index

Find out more⬇️

Climate Policy, Volume 25, Issue 8 (2025)

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 8 is out now, with the latest on #climatefinance, agro-pastoral #adaptation, the gap between #mitigation targets and #climatepolicy, the IMF's #climatepolicy approach, & more 💡

📣 Insights from @benclift.bsky.social @aliceclimate.bsky.social @lukemoffett.bsky.social & more ⬇️

Ensuring environmental integrity of voluntary carbon market claims: understanding and framing VCM contribution claims

🔓 Contribution claims in voluntary #carbonmarkets (VCM) are gaining traction as an alternative to #carbonneutrality claims. A uniform framing for contribution claims can ensure the VCM serves its mitigation financing function while reducing risk of misleading stakeholders, find Chagas et al. ⬇️

The impact of wildfires on local property values in Wisconsin, United States

🔥 Wildfires negatively impact residential property values, but positively influence agricultural & commercial land, find Wang et al. (Renmin University of China); wildfire policies need to be tailored to account for different land uses ⬇️

Urban climate justice and migrant communities: factors of climate vulnerabilities of the Syrian population in Istanbul Browse all journals

Migrants are especially vulnerable to #climatechange, facing socio-economic marginalisation, low adaptive capacity and spatial discrimination, find Yerlikaya & Balaban in study from Istanbul 🇹🇷

❗ To achieve #climatejustice, #adaptation policies must address systemic migrant vulnerabilities ⬇️

EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism CBAM – industrial effects

🔓 Currently implemented allocation of free #emission allowances (OBA) boosts output in the EU's emission intensive and trade exposed sectors more than the scheduled carbon border adjustment mechanism #CBAM, find Bye et al. (Statistics Norway) 🇪🇺

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Towards net-zero electricity sector in emerging economies – Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa

⚡ Deep decarbonisation of the power sector is essential for the #netzero transition, & will require substantial financial support, market reforms, capacity building, technological innovation & more, analyse Vishwanathan, @chrisbataille.bsky.social et al. in study on 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇿🇦 ⬇️

Climate Policy is recruiting new associate editors

📣 The deadline for applications to our Associate Editor role has been extended to 14th September 🕑 ❗

⚡ Don't miss this opportunity to join the world-leading journal on #climatepolicy

⬇️ Check out full details below ⬇️

From parking place to public space: a factorial survey experiment on public acceptability of parking space reallocation in Germany

🔓 What factors affect public acceptability of parking space reallocation? In new study from Germany, Goetting et al. @tuberlin.bsky.social @rifs-potsdam.bsky.social identify key positive influences:

✅ Equality-based distribution rather than equity-based
✅ Smaller changes
✅ Citizen participation