🔓️ What #justtransition approaches do individuals shaping global #climatepolicy favour? Alexia Faus Onbargi & @malerbadaniele.bsky.social @idos-research.bsky.social identify key priorities⬇️
➡️ Addressing broader sustainable development issues
➡️ Policy coherence
➡️ Accountability for #climatechange
✈️ Air Passenger Duty greatly lowers demand for short & medium haul flights, as well as for reduced fare long haul flights, which in turn reduces CO₂ emissions, demonstrating the potential of aviation taxation as an effective #climatepolicy tool, finds Ziqing Wang @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social ⬇️
02.03.2026 09:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🌳 In new study on British Columbia 🇨🇦 , Saska Brill & Eveline Dürr analyse 3 key factors interconnected with forest #carbon embeddedness:
1️⃣ Land & resource decision-making strategies
2️⃣ Regional, supra-regional & national climate policies
3️⃣ Fluctuating voluntary & compliance market dynamics
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🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 1 is out now, with articles on #EUETS 2, #climatefinance & #climatejustice, #carbondioxideremoval & #carbonmarkets, #climatechange awareness & #climatepolicy support, transformative #climateaction
🖋️ @rbaernthaler.bsky.social @egrossman.bsky.social @lisgilmore.bsky.social & more ⬇️
🔓️ Ghana and Kenya's Energy Transition and Investment Plans neglect recognition & restorative justice, overlook the importance of political economy dynamics, and have a reductionist approach to distributional & procedural justice, find Arhin et al. @ucl.ac.uk #justtransition 🇬🇭 🇰🇪
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🇹🇿 In a new study on smallholder vanilla farmers in Tanzania, Gasper et al. find that #ClimateSmartAgriculture technologies have primarily been adopted by male farmers, who earn higher incomes: CSA should be integrated with targeted gender equality policies to tackle gendered income gaps🤝
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🔓️ : EU #climatepolicy has become increasingly more ambitious and more legally complex, which has reduced effective implementation, even in countries with strong administrative capacity, find @steffenhurka.bsky.social and Yves Steinebach @supaproject.bsky.social 🇪🇺
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🔓️ Levels of #carbonleakage vary widely across emissions trading systems #ETS. Chen et al. find that ex-ante studies estimate lower leakage when #emissions coverage is broader, anti-leakage measures are included, and computable general equilibrim models are used ⬇️
17.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🇧🇷 As domestic #climate #adaptation #finance is closely embedded within development budgets, it can be protected from climate denialist governments, find Marina Briant & Alexandre Igari in new study on Brazil 💡
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🔓️ : What determines firms' acceptability of #carbontaxation? Mwang'Onda et al. find:
1️⃣ Firm-specific elements (emission intensity, trade exposure)
2️⃣ Political & institutional elements (business lobbying, governance transparency)
3️⃣ Policy design elements (tax rate predictability, revenue recycling)
🔓️ Briand et al. present national #netzero development pathways for 7 large emerging economies developed by the Deep #Decarbonization Pathways network, displaying country-specific, but also common transformations to net-zero, & extracting lessons for short-term policy packages🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇲🇽 🇿🇦
13.02.2026 14:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The effectiveness of #ClimatePolicies depends on a coordinated alignment between policy design and implementation capacity, rather than on policy design alone, find Yu Tian & Bang-Jun Wang in new study on dual-carbon governance in China 🇨🇳
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🔓️ : Comelli et al. @ucl.ac.uk introduce the Climate Adaptation Democracy Framework, a novel tool for policy makers, practitioners and researchers to scrutinise the consequences of #climate #adaptation policy for democratic life - read about it below⬇️
12.02.2026 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Institutional overlap leads to divergent priorities in African #climategovernance, such as SADC's (Southern African Development Community) energy focus vs EAC’s (East African Community) forestry emphasis, & competing mandates, which creates challenges for policy coherence, finds Jani Grey Kasunda⬇️
12.02.2026 09:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🔓️ : The standard of 'due diligence' under international law requires States to pursue stringent near-term #emissions reductions alongside feasible #carbondioxideremoval strategies, preventing excessive reliance on #CDR to meet #climatetargets, find Rajamani et al 💡
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🔓️ Using a new methodological toolkit which evaluates individual climate policies within expanding policy mixes, Fernández-i-Marín et al. identify a list of essential #climatepolicy measures that are effective across all contexts - read below⬇️
31.01.2026 09:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
🔓️ Developed from a unilateral UK policy to a plurilateral initiative, the emergence of the Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETP) was conflict-driven, contested & highly contingent, finds @freddiedaley.bsky.social, highlighting the crucial role that conflict plays in global policy action⬇️
30.01.2026 18:09 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🇰🇪 🇸🇳 African govts must develop elaborate strategies for systematic & effective engagement with private sector actors, to enable them to play a more coordinated & comprehensive role including planning, implementation, monitoring, & evaluation of the NDC process, say Adama Sow Badji & Caroline Gathu⬇️
29.01.2026 13:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎯 Using an LLM to scale up textual analysis, @robinrauner.bsky.social finds that messaging in #sustainability reports is considerably future-oriented, introducing risk of "#futurewashing" when corporate claims create an overly-positive image of expected #climateaction 📝
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🌳 The additional potential of forest #carbonsequestration should be supported by regulatory instruments, as the reallocation of a significant #emissionreductions & #biomass capacity from the #energy to the forest sector could lead to the optimal integrated #GHG reduction strategy, find Rácz et al.⬇️
17.01.2026 14:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🔓 🌱 Switching to #plantbased catering policies is an effective and defensible way for public institutions to lead societies towards delivering on #climatechange #mitigation duties, say Bell, @jkniess.bsky.social et al. @nclpolitics.bsky.social ⬇️
16.01.2026 14:43 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🕑 When do #climatepolicies truly work?
➡️ #Adaptation laws boosted #climate readiness from 1999-2006 but had the opposite effect after 2016
➡️ External shocks reshape policy effectiveness
➡️ Climate strategies must evolve with time, say @elisaadamico.bsky.social & Tofigh Maboudi
🏦 Exemptions in the #climatepolicies of Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) allow public banks to continue financing gas infrastructure, despite introducing policies to limit financial support for #fossilfuel infrastructure, find Maxfield Peterson & @christiandownie.bsky.social @anuregnet.bsky.social ⬇️
13.01.2026 11:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Are public banks gaslighting on climate finance?
📢 Our new publication in @climate-policy.bsky.social looks at the role Export Credit Agencies play in financing gas around the world
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TIMFJ...
Key findings include 🧵
#10: Identifying opportunities and risks from green hydrogen: a framework and insights from a developing region in Brazil. Clara Caiafa, Henny Romijn & @heleendeconinck.bsky.social
12.01.2026 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#9: Carbon leakage in agriculture: when can a carbon border adjustment mechanism help? @fourniergabela.bsky.social, Alisa Spiegel, Davit Stepanyan, @florianfreund.bsky.social, Martin Banse, Alexander Gocht, Mareike Söder, Claudia Heidecke, Bernhard Osterburg & @alanmatthews.bsky.social
12.01.2026 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#8: The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns promoting individual climate action. Loredana Loy & Jennifer Jacquet
12.01.2026 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#7: Quantifying climate finance needs in the nationally determined contributions of developing countries. @abdulrasheed.bsky.social, Florian Egli, Tobias Schmidt & Anna Stünzi
12.01.2026 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
#6: Towards a more transformative approach to climate finance. @peternewell.bsky.social
12.01.2026 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
