Max Koch

Climate Action Delay Discourses in the Sports Sector: Insights From Interviews With Athletes and Staff There is a major contradiction between the current model of international elite sport and efforts to mitigate climate change. This study investigates climate action delay discourses within the sports...

How can elite sport become a climate leader?

Read more about the barriers and how to overcome them in our new study:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Perspectives on Social and Justice Issues in Climate Policy – Comparing the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco‐Social Policy Literatures Mapping the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Literatures along the axes of capitalism/growth approaches and global justice demonstrates that there is a large gap in researc....

Nice to start the week with publication of a co-authored review on #Justice Issues in #Climate Policy led by @mmbuchs.bsky.social. What are the sustainable #welfare and #JustTransitions literatures saying, e.g., on capitalism and growth?
Check it out:
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Klimatforskningen ryms inte i Söderholms förenklade konflikt Ola Söderholm gör både forskningen och samhällsdebatten en otjänst.

Angelica Wågström: "Samhällsvetenskapen är avgörande för att förstå hur klimatorättvisa uppstår, vilka politiska styrmedel som faktiskt minskar utsläpp och vilka som riskerar att bli kontraproduktiva."

www.etc.se/debatt/klima...

Why is it so hard to process the dismantling of democracy? Is there some trait in habitus that makes us believe in the continued power and efficiency of institutions even though these may have, from an 'objective' point of view, stopped functioning? Some kind of institutional hysteresis effect?

@oxfam.se: Sveriges 46 rikaste personer äger mer i förmögenhet än nästan 80% av befolkningen – 8 miljoner människor.

Samtidigt lever 700 000 svenskar i fattigdom enligt SCB och den siffran har ökat med 120 000 på ett år

oxfam.se/wp-content/u...

Davos 2026 - Oxfam Sverige Fattigdomsbekämpningen i världen står i princip stilla, samtidigt som världens dollarmiljardärer gjort ännu ett rekordår.

@oxfaminternational.bsky.social: The planet's 12 richest personers own more than the poorest 50% - more than 4 billion people

At the same time, one in four is undernourished, an 41% increase since 2015.
oxfam.se/resisting-th...

Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.

“I couldn’t be part of that society, and I don’t want my children to grow up in it.”

www.972mag.com/israeli-emig...

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows

@oxfamgb.bsky.social: "The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026", while "the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot

Simón Bolívar in 1829: the United States seem "destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty."

Sverige erbjuder hjälp – kan ta emot brandskadade Sverige är redo och har erbjudit sig att ta emot brandskadade patienter efter barbranden i Crans-Montana i Schweiz, säger sjukvårdsminister Elisabet Lann (KD) till TT.

Sverige erbjuder sig att ta emot brännskadade från Schweiz, ett av världens rikaste länder. Däremot vägrar Sverige ta emot skadade från Gaza där sjukhus bombats sönder och vården inte fungerar.

Den här regeringens hyckleri framträder i blixtbelysning.

Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Zur Unmöglichkeit eines israelischen Genozids im deutschen Kriegsdiskurs: Varianten der Zurückweisung

wichtiger Text von @hannapfeifer.bsky.social zur systematischen Leugnung genozidaler Gewalt und dazu, wie unterschiedliche Typen der Leugnung diese Gewalt legitimieren, unsichtbar machen, mit ermöglichen:

www.pw-portal.de/das-fach-pol...

Football in the climate emergency: exploring air travel reduction in the Norwegian senior national football teams Globalization and commodification trends in football negatively impact the climate in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from leagues and international tournaments. A significant share of these emis...

6. Also employing a social practice lense, a related joint study looked into the field of #football and its enormous #climate footprint, this time taking the case of #Norway www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations The concept of ‘sustainable welfare’ conceptualizes welfare and wellbeing within planetary limits. Yet there is a lack of knowledge about possible soc…

5. In the same project we took a Bourdieusean perspective, reconstructed people's present dispositions and analysed their envisionings of a socially and ecologically transformed future www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

4. Sustainable welfare is also at the heart of our mixed-method study of Swedish cities. We identify pathways of intertia, emergence and transformation bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

Europe in the Postgrowth Era: Towards a Sustainable Welfare Deal Europe is confronted with a multiple crisis while coming to grips with its colonial legacy. Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) gro...

3. is a summary of results and an overview of gaps in #postgrowth research in relation to #Europe considering ecological overshoot, social inequality and colonial trajectory. It also sketches a sustainable welfare deal for the #EU: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

While 1. showed diminishing returns of existing Western welfare states for health-related needs only, 2. dives into the potentials of providing #autonomy in #postgrowth circumstances: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

The year is coming to a close. The ESRC may not like it, but this what we published in 2025 on #postgrowth issues and #degrowth issues: 1. A comparative study on current OECD welfare states and their capabilities of satisfying human needs without growth journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why Academic Freedom and Post-Growth Research Is Needed A joint statement from ISEE and ESEE on academic freedom, post-growth research, need for scientific inquiry amid eco and social crises.

The British ESRC aims to put economic growth “at the heart” of the council’s future. Postgrowth research should face a high bar to win grants.

ISEE and ESEE react here: #Postgrowth research is necessary for our very survival - and should be funded generously

www.isecoeco.org/why-academic...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino Wins Inaugural "Football Climate Impact Prize"​ 🏆

As he prepares to hand out FIFA's Peace Prize, Infantino's extraordinary impact on our climate has been recognised with this special new award 😅🧵

The UN's Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights @deschuttero.bsky.social advances a #postgrowth approach including an extreme wealth line: www.neep-poverty.org/roadmap-for-...

I am part of a consulting group about how to implement this roadmap that meets next week

Uppsala Declaration

We all want to move on with our lives, yet the violence continues. The killing continues. The occupation continues. The colonisation continues. More than 9,000 Palestinian hostages are still in Israeli detention. /1

🎓🥳 My PhD is now online!

💡It offers a reflection on how to reduce economic inequality in post-growth societies, with a particular focus on policies that limit income and wealth

🔗 tinyurl.com/3hwvmjyr

🔍 What’s inside? (see 7 features ⬇️)

#inequality #post-growth #degrowth #incomecaps #wealthcaps

Åtal - Rödgrönt Hon åtalas för en protest mot privatflyget på Bromma. De rikaste fortsättet använda privatjet som andra tar taxi och skada klimatet.

@jeannetteeggers.bsky.social: "Min aktivism är en kärlekshandling."

www.xn--rdgrnt-wxad.se/2025/11/30/r...

Polisen: Lundaforskarens miljöaktivism är ett hot mot demokratin Skriver till Migrationsverket • David Alcer: "Det är helt absurt"

Såhär skriver polisen:”[Alcer ägnar sig åt] brottsliga gärningar för att få igenom en förändring som endast kan ske medelst politiska beslut och bedöms därför som ett hot mot den demokratiska grundordningen”

Civil olydnad ses som hot mot demokratin - jag hoppas alla förstår hur farlig den synen är.

David Alcer betonar en sak som vi alla borde har lärt oss under de senaste två år: "Vi kan inte prata om klimaträttvisa utan att prata om rättvisa för förtryckta folk."

On my way to Gothenburg to discuss and examine Angelica Wågström's fantastic PhD work on "Careful Energy Transitions". A great contribution to #degrowth!

The thesis can be downloaded via the link below research.chalmers.se/en/publicati...

The Zohran Mamdani method can work beyond New York. Take the fight to the right | Aditya Chakrabortty For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Taking the fight to the right requires a renewed left
"You can’t reach an accommodation with an ICE agent when he’s kneeling on your neck. Climate chaos does not come with a moderate option. An oligarch is not interested in your pitiful attempts to strike a deal." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

SHARE OF GLOBAL POPULATION BY INCOME VS SHARE OF CONSUMPTION-BASED CO2 EMISSIONS, 2023 TOP 10% (TOP 1% WITHIN) The richest 10% are responsible for 48% of emissions MIDDLE 40% The middle 40% are responsible for 44% of emissions 50% BOTTOM (10% WITHIN) The poorest 50% are responsible for 8% of emissions Source: Oxfam

“a person from the richest 0.1% produces more carbon pollution in a day than the poorest 50% emit all year”
A stark visual from ‘Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster’ by @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl...

Vi står bakom vår kollega – stoppa trakasserierna DEBATT. Vi som undertecknar det här debattinlägget är alla anställda vid Lunds universitet som forskare, lärare, doktorander, kommunikatörer, bibliotekarier och

Vi uttrycker "vårt stöd för David och att vi står upp för ett demokratiskt samhälle utan polistrakasserier, godtyckliga polisförhör och gripanden. Vi ser med oro på en olycklig utveckling i samhället där rättsstaten inte längre ses som en självklarhet." www.aftonbladet.se/debatt/a/qPK...