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Book Launch: Existential Politics by Jessica F. Green

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Last chance to register! It's gonna be a great conversation with some fantastic panelists. Join us!

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 8d

Hey #Toronto climate peeps! Come learn about the future of global #climate politics at my book launch at @utoronto.ca. Featuring fierce all female panel with @cat-abreu.bsky.social, Fate Saghir (MacKenzie Investments), moderated by Jill English (CBC). #COP30 #GreenSky. Free event! Tasty treats!

Join University of Toronto’s Lawson Climate Institute as we celebrate the launch of Existential Politics by Professor Jessica F. Green with a panel discussion, networking reception, and meet-and-greet...

lci.utoronto.ca

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Fair point. Fossil fuel subsidies have been the third rail of politics for a long time. G20 agreed to phase out subsidies in 2007, and well... we're still waiting. I argue in my new book that the politics of taxation are more likely to produce results than rolling back subsidies.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Very important paper by @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social that shows, as I have argued, that tax policy is climate policy. We cannot phaseout #fossilfuels without attacking their wealth.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 2d

5 yrs ago, I argued that climate change demands an activist academy. So does growing authoritarianism. Our universities need to act collectively, and we academics, as their beating heart, must demand that administrations do this.
My piece: direct.mit.edu/daed/article....
Henry's is a must read. 👇

www.nytimes.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! 🙏

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Carbon can never be priced appropriately. It's a feature, not a bug. Chapter 3 of the book!

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Yes!!! Thank you! 🙏

The False Promise of Carbon Offsets

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!! 🙏

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Paul! I appreciate this 🙏

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Some of us have been banging this drum for literally, decades. 🙄
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/false-...

It’s time to retire an ineffective tactic to fight climate change.

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world!

Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

press.princeton.edu

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 6d

It’s gonna be GREAT

Book Launch: Existential Politics by Jessica F. Green

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 8d

Hey #Toronto climate peeps! Come learn about the future of global #climate politics at my book launch at @utoronto.ca. Featuring fierce all female panel with @cat-abreu.bsky.social, Fate Saghir (MacKenzie Investments), moderated by Jill English (CBC). #COP30 #GreenSky. Free event! Tasty treats!

Join University of Toronto’s Lawson Climate Institute as we celebrate the launch of Existential Politics by Professor Jessica F. Green with a panel discussion, networking reception, and meet-and-greet...

lci.utoronto.ca

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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 9d

For more on the importance of getting the (existential) politics of climate right, check out our book talk from yesterday with @greenprofgreen.bsky.social here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtVo...

Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them

YouTube video by The Roosevelt Institute

www.youtube.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

5/ More carbon pricing won’t fix carbon pricing. More direct government intervention will.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

5/ How to fix? He & @cleanprosperity.bsky.social propose carbon contracts for difference. This doubles down on the financialization of emissions, having investments mediated by markets rather than coming in the form of government requirements – like emissions caps.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

4/ Generating that political will would likely require more concession to fossil interests in Alberta, which undermines the whole point of industrial pricing.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

3/ “Tightening” industrial c pricing will require political will that just ain’t there, as he rightly notes:

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

2/ The EU-ETS had overallocation problems and low prices for many years. It finally fixed this issue by creating a “Market Stability Reserve” – i.e. a carbon central bank. But that is a VERY HIGH BAR. See chap 3 of my book on this.

Existential Politics

press.princeton.edu

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

1/ California (linked to Quebec’s market) has been plagued by overallocation credits since forever. An Advisory body has constantly called for addressing this problem, including recently by creating an Emissions Containment Reserve. See @ghgpolicy.org on this.

calepa.ca.gov

Canada’s industrial carbon pricing system is a mess. Here’s how Carney can fix it

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

@aradwanski.bsky.social correctly identifies one of the key probs w/ Canada’s industrial carbon pricing: too many credits. This is not just a Canada problem, its endemic to cap and trade. “Fixing” carbon pricing is a lot harder than it seems. 🧵

It was barely a system at all when he took office, but since then, the nationwide patchwork has only gotten patchier

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

This is certainly encouraging, but assumes that firms simply "run the numbers" to make a decision about decarbonizing.

Imperial Oil to cut workforce by 20% by end of 2027

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 10d

Definitely not the first to say this, but climate policy that splits labor and capital would help reduce at least some opposition to decarbonization (paging @matthuber.bsky.social @mattomildenberger.bsky.social)

Calgary-based oil company says restructuring will help it increase production and save $150-million per year

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 11d

#BBNJ will enter into force in January to protect the oceans in areas beyond national jurisdiction, but #deepseamining seems imminent. US has not signed / ratified either agreement.

sdg.iisd.org/news/with-60...

With 60 Ratifications, BBNJ Agreement to Enter into Force in January 2026

On 19 September 2025, the Agreement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction ...

sdg.iisd.org

Med Beds & Skye Prince (E274)

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 12d

It's horrible: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/q...

Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · 2024-04-11 · 1h 18m

podcasts.apple.com

Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 13d

Join me and @greenprofgreen.bsky.social on Tuesday at 1 pm ET to discuss her new book, "Existential Politics: Why Global Climate Institutions Are Failing and How to Fix Them."
events.zoom.us/ev/AtXUfZzc-...

Roosevelt Events

events.zoom.us

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 14d

I would be fascinated to know why / how this happened. There's some great work on showing how these two worlds are bleeding into each other, but as a social scientist I want to understand why this happened!

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 14d

So good and so depressing