Anthony Calacino
@acalacino.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Oxford DPIR. I study environmental politics + climate change + Latin America. He/him
Coloradan in England.
🏳️🌈 www.anthonycalacino.com
Coloradan in England.
🏳️🌈 www.anthonycalacino.com
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
My worries about the host country Brazil being confirmed here. In some ways, Brazil has more in common with the petro-states trying to derail the roadmap on a phase-out (it is, after all, the 10th largest oil producer).
The Guardian has done amazing report on all this. This morning's update to last night's scoop.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 draft text omits mention of fossil fuel phase-out roadmap
Exclusive: Summit leadership releases new text despite 29 nations threatening to block progress without commitment
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My worries about the host country Brazil being confirmed here. In some ways, Brazil has more in common with the petro-states trying to derail the roadmap on a phase-out (it is, after all, the 10th largest oil producer).
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Many reasons to like this research, which seems to support my and co-authors prior that fossil fuel intensive regions (most of which are currently located in Global South) could be the cradle of climate politicization if it wasn’t for the v serious and targeted fossil fuel political activism there.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Many reasons to like this research, which seems to support my and co-authors prior that fossil fuel intensive regions (most of which are currently located in Global South) could be the cradle of climate politicization if it wasn’t for the v serious and targeted fossil fuel political activism there.
I'm looking forward to presenting today at Mannheim. At the start of COP30, debate about progress on climate change highlights the important role of grassroots activists; but they are often silenced. 👇 We want to understand when and why environmental defenders are victimized.
join tomorrow when @acalacino.bsky.social is presenting joint work ✨
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I'm looking forward to presenting today at Mannheim. At the start of COP30, debate about progress on climate change highlights the important role of grassroots activists; but they are often silenced. 👇 We want to understand when and why environmental defenders are victimized.
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❗️ Tue, Nov 11, 12:15-13:30 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with
@acalacino.bsky.social
"Ballots, Bullets, and Trees:
Election Timing and Violence Against Environmentalists"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
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📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with
@acalacino.bsky.social
"Ballots, Bullets, and Trees:
Election Timing and Violence Against Environmentalists"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
1/2
Detail
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
❗️ Tue, Nov 11, 12:15-13:30 CET
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with
@acalacino.bsky.social
"Ballots, Bullets, and Trees:
Election Timing and Violence Against Environmentalists"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
1/2
📍 A 231 and ZOOM
MZES Speaker Series
with
@acalacino.bsky.social
"Ballots, Bullets, and Trees:
Election Timing and Violence Against Environmentalists"
👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even...
1/2
The irony being that Lula, while having done some good, is more talk than action on climate. Between a congress that is gleefully dismantling environmental protections and Lula's own doubling down on oil extraction, I don't see much credibility here.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The irony being that Lula, while having done some good, is more talk than action on climate. Between a congress that is gleefully dismantling environmental protections and Lula's own doubling down on oil extraction, I don't see much credibility here.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excited to spend this fall as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Mannheim, where I’ll also be presenting my research. Looking forward to great conversations and meetings. Many thanks to @melinscribe.bsky.social for the invitation and making this possible!
October 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Excited to spend this fall as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Mannheim, where I’ll also be presenting my research. Looking forward to great conversations and meetings. Many thanks to @melinscribe.bsky.social for the invitation and making this possible!
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Climate disasters cost everyone.
Governments don't plan to spend on natural disasters.
US climate disaster spend is near $1trillion per year.
Since 2000 increased insurance premiums, power outages, disaster recovery & uninsured damages exceed $7.7 trillion.
#climaterisk
#Auspol
#USendofempire
Governments don't plan to spend on natural disasters.
US climate disaster spend is near $1trillion per year.
Since 2000 increased insurance premiums, power outages, disaster recovery & uninsured damages exceed $7.7 trillion.
#climaterisk
#Auspol
#USendofempire
Excuse me
” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
” In a US buffeted by extreme weather, disaster spending is becoming a key driver of the economy.”
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
October 22, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Climate disasters cost everyone.
Governments don't plan to spend on natural disasters.
US climate disaster spend is near $1trillion per year.
Since 2000 increased insurance premiums, power outages, disaster recovery & uninsured damages exceed $7.7 trillion.
#climaterisk
#Auspol
#USendofempire
Governments don't plan to spend on natural disasters.
US climate disaster spend is near $1trillion per year.
Since 2000 increased insurance premiums, power outages, disaster recovery & uninsured damages exceed $7.7 trillion.
#climaterisk
#Auspol
#USendofempire
I had the pleasure of reading this draft paper at a recent workshop, and it's a great contribution. Do check it out 👇
Nano-targeting is not a persuasive weapon: it is a dissuasion and polarization weapon. New paper out osf.io/preprints/so... with the brilliant Thomas Robinson, @simonhix.bsky.social and @fresejoris.bsky.social – the first to quantify the perverse incentives/inherent democratic dangers of this tech.
OSF
osf.io
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I had the pleasure of reading this draft paper at a recent workshop, and it's a great contribution. Do check it out 👇
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Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.
October 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.
I know some who viewed Milei as a necessary evil, convinced that austerity and public sector cuts were needed to stabilize Argentina’s economy. Yet after denouncing the global elite and ‘collectivism,’ his government now depends on the US and IMF for support.
www.ft.com/content/778e...
www.ft.com/content/778e...
October 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
I know some who viewed Milei as a necessary evil, convinced that austerity and public sector cuts were needed to stabilize Argentina’s economy. Yet after denouncing the global elite and ‘collectivism,’ his government now depends on the US and IMF for support.
www.ft.com/content/778e...
www.ft.com/content/778e...
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Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Oil and gas industry’s marginal share of global renewable energy
Nature Sustainability - The decarbonization of oil and gas companies may not be as speedy or robust as advertised. This analysis finds that renewable energies make up just a minor fraction of the...
www.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Oil and gas companies will often claim to be partners in the clean energy transition, when it is politically expedient to do so, but new research finds their actual contributions are marginal:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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 $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.
Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ 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
October 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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 $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.
Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.
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Looking forward to hopping on a train later today and heading to Paris to present our "how Brexit harmed the environment" paper (cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social) tomorrow 🇫🇷
Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!
Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!
October 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Looking forward to hopping on a train later today and heading to Paris to present our "how Brexit harmed the environment" paper (cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social) tomorrow 🇫🇷
Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!
Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!
Having to footnote limited data is a modest inconvenience in the grand scheme of all the bad happening right now in the US. But also, this sort of thing underscores how much science is being undermined right now.
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Having to footnote limited data is a modest inconvenience in the grand scheme of all the bad happening right now in the US. But also, this sort of thing underscores how much science is being undermined right now.
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“If you can beat the oligarchs here…that will send a message to every community in America that real change is possible.”
More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.
More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.
October 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“If you can beat the oligarchs here…that will send a message to every community in America that real change is possible.”
More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.
More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.
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For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Action Alert: APSA members are invited to urge Congress to take action in support of international education and federal science funding. Take action here: buff.ly/FlaOWyg and buff.ly/AlQ8CTm
Take Action for International Education!
I just took action to increase funding for Title VI and Fulbright-Hays! Join me and take action here.
buff.ly
September 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Action Alert: APSA members are invited to urge Congress to take action in support of international education and federal science funding. Take action here: buff.ly/FlaOWyg and buff.ly/AlQ8CTm
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Critics slam renewables for land use but ignore fossil fuels' huge impact.
Germany's Hambach lignite mine: 85 sq km pit, 300m deep, snapped from ISS.
My first ever energy research protect professionally was on the externalities of lignite. In short: they are very significant!
Germany's Hambach lignite mine: 85 sq km pit, 300m deep, snapped from ISS.
My first ever energy research protect professionally was on the externalities of lignite. In short: they are very significant!
September 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Critics slam renewables for land use but ignore fossil fuels' huge impact.
Germany's Hambach lignite mine: 85 sq km pit, 300m deep, snapped from ISS.
My first ever energy research protect professionally was on the externalities of lignite. In short: they are very significant!
Germany's Hambach lignite mine: 85 sq km pit, 300m deep, snapped from ISS.
My first ever energy research protect professionally was on the externalities of lignite. In short: they are very significant!
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i know this does not strictly mean more or new gas and oil licenses, but the optics of this move from a climate policy credibility standpoint are bad…
H/t @acalacino.bsky.social
H/t @acalacino.bsky.social
Ed Miliband looking into more North Sea drilling despite Labour pledge
Exclusive: Energy secretary examining ways to allow oil and gas exploration without breaking manifesto promise
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
i know this does not strictly mean more or new gas and oil licenses, but the optics of this move from a climate policy credibility standpoint are bad…
H/t @acalacino.bsky.social
H/t @acalacino.bsky.social
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Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site).
But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇
But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇
September 23, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site).
But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇
But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇
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September 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Big DWW piece in NYT today. Again this sad progression away from collective responsibility and commitment to each other is presented as inevitable. It was not, and is not. 1/x
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Big DWW piece in NYT today. Again this sad progression away from collective responsibility and commitment to each other is presented as inevitable. It was not, and is not. 1/x
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
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What does the EU’s new deforestation regulation mean for sourcing coffee, soy, cocoa, palm oil, and more? And what role can journalists play in monitoring its rollout?
Find out on September 15, 2025 at 7:30pm UTC in our upcoming webinar.
RSVP: forms.gle/zUDCqj8bx7B6...
Find out on September 15, 2025 at 7:30pm UTC in our upcoming webinar.
RSVP: forms.gle/zUDCqj8bx7B6...
September 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
What does the EU’s new deforestation regulation mean for sourcing coffee, soy, cocoa, palm oil, and more? And what role can journalists play in monitoring its rollout?
Find out on September 15, 2025 at 7:30pm UTC in our upcoming webinar.
RSVP: forms.gle/zUDCqj8bx7B6...
Find out on September 15, 2025 at 7:30pm UTC in our upcoming webinar.
RSVP: forms.gle/zUDCqj8bx7B6...