Béatrice Cointe

@beatricecointe.bsky.social

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Solar-powered Science & Technology Studies researcher and IAM ethnographer at CSI - CNRS, Mines Paris-PSL.
"Well the world of research has gone berserk, too much paperwork" (Dylan 2006)
Soundtrack: t.ly/0V77d

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Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Apr 30

"In the midst of perpetual debates on most issues of the climate change problem, one refreshing exception is the consensus on our ignorance..."

(from the report on a 1993 Workshop on Integrative assessment of mitigation, impacts and adaptation to climate change)

"In the midst of perpetual debates on most issues of the climate change problem, one refreshing exception is the consensus on our ignorance about the biophysical impacts on unmanaged ecosystems and the difficulties of monetizing non-market damage. One possibility to include ecosystemic"
(highlighted in yellow from beginning to "ignorance")

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly!

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Béatrice Cointe

Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 3d

📣 New call for paper in OEconomia: "History of Climate Economics", edited by Christophe Cassen, @beatricecointe.bsky.social and Antoine Missemer.

Extended abstract submission: January 15, 2026
More info ➡️ journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

History of Climate Economics

Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...

journals.openedition.org

Reposted by Alistair Munro, Jussi T. Eronen, Béatrice Cointe

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 3d

Now that we are likely to cross 1.5°C, there is increasing discussion on "overshoot".

There is a lot of uncertainties on overshoot, but there is one thing that we are 100% sure about:

GHG emissions need to go down >90% in decades for overshoot to be a reality.

www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 4d

😆

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 4d

It’s the lighting but also the fact that COPs are SO cinematographic that I wonder how “international conference movies” is not a genre in itself

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

The lighting on this pic makes it look a snapshot from the trailer of the Cop30 movie

Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 5d

1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 4d

The lighting on this pic makes it look a snapshot from the trailer of the Cop30 movie

Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 5d

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

Alaa Al Khourdajie @dralaaclimate.bsky.social · 6d

The hierarchy is clear: 75–85% of emission reductions through 2050 come from using less fossil fuel.

CCS plays a role, but it is strictly secondary, contributing a median of just 15–25%.

Technological neutrality is a political concept, not a scientific one.

2/3

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 6d

"autre chose"

moi aussi des fois j'écoute autre chose que du Dylan

fourble.co.uk/podcast/them...

Theme Time Radio Hour podcast

Bob Dylan hosts an eclectic mix of music, guests, interviews and commentary.

fourble.co.uk

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 6d

Il faut, il faut.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Fabián Muniesa, Béatrice Cointe

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 7d

Call for papers:

HISTORY OF CLIMATE ECONOMICS

Details at:
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

Editors of the Special Issue

Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris)
Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris)
Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris)

Deadline for abstracts : January 15th, 2026

History of Climate Economics

journals.openedition.org

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 7d

“[Negative emissions] should not be an argument in favour of doing nothing now and switching on this technology if climate change turns out to be a significant problem.”

-Kenneth Möllersten

Listen now: overshootpod.com

Reposted by Xavier Molénat, Béatrice Cointe

Pierre Bataille @pierrebat.cpesr.fr · 8d

De la place - et de l'invisibilisation - des compagnes chez les classiques de la sociologie

ThanksForTyping … and the fieldwork
the role of sociologists’ wives in classic British studies

Rosalind Edwards et Val Gillies

👀

tidsskrift.dk/Serendipitie...

ThanksForTyping … and the fieldwork
the role of sociologists’ wives in classic British studies
Authors

Rosalind Edwards University of Southampton

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9877-6645
Val Gillies University of Westminster

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8125-0420

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/serendipities.v9i1.138589
Keywords: academic wives, British community studies, incorporated wives, Pat Marsden, Phyllis Willmott, wives' diaries
Abstract

This article explores the role of social researchers’ wives in post-war British studies, in particular drawing on the diaries kept by the wives of two noted sociologists while their husbands, Peter Willmott and Dennis Marsden, were respectively undertaking studies in the working class communities of Bethnal Green and Salford. The wives – Phyllis Willmott and Pat Marsden, made contributions to the community studies in the mid 1950s/early 1960s, at the point where British sociology and social research was on the cusp of transition towards formalisation and professionalisation. The wives were co-opted into the academic endeavour. Their practices as part of their family lives became professionalised as they undertook knowledge gathering, bridging between community and scholarship for their husbands, and reflecting on their own practice. The paper enables contemporary social researchers to recognise the part played by the wives of major sociological figures in the establishment of the men’s reputations and the disciplinary enterprise of sociology.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

The picture below is inadvertent scenography, but it would make a great addition to my collection of COP Pavillion pictures.

www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/featured-...

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Philippe Quirion, Béatrice Cointe

Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 10d

The Pacific Islands pavillion at COP30 just had to close due to flooding. Seriously...

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

But it’s also possible I’m reading too much into it!

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

yes, Jae Edmonds too was in Villach and is still around, but I don't think he signed this one.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

I could be wrong but I don't think IAMC has issued such a statement before, so I read it also as a sign of dissatisfaction with established routes such as the IPCC or EU projects policy briefs, where they are very well-represented: even those who are audible don't feel listened to anymore.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

Oui !

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

2) The boldness of the Villach statement prompted the creation of the IPCC, with the US keen to put governments at the table so as to keep the scientists in check.

That this new statement comes from the community closely tied to the IPCC, and influence within it, is quite a wake-up call.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

Two additional observations:
1) 40 years apart, I don't think there is any overlap in signatories, but in many ways its the same lineage, and the same "epistemic community" to use the technical term - esp. with IIASA remaining a centrepiece of this scientific climate diplomacy.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

40 years after the Villach Conference Statement, climate scientists gathered at an international conference issue their assessment of the situation.

cc @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

First paragraph of the Villach Conference Statement, 1985

- 1 -
CONFERENCE STATEMENT
A joint UNEP/WMO/ICSU Conference was convened in Villach (Austria)
from 9 to 15 October 1985, with scientists from twenty nine developed and developing countries, to assess the role of increased carbon dioxide and other radiatively active constituents of the atmosphere (collectively known as greenhouse gases and aerosols) on climate changes and associated impacts. The other greenhouse gases reinforce and accelerate the impact due to CO2 alone. As a.result of the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, it is now believed that in the first half of the next century a rise of global mean temperature could occur which is greater than any in man's history.

The Conference reached the following conclusions and recommendations:

First paragraphs of the Búzios Scientific Statement, 2025

Búzios Scientific Statement – Evidence-Based Insights for
COP30
Búzios, RJ, Brazil
(updated version, 17 November 2025)
More than 250 leading international scientists convened this week in Armação dos Búzios, RJ, Brazil, in parallel with the COP30 negotiations, at the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium’s (IAMC) annual conference to present and debate the latest scientific evidence
on what it will take to halt global warming and pursue the goals of the Paris Agreement. The IAMC brings together leading climate researchers from all over the world focussing on mitigation and adaptation solutions.

At the conference, these national and international experts discussed the most up-to-date science on climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways towards the Paris Agreement’s climate goals. Since the publication of IPCC AR6, 300 new pathways have been developed by the research community.

During the conference, members of the IAM community got together to summarize several high-level policy-relevant insights for COP30:

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 10d

November 17, 1980 – International meeting about carbon dioxide build up.

“The first major initiative to result from the establishment of the WCP was an international conference on climate change, held in Villach, Austria, from 17 to 22 November 1980.

allouryesterdays.info/2022/11/16/n...

November 17, 1980 - International meeting about carbon dioxide build up. - All Our Yesterdays

On this day in 1980 an international gathering of scientists took place in Villlach, Austria. “The first major initiative to result from the establishment of the WCP was an international conference on...

allouryesterdays.info

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 11d

(I now know AMOC is not the same as the Gulf Stream but obviously did not when I was 15) (but for some reason* we had the SPM for the IPCC SAR synthesis report lying around at home.)

*one of my uncles was in Kyoto with the French delegation

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 11d

When I was in high school, I asked my physics teacher if it was true there was a risk that the Gulf Stream might collapse due to climate change. Her reply was “oh but this is a whole lotta bullshit”, and since it’s all I remember about her, I guess I must have been 🤨.

Anyway, here we are now.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 11d

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?

YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute

youtu.be

Reposted by David Johnson, Fabián Muniesa, Michel Tsamados , and 2 more David Johnson, Fabián Muniesa, Michel Tsamados, David Spurrett, Béatrice Cointe

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 11d

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?

YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute

youtu.be

Reposted by John Hogan, Béatrice Cointe

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 11d

We’re often asked whether we’re optimistic or pessimistic about technologies. That’s the wrong question. If any of this matters, we need to stop seeing technology like the weather, to be merely forecasted, and instead see it like politics, to be collectively shaped.

Reposted by Dirk Pilat, Béatrice Cointe

Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 12d

Búzios Scientific Statement

100 climate researchers, coordinated by @pik-potsdam.bsky.social & @iiasa.ac.at, released a joint statement to inform the #COP30 negotiations and provide guidance on difficult but doable global efforts designed to limit dangerous overshoot of 1.5°C as much as possible.

Búzios Scientific Statement.pdf

drive.google.com

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

𝖳𝗁𝖾𝖬𝖾𝗍𝖺𝖭𝖾𝗐𝗌 @themeta.news · 13d

🟢 HCR ou ne pas être, telle est la question

Ce mercredi est parue comme chaque année la liste des #HighlyCitedResearchers

Lauranne Chaignon revient sur ses origines et sa crédibilité face aux tentatives de manipulation

themeta.news/lauranne-cha...

#VeilleESR

Interview
Lauranne Chaignon
Ingénieure en bibliométrie à l’Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Lauranne Chaignon a entamé un doctorat au Centre de sociologie de l’innovation (Mines Paris – PSL) sur la liste des Highly cited researchers.

Comment la liste est-elle alors devenue un indicateur d’excellence scientifique ?
Progressivement, avec l’apparition du classement de Shanghai en 2003. Des scientifiques chinois l’ont développé, à la demande de leur gouvernement qui voulait savoir comment leurs universités se positionnaient au niveau mondial ; ils étaient à l’affût d’éléments sur lesquels baser leur classement. La liste des HCR a ainsi commencé à prendre de l’importance, jusqu’à devenir un indicateur destiné à évaluer la recherche d’un établissement, voire d’un pays. Figurer dans la liste est devenu un objectif en soi.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, thanks!
So it’s Obersteiner & Möllersten indeed - their proposal was already a critique of the strategic and valuation frameworks that underpinned climate action, ironically it ended up feeding exactly what they were up against… (I have a chapter coming up on it, now stuck in editorial limbo)

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 14d

Just out of curiosity (I don’t have access), who are they referring to as « the scientists who popularised carbon capture »? Is Obersteiner among them?

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