New publication: Designing Carbon Pricing Policies Across the Globe with Robert Schmidt and @moritzdrupp.bsky.social in Environmental and Resource Economics!

We present the largest international expert survey on carbon pricing design (400+ participants, ~40 countries). Some highlights.

What a beautifully written article. And so relatable.

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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The US Global Change Research Program's website, including all its sub-domains that host the National Climate Assessments and related reports, is now offline.

The 1990 Global Change Research Act (see below) mandates its research findings be available to all federal agencies & departments.

We've made an interactive map with data US Treasury collected that shows at the ZIP code level for 2018-2022 what US homeowners paid for insurance, what % of policies weren't renewed, and more. @brookings.edu Hutchins Center. www.brookings.edu/articles/hom...

I also owe a lot to Grace Gu and Alonso Villacorta for their mentorship and support, fellow PhD students, the faculty at the UCSC Econ dept, my family and friends, and every economist I met during my fellowships, research visits or conferences who was kind and generous with their feedback 💜

PhDone! What an incredible 6 years at the UCSC economics department. So grateful for all the opportunities to transform into a better economist and person.
Featured below - my advisor and mentor @galinah.bsky.social and co-author, committee member and mentor Brenda Samaniego de la Parra.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Putting together a quick list of climate/EJ/enviro/energy-related federal datasets that have been removed. EJScreen, CEJST, FEMA's Future Risk Index and Community Disaster Resilience Zones, DOE's Low-Income Energy Affordability Data. What else?

In Nature Climate Change, @chrisbataille.bsky.social and I describe three common situations when energy/economic models are detrimental to climate policymaking efforts 🧵
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Thank you, Zoë! It really is.

I feel so proud to be a part of their academic journey. I have always believed that strong mentorship is indispensable to science and I hope I was able to relay what I learnt from my own mentors to me mentees. I know any school would be lucky to have these wonderful individuals💜

The past 2 weeks have been unprecedentedly rough for me, probably one of the worst periods of my life. But today I found out that two brilliant high school students I mentored last summer as a part of the UCSC Science Internship Program have been getting college acceptances!! 🥳🥳

When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency removed a map of future climate hazards from its website, researchers built their own version.

Which US state has the most billion dollar weather and climate disasters?

It’s not California and it’s not Florida - it’s Texas.

As this article explains, the only state subject to more wildfires than Texas is California. Texas even leads California in acreage burned.

From Climatic Change editors Michael Oppenheimer and Gary Yohe: “it will not take long for an entire generation of young scientists who want to make a difference to decide that there is no future in studying the climate…. humanity cannot afford this interruption.”

I'm currently building a starter pack on a critical topic: the role of finance in driving climate resilience, mitigation, and a circular economy.

Investors, financial experts, development banks, researchers, innovators: who’s leading the charge in this space? Give me your top recommendations!

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🎁 A little holiday treat 🎁
We have a new paper on climate action communication on #Twitter 🌍 We analyzed over 6.4 million tweets from 2021, including tweets from the general public and tweets from 'climate' scientists on @katharinehayhoe.com's "Scientists who do climate" list🧵
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Brilliant starter pack on adaptation to climate change by @meadekrosby.bsky.social :) go.bsky.app/3G5Eono

Great points, especially 3. I got into C++ in high school and learning R or Python after undergrad was so much easier than learning Stata.

🎈New Working Paper🎈with @ericoffner.bsky.social and @glennrudebusch.bsky.social

Do higher interest rates hurt the green transition? Not so obvious! Evidence from equity markets in US and EU actually shows stronger effects of monetary policy on high-carbon, brown firms.
#EconSky #Climate