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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 1d

another good analysis of Badenoch's dodgy claims in support of abandoning net zero from @granthamlse.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic paper. Data by sector, geography, investor entity & distributional impact (in terms of wealth, race, education).
@gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social's conclusion below: "taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715".

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 1d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social · 3d

NEW PUBLICATION - in this article Will Hopkinson, Paul Tobin, @matpaterson.bsky.social and I show how Australian climate policy has changed since the Climate Change Act in 2022 after the ‘Lost Decade’. The article is Open Access - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From ‘Lost Decade’ to incomplete ‘transformation’: Australian climate policy via ideas, interests, and institutions

Australia’s centre-right Coalition government’s ‘Lost Decade’ (2013–2022) entailed the dismantling of climate policy. Subsequently, the centre-left Labor government passed the Climate Change Act in...

www.tandfonline.com

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UoM Politics @uompols.bsky.social · 12d

The new book Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance asks: When it comes to climate change ... is it better to ‘lock in’ steady, long-term policies, or do we need dramatic political conflict and protests to force real change?

Open access link: buff.ly/KNNv8Sr

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ManchesterSCI @manchestersci.bsky.social · 7d

What if the UK’s path to Net Zero meant digging backwards?
Pawan Srikanth & Daniel Welch explore how landfill mining could reclaim land, recover resources, and boost circular economy — sparking discussion on costs, benefits & risks for the UK.

👉Read it here: blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/09/...

No room for waste - unlocking the potential of landfill mining

blogs.manchester.ac.uk

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 3d

I think she sort of meant it (she did the Royal Society speech on climate the year after which rightly got loads of attention). It's got a Burkean feel (rather un-thatcherite in that sense) to it, so a perfectly respectable conservatie heritage. caught up in a bundle of contradictions of course.

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 3d

hmmm.... I remember her saying that. she was railing against EU plans for catalytic converters and acid rain policies at the same time ...

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 3d

that's the Conservative Environment Network - they are tearing their hair out about it. Althoguh they have shifted messaging away from climate and towards nature conservation, perhaps tellingly: www.cen.uk.com

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 3d

As @carlymclachlan.bsky.social is fond of saying, more zero, less net please. the evidence against carbon offsets keeps stacking up. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 5d

www.faber.co.uk/author/emily...

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 5d

On cycling, I very much enjoyed Emily Chappell's What Goes Around - memoir of being a cycle courier in London. Not academic at all :-) but full of interesting insights.

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 5d

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 7d

A reminder of two launches of our new book, on the 8th and 16th October.

Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 14d

Please join us to discuss our book on Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (thread below). One launch on the 8th Oct, 10am EST, one on the 16th Oct, 4pm EST. See flyer for details and to register. The book is open access so you can quiz us. See you there! @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 7d

Good hatchet job on Badenoch's announcement of abandoning the net zero target (and climate action more broadly) here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 9d

The UK's last coal-fired power station shut a year ago yesterday. Always worth remembering this was anything but a just transition ... theecologist.org/2024/feb/12/...

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PSA Environmental Politics Specialist Group @psaenvironmental.bsky.social · 13d

Exicting events on a great new book 👇

Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 14d

Please join us to discuss our book on Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (thread below). One launch on the 8th Oct, 10am EST, one on the 16th Oct, 4pm EST. See flyer for details and to register. The book is open access so you can quiz us. See you there! @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 14d

If the flyer is too small for the QRs to work, the registration links are bit.ly/vandeveeroct8 or bit.ly/vandeveeroct16.

Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 14d

Please join us to discuss our book on Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (thread below). One launch on the 8th Oct, 10am EST, one on the 16th Oct, 4pm EST. See flyer for details and to register. The book is open access so you can quiz us. See you there! @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 15d

hmmm... hold fast Ed... you are the key bit of this govt on climate action .www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18d

I don't get those calling for the climate movement and left politicians to be Pragmatic and Realistic and give up on emissions reductions and start loving fossil fuels, permitting reform, abundance etc

You've already won. They're already doing this. The EDF joined Newsom for this press conference

Drill baby drill? It could happen again in California

After years of cracking down on California’s oil industry, Gavin Newsom is working on a deal with oil interests to avoid soaring gas prices.

calmatters.org

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 18d

Defying everything you were ever taught about genetics and biology.

How little we understand about the #biodiversity we are fast trashing. And reminding us that we shouldn't muck around with genetic systems we don't understand

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

These Ant Queens Seem to Defy Biology: They Lay Eggs That Hatch Into Another Species

Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning males

www.smithsonianmag.com

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UoM Politics @uompols.bsky.social · 19d

New open-access book! Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance, co-edited by Dr Paul Tobin and Professor Matthew Paterson - leading experts from The University of Manchester - alongside Professor Stacy D. VanDeveer from UMass Boston, USA

When it comes to climate change ...

is it better to ‘lock in’ steady, long-term policies, or do we need dramatic political conflict and protests to force real change?

“To truly tackle climate change, we need to create policy spaces that welcome and support everyone, especially communities often left out of the debate”

Dr Paul Tobin

Stability an Politicization in Climate Governance co-edited by Dr Paul Tobin and Professor Matthew Paterson - leading experts from The University of Manchester - alongside Professor Stacy D. VanDeveer from UMass Boston, USA.

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 21d

The report is here: influencemap.org/report/ICAO-.... you have to register with @influencemapbsky.social to get it.

Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 21d

not much new here or surprising, but great details on exactly how terrible ICAO remains on climate change. Link to underlying report in the article. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 26d

I haven’t seen any such critiques of this (the article is not an attack one) but just extrapolating - the antis are pretty scattergun

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