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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · 9d

💡COVID-19 revealed institutional flaws but also proved societies can transform to face existential threats. For the #ClimateCrisis, we must harness this capacity for democratic renewal, prioritizing #justice, #participation, and robust institutions not just resilience.

📌 lnkd.in/dBbtJ8UU

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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · Sep 4

⏫In a world without climate change, similar heatwaves would be expected less than every 2,500 years.

But today, with 1.3°C of warming, they are much more likely, expected every 13 years.

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Sep 4

How can we build a more democratic and sustainable Europe?🌿
New policy brief from the #RetoolProject shows that high-quality #PublicParticipation 🤝is key to effective #ClimatePolicies.

Learn more: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#climate #democracy #climatedemocracy

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · Sep 2

The lexicon used by climate misinformers has changed, and "‘New Denial’ is bent on condemning solutions to climate change and their supporters."

Researchers found the most prevalent climate-related terms on Twitter/X from 2021-2023 and shared their results below.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A chart of the most frequent search terms. "Climate control" is by far number one, followed by "green fossil fuels" and "drill baby drill."

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Markus Pauli @markuspauli.bsky.social · Jun 25

New Nature paper "Majority support for global redistributive & climate policies" www.nature.com/articles/s41... cites "Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, & Why?" @dcuclimate.bsky.social @dcu-conflict.bsky.social @greendealnet.eu @retoolproject.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Markus Pauli @markuspauli.bsky.social · Jun 27

New Special Issue 'The External Dimensions of the European Green Deal' by @greendealnet.eu: link.springer.com/journal/1078... @simonohnen.bsky.social @earsomj.bsky.social @claraweller.bsky.social ‪‪‪@buzogany.bsky.social @cladupont.bsky.social @gorandominioni.bsky.social @retoolproject.bsky.social

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on the theoretical, ...

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Jun 16

''emissions from military conflict remain mostly invisible in international climate negotiations and national inventories.'' It is important to report the military and confict emmisions under the UNFCCC.

#climate #ghg #war #unfccc

www.downtoearth.org.in/climate-chan...

War & warming: Emissions from conflict in Gaza already higher than what 36 countries & territories emit in a year

Israel's 15-month war on Gaza has caused unprecedented loss of lives and infrastructure, and has also led to massive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from direct

www.downtoearth.org.in

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Jun 16

📍 1st day of partners meeting at Ghent University

💡Partners gathered to discuss the project's progress and the upcoming work.

The sessions spark valuable exchanges on collaboration and impact.

#EU #HorizonEurope #RetoolProject #climate #democracy #climatedemocracy

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Jun 13

The EU’s #StrategicDialogues could boost #democracy but suffer from corporate dominance, lack of transparency & performative debates. The 2024 #AgricultureDialogue succeeded—why isn’t the #EU replicating it?

Read our consortium partners' article here
euobserver.com/eu-political...

The EU's strategic dialogues — are they just 'participation washing'?

Most dialogues have taken place behind closed doors, with minimal public information about the agenda, participants, or outcomes. With no detailed records and no clear reporting, the public is left in...

euobserver.com

RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Jun 1

“We tend to find it hard to imagine a different world… But I think it’s really important to imagine what climate justice would look and feel like”

#climate #activism #climateactivism

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/rest-is-resi...

“Rest Is Resistance”: Making Climate Activism Sustainable

Can storytelling and a realisation of our limitations help keep climate justice hopes alive against the odds?

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu

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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · May 19

From @nature.com: New research shows that with every increment of global warming, the number of people facing unprecedented lifetime exposure to crop failures, droughts, floods, wildfires, and cyclones increases sharply. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes - Nature

Climate models, impact models and demographic data are used to estimate the number of people projected to experience unprecedented lifetime exposure to extreme climate events across multiple dimension...

www.nature.com

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · May 7

NEW – Children born in 2020 will face ‘unprecedented exposure’ to climate extremes | @AyeshaTandon w/ comment from Luke Grant, Kaveh Madani, @harrinluke.bsky.social @marinaromanello.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/Qxw80Un

Children drink water from a pipeline in the village of Afraaga, Somaliland. Credit: Joe Giddens / Alamy Stock Photo

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Departement Umweltsystemwissenschaften (D-USYS), ETH Zürich @usyseth.bsky.social · May 7

🚨 Research by VUB and ETH Zurich shows millions of children will suffer most from heatwaves, crop failures, floods, fires and storms due to climate change. We must act now to protect their future!

➡️ go.ethz.ch/2i

Climate change: Children suffer the most

Millions of children will be affected in unprecedented ways by heat waves, crop failures, river flooding, droughts, forest fires and tropical storms during their lifetime under current climate policy ...

go.ethz.ch

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ACHIEVE Achieving High-Integrity Voluntary Climate Action 🌱 @achieveproject.bsky.social · May 5

🌱 Voluntary climate action is about leading with purpose not obligation.
Excited to share a glimpse of our new synergy with the @retoolproject.bsky.social 🌍
www.youtube.com/shorts/5XdUT...

#ClimateJustice #horizoneurope
#voluntaryclimateaction #netzero #achieveproject #highintegrity

What is Voluntary Climate Action?

YouTube video by ACHIEVE

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Bruegel @bruegel.org · Apr 10

🌍 NEW Bruegel Blueprint: Green intersections

In the decade since the 2015 Paris Agreement, what has been the outcome of greening in public policy, and is it threatened by a divisive geopolitical environment?

🖊️ With contributions from 16 experts
📕 www.bruegel.org/book/green-i...
#EconSky

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Apr 24

💡𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Why do people support green policies? how can leaders build trust?
✅Democracy works when citizens engage and governments listen

#Climate #Democracy #Retool #climatedemocracy

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority

www.theguardian.com

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Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · Apr 23

New blog by @guyjackson.bsky.social!

"to ensure that climate justice becomes more than just an empty phrase, it is important to unearth and critique what it...means for advocates and the assumptions, strategies and tactics that underpin their theories of change"

www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/wha...

What do we want? Climate justice! - Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Apr 22

𝐓𝐡𝐞 #𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭: 𝐀𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐧, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.

An interesting article about #ClimatePopulism

👉https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-populism-is-coming-but-not-the-way-progressives-think/

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Apr 22

This #EarthDay, the call for collective action is clearer than ever.

From policy shifts to grassroots innovation, meaningful change starts with commitment, not just today, but every day.

🌍 The future of our planet depends on the choices we make now.

sustainabilitymag.com/articles/ear...

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Apr 14

✅The KlimaSeniorinnen case didn’t just win, it rewrote the rules.

⚖️ For the first time, an international court held a state accountable for climate inaction under #ΗumanRights law, an important moment for global #ClimateLitigation

Read more👉
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Apr 1

📢 𝐍𝐞𝐰 #RetoolProject 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫!

Read about project updates, publications and new research from our consortium partners!

𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐰: lnkd.in/dc-7VNbz

✔️Follow us for more!

🔔𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞: retoolproject.eu

#EU #HorizonEurope #RetoolProject #climate #democracy #climatedemocracy

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · Mar 21

People deserve to know what their governments are, and aren’t, doing 🔍

Yet it’s currently impossible to effectively monitor EU government's daily failure to implement environmental laws.

Read on to discover how transparency is the key to ensuring EU law enforcement 👉 meta.eeb.org/2025/03/18/j...

Justice must be seen to be done, so why is it hidden?

EU environmental laws are a vital tool to tackle the triple, but EU governments are failing to implement the laws they themselves made.

meta.eeb.org

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Mar 18

💡 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 #𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠?

EU Green Deal progress: 32/154 targets on track, 64 need acceleration, 15 lagging.
It highlights key sectors and calls for urgent action to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.

👉 dx.doi.org/10.2760/3105...

#retool #EU #climate #democracy #horizonEU

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RETOOL Project @retoolproject.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢 #𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭!

𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 #𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 & #𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐀 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞
🗓️ Sept 16-18, 2025

Explore the tensions between democracy & capitalism in a world reshaped by inequality, corporate power, and democratic backsliding.

📝 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: rebalanceproject.org/events/rebal...

Rebalancing Democracy and Capitalism: A Critical Dialogue Conference | Rebalance

The Rebalance project invites scholars to participate in an in-depth meeting at the University of Pisa, exploring the tensions and possibilities at the intersection of democracy and capitalism. The re...

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