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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Jul 25

The ICJ delivers a landmark opinion, which makes clear that under the #ParisAgreement, NDCs need to:

✅ Become more ambitious over time,
✅ Make an adequate contribution to holding global warming to 1.5°C,
✅ Be implemented by putting in place domestic measures reasonably capable of achieving NDCs ❗

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · May 24

📢 Did you miss it? New publication in Geopolitics! 🔥

This is a piece about perceptions, power, politics, and the messy realities of sustainability governance through trade. It foregrounds the perspectives, concerns and agency of EU trade partners. 🌏

➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · May 16

Source: www.2030-panelet.dk/wp-content/u...

www.2030-panelet.dk

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · May 16

Known as a climate frontrunner, the world would need 4.7 planets if everyone lived like Danes. Green image, heavy brown climate footprint 🌍🇩🇰

#ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryBoundaries #OvershootDay #GreenTransition #EUClimatePolicy

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · May 8

4/4 The key question becomes: If the EU cannot reconcile ambitious climate action with prosperity and security, who can?

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · May 8

3/4 If the EU begins to justify climate backsliding on economic and security grounds, it risks undermining global momentum for climate ambition. Given today’s unparalleled level of global conflict — some say the highest since WWII — and the EU’s relatively high global wealth....

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · May 8

2/4 🪖 📈 What’s more concerning is the growing perception that the EU’s competitiveness and security agendas are in conflict with its green ambitions. As a result, the chances of the EU proposing 2035 and 2040 climate targets in line with the 1.5°C Paris Agreement goal seem slim... 🌡️

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · May 8

1/4 ⏰ Despite being nearly three months past the deadline, the EU has still not submitted an updated climate action plan. This does not seem to be a top priority for the current Polish Council Presidency, most likely leaving it to Denmark to get through after the summer.

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · May 8

COP30 & the EU’s role 🌱🇪🇺

⏰ Still no updated EU climate plan; not a priority for the Polish Presidency.

🪖📉 EU’s security & competitiveness is perceived to be clashing with green goals. 1.5°C-aligned 2035/2040 targets? Unlikely.

🌍 If the EU can’t align climate, prosperity & security—who can?

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Mar 4

Klimapolitikken er gledet ned ad den globale dagsorden. Men hvor langt? 2025 vil afsløre, om Parisaftalen stadig har politisk tyngde 🌱

➡️ Læs min analyse i Berlingske i dag om hvorfor, at 2025 er et afgørende år, og hvorfor Trumps handelskrige gør global klimapolitik meget sværere 🇺🇸💰🥊

Klimakrise og handelskrig: Derfor bliver 2025 et skæbneår for Parisaftalen

Læs mere her.

www.berlingske.dk

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 14

🔍 What’s inside?
✅ All press releases from the European Commission's press corner, published by the Directorate for Trade (DG Trade)
✅ Compiled in Nvivo with files in PDF for easier coding
✅ Intuitive naming (Commission mandate, date of publication, and topic!) #TradePolicy #EUTrade #EU #OpenAcess

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 14

📉🇪🇺 If you’re exploring discursive trends, tracking policy changes/continuities, or just trying to make sense of how EU trade policy has evolved over the last three decades, this dataset could be a game-changer.

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 14

🚀 Calling all EU trade researchers and policy enthusiasts!

I’ve just released an updated version of my open access dataset compiling every press release from the European Commission (DG Trade) — now covering 1989 to 2025 (until February 10). Check it out!

➡️ dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

dataverse.harvard.edu

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 11

However, the fear remains that the missed deadline reflects a declining willingness to uphold a strong and credible climate framework, raising questions of whether the climate regime may slowly be crumbling... ⏳ 🌱

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 11

While the missed deadline is concerning, it’s not the end of the world. Most countries are expected to submit their contributions within the next nine months, leading up to #COP30 in Brazil. 🇧🇷 The fact that 2024 was a major election year globally may partly explain the delays.

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 11

The situation is further exacerbated by recent political signals from major players: Trump 🇺🇸 has resumed the process of withdrawing the world’s second-largest emitter from the agreement. Meanwhile, political leaders in Argentina, Russia, and possibly even New Zealand are discussing similar moves 🇦🇷🇷🇺🇳🇿

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 11

🖐 The Paris Agreement’s temperature goal of keeping global temperature rise below 2°C and preferably 1.5°C 🌡️ was unanimously adopted a decade ago, but weak #COP climate negotiations in recent years have fueled fears of backsliding.

Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 11

🌍🔴 Climate delay or backslide?

📄 7 of the world's 10 largest economies missed the deadline yesterday to submit updated climate action plans (NDCs) under the #Parisagreement. Weak #COP climate talks and a challenging political landscape (🇺🇸 🇦🇷🇷🇺) are putting the ambitions of the Paris deal to the test

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Feb 4

🌏 🌡️ 🇳🇿 Yesterday, a New Zealand coalition partner (ACT) floated the idea of New Zealand withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.🌱 This would not be inconsequential. Under the EU-New Zealand FTA, either party can suspend the trade deal in case the other withdraws from the Paris Agreement 🇪🇺 ⚖️🙅 🇳🇿

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Jan 22

🚨📣 We are so back:

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Jan 28

Great read!

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GreenDeal-NET @greendealnet.eu · Jan 27

Can EU trade agreements bolster climate action?

@carolinebertram.bsky.social & @herminevc.bsky.social examine how commitments to effectively implement the Paris Agreement raise costs, strengthen duties and foster ambition.

Will dispute settlement mechanisms deliver?

https://www.greendealnet.eu/Strengthening-the-Paris-Agreement-through-trade"

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Jan 25

Thank you Ben - I hope everything is going well in Edinburgh!

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Jan 24

And my amazing co-authors @herminevc.bsky.social, Ana Carolina Campera and Simon Happersberger 🌱

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Caroline Bertram @carolinebertram.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you @anderswivel.bsky.social, Jens Ladefoged, @jeanfrancoismartin.bsky.social, @benrosamond1.bsky.social, Marlene Wind, Michele Betsill, Jan Orbie, @ferdideville.bsky.social, @camillenessel.bsky.social, Johan Eliasson, Axel Marx, Fariborz Zelli, Evgeny Postnikov, Alasdair Young, and many more!

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