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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · 20d

This has been a tumultuous week in Australian climate politics! And a good example of how target setting becomes a focal point for agenda-setting on climate, as per @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social, @chflachsland.bsky.social and my paper (below)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Bowen says cutting emissions by more than 70% ‘not achievable’ as 2035 target criticised from all sides

Albanese says 62% to 70% range represents ‘the sweet spot’ as Coalition rejects ‘economy wrecking’ target while Greens label it a ‘betrayal’

www.theguardian.com

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Christian Flachsland @chflachsland.bsky.social · 20d

Welcome to the Hertie School @climatemorgan.bsky.social!

Hertie School @hertieschool.bsky.social · 20d

We're excited to welcome Jennifer Morgan as a new Fellow at the Hertie School! 🌍

She'll bring her global climate policy expertise to our teaching and research, working closely with the Centre for Sustainability.

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congratulations Diane, this sounds fantastic!

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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · Aug 11

We have new working paper with Alice Xu and Audrey Sacks, entitled "The Politics of Climate Change in the Developing World," which we prepared for ARPS.

Comments are welcome.

guygrossman.com/assets/pdf/2...

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Jul 18

Original thread here - bsky.app/profile/clau...

Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are excited to share our working paper: Introducing and applying the Climate Institutions Analysis Framework (CIAF): A comparative analysis of climate institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia using the CIAF tinyurl.com/2enbnt29 (1/5)

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Jul 18

Our updated working paper with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social and @chflachsland.bsky.social - Introducing and applying the Climate Institutions Analysis Framework (CIAF) - is now available ⬇️ all feedback welcome!

SocArXivBot @socarxivbot.bsky.social · Jul 18

Introducing and applying the Climate Institutions Analysis Framework (CIAF): A comparative analysis of climate institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia using the CIAF: https://osf.io/jf8ah

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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · Jul 2

Welcome to SHIFT KEY Summer School.

@jessejenkins.bsky.social and @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social are walking you through the basics of energy and the power grid in this special miniseries.

Listen to the first episode below, or wherever you get your podcasts ⬇️

Shift Key Summer School: What Is a Watt?

Jesse teaches Rob the basics of energy, power, and what it all has to do with the grid.

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · Jul 1

work with @claudiazwar.bsky.social on climate institutions. Policy instruments span market-based tools (e.g. carbon pricing, ETS) and non-market approaches (e.g. standards, subsidies). Instrument design structures distributive outcomes and thus reshapes coalitional politics. bsky.app/profile/clau...

Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are excited to share our working paper: Introducing and applying the Climate Institutions Analysis Framework (CIAF): A comparative analysis of climate institutions in Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia using the CIAF tinyurl.com/2enbnt29 (1/5)

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Jul 1

Already becoming a lodestar for my thinking on climate politics research! Great to see this WP out.

Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧵 @chflachsland.bsky.social and I posted the first draft of our Climate Politics Framework (CPF) paper—our attempt to provide a structured synthesis of the insights of modern social science into why ambitious climate mitigation is politically such a wicked problem, and under osf.io/preprints/so...

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excited to be in Madrid this week for EPSA! At 9:30 on Saturday I’ll present my paper on the electoral costs of climate ambition alongside some other great projects ⬇️

Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · Jun 26

Furthermore, @antvalentim.bsky.social and I are discussing/chairing a panel on "how to build climate coalitions" featuring really cool papers by @dianebolet.bsky.social, @claudiazwar.bsky.social, @palomabril.bsky.social & Luis Azores! Definitely worth getting up early for!

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places

Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same?

@patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵

osf.io/rtymv

Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics and Backlashagainst International Cooperation by Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese.

This paper investigates the conditions under which subnational concerns shape public assessments of international climate governance. In line with existing literature, we maintain that costly policy adjustments fuel negative views of international cooperation in policy exposed regions. At the same time, we argue that the more resentful relations are with the national center of politics, the more sympathetic these regions areto international institutions and global governance. Based on geographically targeted survey data from theUnited Kingdom, we find that fossil fuel-intensive regions with strong, institutionalized regional politics have more positive assessments of international climate cooperation than structurally similar regions where regional political institutions are less pronounced. The findings show that regional politics characteristics are key for understanding climate policy beliefs among citizens that bear the brunt of adjustments to international climate agreements

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Jun 17

Great policy brief from colleagues in Ariadne about governance challenges in the German net zero transition and options for reform 👇

Christian Flachsland @chflachsland.bsky.social · Jun 17

Unser @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social Kurzdossier zur Handlungsfähigkeit des Staates in der Klima- und Energiepolitik ist veröffentlicht.

Wir gehen auf die Vorschläge der "Initiative für einen Handlungsfähigen Staat" ein und entwickeln unsere Problemdiagnose & Lösungsoptionen.

Kernbotschaften 👇

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Jun 4

Fantastic opportunity at our Centre to work for a year on your own climate politics research!

Marian Feist @mjfeist.bsky.social · Jun 4

Come work with us – on whatever you like!

One year to focus entirely on your own research project in a stimulating and supportive environment. Open to any aspect of #climatepolitics.
Apply within.

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...
@hertieschool.bsky.social @hertiesustain.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Associate - Climate Politics (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · May 12

Great to be at Princeton on Friday for the Climate Pipeline Project workshop, presenting my paper on prospective voting on climate policy

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Christian Flachsland @chflachsland.bsky.social · Mar 26

📣 Job alert 📣

My team is looking for a Research Associate or Postdoctoral Researcher - Multi-level Climate Governance in Germany in the @ariadneprojekt.bsky.social project.

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Associate - Multilevel Climate Governance in Germany (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Feb 18

I'm delighted to be spending the Winter Term visiting the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment @granthamlse.bsky.social. If you're in London, please drop me a line - I'll be here until the end of March.

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Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · Feb 7

Analysis of the electoral impact of German legislation aiming to phase out fossil-fueled heating systems. Main finding: Material costs of the policy, proxied by the characteristics of the local building stock, led to relative gains for the right-wing populist party. By @mkalkuhl.bsky.social et al.

Heated Debates on Heating: Investigating the Electoral Impact of Climate Policy

The transition to a renewable heating system poses extraordinary policy challenges to societies in Europe and beyond. Many buildings are heated decent...

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Jan 22

The world may feel like a dark place right now, but at least the sun is shining on my short visit at the Sydney Environment Institute. Thank you very much @seisydney.bsky.social for having me!

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · Jan 16

Scheint so, als wäre unser (@chflachsland.bsky.social und @claudiazwar.bsky.social) @verfassungsblog.de Artikel zur KSG-Novelle wieder aktuell. Darin argumentieren wir ua, dass die Wirksamkeit von Sektorzielen überschätzt wird. Vgl Screenshot im nächsten Post.
verfassungsblog.de/novelle-bund...

Eine vertane Chance, aber keine Katastrophe: Die Novelle des Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetzes

Nach langen Verhandlungen innerhalb der Ampel-Koalition hat der Bundestag am 26. April 2024 eine Novelle des Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetzes (KSG) beschlossen. Teils harte Kritik von Umweltverbänden, Exper...

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Sep 4

A huge thank you to our team @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social and @chflachsland.bsky.social 🥳

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Sep 4

We also demonstrate how policymakers can use the CIAF to create or reform climate institutions in their own countries, learning from comparative analysis. This matters because CIs are easier to reform than macro-political institutions (e.g. electoral rules) (5/5)

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Sep 4

We apply the CIAF to analyse CIs in DEU, GBR, SWE, and AUS. We find CIs in these countries tend to address knowledge and attention-related strategic challenges, while failing to deliver compensation for affected groups or ex-ante accountability (4/5)

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Sep 4

We propose 2 novel theoretical tools: (i) an encompassing + replicable definition of CIs and (ii) a framework to analyse their effects. The CIAF sees CIs as addressing a series of 'strategic challenges' in climate policy and engendering effects via 'stylised causal chains' (3/5)

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Claudia Zwar @claudiazwar.bsky.social · Sep 4

CIs - including framework climate legislation, climate advisory bodies, and climate ministries - have proliferated globally. Yet, compared with policy instruments, we know relatively little about them and the role they play in effective climate change mitigation (2/5)

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