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The leading peer-reviewed journal on national and international responses to climate change. ➡️ climatepolicy.com ➡️ climatepolicyjournal.org

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 15

💡 EDITORIAL: In this special Editorial, our co-Editors-in-Chief @ndubash.bsky.social & @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social, and Editor @pieterpauw.bsky.social reflect on navigating #climatepolicy amidst an uncertain landscape of key political shifts, geopolitical tensions and narrative changes ⬇️ ⚡

EDITORIAL: Researching climate policy in uncertain times

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 4d

⚡ #ClimateRisk shocks significantly exacerbate labour outsourcing expenditures, primarily through increased economic uncertainty & investment expenditure, find Zhang et al.

❗ Intensified climate risks increase firms' tax avoidance incentives & partially drive transformation initiatives

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Climate risk shocks and corporate outsourcing

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 5d

🇬🇭 District Assemblies play a critical role in #climatechange education - but how are they perceived by coastal residents in Ghana? Abednego Baffour finds that:

➡️ 72% say that DAs have not sufficiently educated their communities
➡️ 45.5% say they have "very poor" access to #climatechange info

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Local government and climate literacy: exploring community perspectives in Ghana’s coastal zones

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 5d

🌎 Latin America's Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) climate models need improvements, find Bressan & Nieto:

1️⃣ Reduce large uncertainty ranges across models
2️⃣ Account for the future not looking like the past
3️⃣ Consider tail risks + improve hazard suites (for physical risks)

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The tale of two climate risks in Latin America: the perspective of the NGFS climate scenarios

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 7d

🪨 Coal power phasedown is essential for achieving #climate targets, but risks major job losses. Meng et al. find that reducing utilisation rates & implementing workforce resettlement strategies greatly reduces job losses + costs incurred, ensuring a #justtransition ⚖️ ⬇️

Mitigating regional employment disparities through flexible coal power phasedown and workforce resettlement

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 9d

🌍 Over 86% of people worldwide are concerned about #climatechange, with higher concern in developed economies, find Chen & Liao. Key drivers of climate change concern include:

🌪️ Extreme weather experience
🎓 Education level
💭 National worry index

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Global public perceptions of climate change risks and their determinants

Addressing climate change requires global cooperation and individual efforts, with public awareness playing a crucial role in shaping willingness and commitment to engage. However, research on glob...

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 8 is out now, with the latest on #climatefinance, agro-pastoral #adaptation, the gap between #mitigation targets and #climatepolicy, the IMF's #climatepolicy approach, & more 💡

📣 Insights from @benclift.bsky.social @aliceclimate.bsky.social @lukemoffett.bsky.social & more ⬇️

Climate Policy, Volume 25, Issue 8 (2025)

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 13d

🔓 Contribution claims in voluntary #carbonmarkets (VCM) are gaining traction as an alternative to #carbonneutrality claims. A uniform framing for contribution claims can ensure the VCM serves its mitigation financing function while reducing risk of misleading stakeholders, find Chagas et al. ⬇️

Ensuring environmental integrity of voluntary carbon market claims: understanding and framing VCM contribution claims

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 16d

🔥 Wildfires negatively impact residential property values, but positively influence agricultural & commercial land, find Wang et al. (Renmin University of China); wildfire policies need to be tailored to account for different land uses ⬇️

The impact of wildfires on local property values in Wisconsin, United States

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 17d

Migrants are especially vulnerable to #climatechange, facing socio-economic marginalisation, low adaptive capacity and spatial discrimination, find Yerlikaya & Balaban in study from Istanbul 🇹🇷

❗ To achieve #climatejustice, #adaptation policies must address systemic migrant vulnerabilities ⬇️

Urban climate justice and migrant communities: factors of climate vulnerabilities of the Syrian population in Istanbul

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 24d

🔓 Currently implemented allocation of free #emission allowances (OBA) boosts output in the EU's emission intensive and trade exposed sectors more than the scheduled carbon border adjustment mechanism #CBAM, find Bye et al. (Statistics Norway) 🇪🇺

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EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism CBAM – industrial effects

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · 25d

⚡ Deep decarbonisation of the power sector is essential for the #netzero transition, & will require substantial financial support, market reforms, capacity building, technological innovation & more, analyse Vishwanathan, @chrisbataille.bsky.social et al. in study on 🇧🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇿🇦 ⬇️

Towards net-zero electricity sector in emerging economies – Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣 The deadline for applications to our Associate Editor role has been extended to 14th September 🕑 ❗

⚡ Don't miss this opportunity to join the world-leading journal on #climatepolicy

⬇️ Check out full details below ⬇️

Climate Policy is recruiting new associate editors

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Sep 2

🔓 What factors affect public acceptability of parking space reallocation? In new study from Germany, Goetting et al. @tuberlin.bsky.social @rifs-potsdam.bsky.social identify key positive influences:

✅ Equality-based distribution rather than equity-based
✅ Smaller changes
✅ Citizen participation

From parking place to public space: a factorial survey experiment on public acceptability of parking space reallocation in Germany

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 27

❗Applications for our new Associate Editor role close in ONE WEEK❗

💡Don't forget to apply to join our brilliant team and contribute to a world-leading climate journal 🕐🌍⬇️

Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 16

📣 Interested in joining the Climate Policy team in our new Associate Editor role?

⬇️ Find full details, deadlines and relevant links on our website ⬇️

Climate Policy is recruiting new associate editors

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Navroz K Dubash @ndubash.bsky.social · Aug 26

Great opportunity to engage with a long standing leading journal in the climate space. Please apply!

Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣 NEW OPPORTUNITY: Climate Policy is recruiting new Associate Editors📣

❗ Contribute to the world-leading peer-reviewed journal on #climatepolicy

🕑 Apply by 3rd September

👇 Full job description and application details below👇

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Navroz K Dubash @ndubash.bsky.social · Aug 26

In our @climate-policy.bsky.social editorial @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social, @pieterpauw.bsky.social and I unpack what today's uncertain times mean for climate policy. We argue for renewed attention, but with greater focus on how climate policy is embedded in larger political and economic questions.

Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 15

💡 EDITORIAL: In this special Editorial, our co-Editors-in-Chief @ndubash.bsky.social & @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social, and Editor @pieterpauw.bsky.social reflect on navigating #climatepolicy amidst an uncertain landscape of key political shifts, geopolitical tensions and narrative changes ⬇️ ⚡

EDITORIAL: Researching climate policy in uncertain times

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 27

🏙️ Nasr et al. propose a method for deriving scenario-dependent optimal discount rates that account for varying socio-economic characteristics presented in different #climatechange scenarios, & which are used to better evaluate the cost-effectiveness of infrastructure #adaptation investments⬇️

Scenario-dependent discounting for climate change adaptation decisions for infrastructure

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣 NEW OPPORTUNITY: Climate Policy is recruiting new Associate Editors📣

❗ Contribute to the world-leading peer-reviewed journal on #climatepolicy

🕑 Apply by 3rd September

👇 Full job description and application details below👇

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Mikael Karlsson @mikaelkarlsson.bsky.social · Aug 22

Dismantling climate policy is bad for the economy

New study in @climate-policy.bsky.social showing that it is possible to reduce emissions, decrease inequality and strengthen welfare and the economy. Lowering fuel taxes is inefficient from multiple perspectives.

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Modelling policy packages with combined climate, social, and macroeconomic goals: the Swedish case

Backlashes to climate policy have raised the interest in policy packages that can simultaneously reduce emissions effectively, handle distributional effects, and reverse contemporary trends towards...

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 15

💡 EDITORIAL: In this special Editorial, our co-Editors-in-Chief @ndubash.bsky.social & @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social, and Editor @pieterpauw.bsky.social reflect on navigating #climatepolicy amidst an uncertain landscape of key political shifts, geopolitical tensions and narrative changes ⬇️ ⚡

EDITORIAL: Researching climate policy in uncertain times

www.tandfonline.com

Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 22

🔓 Climate-influenced #migration can lead to persistent poverty, food insecurity & increased inequality, find Khavarian-Garmsir et al. (University of Isfahan). Policymakers should:

🎓 Improve access to education & skills training
📄 Revise immigration policies to ensure access to rights

& more⬇️

How does the climate change and migration nexus result in maladaptation?

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · Aug 18

2/3 for climate action and climate cooperation, attention to broader questions is necessary to deepen understanding and work toward a truly effective response to climate change. What sorts of questions and analysis might be of continued, and even enhanced, relevance for analysis in Climate Policy?

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Sustainable Futures Collaborative @sustainablefutures.org · Aug 18

1/3 @ndubash.bsky.social, with fellow Co-Editors-in-Chief W. Pieter Pauw and @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social, writes in a new @climate-policy.bsky.social editorial:
Climate policy is now a more multi-stranded and complex area of inquiry than ever before. In these uncertain times,

Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 21

🇪🇺 🇨🇳 Strengthened #EU #ETS policies have induced carbon leakage by shifting #emissions to Chinese firms with strong EU trade ties, find Ying et al. (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)⬇️

Unintended emissions: the carbon leakage effects of the third-phase EU ETS tightening on trade-exposed Chinese firms

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Climate Policy @climate-policy.bsky.social · Aug 17

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💡 Access papers on #carbonpricing, #fossilfuels, #justtransition, #adaptation and much more ⬇️

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