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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · 2d

Très enrichissant, merci @cepii-paris.bsky.social
Découverte pour ma part du fil de pensée, sans filtre, de Michel Aglietta : présentation, par économiste l'ayant côtoyé, de ses ouvrages

➡️ Dont certains que je me suis empressé de commander avant la fin la conférence

CEPII @cepii-paris.bsky.social · 2d

🅁🄴🄿🄻🄰🅈 Conférence "Monnaie, #crises, #écologie: les clés d’un monde en recomposition. Hommage à Michel Aglietta" co-organisée par le CEPII, la @banquedefrance-off.bsky.social et l' @ofce.bsky.social.
www.cepii.fr/CEPII/fr/eve...
#econsky

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · 9d

Even the mining industry is going electric!

Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 9d

Chinese/Australian heavy electric mine truck project using batteries, not overhead wires. Might use battery swap, unknown? BEVs keep going deeper into heavy haul applications. @aukehoekstra.bsky.social interestingengineering.com/energy/china...

China's 240-ton electric truck fleet to transform mine operations

Chinese heavy equipment manufacturer XCMG will provide up to 200 of its 240-ton battery-electric haul trucks to Fortescue, advancing large-scale zero-emission mining operations.

interestingengineering.com

Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · 24d

Lecture du week-end par
@matthieu-aron.bsky.social
#CarolineMichelAguirre

Condensé d'échecs des politiques de l'offre, e.g. :

"les salariés payent pour avoir le droit de continuer de travailler" = Transfert de la TVA vers des allégements de cotisations patronales pour éviter les délocalisations

Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · 27d

Nice paper by my former colleague @yannquilcaille.bsky.social:
each of the 180 historical world’s largest oil, gas, coal, and cement producers are at least responsible for 16 heatwaves "that would have been virtually impossible in a preindustrial climate"

Yann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors".

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

www.nature.com

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Sep 7

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Jul 28

Pétition pour sauver de la liquitation Lormauto :
Entreprise qui a eu le courage de vouloir innover dans le retrofiting de véhicules à essence vers l'électrique

➡️ moins d'acier produit = moins de CO2 émis

petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Jul 3

Something I did not expect about the impact of Climate Change and Heatwaves:

➡️ it raises violence against women

news.un.org/fr/story/202...

La crise climatique entraîne une augmentation des violences sexistes, selon l'ONU

Sans action urgente, le changement climatique pourrait être lié à un cas sur dix de violence conjugale d’ici la fin du siècle.

news.un.org

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IPCC @ipcc.bsky.social · Jul 3

#IPCC's 2022 #ClimateReport shows heatwaves in Europe will become more frequent, more intense & will last longer.

By 2050, about half of the European population may be exposed to high or very high risk of heat stress during summer.

➡️ bit.ly/IICpt13

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Jul 1

Cities are hot today in Europe!

Besides, there is also the "growth-vs-environment" hot topic at the urban scale you can discover
by reading this nice perspective
by @charlotteliotta.bsky.social & @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social

Charlotte Liotta @charlotteliotta.bsky.social · Jun 30

🏙️ Our Perspective Paper is out in Nature Cities!
“The growth-vs-environment debate at the urban scale" — with @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social

📖 Open access: rdcu.be/etaiq
🗞️ Link to the paper: lnkd.in/e9Bra7r9

rdcu.be

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Philippe Quirion @philippequirion.bsky.social · Jun 18

Exceptional year for @cired.bsky.social at the ongoing @eaere.bsky.social conference:

- Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for @romainfillon.bsky.social
- Award for Outstanding Publication for Arnaud Goussebaïle

Congrats to both of them and to @celineguivarch.bsky.social, Romain's supervisor!

Award for best doctoral dissertations in environmental and resource economics

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Jun 15

L'un des lieux emblématiques où la science est vulgarisée avec ingéniosité : le Palais de la découverte menacé
Une pétition contre la fermeture !

Tania Louis @tanialouis.fr · Jun 13

Une pétition à l’initiative des salarié(e)s d’Universcience (Palais de la découverte & Cité des sciences et de l’industrie) circule contre la fermeture du Palais : www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...

Signez la pétition

Sauvons le Palais de la découverte

www.change.org

Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Jun 15

L'un des lieux emblématiques où la science est vulgarisée avec ingéniosité : le Palais de la découverte menacé

Le Monde @lemonde.fr · Jun 13

« La fermeture du Palais de la découverte ou sa réduction serait une perte pour l’ensemble de la communauté internationale »

Dans une tribune au « Monde », une cinquantaine de représentants d’institutions scientifiques internationales appellent la France à garantir l’avenir du Palais de la découverte.

www.lemonde.fr

Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · May 21

Prototypes of Lornauto were sold 20k euros

Production on a larger scale would have lowered the price and made electric vehicles more affordable for less well-off households.

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · May 21

Retrofiting cars towards electric vehicles could allow for a 70% savings of material inputs in car manufacturing
➡️ less steel production = less CO2 emissions and less energy consumed

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · May 21

A french start-up who retrofits gasoline cars to electric cars
is closing due to a lack of investment

➡️ Circular economy and material efficiency are however crucial strategies for climate change mitigation

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www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Lormauto, la petite entreprise qui transforme les voitures à essence en voitures électriques, arrête les frais

Le constructeur automobile du Calvados n’a pas reçu à temps les fonds privés et la subvention promise par l’Etat, en raison des doutes de Bpifrance sur la viabilité économique du projet. La liquidatio...

www.lemonde.fr

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · May 14

Carbon footprint of animal VS vegetal protein meals
In one graphic

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · May 13

If you want to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet, less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat.

A graph comparing the greenhouse gas emissions of various protein-rich foods, measured in kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents (kgCO2 eq) per 100 grams of protein. The chart features colorful curves representing different food items, with the height of each curve indicating the level of emissions associated with its production.

The bottom line is that plant-based protein sources still have a lower footprint than the lowest-impact meat products.

Sources are credited to Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek (2018) for the data and Our World in Data for the visualization

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Vincent Vicard @vvicard.bsky.social · Apr 10

Quick calculation by my collegue Houssein Guimbard at @cepii-paris.bsky.social : average US tariffs are larger today than they were yesterday (=increase on China more than compensate decreases on other countries).

For other countries tariff levels remain high (25% auto/steel/alu still implemented).

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OFCE @ofce.bsky.social · Apr 8

L’OFCE rejoint désormais Bluesky 🦋 pour partager l’actualité de ses chercheurs 🥳.

De nouvelles publications à suivre très prochainement 📊 📉👀!

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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · Mar 26

With global warming closing in on 1.5C, one aspect is clear: some countries' emissions have exceeded their fair share.

To deal with this, we present the concept of carbon debt in a new paper in @pnas.org.

Lead author @setupelz.bsky.social explains in a long thread 👇🧵

Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · Mar 25

📢 New paper w/ G. Ganti @robinlamboll.bsky.social L. Grant @cjsmith.be @shonali-p.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social K. Riahi @wimthiery.bsky.social @gidden.bsky.social

We examine a forward-looking measure to guide collective efforts in the era of climate overshoot: net-zero carbon debt.

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Mar 18

This is actually a really nice visualization tool
to watch how the climate has evolved 🤩

Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · Mar 18

Curious about climate patterns? The new ERA Explorer app lets you compare 85 years of climate data worldwide. Analyse climatological averages at any map point or explore month-by-month data.Dive deeper with ERA Explorer! era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=50.86&ln...
#C3S #beautifuldata

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Mar 14

Un article qui montre qu'en France et en Europe aussi s'amorce un recul des causes environnementales, à l'image de ce qui s'observe outre Atlantique.

www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...

Sur l’écologie, un grand renoncement à l’œuvre en France et dans le monde

Déjà marginalisée en France et en Europe depuis l’irruption de la guerre en Ukraine, la défense du climat et de l’environnement se retrouve piétinée dans le chaos géopolitique créé par l’administratio...

www.lemonde.fr

Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Mar 7

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Storytelling is a way to explore possible/desirable futures in social and climate science, such as in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways.

This text is part of scenarios "for fast societal transitions toward sustainability" envisioned by Lauer et al. 2025.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Beyond Green capitalism: Global scenarios for fast societal transitions toward sustainability

Addressing the theoretical underpinnings of state involvement in transformative societal changes, this study employs a neo-Gramscian and functionalist…

www.sciencedirect.com

Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Mar 7

My #standupforscience2025 post:

“[..] 2020ies, a transformative shift towards greener, more inclusive growth is sparked by the US's adoption of an ambitious 'Green New Deal' and renewed focus on multilateralism [...] to address social inequality and environmental degradation."

Fiction explained ⬇️

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Mar 2

Just finished this book by Christian Arnsperger!

Interesting to think about economic fundamentals from an existentialist angle: how fear and denial of being finite beings are distributed throughout the economic system and perpetuate it.

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Florian Leblanc @florianleblanc.bsky.social · Feb 18

Agreed!
AR7 will need to be more representative of SSPs
But not only: scenarios with increase GDP convergence between South and North are also welcomed

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Feb 18

Around 90% of the scenarios assessed in IPCC AR6 were based on one set of socioeconomic assumptions (SSP2).

This is based on the metadata variable SSP_family, for scenarios that passed vetting and obtained a climate assessment.

More discussion: rdcu.be/ealf8

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