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Max Koch @maxkoch.bsky.social · 5d

Paper on #football in the #climate emergency with M Guillen-Royo, E Daehlin, B Aamaas from @cicero.oslo.no and J Utgård from @oslomet.bsky.social. We interview senior staff from #Norway's national teams, calculate their carbon footprint and discuss alternatives

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Jonas Meckling @jonasmeckling.bsky.social · 13d

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 12d

🌪️As global climate disasters mount, the insurance protection gap is widening.
Natural disasters caused US$320 bn in losses globally in 2024, according to Munich Re.

But Japan remains an exception: its insurance protection gap isn’t yet pronounced.👇

How Japanese insurers are keeping the climate protection gap at bay

While the insurance protection gap is widening in many countries due to climate change, the same isn't true of Japan as yet even though premiums are on the rise.

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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 14d

🌱 @dnb-nl.bsky.social is publishing a guide so pension funds & insurers can integrate climate & nature risk into their risk assessment frameworks—further developing ESG data to help with insight into sustainability exposures

Read the full article by Emma Thomasson 👇

Dutch central bank reviews climate and nature risk to pensions and insurance

DNB shifts from awareness raising on climate to ensuring compliance with regulations.

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Thomas Hale @thomasnhale.bsky.social · 15d

With all the noise on climate @netzerotracker.bsky.social's Stock Take is the signal.

The finding that sticks in my head:

🇺🇸US corporate net zero targets grew 9% over last 12 months, 279 ➡️ 304

Yes, some are blowing with the political wind. But more are stepping up.
zerotracker.net/analysis/net...

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Jakob Skovgaard @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social · 23d

👉 Open access here: lnkd.in/djMVhh7Q (3/3)

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Jakob Skovgaard @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social · 23d

By mapping 74 institutions, we find the dominant way of understanding climate risk focuses on risks to business actors — shaped by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures under the G20’s Financial Stability Board. Other climate risks — to people & nature — are sidelined.(2/3)

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Jakob Skovgaard @jakobskovgaard.bsky.social · 23d

Just out! 🚨
Together with my excellent co-author @Hyeyoon Park, I published a new article on how global green finance governance institutions frame climate risks (1/3)

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Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · Jun 27

This is big (and bad) news: New Zealand's government has withdrawn from the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance, which a previous NZ government joined at the Glasgow climate summit in November 2021.

NZ pulls out of global coalition for phasing out fossil fuels

The move follows the Budget announcement of $200 million to support new drilling for fossil fuel fields.

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Blue Planet Society @blueplanetsociety.bsky.social · May 14

I’m obsessed with protecting seals: ‘The flying ring toy was deeply embedded in her neck’ 🦭

It broke my heart to see a seal so injured by a £1 plastic toy. Now I campaign to ban them – and it has changed my life. 👏

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I’m obsessed with protecting seals: ‘The flying ring toy was deeply embedded in her neck’

It broke my heart to see a seal so injured by a £1 plastic toy. Now I campaign to ban them – and it has changed my life

www.theguardian.com

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Bentley Allan @bentleyallan.bsky.social · Apr 29

Prime Minister Carney last night: “it’s time to build an industrial strategy that makes Canada more competitive while fighting climate change”

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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · Apr 23

Treasury Sec Bessent just signaled at a closed-door JPMorgan event that the US-China tariff standoff (currently 145% US tariffs, 125% China tariffs) is "not sustainable" and will de-escalate "in the very near future." Trump later confirmed final tariffs won't be "anywhere near" current levels. 1/

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · Apr 14

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK

Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking

YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly
NO it's not due to net-zero
YES it is due to GAS

Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · Apr 10

In mid-March, @fredericmerand.bsky.social started an important conversation about whether Canada should consider trying to join the EU and now we have a bunch of thoughtful responses. I was happy to add my take: www.ecsa-c.ca/post/canada-...

Canada and the EU’s geopolitical enlargement

Maria Popova, McGill [email protected] April 9, 2025 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 jolted the EU into a new enlargement wave now known as the “geopolitical en...

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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · Apr 10

Precisely nobody on Bluesky cares but WTI is back below $60. Jeez louise.

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · Apr 9

Another fun analogy is that tariffs to “re-industrialise” the US is a bit like using (massive, sudden) carbon pricing to completely reshape your energy systems.

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · Apr 8

Good morning with good news: 80 nations produced more than 50% of their electricity from clean sources in 2024.

47 nations generated more than 75% from clean sources.

Clean sources at 40.9% exceeded 40% of world's electricity for 1st time since 1940s!
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Harro van Asselt @harrovanasselt.bsky.social · Apr 8

The Call for Abstracts of the Inaugural Conference of the European Association of Climate Law (EACL) is now live! Come join us - and keynote speaker @christinavoigt.bsky.social - in Berlin on 22-23 September.

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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · Apr 7

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · Apr 4

#FridayFeeling 👇

John Macomber @jcmacomber.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · Apr 3

Climate vulnerable industries fearful for their assets first, and the planet second. Maybe if they say it, more people will listen.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · Apr 2

Wind power, which now supplies 25% of Finland's electricity, puts the lid on coal's coffin in Finland by bringing coal's output down from 23% in 2003 to <1% this week with the closure of the Salmisaari coal plant.

www.renewableenergymagazine.com/wind/finland... @christianonre.bsky.social

Finland replaces coal with wind power, boosting energy security and competitiveness

The Salmisaari coal power plant in Helsinki has now officially closed, bring coal generation in Finland to below 1 percent, but by putting in place clear policies, the Finnish government ha...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · Apr 3

US banks, after pulling out of global agreements to avoid financing climate change, "now expect a 3C world" expected lead to catastrophic heatwaves, floods& economic strife

On the upside, the banks think the air conditioning sector could grow by 41%

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thrive

Reports predict global heating will bring catastrophes and that air conditioning market could grow by 41%

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Ricky Clark @rickyclark.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · Apr 3

Japanese banks have followed the US and Canada in leaving the Net Zero Banking Alliance, with the future of the alliance in question.

greencentralbanking.com/2025/04/03/n...

NZBA under pressure as Japanese banks leave

Japanese banks have followed the US and Canada in leaving the Net Zero Banking Alliance, with the future of the alliance in question.

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