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Kristoffer Sundström

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🎓 PhD Candidate in Economics at Luleå University of Technology. 🌿 Environmental Economist. ⚖️ Environmental Permitting Processes. 🎮 Gamer and tech nerd. 🧗🏼‍♂️ Climber. All views are my own. Website: https://kristoffer-sundstroem.github.io/

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Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Dec 12

Are you an environmental economist or maybe just interested in environmental economics?🌿📊

Then my simple Environmental Economics feed might be for you! The feed is quite simple and might be refined in the future, but it's a good starting place.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

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Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow, I wish this pop-up were in January when I visited San Francisco. Great initiative!

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Sep 1

A 3-day trip to the Swedish mountains was exactly what I needed to gather the last bit of energy to finish my thesis. 🗻

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Jul 16

Not more than a week ago I let my mind wander back to my climbing trip to Kalymnos in May, mainly due to the relatively bad summer. Now the heatwave have hit northern Sweden and I long for the early summer weather of Kalymnos which felt just perfect. Can't wait to go back.

#Climbing

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Jun 9

📢 New paper alert! We challenge the idea that markets > standards for cutting industrial pollution. In the race to zero-carbon, performance standards may be the real game-changer.

🧠 Rethink policy tools:
doi.org/10.1080/0021...

#EconSky
#PhDSky

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 18

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

Iconic cartoon with people looking at a long list of public benefits connected with climate action, asking “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”

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Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Mar 19

Utöver det så är det tråkigt att till och med olika sociala medier blir mer och mer polariserade. Jag uppskattar open-source och därmed också Bluesky. Men den politiska diskursen här är ganska ensidig och inte alltid särskilt öppen.

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Mar 19

Som högerväljare har jag i stort sett tappat intresset för den nationella politiken. Inget parti, oavsett sida, har ideologiska visioner för sin politik och landets framtid. Alla debatter slutar i pajkastning och formatet förstärker det inte då tidsramen som ges till partiledarna är för kort.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Mar 13

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.

Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

Illegal dumping grounds off the New Jersey turnpike across from Manhattan in the 1970s

Smog rolling on over Manhattan in the 1970s

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Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 27

So censoring the opinion pages are not problematic enough? It seems like the democratic role of newspapers in the U.S. is disappearing altogether.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Feb 26

The calls for authoritarianism from the world's richest man grow more fervent

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Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 26

That feels like the thing I worry most about in my papers, the models. So getting reassured that the model works is amazing!

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 26

It feels like I lose technological knowledge as I age...

#AcademicSky #PhDSky

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 21

Du är inte ensam, antalet timmar jag har lagt ner på gaming, Reddit, Instagram reels och klättervideos på youtube... Egentligen är det orimliga mängder, men jag ser det som terapi!

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 14

Fältet som helhet vet jag inte. Vi på ämnet för sådana diskussioner till och från. Vi brukar också försöka vara noggranna med vilka som uttalar sig beroende på specifik Nationalekonomisk kompetens när media frågar om kommentarer.

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 13

Lugn nu! Vi är inte alla där, än åtminstone.

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 5

Det här har ju börjat genomsyra politiken på flera nivåer. De med det yttersta ansvaret säger att de inte vet eller inte har insyn. Om de med störst ansvar inte har det så måste det rensas, uppifrån och ner.

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 4

Det är ju ett rån rent av!

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 2

Oh you are not alone. Just our bodies giving us signs that we should take some rest I guess.

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 2

Thank you very much Daniel. I have a great support network in the form of my significant other. Additionally we have good sick leave options so I have been able, almost at least, to get some good rest during this week. Hopefully up and running in the near future!

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Feb 1

Feels like stress is catching up to me. In the past three months, I've been sick more often than during my entire PhD journey.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky

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Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Jan 18

It's incredibly important to find consistency in these kinds of issues... Sad to see that the US cannot be a force to count on when it comes to climate change and climate financial risk.

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Jan 14

You found a real gold mine! I sold my Game Boy together with Pokemon Blue, Gold and Crystal while I studied. Now I would love to have them!

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Jan 14

Sick, once again! I really do not have time for this and there is a risk that I will miss our advisory board meeting in which I was hoping to get some valuable feedback on my third paper for the thesis. I guess I just hunker down with vitamins, tea/coffee and cough drops.

#PhDSky #AcademicSky

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Jan 6

Wow, haha!

Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Jan 6

Exploring SF is amazing and I am really looking forward to a couple more days here.

A vibrant street scene with a mural of a musician playing a guitar on the side of a red building. Below the mural is a colorful storefront with fresh produce displayed outside, including oranges, grapefruits, and squash. A tree partially obscures the storefront, and people are seated at a bench in the foreground.