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Jeroen van den Bergh

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ICREA Professor & Head research group Environmental & Climate Economics at @icta-uab.bsky.social • Systemic solutions, Energy rebound, Instrument synergy, Carbon pricing, Public support, Low-carbon innovation, Evolutionary modelling, GDP paradox & Agrowth

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · Nov 27

Climate change & policy have revived the old debate on growth vs environment. Most people think they have to choose between pro-growth (green growth) & anti-growth (degrowth). But both have an ideological/dogmatic flavor which moreover polarizes opinions & debate. I propose a third option:

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 5d

Our researcher Daniel Torren Peraire wins prestigious award for research on low-carbon transitions.🌿

The article is coauthored by @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and Ivan Savin, from ICTA-UAB

www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

Daniel Torren wins prestigious award for research on low-carbon transitions

Daniel Torren, researcher at ICTA-UAB, has been recognized with the Best PhD Student Article Award by the Journal of Artificial Societies and...

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 20d

🤔 Did you know Europeans support climate policies with subsidies for rail or home insulation, but strongly oppose taxes on polluting behaviors like cars or meat?👎👍

New survey conducted by @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social from ICTA-UAB explores this topic in depth.

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The climate policies that EU citizens like (and those they don't)

European citizens show greater support for climate change mitigation policies that allocate subsidies for rail transport or home insulation,...

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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

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · May 19

Here is our review of carbon-pricing studies for developing countries. It provides an overview of national modelling as well as of analyses of the international context.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
50 free copies are available here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RVUUF...

A review of carbon-pricing studies for developing countries

We review studies that assess hypothetical and actual carbon-pricing schemes in developing countries, focused on policy effectiveness in terms of emissions reduction. The article opens with gatheri...

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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · May 12

🙌 Jim Skea, President of @ipcc.bsky.social met the Catalan climate science community in an event hosted by the Advisory Council for the Sustainable Development of Catalonia.

Our director Isabel Pont & researchers @estevecorbera.bsky.social, @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social and Victoria Reyes took part.

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · Mar 26

New article on "System complexity vs environmental sustainability":
Solutions to environmental challenges often increase #complexity in the overall socioeconomic system. This hampers achieving #sustainability. We discuss key mechanisms and policy cures.
doi.org/10.1155/cplx...

System Complexity Versus Environmental Sustainability: Theory and Policy

We discuss the relationship between environmental sustainability and system complexity. This is motivated by the fact that solutions to environmental challenges often create additional complexity in ...

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Damien Meadows @damienmeadows.bsky.social · Feb 6

EU legislation has been adopted today for 20 million EU ETS allowances, estimated at €1.6 billion, to speed up the use of e-fuels and sustainable biofuels for flights where there is also effective carbon pricing #climateaction #polluterpays climate.ec.europa.eu/news-your-vo...

Adoption of EU rules on the ETS support system to accelerate the use of sustainable aviation fuels

The Commission has adopted EU rules for ETS financed support to speed up the use of sustainable aviation fuels.

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Severin Borenstein @severinborenstein.bsky.social · Feb 20

I've kept my posts on energy, but Trump is undermining global democracy, selling out Ukraine to a fellow facist, and running govt as a mafia boss. I'll also be highlighting important non-energy news. Hope govt will some day allow experts to focus on their expertise.
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

Trump’s Attack on Zelensky Signals New World Order Taking Shape

From alienating allies to praising adversaries, President Trump appears set to abandon decades of American foreign policy.

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · Feb 6

Here are distinct angles on the issue:
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Degrowth and the Global South: The twin problem of global dependencies

We conduct a systematic literature review comprising both a quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the academic degrowth literature consider…

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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · Feb 1

My @bruegel.bsky.social colleagues put together the continuously growing EUROPEAN CLEAN TECH TRACKER.
www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...
A great resource for a quick overview on trends in innovation, manufacturing & deployment

Here they show how much of the innovation fund money was spent on hydrogen:

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · Jan 27

Our new paper in @naturesustain.bsky.social offers a first computational linguistic analysis of all the Paris pledges (NDCs). This identifies 7 thematic groups covering 21 topics. We relate topics to party/country characteristics and assess changes in NDC updating.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analysing content of Paris climate pledges with computational linguistics - Nature Sustainability

Parties to the Paris Agreement state their climate goals, and any action plans to meet them, in their nationally determined contributions. This study uses computational linguistic analysis to shed lig...

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Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · Jan 24

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform!!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · Jan 15

Hi Fran, I guess you want to include attention for debates on carbon pricing:
Assessing Criticisms of Carbon Pricing
www.nowpublishers.com/article/Deta...
Impact of Carbon Pricing on Low-Carbon Innovation and Deep Decarbonisation: Controversies and Path Forward
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Lion Hirth @lionhirth.bsky.social · Jan 15

124 years of global electricity generation

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Margherita Bellanca @marghebellanca.bsky.social · Jan 9

I am excited to share the first chapter of my PhD thesis, published in npj Climate Action! 🌍I assess EU and Member States climate policies in a multi-level framework and offer insights for achieving the European Green Deal’s goals: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#climatepolicies #EuropeanGreenDeal

What, how and where: an assessment of multi-level European climate mitigation policies - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - What, how and where: an assessment of multi-level European climate mitigation policies

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · Jan 6

Great study of Paris-pledge implications uses an ultimatum-game experiment. It finds voters apply fairness principles to others but not to themselves. This challenges the political-democratic capacity for (unilateral) climate policies. It also suggests the need to re-negotiate global burden sharing.

Auriane Meilland @aurianemeilland.bsky.social · Jan 2

🌍 New paper out!🌍 🧵

As 2024 concludes and 2025 brings a lot of exciting challenges and perspectives, I’m delighted to announce the publication of one of my PhD articles: "International Climate Justice: What the People Think". You can find it at the following link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Wolfgang Cramer @wolfgangcramer.net · Feb 24

Car harm: A global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

This illustration gives examples of mechanisms by which automobility harms people and the environment.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · Dec 24

My top mobility policy of 2024: Higher parking fees for huge cars

Paris is tripling parking costs for oversized cars. Montreal, Lyon, & Cologne are taking similar steps.

Giant cars worsen pollution and safety, and they use more curb space. Owners should pay extra.

www.nytimes.com/2024/02/05/w...

Parisians Vote to Triple Parking Fees for Big S.U.V.s and Other Hefty Cars

The city authorities say that large cars pollute more and are dangerous for pedestrians. Opponents say the mayor is on a crusade against motorists.

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John Cook @johnfocook.bsky.social · Nov 14

Just published a paper in Nature Scientific Reports where we've trained a model to automatically detect logical fallacies in climate misinformation - part of our project using AI to debunk climate myths www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A technocognitive approach to detecting fallacies in climate misinformation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - A technocognitive approach to detecting fallacies in climate misinformation

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Edgar Hertwich @edgarhertwich.bsky.social · Dec 18

1/3 Not long ago, all energy came from the land. The Green Revolution turned our agrifood system into an energy sink, requiring more fossil energy than it provided as nutritional energy. We provide the first global time series analysis in @pnasnexus.org.

doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Energy input and food output: The energy imbalance across regional agrifood systems

Abstract. Biomass was the principal energy source in preindustrial societies; their agriculture provided more energy than it required. Thus, the energy ret

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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · Dec 17

As low-carbon transitions require deep transformations, one must address out-of-equilibrium dynamics and agent heterogeneity. Agent-based models can tackle this. We "agentize" a general equilibrium model of environmental tax reform, thus offering a robustness test.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Agentizing a General Equilibrium Model of Environmental Tax Reform - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental tax reform (ETR), a shift from labour to carbon taxes, has been mostly modelled using general equilibrium (GE) analysis. Since a low-carbon transition will require deep transformations, ...

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Maren Holthe Hedne @marenhedne.bsky.social · Nov 23

Are low-skilled workers the losers of the green transition? My JMP tests the skill-bias of green technology. I show that firms increase their demand for highly educated workers in manufacturing and transportation – in most other sectors, green technology favours workers without higher education 1/3

Figure: Impact of green technology shock on ratio of workers with higher education to workers without higher education. From Hedne (2024).

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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · Dec 8

Field Experiments have matured from academic curiosity to bona fide contributor to knowledge in the past few decades. Yet, the political economy of their deployment in government remains ill-understood. We provide insights in a new working paper, available here: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

Toward an Understanding of the Political Economy of Using Fi

Field experiments provide the clearest window into the true impact of many policies, allowing us to understand what works, what does not, and why. Yet, their widespread use has not been accompanied by

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Adrien Fabre @adrien-fabre.bsky.social · Nov 14

🚨New Paper🚨
Would people support global redistributive policies?
Surveys in 20 countries show strong majority support for:
- global climate policies
- a global wealth tax
- a global democratic assembly
- transfers from high- to low-income countries
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Jeroen van den Bergh @profjeroenbergh.bsky.social · Dec 10

The remarkable feature of carbon pricing is that it has many advantages and few disadvantages. Instead of being critical of imperfect implementations, let’s strive for its correct and system-wide application. Only then we stand a good chance to realise a low-carbon transition. t.ly/px3f_

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