Shrinking the economy won’t save the planet trib.al/sGP8k01

What’s wrong with research about ‘degrowth’? ift.tt/pUSGL2f

Both Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) have made some version of the argument that AI will give us the power to "fix the climate". I find this a deeply problematic position, as the challenges of mitigation are as much political as technological.

How can social networks and cultural change strengthen the impact of climate policies? Here are two model studies that help to understand how we can create momentum for collective action. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… jasss.org/27/1/13.html

Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. While individual actions can reduce impacts, gov't policy will play a big role to make clean energy cheap and widespread. The most important climate action you can take today is to vote.

44 scientists have issued a stark warning about the threat of a major ocean circulation change, causing a detrimental disruption of climate patterns lasting for centuries to come. Check out this short video explaining what this is all about.

They say climate *protesters* are disruptive. Valencia today.

Before Valencia - the record breaking German floods in 2021 should have woken us up. Seems we are determined to go over the climate change cliff edge in near total denial

Amsterdam pilots optical road marks to suggest roads are narrower than they really are. It helps car drivers respect the new 30 km/h speed limit.

🚨 CLIMATE CONFERENCE: together with CEPR, The Econometric Society, we at Barcelona School of Economics are organizing the Economics+Climate Science conference at Barcelona (March 27-28). Spread the word and apply! 😃

Feel free to follow me at @BlueSky ! bsky.app/profile/profje… Nice people, good info, polite debates & a critical mass already. Looks like X-Twitter but updated. Easy to follow groups (starter packs) & get followers, also as most of us have the relevant experience & attitude.

A new survey for Australia & the UK finds that "agnosticism about economic growth" (= agrowth) leads to higher support for climate policy. And it assessed the order of popularity of growth opinions: green growth, agrowth, growth-at-all-costs & degrowth. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new paper in NatureSustainability offers a first computational linguistic analysis of all Paris pledges (NDCs). This identifies 7 thematic groups covering 21 topics. We relate topics to party/country characteristics and assess changes in NDC updating. nature.com/articles/s4189…

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/1…

American exceptionalism.

Excellent new(ish/to me) review of the (quite weak) arguments against carbon pricing, from Jeroen van den Bergh & Wouter Botzen.

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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 50 free copies are available here: tandfonline.com/eprint/RVUUFRR…

FUSION☀️ overtakes FISSION☢️