🏴 immigrant in 🇩🇪. Dr and researcher on climate change mitigation | human well-being | political economy
Dec 2, 2021 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
It feels like we are finally turning the tide on the notion that climate change mitigation is "costly" and "harmful" for societies - and that assessments of climate action need to take account of well-being and longer term climate risks
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For a long time, this was not the case. Climate policies and mitigation pathways were judged on primarily economic criteria, largely overlooking outcomes that are less tangible in 💲 terms, or not taking into account avoided climate impacts and risks in the equation
Mar 25, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
In case you missed it, two important articles on fossil fuel finance were published this week 🚨
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In the first, @niccolo_berlin, @jan_c_steckel and @Jakob_MCC dig into who is building, developing, financing and banking for new coal power plants. They differentiate between these four actors, showing the global scope of fossil fuel finance
Climate policies affect not just the energy system, but society at large.
Both advocates and opponents of climate action recognise this, turning social aspects of climate policies into a key rhetorical battleground.
In a recent paper, we looked into this iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…
Our article is a review. We ask the question "What are the social outcomes of climate policies?" and set out to read the ex-post literature.
That means we found as many studies as we could on *actual implemented climate policies* where social outcomes were documented.
Aug 25, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Discourses of climate delay. All those arguments against climate policy. But not the ones that attack the science.
Some not so subtle examples from US TV advertisements 👇
American Petroleum Institute "We're on it"
➡️diverse cast showcasing dozens of jobs
➡️claim reducing emissions
➡️tout innovation, technological progress
Implication: don't regulate us, we're doing the work already, with lots of jobs
Some things I learned from meeting planetary health researchers and doctors at @IASS_Potsdam last week...
1. Doctors know how to talk to people about climate 2. Doctors understand their job is political 3. Doctors deal with some tough research
1. Talking about climate is like giving a cancer diagnosis. You need compassion and professionalism. Doctors trusted and well placed to do this. They know to spend 10% of the discussion on diagnosis and 90% on questions, solutions and actions.
