I wrote a piece titled "The rich emit CO2 like there is no tomorrow. Climate policy requires redistribution". It's in Polish, but here's a long 🧵 with its main points: 1/ oko.press/bogaci-emituja… Discussions around climate change mitigation mostly focus on energy sources, decarbonization, and efficiency improvements. We don't talk enough about things that make emissions so different between countries and individuals: affluence and consumption 2/

Carbon footprint is a useful tool for climate science and policy. Once in a while, an article criticizing it for being "invented by big oil" appears in the media. This time it was Rebecca Solnit's essay in @guardian. It's a wrong take. Here's why 🧵 1/x theguardian.com/commentisfree/… The carbon footprint was not "invented" by BP, just popularized by it. CF is a component of ecological footprint, first described by William Rees and @MaWackernagel in the early 90s. For example, in this article from 1996: 2/x sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@JukkaHeinonen9 and I have edited a just-published, new #openaccess issue of @CogitatioUP on relationships between cities, long-distance travel, and climate impacts: bit.ly/3pv3gVz It features seven papers on this important but understudied topic. A thread 1/X Two papers (by @giulio_mattioli et al. and @MartinThomasFa1 & Eva Hagsten) show that residents of large capital cities fly much more than do others. @giulio_mattioli et al. explain it by airport accessibility, migration background, and dispersion of social networks.