Jessica Green

@greenprofgreen.bsky.social

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Immigrant. Poli sci prof at U of Toronto. Politics of climate change, carbon markets, oceans, NGOs, enviro politics. Author of Existential Politics, out now: tinyurl.com/ybephkfb. Occasional ranter. greenprofgreen.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · Oct 7

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world!

Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 7d

I think it’s a corker! And I would be happy to chat about it. 😁

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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely loved working with @npr.org's Short Wave podcast on this nail-biter episode about a group trying to tackle the biggest driver of global warming at this year's climate conference.

Stay for voices of 🇨🇴🇳🇱🇪🇸🇵🇦 plus @fossiltreaty.bsky.social @greenprofgreen.bsky.social @nikkireisch.bsky.social

"A very, very big deal." Countries take on fossil fuels : Short Wave

Many countries are frustrated with U.N. climate conferences. While some countries urgently want to transition away from fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — others are blocking that lang...

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

LOL. So true!

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

Don't sell yourself short! I try to write for a very broad audience!

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

oops, yes! sorry.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

DM me your deets and I will have the publisher send to you and then I can come on your podcast and we can talk about it!

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

6/ And this isn’t just a today problem. Ownership of green assets will shape inequality trends for decades (if not centuries!).

We must see wealth disparity as a cause of climate change – and therefore use taxation as a key lever for addressing it. FIN

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

5/ Of course, the super rich don’t want to be taxed, but the #OECD corporate minimum tax is a step in the right direction. And these kinds of numbers can help generate political pressure for a meaningful UN #TaxTreaty

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

4/ Even the baseline scenario would meet (and greatly surpass) the climate finance goal agreed to at #COP29), which is $300B annually by 2035.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

3/ Taxing wealthy individuals could help A LOT – in many ways. Reducing inequality helps democracies, raises $$ for gov’ts (especially in Global South) and could help finance green transition.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

2/ The statistics are staggering, and the trends suggest this isn’t getting any better

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 9d

New global inequality report confirms what climate justice scholars and advocates have been saying for years: inequality and climate are inextricably bound up together. Extreme wealth causes climate change, which is why I argue in my new book that tax policy is climate policy. THREAD

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

press.princeton.edu

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 10d

Curious how you interpret the emergence of what appears to be a parallel track to Paris

fossilfueltreaty.org/first-intern...

Colombia and The Netherlands Announce First International Conference for Fossil Fuel Phase Out — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 13d

Thinking of you, other colleagues, the victims and my alma mater today. Stay safe Timmons.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 13d

Sending love and light to all my peeps at #Brown.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 16d

Hooray!!! 🙏

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 16d

This is how it starts...

Iran steps up cloud seeding amid water crisis

Fresh round of operations begins to inject chemicals into clouds in effort to increase rain as drought worsens

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 18d

LOL

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 18d

Textbook example of what I call "managing tons" favours big emitters. Big tech now fighting over what counts as RE credits to offset emissions in GHG Protocol, which affects net zero claims.

This stuff is deeeeep in the GHG accounting weeds, but has serious implications for what counts as green.

Climate rift opens between Amazon and rivals in row over data centre power

US tech giant accused of pressuring top European clean energy group over changes to emissions rules

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 21d

This paper shows how the US renewable energy just doesn't have the firepower to go head to head w oil and gas.
doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Following the money: trade associations, political activity and climate change - Climatic Change

The political activities of industries associated with the production and consumption of fossil fuels have thwarted state efforts to advance climate policy. Yet research on the role of trade associati...

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 21d

Yup!

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 21d

Domestic politics definitely vary. Sometimes green asset owners split by tech. EX Iberdrola opposed solar subsidies due to its wind holdings. Many energy firms hold a mix of green/fossil which can lead to pro-fossil behaviour in some cases.

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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 24d

@greenprofgreen.bsky.social and I reflect on #COP30's failure to even mention fossil fuels. In its silence Canada hides behind petro-states like Saudi Arabia and Russia. It's time to join more constructive fossil fuel producers in a coalition of the willing.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/02/o...

UN climate talks and Canadian policy can't ignore fossil fuels

COP30 ended with an astounding contradiction: an agreement to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 without acknowledging the need to wind down use of the fossil fuels.

www.nationalobserver.com

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 24d

This is brilliant. I want to do this!!!

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 25d

So the Alberta / Ottawa MOU is Smith pledging her allegiance to Trump, once again.

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Jan Lee @janleewriter.bsky.social · 25d

This wild perversion of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement is exactly what @greenprofgreen.bsky.social talks about in her book "Existential Politics". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot

The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 28d

Umm...the PRESIDENT of #COP30 says that getting climate diplomacy done requires going outside the #ParisAgreement.

The significance of this admission cannot be understated.

It's time to look to other int'l institutions to be the engine of climate policy: tax, trade, investment, finance.