Béatrice Cointe

@beatricecointe.bsky.social

460 followers 530 following 250 posts

Solar-powered Science & Technology Studies researcher and IAM ethnographer at CSI - CNRS, Mines Paris-PSL.
"Well the world of research has gone berserk, too much paperwork" (Dylan 2006)
Soundtrack: t.ly/0V77d

Videos

Economics 38%

Environmental science 16%

Posts Replies Media Videos

Pinned

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · Apr 30

"In the midst of perpetual debates on most issues of the climate change problem, one refreshing exception is the consensus on our ignorance..."

(from the report on a 1993 Workshop on Integrative assessment of mitigation, impacts and adaptation to climate change)

"In the midst of perpetual debates on most issues of the climate change problem, one refreshing exception is the consensus on our ignorance about the biophysical impacts on unmanaged ecosystems and the difficulties of monetizing non-market damage. One possibility to include ecosystemic"
(highlighted in yellow from beginning to "ignorance")

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 1d

The picture below is inadvertent scenography, but it would make a great addition to my collection of COP Pavillion pictures.

www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/featured-...

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Philippe Quirion, Béatrice Cointe

Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 1d

The Pacific Islands pavillion at COP30 just had to close due to flooding. Seriously...

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 2d

But it’s also possible I’m reading too much into it!

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 2d

yes, Jae Edmonds too was in Villach and is still around, but I don't think he signed this one.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 2d

I could be wrong but I don't think IAMC has issued such a statement before, so I read it also as a sign of dissatisfaction with established routes such as the IPCC or EU projects policy briefs, where they are very well-represented: even those who are audible don't feel listened to anymore.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 2d

Oui !

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 2d

2) The boldness of the Villach statement prompted the creation of the IPCC, with the US keen to put governments at the table so as to keep the scientists in check.

That this new statement comes from the community closely tied to the IPCC, and influence within it, is quite a wake-up call.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 2d

Two additional observations:
1) 40 years apart, I don't think there is any overlap in signatories, but in many ways its the same lineage, and the same "epistemic community" to use the technical term - esp. with IIASA remaining a centrepiece of this scientific climate diplomacy.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 2d

40 years after the Villach Conference Statement, climate scientists gathered at an international conference issue their assessment of the situation.

cc @allouryesterdays.bsky.social

First paragraph of the Villach Conference Statement, 1985

- 1 -
CONFERENCE STATEMENT
A joint UNEP/WMO/ICSU Conference was convened in Villach (Austria)
from 9 to 15 October 1985, with scientists from twenty nine developed and developing countries, to assess the role of increased carbon dioxide and other radiatively active constituents of the atmosphere (collectively known as greenhouse gases and aerosols) on climate changes and associated impacts. The other greenhouse gases reinforce and accelerate the impact due to CO2 alone. As a.result of the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases, it is now believed that in the first half of the next century a rise of global mean temperature could occur which is greater than any in man's history.

The Conference reached the following conclusions and recommendations:

First paragraphs of the Búzios Scientific Statement, 2025

Búzios Scientific Statement – Evidence-Based Insights for
COP30
Búzios, RJ, Brazil
(updated version, 17 November 2025)
More than 250 leading international scientists convened this week in Armação dos Búzios, RJ, Brazil, in parallel with the COP30 negotiations, at the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium’s (IAMC) annual conference to present and debate the latest scientific evidence
on what it will take to halt global warming and pursue the goals of the Paris Agreement. The IAMC brings together leading climate researchers from all over the world focussing on mitigation and adaptation solutions.

At the conference, these national and international experts discussed the most up-to-date science on climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways towards the Paris Agreement’s climate goals. Since the publication of IPCC AR6, 300 new pathways have been developed by the research community.

During the conference, members of the IAM community got together to summarize several high-level policy-relevant insights for COP30:

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 2d

November 17, 1980 – International meeting about carbon dioxide build up.

“The first major initiative to result from the establishment of the WCP was an international conference on climate change, held in Villach, Austria, from 17 to 22 November 1980.

allouryesterdays.info/2022/11/16/n...

November 17, 1980 - International meeting about carbon dioxide build up. - All Our Yesterdays

On this day in 1980 an international gathering of scientists took place in Villlach, Austria. “The first major initiative to result from the establishment of the WCP was an international conference on...

allouryesterdays.info

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 3d

(I now know AMOC is not the same as the Gulf Stream but obviously did not when I was 15) (but for some reason* we had the SPM for the IPCC SAR synthesis report lying around at home.)

*one of my uncles was in Kyoto with the French delegation

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 3d

When I was in high school, I asked my physics teacher if it was true there was a risk that the Gulf Stream might collapse due to climate change. Her reply was “oh but this is a whole lotta bullshit”, and since it’s all I remember about her, I guess I must have been 🤨.

Anyway, here we are now.

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 3d

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki.
Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊
youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?

YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute

youtu.be

Reposted by David Johnson, Fabián Muniesa, Michel Tsamados , and 2 more David Johnson, Fabián Muniesa, Michel Tsamados, David Spurrett, Béatrice Cointe

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 3d

Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?

YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute

youtu.be

Reposted by John Hogan, Béatrice Cointe

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

We’re often asked whether we’re optimistic or pessimistic about technologies. That’s the wrong question. If any of this matters, we need to stop seeing technology like the weather, to be merely forecasted, and instead see it like politics, to be collectively shaped.

Reposted by Dirk Pilat, Béatrice Cointe

Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 4d

Búzios Scientific Statement

100 climate researchers, coordinated by @pik-potsdam.bsky.social & @iiasa.ac.at, released a joint statement to inform the #COP30 negotiations and provide guidance on difficult but doable global efforts designed to limit dangerous overshoot of 1.5°C as much as possible.

Búzios Scientific Statement.pdf

drive.google.com

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

𝖳𝗁𝖾𝖬𝖾𝗍𝖺𝖭𝖾𝗐𝗌 @themeta.news · 5d

🟢 HCR ou ne pas être, telle est la question

Ce mercredi est parue comme chaque année la liste des #HighlyCitedResearchers

Lauranne Chaignon revient sur ses origines et sa crédibilité face aux tentatives de manipulation

themeta.news/lauranne-cha...

#VeilleESR

Interview
Lauranne Chaignon
Ingénieure en bibliométrie à l’Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Lauranne Chaignon a entamé un doctorat au Centre de sociologie de l’innovation (Mines Paris – PSL) sur la liste des Highly cited researchers.

Comment la liste est-elle alors devenue un indicateur d’excellence scientifique ?
Progressivement, avec l’apparition du classement de Shanghai en 2003. Des scientifiques chinois l’ont développé, à la demande de leur gouvernement qui voulait savoir comment leurs universités se positionnaient au niveau mondial ; ils étaient à l’affût d’éléments sur lesquels baser leur classement. La liste des HCR a ainsi commencé à prendre de l’importance, jusqu’à devenir un indicateur destiné à évaluer la recherche d’un établissement, voire d’un pays. Figurer dans la liste est devenu un objectif en soi.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, thanks!
So it’s Obersteiner & Möllersten indeed - their proposal was already a critique of the strategic and valuation frameworks that underpinned climate action, ironically it ended up feeding exactly what they were up against… (I have a chapter coming up on it, now stuck in editorial limbo)

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 6d

Just out of curiosity (I don’t have access), who are they referring to as « the scientists who popularised carbon capture »? Is Obersteiner among them?

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

Nicolas Brisset @nbrisset.bsky.social · 8d

1/ I recently wrote a review for @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social on Arnaud Orain’s Le monde confisqué: Essai sur le capitalisme de la finitude. The book has stirred major debate in France. It’s rare (and great) to see a historian of economic thought in the spotlight.

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 8d

No, no, I’m a doctor and it’s true! I’m a clean-cut kid and I’ve been to college too!

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 10d

How do you get past #4? Asking for a friend.

(Knowing that 5 comes next sure doesn’t help)

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10d

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Steven French, R. M. Wilson , and 2 more Anna O. Law, Steven French, R. M. Wilson, Fiona Moore, Béatrice Cointe

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 10d

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 13d

Scallops would like to have a word.

Reposted by Pierre Bataille, Jérôme Denis, Anthony Pecqueux , and 1 more Pierre Bataille, Jérôme Denis, Anthony Pecqueux, Béatrice Cointe

Victoria Brun @lfpromethee.bsky.social · 15d

Il y a un an tout pile, je soutenais ma thèse sur les transformations de la recherche publique à l’aune des dispositifs de valorisation de ses résultats. Il y a quelques mois, celle-ci a été mise en accès libre sur HAL : hal.science/tel-05065109

L’occasion d'en exposer la démarche et l'argument 🔽

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 16d

We've got a logo for the Society for the Social Study of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference to be held in Toronto in October 2026! Theme of "TechnoPower & Technoscientific Futures"

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 16d

(in fact, not so similar because they calculate how much each company controls, so not a concentration)

Béatrice Cointe @beatricecointe.bsky.social · 16d

Kinda similar, I think: Carbon Majors gathers historical production data to attribute shares of global GHG emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers
carbonmajors.org

One step further, you calculate how many companies control how much of extreme climate events:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Home

An independent think tank producing data-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis

carbonmajors.org

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 18d

i know the digital hive mind is broken, but i don't know where to go with this: in the early twentieth century, lenin and others calculated the level of 'energetic concentration' (my word), i.e. a ratio of how many companies controlled how much of energy production. has this ever been tried again?

Reposted by Stelios Katsanevakis, James M. Bullock, Tatiana Ilyina , and 9 more Stelios Katsanevakis, James M. Bullock, Tatiana Ilyina, Christopher Wright, Philippe Quirion, Dustin Mulvaney, Tuomas Mattila, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Dana R. Fisher, Anthony Burke, Béatrice Cointe, Pavel Kratina

Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 18d

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

Thread:🧵Plz RT

Reposted by Béatrice Cointe

CNRS @cnrs.fr · 20d

#ExpertsCNRS 🔎 Journalistes, le service presse du @cnrs.fr tient à disposition une liste d’expertes et d’experts sur le changement climatique en amont de la prochaine Conférence des parties sur le climat. #COP30

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/liste-dex...

Add to Home Screen

Light up
your news

Add to Home Screen

Light upyour news

Sign in to Lightnews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky

Light up
your news