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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Sly Dunbar. Loved this collaboration: open.spotify.com/track/4QHfFz...

I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 8d

Hooray!

Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 8d

Today's blog post: why Generative AI won't make colleges obsolete and may in fact RAISE the demand for higher education.

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 8d

Today's blog post: why Generative AI won't make colleges obsolete and may in fact RAISE the demand for higher education.

deryugina.com/why-generati...

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Catherine Wolfram @cwolfram.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, EU CBAM pushing Indian steel producers toward greener production processes.

I only wish people would stop referring to #CBAM as a tariff. Tariffs treat foreign and domestic producers differently, while a CBAM levels the playing field. More like a VAT.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...

New EU carbon tariff pushes India toward green steel

Europe’s pioneering tax on polluting imports presents India’s coal-reliant steelmakers with a choice: Decarbonize or risk losing customers.

www.canarymedia.com

Phil Delacote @phildelacote.bsky.social · 9d

🧰 Resources for PhD students and young researchers

The past few days, I have been collecting useful resources that might help younger researchers:

- academic writing advice
- data-management warnings
- econometric tools and methods
- and a few other things

sites.google.com/view/philipp...

Philippe Delacote - Resources for PhD students

Some useful tools and sources of info for young (and older) research fellows in environmental and development economics. With great insights from Jean-Marie Baland, François Bareille, Pierre Beaucora...

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 12d

Atomistically post-modern.

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 15d

UK HM Treasury discount rate review. See link below. We’d like responses before 27th Feb. See below. @rff.org @granthamlse.bsky.social @leepinstitute.bsky.social @cep-lse.bsky.social

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 16d

HM Treasury is requesting input into its Green Book Discount Rate Review, and we need your help.

If you have an interest in Social Discounting, please complete the following survey: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

2) Forward this link to interested parties.

Deadline: Feb 27th

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · 16d

HM Treasury is requesting input into its Green Book Discount Rate Review, and we need your help.

If you have an interest in Social Discounting, please complete the following survey: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

2) Forward this link to interested parties.

Deadline: Feb 27th

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Dec 30

When you come to London look me up. Plenty of gyms. Real rock not far away.

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Dec 5

New paper. Interesting idea. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions - Nature Climate Change

Methane emissions have a large short-term impact on temperature, which can be potentially offset by nature-based solutions that provide temporary carbon storage. This research demonstrates such matchi...

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Niko Jaakkola @nikoecon.bsky.social · Mar 12

This short piece is well worth your time. Europe either stands together or falls as individual member states. The suggestions here may sound impossible, unimaginable, but we live in truly exceptional times and must strive for exceptional solutions.

Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Mar 12

How should Europe structure its response to the threats coming from the White House and elsewhere? Together with @marcobuti.bsky.social, Roel Beetsma & Kalin Jansve, we developed a plan @bruegel.bsky.social ⤵️

www.bruegel.org/analysis/thi...

Thinking European first and its implications

Faced with heightened geopolitical uncertainty, the European Union should base its actions on an overarching principle of ‘thinking European first’

www.bruegel.org

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jul 27

Also. Remind me. Subsidies to FF? That’s a thing right?

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jul 27

Lionesses. Utterly brilliant. Spain were
Amazing. Great final. Rather emotional in this European household.

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jul 15

Loved the book btw.

University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Jul 8

Researchers including Professor @bengroom.bsky.social are working to restore trust in carbon offsetting by demonstrating the more robust ways their impact can be measured. @leepinstitute.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Researchers point the way to restoring trust in carbon credits

More robust ways of measuring the impact of carbon credits can restore trust in offsetting schemes, a new study finds.

news.exeter.ac.uk

Phil Delacote @phildelacote.bsky.social · Jul 2

Many thanks to an amazing team of wonderful co-authors:
S. Chabé-Ferret @tse-fr.eu
A. Creti @univdauphine.bsky.social
K. Duffy
M. Elias @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
A. Guizar Coutiño @ox.ac.uk
B. Filewod
@bengroom.bsky.social
A. Kontoleon
G. Le Velly
T. L'Horty
A. Missirian
T. A. P. West

Phil Delacote @phildelacote.bsky.social · Jun 25

One last view over Bergen following a nice #EAERE2025 conference.

Always happy to meet friends and colleagues I seldom have the occasion to cross paths with.

Including
@profejzrobinson.bsky.social
@bengroom.bsky.social
@elchinosauro.bsky.social

And many others

@eaere.bsky.social

Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Jun 20

"If “two-weeks” means what it normally means, and as it has regularly meant for Ukraine, then the US is almost certainly going to stay out of the war."

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

If Trump Will Not Join The War, What Then?

Hi All,

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Jun 20

I was recently asked “What is the most important piece of advice you would give to a new assistant professor?”

My new blog post covers the answer.

#EconSky

Advice to junior faculty – Tatyana Deryugina

Tatyana Deryugina

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Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hi Rob. A lot to say here. In short. UK ONS has natural capital accounts. The UN SEEA also. Some are just physical, others in monetary terms. The US Biden admin had a structure in place which has not yet been torn up, and may not be since it focusses on minerals, oil, forests and fish. Progress

Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our latest working paper provides new insights into the economic value of the Congo Basin forests and how the supply of this value is distributed across categories of rightsholders, thereby linking values to the different groups who make management decisions about the forest. www.lse.ac.uk/granth...

Valuing natural capital and its distribution in the Congo Basin forests - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

The authors of the study highlight the importance of understanding how natural capital is distributed across rightsholders — a key question for development policy and the design of natural capital finance in forested regions.

www.lse.ac.uk

Manuel Linsenmeier @mlinsenmeier.bsky.social · Jun 15

I ll present on Tuesday at 2 pm in the session “Forests, land use, and economic development”

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jun 5

BIOECON 2025 REGISTRATION is open! sites.google.com/view/26th-bi.... St Johns College Cambridge, 31st Aug - 2nd Sept.

Sign in - Google Accounts

https://sites.google.com/view/26th-bioecon…

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · Jun 4

Listening to PM on BBC R4 today you would think that the Treasury Green Book is the source of all problems concerning levelling up, regional disparities of government investment and inequality writ large. The Green Book handles value for money. Not the lack of strategy by successive governments.

Malin Wiese @malinwiese.bsky.social · May 27

@moritzdrupp.bsky.social, my supervisor Martin Hänsel and co-authors incl. @bengroom.bsky.social @climatefran.bsky.social @frikknesje.bsky.social @ctraeger.bsky.social were recognized with the Frontiers Planet Prize for planetary health with a paper on the increasing value of nature

Frontiers Planet Prize for Science Publication by Junior Professor Martin Hänsel

A paper co-authored by Junior Professor Dr. Martin Hänsel on the increasing value of nature has been awarded with the Frontiers Planet Prize. The world's leading science prize for planetary health ide...

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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · May 18

There are ways the grid operator can kind of manage this today, but it would happen much more directly if the prices in different parts of the country better reflected the supply/demand balance from hour-to-hour in each region. That’s the idea anyway.

Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · May 8

Thank you EDF for requesting this FOIA together the latest EPA GHG Inventory out.

We may need to do the same for facility-level GHG emissions from EPA's GHG Reporting Program.

EPA Releases U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory in Response to EDF FOIA Request

The annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory provides information about climate pollution. This year the Trump EPA failed to release it to the public.

www.edf.org

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · May 5

What self-respecting tree surgeon goes ahead with this unquestioningly? Perhaps linking ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk (ancient tree inventory) with upcoming jobs via the @arbassociation.bsky.social would be a good way of quickly raising red flags? Is this a new idea? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enfield oak tree felled by Toby Carvery 'had hundreds of years to live' - BBC News

The ancient oak felled in north London was classified as a "fine specimen" last year, documents show.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ben Groom @bengroom.bsky.social · May 5

The gargantuan long…

Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · May 5

"It is to build a coalition of Americans who disagree about many other subjects...yet who believe that these subjects must be decided through democratic debate and constitutional processes rather than the dictates of a single man."

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