Christian Elliott
@christianelliott.bsky.social
Asst. prof at the Penn State School of International Affairs. Writing/reading/thinking about finance, global governance, and climate politics.
www.christianmorinelliott.com
www.christianmorinelliott.com
Pinned
Building a starter pack on climate change and finance.
It's limited to who I know is on bluesky—help me fill in the gaps!
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It's limited to who I know is on bluesky—help me fill in the gaps!
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Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions
cup.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Jimmy McMillan walked so democrats in 2025 could run
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Jimmy McMillan walked so democrats in 2025 could run
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PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
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Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️
Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?
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Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?
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October 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️
Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?
1/
Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?
1/
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I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
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hey #polisci, if you're at #APSA2025, set the alarm, grab coffee & come hear about my new book Existential Politics w/ @profkharrison.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social ale.bsky.social @bentleyallan.bsky.social allan.bsky.social @agazmararian.bsky.social rarian.bsky.social & Michael Ross. Deets 👇
September 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
hey #polisci, if you're at #APSA2025, set the alarm, grab coffee & come hear about my new book Existential Politics w/ @profkharrison.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social ale.bsky.social @bentleyallan.bsky.social allan.bsky.social @agazmararian.bsky.social rarian.bsky.social & Michael Ross. Deets 👇
Don't worry everyone, AI will fix it, just like climate change
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Don't worry everyone, AI will fix it, just like climate change
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I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I do think you’ve gotta hand it to Ezra Klein for this one, which we need more of, much more, from his peers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
I wonder which departments will pause the tenure clock for anti-fascist mobilization
September 2, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I wonder which departments will pause the tenure clock for anti-fascist mobilization
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My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/
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Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO — World Always Chickens Out.
NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take:
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take:
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
Taco is Dead. Long Live Empanada
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything? The last two weeks have seen a flurry of Trump tariff deals before the August 1st...
buttondown.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Robert Armstrong (who coined Trump Always Chickens Out thesis) says TACO is falsified. Its now WACO — World Always Chickens Out.
NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take:
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
NEW: @thepolycrisis.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social take:
EMPANDA — Everyone Makes Promises And Never Actually Does Anything?
buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
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🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!!
An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.
🧵 Brief thread 1/4
An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.
🧵 Brief thread 1/4
Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants
Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment
www.science.org
July 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!!
An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.
🧵 Brief thread 1/4
An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.
🧵 Brief thread 1/4
"Despite closures being over twice as likely to occur in the Republican-controlled states that did not expand Medicaid, closures were associated with reduced support for federal Democrats and the Affordable Care Act following local closures."
YIKES
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
YIKES
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Politics of Rural Hospital Closures - Political Behavior
Who do citizens hold responsible for outcomes and experiences? Hundreds of rural hospitals have closed or significantly reduced their capacity since just 2010, leaving much of the rural U.S. without a...
link.springer.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Despite closures being over twice as likely to occur in the Republican-controlled states that did not expand Medicaid, closures were associated with reduced support for federal Democrats and the Affordable Care Act following local closures."
YIKES
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
YIKES
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Get to spending, folks
July 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Get to spending, folks
This is still so crazy to me:
June 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is still so crazy to me:
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Asset owners have enormous leverage to get their asset managers to implement effective strategies to reduce systemic climate risk. If persuasion doesn't work, replace them, as Sierra Club Foundation has done with Blackrock/ Aperio. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
Sierra Club Foundation Leads by Example in Move from BlackRock to More Responsible Asset Managers
Move follows 3+ years of engagement between foundation, asset manager
www.sierraclub.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Asset owners have enormous leverage to get their asset managers to implement effective strategies to reduce systemic climate risk. If persuasion doesn't work, replace them, as Sierra Club Foundation has done with Blackrock/ Aperio. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
After peer reviewing some public opinion research on international affairs that use US samples, I have come to the conclusion that scholars should not be allowed to make "domestic audience" arguments until they spend at least one ethnographic afternoon at a Walmart or a Target
June 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
After peer reviewing some public opinion research on international affairs that use US samples, I have come to the conclusion that scholars should not be allowed to make "domestic audience" arguments until they spend at least one ethnographic afternoon at a Walmart or a Target
One potentially productive takeaway from this madness:
Industrial policies like the IRA were critiqued because they lacked the tools to discipline capital.
The exchange shows that derisking strategic sectors nevertheless creates a stick when the gov. can credibly threaten to end the carrots.
Industrial policies like the IRA were critiqued because they lacked the tools to discipline capital.
The exchange shows that derisking strategic sectors nevertheless creates a stick when the gov. can credibly threaten to end the carrots.
too predictable
June 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
One potentially productive takeaway from this madness:
Industrial policies like the IRA were critiqued because they lacked the tools to discipline capital.
The exchange shows that derisking strategic sectors nevertheless creates a stick when the gov. can credibly threaten to end the carrots.
Industrial policies like the IRA were critiqued because they lacked the tools to discipline capital.
The exchange shows that derisking strategic sectors nevertheless creates a stick when the gov. can credibly threaten to end the carrots.
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What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors?
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...
www.tandfonline.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors?
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to tie together many of the terms in political economy at the moment, and demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names
New article out in New Political Economy! My co-author,
@james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement
The political economy literature has witnessed a proliferation of ‘green’ interpretations of long-standing analytical subjects in recent years. This includes green industrial policy, green macrofin...
www.tandfonline.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:10 AM
🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only@mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to tie together many of the terms in political economy at the moment, and demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names
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New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy:
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
May 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy:
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
"A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift"
1/ A brief thread 🧵
doi.org/10.1080/1356...
If EVs were exempt from speeding tickets on fuel efficiency grounds the US would decarbonize personal transportation overnight
The first CPE report advocated a national speed limit to reduce fuel consumption.
We’ll need cameras for that due to 1) the widespread practice of treating posted speed limits as 10-15 mph higher than listed; 2) inconsistent and discriminatory enforcement.
publicenterprise.org/report/cooli...
We’ll need cameras for that due to 1) the widespread practice of treating posted speed limits as 10-15 mph higher than listed; 2) inconsistent and discriminatory enforcement.
publicenterprise.org/report/cooli...
Cooling oil consumption to ease price pressures
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a situation where it may be difficult in the near term for domestic supply of petroleum products to match domestic demand. This has led to record high gasol...
publicenterprise.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If EVs were exempt from speeding tickets on fuel efficiency grounds the US would decarbonize personal transportation overnight
Really nice discussion of how US monetary policy affects decarbonization in emerging economies, from @danieldrisc.com
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The US dollar and decarbonization: Exploring constraints | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
The US dollar and decarbonization: Exploring constraints
www.cambridge.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Really nice discussion of how US monetary policy affects decarbonization in emerging economies, from @danieldrisc.com
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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New #FirstView from samsrowan.bsky.social
Countries raise their climate ambition when their peers in IOs do. Strong Paris climate targets by partners led governments to set stronger Glasgow pledges. Conditional cooperation drives the ratchet mechanism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Countries raise their climate ambition when their peers in IOs do. Strong Paris climate targets by partners led governments to set stronger Glasgow pledges. Conditional cooperation drives the ratchet mechanism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
From Gridlock to Ratchet: Conditional Cooperation on Climate Change | International Organization | Cambridge Core
From Gridlock to Ratchet: Conditional Cooperation on Climate Change
nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
New #FirstView from samsrowan.bsky.social
Countries raise their climate ambition when their peers in IOs do. Strong Paris climate targets by partners led governments to set stronger Glasgow pledges. Conditional cooperation drives the ratchet mechanism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Countries raise their climate ambition when their peers in IOs do. Strong Paris climate targets by partners led governments to set stronger Glasgow pledges. Conditional cooperation drives the ratchet mechanism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...