Climate Solutions Lab
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Creating, learning and distributing solution-oriented climate knowledge at Brown University and across the world.
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This new paper provides important insights into climate policy sequencing to see if technological investments (ie policy carrots like the Inflation Reduction Act) make punitive policies (ie policy sticks) more effective. Unfortunately, the short answer is: NO. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Modelling the impacts of policy sequencing on energy decarbonization - Nature Climate Change
Green subsidies (carrots) are now becoming a more politically acceptable climate policy option compared with corrective regulations (sticks). However, researcher show that carrots without quick and ap...
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January 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM
This new paper provides important insights into climate policy sequencing to see if technological investments (ie policy carrots like the Inflation Reduction Act) make punitive policies (ie policy sticks) more effective. Unfortunately, the short answer is: NO. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The good news? Nearly all the world’s advanced economies are now *cutting* their emissions, while still growing their economies.
(It had little to do with the Paris agreement per se, though. It was due to better technology.)
The bad news? We need to much more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
(It had little to do with the Paris agreement per se, though. It was due to better technology.)
The bad news? We need to much more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds
Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The good news? Nearly all the world’s advanced economies are now *cutting* their emissions, while still growing their economies.
(It had little to do with the Paris agreement per se, though. It was due to better technology.)
The bad news? We need to much more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
(It had little to do with the Paris agreement per se, though. It was due to better technology.)
The bad news? We need to much more.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We’ve made a graphic of just 180 lowlights of Trump's all-of-government attack on climate, giving a sense of how his minions woke each morning in 2025 asking fossil fuels just how high they needed to jump that day
gift link from @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
gift link from @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Lows of the Trump Administration’s Climate Onslaught
The government rolled back progress on the environment in at least 180 ways in 2025, and it’s just getting started.
www.bloomberg.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We’ve made a graphic of just 180 lowlights of Trump's all-of-government attack on climate, giving a sense of how his minions woke each morning in 2025 asking fossil fuels just how high they needed to jump that day
gift link from @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
gift link from @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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".. the Corporate Mapping Project compiled a public database of the 1656 organizations and 44,433 people who make up what we shall now refer to as the Climate Change Counter Movement within Canada."
#Canada
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateDelay
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#Canada
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateDelay
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Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays
The global transition away from fossil fuels is dangerously delayed. While climate delays are a complex issue, the fossil-fuel funded Climate Change C…
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December 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
".. the Corporate Mapping Project compiled a public database of the 1656 organizations and 44,433 people who make up what we shall now refer to as the Climate Change Counter Movement within Canada."
#Canada
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateDelay
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#Canada
#ClimateDenial
#ClimateDelay
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The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
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Well, it’s official.
Johnson Legal is off to the High Court of Australia for the first ever climate case to be heard before the Court.
We are representing Hunter Valley residents defending their win against coal company MACH Energy.
Follow the case here 👇👇👇
www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...
Johnson Legal is off to the High Court of Australia for the first ever climate case to be heard before the Court.
We are representing Hunter Valley residents defending their win against coal company MACH Energy.
Follow the case here 👇👇👇
www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...
MACH Energy v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group — Johnson Legal | Australian Environmental Lawyers
In the first High Court of Australia hearing on climate change, Johnson Legal is acting for DAMSHEG defending the landmark decision of the NSW Court of Appeal in Denman v MACH Energy. The Court found ...
www.johnsonlegal.au
December 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Well, it’s official.
Johnson Legal is off to the High Court of Australia for the first ever climate case to be heard before the Court.
We are representing Hunter Valley residents defending their win against coal company MACH Energy.
Follow the case here 👇👇👇
www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...
Johnson Legal is off to the High Court of Australia for the first ever climate case to be heard before the Court.
We are representing Hunter Valley residents defending their win against coal company MACH Energy.
Follow the case here 👇👇👇
www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...
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New paper just dropped about sticks and carrots in climate policy: “Policy carrots alone do not dramatically reduce future emissions. Only with policy sticks are there unambiguous signals to substantially shrink the size of incumbent fossil fuel industries.”
December 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New paper just dropped about sticks and carrots in climate policy: “Policy carrots alone do not dramatically reduce future emissions. Only with policy sticks are there unambiguous signals to substantially shrink the size of incumbent fossil fuel industries.”
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New America Adapts pod! 🎧
@keenanclimate.com joins me (again) to talk about his new book, North: The Future of Post-Climate America. It’s not about disasters — it’s about how the U.S. is already changing as we adapt. We also touch on Florida through a fictional chapter set in 2079!
#Adaptation
@keenanclimate.com joins me (again) to talk about his new book, North: The Future of Post-Climate America. It’s not about disasters — it’s about how the U.S. is already changing as we adapt. We also touch on Florida through a fictional chapter set in 2079!
#Adaptation
North: The Future of Post-Climate America — AMERICA ADAPTS The Climate Change Podcast
North: The Future of Post-Climate America. Ep. 243.
www.americaadapts.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
New America Adapts pod! 🎧
@keenanclimate.com joins me (again) to talk about his new book, North: The Future of Post-Climate America. It’s not about disasters — it’s about how the U.S. is already changing as we adapt. We also touch on Florida through a fictional chapter set in 2079!
#Adaptation
@keenanclimate.com joins me (again) to talk about his new book, North: The Future of Post-Climate America. It’s not about disasters — it’s about how the U.S. is already changing as we adapt. We also touch on Florida through a fictional chapter set in 2079!
#Adaptation
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JUST RELEASED TODAY: North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press)(Discount Code AUFLY30 for 30% or just email me for a copy) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buo2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buo2...
North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press, 2025)
YouTube video by Jesse M. Keenan
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December 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
JUST RELEASED TODAY: North: The Future of Post-Climate America (Oxford University Press)(Discount Code AUFLY30 for 30% or just email me for a copy) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buo2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buo2...
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Timing matters… ⏱️
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
Timing matters: analyzing climate policies and adaptive resilience
As the world grapples with the escalating impacts of climate change, a vital question that remains for both scholars and policymakers is not just whether climate policies work, but: when do they ma...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Timing matters… ⏱️
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
New paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social: adaptation laws don’t work the same across time… politics, finance, and global shocks shape whether they succeed or fail.
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
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It's not every day we get to welcome a totally new clean energy technology into commercial operation. Today on Shift Key, we talk with Eavor Technologies CEO Mark Fitzgerald about how the company brought online the first-ever closed-loop geothermal heat & power project this month in Germany! 🔌💡
December 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's not every day we get to welcome a totally new clean energy technology into commercial operation. Today on Shift Key, we talk with Eavor Technologies CEO Mark Fitzgerald about how the company brought online the first-ever closed-loop geothermal heat & power project this month in Germany! 🔌💡
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Of the four largest central banks, three have failed to turn climate rhetoric into action.
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blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
While Western central banks hesitate on climate, China’s acts - LSE Business Review
Only one of the world’s four most powerful monetary authorities is acting as though the climate transition is a central banking problem.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Of the four largest central banks, three have failed to turn climate rhetoric into action.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...
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The Miami Herald tracked 16,569 flood complaints from over 12,000 locations in Miami-Dade and Broward over the last 11 years, and found 32% were outside the newly-expanded 500-year flood zones scheduled to go into effect as early as 2026: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
December 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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This is the correct take on the whole Zillow fiasco
(and fire maps, and hurricane maps)
2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
(and fire maps, and hurricane maps)
2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is the correct take on the whole Zillow fiasco
(and fire maps, and hurricane maps)
2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
(and fire maps, and hurricane maps)
2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
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Zillow’s climate score rollback is a wake-up call: build open, future‑conditions federal flood maps -- gold‑standard, trustworthy data for building codes, mortgages, and our future. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...
Zillow’s climate risk reversal looks like a setback. It’s really a wake‑up call.
When private models sow confusion, it’s a flashing warning sign that Washington needs to fix federal flood maps,
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Zillow’s climate score rollback is a wake-up call: build open, future‑conditions federal flood maps -- gold‑standard, trustworthy data for building codes, mortgages, and our future. Column today: open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...
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Some news. My book on climate and security for Cambridge University Press is the winner of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Advancing World Order. Thrilled to be among the august company of previous winners. www.uoflnews.com/post/uofltod...
2026 Grawemeyer world order award winner explores the connection between climate change and security | UofL News
For his work to understand why climate change leads to negative security consequences in some places and not others, Joshua W. Busby, professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, ...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Some news. My book on climate and security for Cambridge University Press is the winner of the 2026 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Advancing World Order. Thrilled to be among the august company of previous winners. www.uoflnews.com/post/uofltod...
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"Across northwestern Africa’s sun-blasted rim, the Maghreb, six years of drought have slashed wheat yields, forcing countries such as #Morocco, #Algeria and #Tunisia to import more grain, even as global prices rise."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in Arab Region - Inside Climate News
Foundations of daily life, including farms, reservoirs and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.
insideclimatenews.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"Across northwestern Africa’s sun-blasted rim, the Maghreb, six years of drought have slashed wheat yields, forcing countries such as #Morocco, #Algeria and #Tunisia to import more grain, even as global prices rise."
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateEmergency
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"When buyers can’t see the risks up front, they may take on more exposure than they can afford — homes that become too expensive to insure, with costs families didn’t anticipate, and, worst of all, natural disasters they hadn’t yet thought of in personal terms." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Zillow Won’t Tell You
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"When buyers can’t see the risks up front, they may take on more exposure than they can afford — homes that become too expensive to insure, with costs families didn’t anticipate, and, worst of all, natural disasters they hadn’t yet thought of in personal terms." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
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Very last minute post, but my school is hiring a tenured associate professor in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP)! Review of apps will begin on Monday.
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Very last minute post, but my school is hiring a tenured associate professor in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP)! Review of apps will begin on Monday.
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
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Steel plant in Pittsburgh: a potent cancer-causing gas was 30x higher than the plant was estimating.
Chemical facility in Louisiana: toxic chemical levels were 156x higher than estimated.
Not a typo: *156 times higher*
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/the-...
Chemical facility in Louisiana: toxic chemical levels were 156x higher than estimated.
Not a typo: *156 times higher*
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/the-...
The EPA let companies estimate their own pollution levels. We discovered real emissions are far worse. » Yale Climate Connections
'The more we learned, the more afraid we were.'
yaleclimateconnections.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Steel plant in Pittsburgh: a potent cancer-causing gas was 30x higher than the plant was estimating.
Chemical facility in Louisiana: toxic chemical levels were 156x higher than estimated.
Not a typo: *156 times higher*
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/the-...
Chemical facility in Louisiana: toxic chemical levels were 156x higher than estimated.
Not a typo: *156 times higher*
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/12/the-...
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This year's UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) highlighted a harsh reality: the optimistic era of climate diplomacy has given way to a more fragmented and competitive world, in which climate change is taking a back seat to other concerns, write @erinsikorsky.bsky.social and Siena Cicarelli.
Embracing Climate Realities: The Climate Security Implications of COP30
The optimistic era of climate diplomacy, epitomized by the 2015 Paris Agreement, has given way to a more fragmented world in which climate change has taken a back seat.
www.lawfaremedia.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This year's UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) highlighted a harsh reality: the optimistic era of climate diplomacy has given way to a more fragmented and competitive world, in which climate change is taking a back seat to other concerns, write @erinsikorsky.bsky.social and Siena Cicarelli.
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"Conclusion: ...Russian disinformation exploits and exacerbates the climate crisis in myriad ways...communities, media stakeholders, and government officials at all levels will need to be ready to anticipate and recognize these tactics."
Good review.
councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/12/01/p...
Good review.
councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/12/01/p...
Putin, Permafrost, and Propaganda: Russian Information Manipulation in a Changing Climate - The Council on Strategic Risks
Exploring key aspects of Russian information and influence activities related to climate change and security.
councilonstrategicrisks.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Conclusion: ...Russian disinformation exploits and exacerbates the climate crisis in myriad ways...communities, media stakeholders, and government officials at all levels will need to be ready to anticipate and recognize these tactics."
Good review.
councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/12/01/p...
Good review.
councilonstrategicrisks.org/2025/12/01/p...
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Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525
December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525
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Next year's Climate Pipeline Project is at Columbia University. Great for junior scholars in PS, across fields. Application deadline is tomorrow!
Ht @nilskupzok.bsky.social
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...
Ht @nilskupzok.bsky.social
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...
Call for Papers: Climate Pipeline Project | Columbia Center for Political Economy
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu
December 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Next year's Climate Pipeline Project is at Columbia University. Great for junior scholars in PS, across fields. Application deadline is tomorrow!
Ht @nilskupzok.bsky.social
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...
Ht @nilskupzok.bsky.social
politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...