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Hermine Van Coppenolle
@herminevc.bsky.social
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PhD in political science at Ghent University, (climate) nerd, observer, thinks a lot about the 2015 Paris Agreement. 🏳️‍🌈
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unep.org
Waste is piling up, harming people and the planet.

Our Waste Pollution 101 interactive shows where it comes from, what it does, and how we can fix it.

Explore the solutions and join the effort to #BeatWastePollution: www.unep.org/interactives...
Collage illustration on a dark background showing waste items including a slice of pizza, a T-shirt, a cow, a fish, a plastic bottle, a coffee cup, a smartphone, a TV, a pill bottle, and construction machinery. Blue outline of the Earth in the background. Text overlay reads: ‘Waste Pollution 101. A primer on how unsustainable production and consumption habits have escalated the waste pollution crisis.’ UNEP logo in the corner.
September 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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climate-policy.bsky.social
A country's NDC (Nationally Determined Contribution) ambition is influenced by the ambition levels of its peers, finds ‪@herminevc.bsky.social. #Climate ambition converges among peer countries based on democracy levels, regional location and geopolitical affinity 👫

Read more ⬇️
The Power of Peers: a spatial analysis of nationally determined contributions
www.tandfonline.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
herminevc.bsky.social
I'm very happy to see my paper on peer groups and climate ambition published in @climate-policy.bsky.social
I analysed whether there is a relationship between a country's NDC ambition, and the ambition levels of its peers. (spoilers: there are some!)
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
Image of the first page of the article, with the title: 'The Power of Peers: A spatial analysis of nationally determined contributions' Abstract: The Paris Agreement’s pledge and review process was designed to ramp up climate ambition through norm-setting and repeated interactions. Yet this peer influence dynamic remains underexplored in analyses of the determinants of climate ambition. To address this gap, this paper examines whether the climate ambition of peer countries can explain climate ambition in subsequent rounds of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). This paper builds on and contributes to research on the Paris Agreement, the drivers of climate ambition, and the broader literature on soft governance. Using spatial regression models, the analysis incorporates peer pressure into spatial lags of first-round NDC ambition to assess patterns of convergence and divergence in the second round of NDCs. The results show that climate ambition for peer groups with high geopolitical affinity, similar levels of democracy, and regional similarity converges, while countries with similar income levels exhibit diverging ambition trends. These results underscore the interdependent nature of climate ambition and suggest that leveraging peer networks could enhance global climate cooperation under the Paris Agreement.
April 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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janagheuens.bsky.social
🔥 New How Green Is Your Deal? episode out! 🎙️
@earsomj.bsky.social and @franziskapetri.bsky.social discuss how EU climate leadership and climate diplomacy might be affected by geopolitical shifts and the new Trump Presidency
Available on Spotify and Apple Podcast - even with video!
Links 👇
www.greendealnet.eu
March 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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michellehaas.bsky.social
Are you interested in following updates of research on international and European studies?

GIES (Ghent University) just joined BlueSky: @giesugent.bsky.social !

Find out more about the team of researchers at: www.ugent.be/ps/politieke...
February 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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greendealnet.eu
Can EU trade agreements bolster climate action?
@carolinebertram.bsky.social & @herminevc.bsky.social examine how commitments to effectively implement the Paris Agreement raise costs,strengthen duties &foster ambition.

Will dispute settlement mechanisms deliver?👉 www.greendealnet.eu/Strengthenin...
January 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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carolinebertram.bsky.social
🌎🌡️ Big news: The EU-Mercosur trade agreement was finalised yesterday—despite pushback from member states and environmentalists 🌱 @herminevc.bsky.social & I have just published research on the legally binding commitment to effectively implement the Paris Agreement present herein (1/4) 👇
December 7, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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janagheuens.bsky.social
What to make of COP29? Join this excellent roundtable to get a better understanding of COP29 outcomes and what they mean for tackling the climate crisis!
greendealnet.eu GreenDeal-NET @greendealnet.eu · Nov 26
🌍What’s next for global climate governance after COP29?

Join our roundtable w/ @oberthuerseb.bsky.social to discuss COP29 outcomes, the future of climate action, international climate finance & the role of non-state actors in tackling the global climate crisis 👉 www.greendealnet.eu/Reflections-...
November 26, 2024 at 12:52 PM
herminevc.bsky.social
Caroline Bertram and I just published a new paper! In this open access article, we explore the role of EU trade agreements in bolstering the Paris Agreement's obligations (a wordy🧵) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Strengthening the Paris Agreement through trade? The potential and limitations of EU preferential trade agreements for climate governance - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Ec...
Since 2019, a commitment has been included in the European Union’s (EU) preferential trade agreements to effectively implement the Paris Agreement. This commitment now exists in nine ratified or pendi...
link.springer.com
November 26, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
November 26, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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ryankatzrosene.bsky.social
👂what's that? You want to start your week with a thread about how the Jevons Paradox is often misused to imply that technological innovations will necessarily result in greater environmental damage?

I got you covered!

THREAD!
November 25, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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plehmann.bsky.social
Highlighting the efficacy and revenue recycling potential of carbon pricing increases support, especially in emerging market economies. Moreover, people adopt more negative views of subsidies for renewable energy and low-carbon technologies when the salience of their costs is increased.
Does information change public support for climate mitigation policies?
Carbon pricing policies can play an important role in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. However, policymakers often cite the lack of public support as a major obstacle to adopting and expan...
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November 19, 2024 at 8:56 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
nice paragraph on environmental impacts in this!

It is the aggressive, panicked and wide-eyed force-injection of chatbots into literally everything that is driving the ballooning energy depravity of this technology.
3.2. Worrying environmental impacts The emphasis on scale in AI also comes with consequences to the planet, since training and deploying AI models requires raw materials for manufacturing computing hardware, energy to power infrastructure, and water to cool evergrowing datacenters. The energy consumption and carbon footprint of AI models has grown with models such as LLMs emitting up to 550 tonnes of CO2 during their training process (Strubell et al., 2019; Luccioni & Hernandez-Garcia, 2023; Luccioni et al., 2022) . But the most serious sustainability concerns relate to inference, given the speed at which AI models are being deployed in user-facing applications. It is hard to gather meaningful data regarding both the energy cost and carbon emissions of AI inference because this varies widely depending on the deployment choices made (e.g. type of GPU used, batch size, precision, etc.). However, high-level estimates from Meta attribute approximately one-third of their AI-related carbon footprint to model inference (Wu et al., 2021), whereas Google attributes 60% of its AI-related energy use to inference (Patterson et al., 2022). Comparing estimates of the energy required for inference for LLMs (Luccioni et al., 2024) to ChatGPT’s 10 million users per day (Oremus, 2023) reveals that within a few weeks of commercial use, the energy use of inference overtakes that of training. Given the many companies and investors working to make AI more ubiquitous, these numbers could go up by many orders of magnitude. In fact, we are already seeing chatbots applied in consumer electronics such as smart speakers and TVs, as well as appliances such as refrigerators and ovens. The increased use of AI in userfacing products is putting tech companies’ climate targets at text classification question answering fill text mask token classification image classification object detection text generation summarization image captioning image generation task 1mWh 10mWh 100mWh 1Wh 10Wh Energy used fo…
November 17, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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jfmorin.bsky.social
As many of us are moving to this platform, I've created a list of researchers active in global environmental governance. It might be a useful starting point, and I'll continue adding to it as I discover more go.bsky.app/7sZRvzU
November 11, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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zacklabe.com
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...

"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
November 14, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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glenpeters.bsky.social
What is causing the atmospheric CO2 concentration to growth (light blue bars)?

It is all the fossil CO2 emissions (brown) we dump into the atmosphere (a little LUC too), with the land (green) & ocean (dark blue) sinks struggling to keep up.

More figures: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/
November 14, 2024 at 7:52 AM
herminevc.bsky.social
Finally jumping ship in search of a new algorithm!
I'm a PhD researcher working on global climate governance, the Paris Agreement, and climate ambition.
Looking forward to follow anyone working on climate, politics, or science communication in general!
November 10, 2024 at 8:35 AM