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tyndallcentre.bsky.social
Knowledge Gap on Climate Urgency ⏰

A new study reveals a critical disconnect: UK MPs & public significantly overestimate how much time we have to act on #ClimateChange. Only a small fraction knew global emissions must peak by 2025 to to realistically limit temp rise to 1.5˚C ➡️ buff.ly/7TJcypB
MPs and public overestimate time left for climate action, study finds - Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
A new study has found that UK Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public overestimated the time left to meet a critical deadline for limiting global warming.
tyndall.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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cast-centre.bsky.social
A new CAST study has found that UK MPs and the public in the UK, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions. 📣

Read the paper in @commsearth.nature.com, co-authored by Dr John Kenny (@johnkenny.bsky.social) & Dr Lucas Geese (@lucasgeese.bsky.social) 👇
Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions
Communications Earth & Environment - UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is...
rdcu.be
October 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.
We surveyed British MPs – most don’t know how urgent climate action is
New study finds both MPs and the public underestimate how quickly global emissions must be cut.
tcnv.link
October 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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climateoutreach.bsky.social
📢 This is a threat we won’t accept: abolishing the Climate Change Act (CCA) would harm our natural world, damage a thriving net zero economy, reverse significant progress, and be out of step with public and political opinion.

We’ve written an open letter to Badenoch to express our profound concern.
Climate Outreach are one of many major climate and nature organisations to express our grave and collective concern at Badenoch's threat to scrap the Climate Change Act.
October 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is evident among the public in Britain, Canada, Chile, and Germany.
October 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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uniofeastanglia.bsky.social
A new UEA study has found that UK Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public overestimated the time left to meet a critical deadline for limiting global warming. 

Read more 👉 bit.ly/3KAs1y2

#UKParliament #MPs #ClimateChange
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@climateuea.bsky.social
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October 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
lucasgeese.bsky.social
Bit of an awkward coincidence that our paper comes out on the day Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap the UK Climate Change Act, but perhaps provides also a bit of an explanation:

Many UK politicians, and Tories especially, still don't fully grasp the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions!
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October 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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psagermanpol.bsky.social
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Are you an undergraduate or masters student in the UK 💂‍♂️working on German Politics⚫🔴🟡?

We award up to three Essay Prizes 🥇

Submit your essays or dissertations now 📫

Contact us, if you have any question 🙋

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PSA75 Essay Prize
To mark the 75th anniversary of the UK’s Political Studies Association, the German Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) has created a one-off essay prize for undergraduate and masters students to celeb…
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July 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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alfiegaffney.bsky.social
Really pleased that some research from my PhD has been published today in npj Climate Action ⬇️
July 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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polityalsberuf.bsky.social
Check out the Guest Editors' Note from our April Issue, written by @johnkenny.bsky.social , @sofiabrei.bsky.social , and Michael S. Lewis-Beck. It is available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pol/curr...
Polity | Vol 57, No 2
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April 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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tyndallcentre.bsky.social
New journal article 📢

A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events

This article reviews the rapidly emerging literature on citizens’ assemblies and assesses their significance for understanding climate policy and governance.

buff.ly/KCSUFgl 🤝
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April 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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tyndallcentre.bsky.social
A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies, said to improve legitimacy and efficacy of #ClimatePolicy 🤝

Key insights:

🟢 There are disagreements on roles + purposes
🟢 How evidence is presented can provide opps for value-based debate + challenging status quo

Read in full: buff.ly/KCSUFgl
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April 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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climate-policy.bsky.social
🔓 : Advocates of national citizens' #climate assemblies (NCCAs) maintain that they improve the quality & legitimacy of policymaking. Lorenzoni et al. (@lucasgeese.bsky.social @chantal-st.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social) find substantial variation in character, impact & perceived legitimacy⬇️
A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events
www.tandfonline.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
lucasgeese.bsky.social
New publication in Climate Policy—open access!
We reviewed national citizens’ climate assemblies and found substantial variation in process, impact, and perceived legitimacy.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Co-authored with Irene Lorenzoni, Andrew Jordan & @chantal-st.bsky.social
A review of National Citizens’ Climate Assemblies: learning from deliberative events
Citizen’s Climate Assemblies (CCA) have been hailed by academics and non-academics as initiatives to improve the legitimacy and efficacy of climate policy governance. Yet it is only recently that s...
www.tandfonline.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
lucasgeese.bsky.social
New OA article now in @govandopp.bsky.social issue! Tougher immigration stances by centre-right govts boost political distrust—esp. among pro-immigration citizens—without hurting far-right support. Democratic costs? Quite possibly.

Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#polsci #FarRight
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
Tough Positions, Trustful Voters? How Mainstream Party Position-Taking on Immigration Shapes Political Trust and its Impact on Far-Right Voting - Volume 60 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
April 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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johnkenny.bsky.social
New paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with Michael Lewis-Beck. We show that political economy models - based on inflation rate, government/prime minister approval, and the number of terms in office - performed well in forecasting CON vote share ahead of the 2024 GE
doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
April 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
lucasgeese.bsky.social
What can we learn from the 2024 General Election for the UK climate politics of the future? Very happy to see @johnkenny.bsky.social and my report published in collaboration with @green-alliance.org.uk and @cast-centre.bsky.social. See 👇 for the details.
green-alliance.org.uk Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · Apr 8
1/ Polling by @cast-centre.bsky.social around the last general election is the subject of our latest report.

It shows voters' opinions on environmental policies were less divided than portrayed by the media & some parties, with agreement and support for green policies across the political spectrum.
Opinion on climate change policy during the 2024 general election
Written by researchers at CAST, this report explores how voters in the 2024 general election were thinking about climate policies, with fresh insights for future elections.
green-alliance.org.uk
April 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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cast-centre.bsky.social
Great to see CAST 2024 polling be the focus of @green-alliance.org.uk's latest report on public opinion on climate policy during the 2024 general election. 🗳️

The report was written by CAST's @johnkenny.bsky.social & @lucasgeese.bsky.social and examines climate policy support.

Read the report 👇
Opinion on climate change policy during the 2024 general election » Green Alliance
Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment
green-alliance.org.uk
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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johnkenny.bsky.social
In this report with @lucasgeese.bsky.social, we present findings from polling we carried out just before last year's UK general election in which we examined support for climate policies among the British public.

@cast-centre.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social @tyndallcentre.bsky.social
green-alliance.org.uk Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · Apr 8
1/ Polling by @cast-centre.bsky.social around the last general election is the subject of our latest report.

It shows voters' opinions on environmental policies were less divided than portrayed by the media & some parties, with agreement and support for green policies across the political spectrum.
Opinion on climate change policy during the 2024 general election
Written by researchers at CAST, this report explores how voters in the 2024 general election were thinking about climate policies, with fresh insights for future elections.
green-alliance.org.uk
April 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social
🇦🇹's new government seeks to "temporarily" halt family reunifications, citing the "burden" on the education system.

Most experts agree this violates human rights & EU law and is unlikely to hold.

It's also problematic insofar as it legitimises a core programmatic point of the far-right FPÖ. 1/
Erstes Interview in Schwarz-Rot-Pink: Stopp des Familiennachzugs kommt "sofort"
Die neue Bundesregierung will nicht nur härtere Maßnahmen bei der Migration, sondern auch das Bundesheer aufrüsten und höhere Steuern vermeiden
www.derstandard.at
March 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
lucasgeese.bsky.social
When politicians have strongly held views which conflict however with those of their voters, parties or independent experts , should they stay true to themselves or give in to the views of those stakeholders?

John Kenny and I have surveyed British and German citizens and politicians on that.

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johnkenny.bsky.social John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · Feb 26
Together with @lucasgeese.bsky.social , we show (doi.org/10.1086/734680open) that there are differences in preferences for politicians being true to themselves among publics and MPs in Germany and GB. MPs may be more constrained in their ability to be true to themselves under certain conditions 9/12
March 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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johnkenny.bsky.social
Together with @lucasgeese.bsky.social , we show (doi.org/10.1086/734680open) that there are differences in preferences for politicians being true to themselves among publics and MPs in Germany and GB. MPs may be more constrained in their ability to be true to themselves under certain conditions 9/12
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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johnkenny.bsky.social
The articles from the forthcoming SI on Political Authenticity - edited by myself, @sofiabrei.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck - at @polityalsberuf.bsky.social are now online. In the introduction (doi.org/10.1086/734784) we set out its contribution and summarise each article 1/12
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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karldoemens.bsky.social
Aus. Vorbei. Zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben werde ich meine Stimme bei einer Bundestagswahl nicht abgeben können. Tausenden Auslandsdeutschen geht es genauso. Warum ich stocksauer bin. 👇👇👇

www.rnd.de/politik/bund...
Warum ich erstmals in meinem Leben keine Wahl habe
Unser US-Korrespondent hat wie Tausende andere Auslandsdeutsche in den Vereinigten Staaten bis heute seine Briefwahlunterlagen nicht erhalten. Deshalb kann er seine Stimme bei der Bundestagswahl nicht...
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February 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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jmfernandes86.bsky.social
‼️ Hiring‼️ -- 10 days to deadline!

Two postdoctoral positions in my ERC Consolidator in Madrid.

Application deadline: February 28
Job ad & details: tinyurl.com/3dwm96kb

Come and join me and my team in sunny Madrid for 5 years of intensive research and lots of publications, traveling, and fun!
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February 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM