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Pieter Pauw
@pieterpauw.bsky.social
Climate finance expert.
Editor of Climate Policy https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tcpo20
Assistent professor @TUeindhoven │ Opinion articles for @NRC │ Associate @SEIclimate & @Clingendaelorg
Reposted by Pieter Pauw
🚚 🇪🇺 Powering road freight in the EU with #renewable #hydrogen is unlikely to help reach #NetZero objectives, find Lafaille & Vernay. The European Commission should:

➡️ Fix several methodological errors in its policy framework
➡️ Focus on other road freight #decarbonization levers

Read more ⬇️
Opening the hood: a critical assessment of European renewable hydrogen trucking policies
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October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The new UNEP Adaptation Gap Report was just launched! www.unep.org/resources/ad...

It was a pleasure to contribute as a lead author again. Findings are already being discussed in the context of the UN climate negotiations, with the COP in Belem starting in less than two weeks
Adaptation Gap Report 2025
Amid rising global temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, UNEP’s 2025 Adaptation Gap Report: Running on Empty finds that a yawning gap in adaptation finance for developing countries is putting...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Mijn reactie op NOS onderzoek naar het Global Center on Adaptation: #GCA gebruikt onconventionele term 'shaping' finance en ontwijkt de internationale standaard om klimaatfinanciering te rapporteren -die essentieel is voor transparantie, consistentie en tegen double counting
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Nederlands klimaatcentrum misleidde donateurs om geld binnen te halen
Uit onderzoek van de NOS blijkt dat het Global Center on Adaptation zijn eigen invloed sterk overdreef.
nos.nl
October 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Vandaag bij @bureaubuitenland.bsky.social om over de weerstand tegen Europees klimaatdoel van commisaris Hoekstra te praten (-90% emissies in 2040)

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Sterft de Green Deal een stille dood?
De klimaatdoelen van Eurocommissaris Wopke Hoekstra om de Europese uitstoot van broeikasgassen naar 90 procent te brengen, krijgt veel weerstand. Brussel schuift het voorstel vooruit, waardoor Europa ...
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September 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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In our @climate-policy.bsky.social editorial @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social, @pieterpauw.bsky.social and I unpack what today's uncertain times mean for climate policy. We argue for renewed attention, but with greater focus on how climate policy is embedded in larger political and economic questions.
💡 EDITORIAL: In this special Editorial, our co-Editors-in-Chief @ndubash.bsky.social & @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social, and Editor @pieterpauw.bsky.social reflect on navigating #climatepolicy amidst an uncertain landscape of key political shifts, geopolitical tensions and narrative changes ⬇️ ⚡
EDITORIAL: Researching climate policy in uncertain times
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August 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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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...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
We're recruiting new associate editors at @climate-policy.bsky.social . Come and join our great team and contribute to our mission to advance an effective response to climate change

climatepolicyjournal.org/2025/08/11/c...
climate policy is recruiting new associate editors
Climate Policy is a world-leading peer-reviewed academic journal, publishing high quality research and analysis on all aspects of climate policy. Climate Policy aims to make high-quality resea…
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August 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
new editorial🚨 with @ndubash.bsky.social & @yacobmulugetta.bsky.social
We reflect on implications of geopolitical tensions and recent shifts in politics and narratives, so as to sustain an informed, creative & positive approach to climate policy in uncertain times
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Researching climate policy in uncertain times
Published in Climate Policy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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August 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
De EU heeft na Rusland's invasie van Oekraïne klimaatbeleid opgezet dat voor energiezekerheid én voor een duurzame economische toekomst moet zorgen. Die lijn moeten we doorzetten, óók voor de democratie en de op regels gebaseerde wereldorde. Mijn nieuwe opiniestuk in NRC

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Opinie | Met deze ‘deal’ ondermijnt de EU haar klimaatdoelen en haar waarden
Energietransitie: De EU was goed op weg de afhankelijkheid op energiegebied te verminderen. De handelsovereenkomst met de VS bindt Europa aan een fossiel Amerika, schrijft Pieter Pauw.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Interesting new systematic review on population issues and climate policy

In sub-Sahara Africa, effective mainstreaming requires clear targets aligned with demographic realities (incl. high fertility). In high-income countries, focus is on high consumption

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Are population issues mainstreamed into climate change policies and action in Nigeria? Evidence from a systematic review of national climate change documents
The linkages between population factors and climate change have strong implications for national climate change policies and actions. Using Nigeria as an example, this study attempts to determine i...
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July 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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'De Polderbaan iedere dag een paar uur sluiten, zoals in maart en april gebeurde, is in ieder geval geen duurzame oplossing', aldus de luchthaven.
Je kunt er heel veel van zeggen, maar niet dat het niet duurzaam is om duurzame energie op te wekken en minder te vliegen.
Schiphol stapt naar de rechter om verblindend zonnepark weg te krijgen
Bij helder weer hindert de schittering van de zonnepanelen piloten, betoogt de luchthaven.
nos.nl
June 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
New column for @cursortue.bsky.social
It was convenient to hide behind the finite pool of worry hypothesis, but the genocidal acts and violations of international humanitarian law in #Gaza need to be condemned. Let’s suspend collaboration with Israeli universities
www.cursor.tue.nl/en/opinion/c...
Finite pool of worry
I’m a pretty big news junkie, but I caught myself avoiding the news about Gaza. That’s because of my ‘finite pool of worries’, I told myself jokingly. According to this hypothesis, people only have a ...
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June 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🚨 New in Climate Policy 🚨
Why are Paris Agreement pledges so hard to implement?
@harrovanasselt.bsky.social and I identify 5 key risks, like political opposition & weak institutions, that threaten NDC follow-through in 22 major emitters.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1469...

#ClimatePolicy #ParisAgreement
June 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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#Greenbudgeting can be more qualitatively aligned with #NationallyDeterminedContributions through efforts to manage the indirect & unintended impacts of the total budget on national #emissions along with the direct & intended impacts of individual budget projects, finds Ick Jin ⬇️
Aligning green budgeting with nationally determined contributions
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May 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Hierbij mijn eerste column als nieuwe (en trotse) columnist van Cursor - het universiteitsblad van de @tue.nl

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Free Egbert
Deze week is karper Egbert na acht jaar bevrijd van zijn eenzame bestaan in de vijver van de TU/e. Medewerkers hadden aan de bel getrokken – een eenzaam bestaan is een visonwaardig bestaan.
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May 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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🇺🇬 : The conflict between right to development & #climateaction is framed by Ugandan actors in three ways, finds Pierre Wokuri @rennesuniv.bsky.social :

1️⃣ Oil exploitation as an economic imperative
2️⃣ Temporary oil exploitation w/ revenues supporting #renewable #energy
3️⃣ No oil exploitation
How Global South actors frame the conflict between the right to development and climate action? The case of oil extraction in Uganda
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April 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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The upside down world just keeps on upside downsing - the old Annex I & II is now dead. Now in a position to be an huge net export of clean high tech goods, China commits to deep GHG cuts without US involved.
April 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🔓 : #Climate data analysis in policy documents is often limited to average temp and rainfall, & the average of many models, which may underestimate risks, find @ailishcraig.bsky.social et al. @bristoluni.bsky.social in new study on how climate science informs adaptation planning in southern Africa🌍
How is climate science used to inform national-level adaptation planning in southern Africa?
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April 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Klimaat, geopolitiek en weerbaarheid zijn sterk met elkaar verbonden. Mijn nieuwe stuk in NRC

Het Duitse coalitieakkoord brengt wat rust in een tumultueuze wereld. Maar op lange termijn is het slecht nieuws voor het klimaat, en de Duitse en Europese weerbaarheid.

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Opinie | Het klimaat schiet niets op met de nieuwe Duitse coalitie
Duitsland: Van daadwerkelijk ambitieus klimaatbeleid is bij de aanstaande Duitse regering geen sprake, ziet Pieter Pauw. Het beleid is kortzichtig.
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April 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
New paper out on the #NCQG on climate finance!
It missed 3 key opportunities: 1) demonstrate commitment to transition away from fossil fuels; 2) engage new financial actors, incl. investors, ECAs, and central banks; 3) expand the base of contributing countries

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The three missed opportunities of the UNFCCC's New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance
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April 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Participants in research in Fiji consistently allocated 19% of hypothetical Loss and Damage finance to cultural preservation - an issue typically neglected when estimating the costs of climate change

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Understanding cultural losses and damages induced by climate change in the Pacific region: evidence from Fiji
The global climate has undergone significant changes since the industrial revolution. These changes have been causing catastrophic consequences for life on Earth, disproportionately impacting the w...
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April 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This new paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social got quite some media attention. Rightfully so: it shows that electricity dedicated to producing e-fuel for aviation is 3x cheaper than electricity serving primary needs such as heating or lighting.

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Comparing electricity policies between the primary and tertiary needs: the need for distributive justice within the energy transition
The energy transition is amplifying the growing role of low-carbon electricity in our economies, and all sectors are concerned. This includes hard-to-abate sectors, such as air mobility, which cann...
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April 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Even wat anders nieuws in deze tijd van droogte. Of hebben de problemen iets met elkaar gemeen? #klimaatverandering

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Zestig gezinnen raken huis definitief kwijt na hoosbui Enschede
Uit onderzoek blijkt dat hun wijkje ook met de nodige aanpassingen niet is opgewassen tegen veel regen in korte tijd.
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April 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
TUI en ANVR slepen gemeente Den Haag voor de rechter vanwege het verbod op fossiele reclame.
Voor wie denkt dat dit niet zo belangrijk is: think again. Reclame is de frontlinie van de fossiele industrie om haar bestaansrecht te verdedigen

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Opinie | Verbied reclame voor de fossiele industrie
Klimaat: Wie geld aanneemt om het imago van de fossiele industrie op te poetsen, verergert indirect de klimaatcrisis, meent Pieter Pauw.
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April 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🔓 : Swiss banks have measures at their disposal to achieve #netzero by 2050, but potential market disadvantage risks are preventing implementation, finds Mischa Aeschlimann @ethzurich.bsky.social
➡️ Without regulatory interventions, voluntary efforts will not be sufficient to meet #climate targets
Banks’ climate commitments: a silver lining for climate action or just hot air? First evidence from the Swiss mortgage business
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March 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM