Andrew Fanning
@andrewlfanning.bsky.social
Ecological economist. Research and Data Analysis
at https://doughnuteconomics.org. Exploring a good life for all within planetary boundaries at http://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk
at https://doughnuteconomics.org. Exploring a good life for all within planetary boundaries at http://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk
We disaggregate the global results into country clusters by income. Median results show the richest 20% of countries (home to 15% of people) are responsible for over 40% of ecological overshoot in 2017, while the poorest 40% (home to 42% of people) experience more than 60% of global deprivation. 3/
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We disaggregate the global results into country clusters by income. Median results show the richest 20% of countries (home to 15% of people) are responsible for over 40% of ecological overshoot in 2017, while the poorest 40% (home to 42% of people) experience more than 60% of global deprivation. 3/
We analyse 35 global indicators from 2000-2022. Median results show slow progress in ending human deprivation, which must *speed up fivefold* to meet global goals by 2030, while rapid ecological damage must *reverse at nearly twice the current pace* to safeguard a stable planet by mid-century. 2/
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
We analyse 35 global indicators from 2000-2022. Median results show slow progress in ending human deprivation, which must *speed up fivefold* to meet global goals by 2030, while rapid ecological damage must *reverse at nearly twice the current pace* to safeguard a stable planet by mid-century. 2/
📢BIG NEW STUDY📢
Out today in Nature: the all-new Doughnut! Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @kateraworth.bsky.social and myself. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in Nature: the all-new Doughnut! Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @kateraworth.bsky.social and myself. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
📢BIG NEW STUDY📢
Out today in Nature: the all-new Doughnut! Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @kateraworth.bsky.social and myself. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in Nature: the all-new Doughnut! Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @kateraworth.bsky.social and myself. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Getting to Yes: Negotiating An Agreement Without Giving In (by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/324551...
July 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Getting to Yes: Negotiating An Agreement Without Giving In (by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/324551...
📚 If you are looking for something to read, here are 15 books that I have enjoyed over the past year. With thanks to the authors for their time and creativity. 🙏
🤓 also, i must confess that my inner-librarian found compiling the list below deeply satisfying. Pls add your own recommendations! 📝
🤓 also, i must confess that my inner-librarian found compiling the list below deeply satisfying. Pls add your own recommendations! 📝
July 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
📚 If you are looking for something to read, here are 15 books that I have enjoyed over the past year. With thanks to the authors for their time and creativity. 🙏
🤓 also, i must confess that my inner-librarian found compiling the list below deeply satisfying. Pls add your own recommendations! 📝
🤓 also, i must confess that my inner-librarian found compiling the list below deeply satisfying. Pls add your own recommendations! 📝
🤗I'm looking forward to seeing and learning with friends and colleagues at the upcoming ecological economics/degrowth conference #ISEE-Degrowth2025 in Oslo next week.
💻Info + livestream plenaries (I think!): isee-degrowth2025.no
🚆Also, this will be my longest train journey yet -- wish me luck!
💻Info + livestream plenaries (I think!): isee-degrowth2025.no
🚆Also, this will be my longest train journey yet -- wish me luck!
June 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
🤗I'm looking forward to seeing and learning with friends and colleagues at the upcoming ecological economics/degrowth conference #ISEE-Degrowth2025 in Oslo next week.
💻Info + livestream plenaries (I think!): isee-degrowth2025.no
🚆Also, this will be my longest train journey yet -- wish me luck!
💻Info + livestream plenaries (I think!): isee-degrowth2025.no
🚆Also, this will be my longest train journey yet -- wish me luck!
🧐 Are you wondering where to study and learn post-growth approaches in Europe?
🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that!
🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e...
🙏 Feedback welcome
🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that!
🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e...
🙏 Feedback welcome
May 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
🧐 Are you wondering where to study and learn post-growth approaches in Europe?
🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that!
🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e...
🙏 Feedback welcome
🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that!
🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e...
🙏 Feedback welcome
Feeling grateful to have made time to see @fernadovalladares.bsky.social communicate, with empathy and wit, the deeply alarming social-ecological crises driven by our growth-based economies, and what to do about them. Gracias 🙏
Check out his important work here (in Spanish): www.valladares.info
Check out his important work here (in Spanish): www.valladares.info
March 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Feeling grateful to have made time to see @fernadovalladares.bsky.social communicate, with empathy and wit, the deeply alarming social-ecological crises driven by our growth-based economies, and what to do about them. Gracias 🙏
Check out his important work here (in Spanish): www.valladares.info
Check out his important work here (in Spanish): www.valladares.info
March 15, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I can already see it in a basic design somewhat similar to this
March 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I can already see it in a basic design somewhat similar to this
![A 4-panel cartoon labelled 'IT'S THAT EASY!' showing an adult and child.
- 80s [adult kneeling next to child with garbage can in background]: 'pick up your litter and save the Earth!'
- 90s [adult kneeling next to child with recycling box in background]: 'Recycle and you can save the Earth!]
-'00s [adult kneeling next to child with bicycle in background]: 'Reduce your carbon footprint and you can save the Earth!'
-'10s [adult kneeling next to child with flames in background]: 'Completely restructure global economic systems and you may be able to save a remnant of humanity!'
Credit: @TommySiegel](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hulxg5hww3dcrhxr65tdm3qm/bafkreibbevxcj3wbeikykkkfw4d3aiv5vpz6htkaz3oqx44tuvlvc4xvva@jpeg)
December 2, 2024 at 9:02 PM
They also find emissions in the bottom 99% of US households declined by ~20% since 1990s while the top 0.1% increased by a staggering 50%, ffs.
These household emissions are consumption-based measures that account for trade. Highly recommended study (sadly behind a paywall). doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
These household emissions are consumption-based measures that account for trade. Highly recommended study (sadly behind a paywall). doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
November 30, 2024 at 7:53 PM
They also find emissions in the bottom 99% of US households declined by ~20% since 1990s while the top 0.1% increased by a staggering 50%, ffs.
These household emissions are consumption-based measures that account for trade. Highly recommended study (sadly behind a paywall). doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
These household emissions are consumption-based measures that account for trade. Highly recommended study (sadly behind a paywall). doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
You need to see shocking extent of carbon inequality around the world.
A remarkable study led by Jared Starr finds that super-rich US households emit *2000 TIMES* more CO2e than average low-income country households.
How the f*ck is that even possible? The disparity never ceases to enrage me.
A remarkable study led by Jared Starr finds that super-rich US households emit *2000 TIMES* more CO2e than average low-income country households.
How the f*ck is that even possible? The disparity never ceases to enrage me.
November 30, 2024 at 7:41 PM
You need to see shocking extent of carbon inequality around the world.
A remarkable study led by Jared Starr finds that super-rich US households emit *2000 TIMES* more CO2e than average low-income country households.
How the f*ck is that even possible? The disparity never ceases to enrage me.
A remarkable study led by Jared Starr finds that super-rich US households emit *2000 TIMES* more CO2e than average low-income country households.
How the f*ck is that even possible? The disparity never ceases to enrage me.
A while ago I realised that a baby girl born in Spain in 2016 can expect to live 85 years, which is beyond the time horizon of most climate scenarios (that range from 'not looking good, but maybe manageable for most' to 'chaotic hothouse hell-planet'). Also, that baby girl is my daughter.
November 27, 2024 at 9:19 PM
A while ago I realised that a baby girl born in Spain in 2016 can expect to live 85 years, which is beyond the time horizon of most climate scenarios (that range from 'not looking good, but maybe manageable for most' to 'chaotic hothouse hell-planet'). Also, that baby girl is my daughter.
Ohhhh, the BEST dogs. We had a lovely Newf-lady until she passed away after a full life
November 26, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Ohhhh, the BEST dogs. We had a lovely Newf-lady until she passed away after a full life
The top 5 over-emitting countries would be liable to pay more than two thirds of total compensation. And the top 5 low-emitting countries would be entitled to receive more than half. This is compensation for mitigating far more rapidly that would otherwise be required, not grants or loans. 6/
November 24, 2024 at 10:42 PM
The top 5 over-emitting countries would be liable to pay more than two thirds of total compensation. And the top 5 low-emitting countries would be entitled to receive more than half. This is compensation for mitigating far more rapidly that would otherwise be required, not grants or loans. 6/
We use carbon prices from IPCC scenarios to put a monetary value on excess emissions, and distribute these funds to low-emitting countries as compensation, based on how much of their fair shares would be appropriated by over-emitting countries. The receipts total more than $6 trillion per year. 5/
November 24, 2024 at 10:29 PM
We use carbon prices from IPCC scenarios to put a monetary value on excess emissions, and distribute these funds to low-emitting countries as compensation, based on how much of their fair shares would be appropriated by over-emitting countries. The receipts total more than $6 trillion per year. 5/
We find that ambitious mitigation to reach net zero by 2050 in all countries could limit warming to 1.5°C - which is crucial - but the global North would overshoot its collective fair share of the 1.5°C carbon budget by 3 times, appropriating half of the global South’s fair share in the process. 4/
November 24, 2024 at 10:21 PM
We find that ambitious mitigation to reach net zero by 2050 in all countries could limit warming to 1.5°C - which is crucial - but the global North would overshoot its collective fair share of the 1.5°C carbon budget by 3 times, appropriating half of the global South’s fair share in the process. 4/
If you see the atmosphere as a commons - a natural wealth for everyone to access equitably and sustainably - then it's not hard to see how deeply unjust the #COP29 $300bn per year goal from industrialised countries is, when historical responsibilities for excess emissions are taken into account. 1/
November 24, 2024 at 10:07 PM
If you see the atmosphere as a commons - a natural wealth for everyone to access equitably and sustainably - then it's not hard to see how deeply unjust the #COP29 $300bn per year goal from industrialised countries is, when historical responsibilities for excess emissions are taken into account. 1/
This chart crushes me. There are more than five times as many billionaires as there were in 2000, and the average net worth per billionaire has nearly tripled, from $1.9bn to a staggering $5.1bn. They're fleecing us, undermining democracy, and burning the world - TAX THE RICH.
November 21, 2024 at 9:06 PM
This chart crushes me. There are more than five times as many billionaires as there were in 2000, and the average net worth per billionaire has nearly tripled, from $1.9bn to a staggering $5.1bn. They're fleecing us, undermining democracy, and burning the world - TAX THE RICH.
Just starting a ~2,500 km train journey from Cadiz, Spain to London for a Doughnut Economics Action Lab
team gathering. Wish me luck, and with thanks to The Man in Seat Sixty One (as usual!)
team gathering. Wish me luck, and with thanks to The Man in Seat Sixty One (as usual!)
November 27, 2023 at 5:21 AM
Just starting a ~2,500 km train journey from Cadiz, Spain to London for a Doughnut Economics Action Lab
team gathering. Wish me luck, and with thanks to The Man in Seat Sixty One (as usual!)
team gathering. Wish me luck, and with thanks to The Man in Seat Sixty One (as usual!)
those hands tho 😬
November 8, 2023 at 11:36 AM
those hands tho 😬
Looking forward to this session with the one and only @timparrique.bsky.social as part of the smorgasbord of events taking place worldwide on Global Donut Day, November 13.
Find out more and register at doughnuteconomics.org/globaldonutday -- see you there!
Find out more and register at doughnuteconomics.org/globaldonutday -- see you there!
November 7, 2023 at 7:33 PM
Looking forward to this session with the one and only @timparrique.bsky.social as part of the smorgasbord of events taking place worldwide on Global Donut Day, November 13.
Find out more and register at doughnuteconomics.org/globaldonutday -- see you there!
Find out more and register at doughnuteconomics.org/globaldonutday -- see you there!