Mat Paterson
@matpaterson.bsky.social
Climate politics; political economy. University of Manchester Professor. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=im2kgFUAAAAJ&hl=en. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/matthew.paterson.
This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.
This is the single most important way that the Labour government could connect up climate action with reducing inequality, and also having a chance to undermine support for Reform in 'red wall' places. Barmy to cut it on every possible ground. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is the single most important way that the Labour government could connect up climate action with reducing inequality, and also having a chance to undermine support for Reform in 'red wall' places. Barmy to cut it on every possible ground. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
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As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
As COP30 begins, here's a gentle reminder that well-intentioned half measures aren't going to solve the climate crisis. The era of fossil fuels must come to an end. My latest in The Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Some thoughts on what our book Stability and politicization means for COP30. theconversation.com/why-even-pro... @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
November 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Some thoughts on what our book Stability and politicization means for COP30. theconversation.com/why-even-pro... @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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As COP30 approaches, policymakers must ensure that the integration of climate and biodiversity action by non-state and subnational actors is anchored in spatial data. #UNFCCC #ClimateAction #CBD @sanderchan.bsky.social @tlustym.bsky.social @conresglobal.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
From pledges to places: action agendas need spatial data to integrate climate and biodiversity action - npj Climate Action
As COP30 approaches, policymakers must ensure that the integration of climate and biodiversity action by non-state and subnational actors is anchored in spatial data. Otherwise, we cannot see where ch...
www.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
As COP30 approaches, policymakers must ensure that the integration of climate and biodiversity action by non-state and subnational actors is anchored in spatial data. #UNFCCC #ClimateAction #CBD @sanderchan.bsky.social @tlustym.bsky.social @conresglobal.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
good piece on some of the ongoing problems of relying on Carbon offsets to get to zero... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
good piece on some of the ongoing problems of relying on Carbon offsets to get to zero... www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Very pleased to be in this podcast series 'Voices in Global Environmental Politics' hosted by Hayley Stevenson. open.spotify.com/show/5e4fjD0.... It's connected to her book on the topic: www.cambridge.org/highereducat...
November 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Very pleased to be in this podcast series 'Voices in Global Environmental Politics' hosted by Hayley Stevenson. open.spotify.com/show/5e4fjD0.... It's connected to her book on the topic: www.cambridge.org/highereducat...
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Is climate stability enough to drive change or do we need social movement to spark action?
A new book from @matpaterson.bsky.social and Paul Tobin @manchester.ac.uk explores how politicisation and protest might be key to real climate progress. 📚🌍
Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/a...
A new book from @matpaterson.bsky.social and Paul Tobin @manchester.ac.uk explores how politicisation and protest might be key to real climate progress. 📚🌍
Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/a...
October 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Is climate stability enough to drive change or do we need social movement to spark action?
A new book from @matpaterson.bsky.social and Paul Tobin @manchester.ac.uk explores how politicisation and protest might be key to real climate progress. 📚🌍
Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/a...
A new book from @matpaterson.bsky.social and Paul Tobin @manchester.ac.uk explores how politicisation and protest might be key to real climate progress. 📚🌍
Read more: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/a...
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❇️ Check out our new OA article in the BJPS!
You'll find everything you love (hate?) like public perceptions of climate policy risk, IO backlash, devolution concerns, and trust politics in the UK.
Tldr: climate blacklash should be read through regional lenses.
Past thread: bsky.app/profile/fgen...
You'll find everything you love (hate?) like public perceptions of climate policy risk, IO backlash, devolution concerns, and trust politics in the UK.
Tldr: climate blacklash should be read through regional lenses.
Past thread: bsky.app/profile/fgen...
NEW -
Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics, and Backlash against International Co-operation - https://cup.org/47BYSeS
- @patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics, and Backlash against International Co-operation - https://cup.org/47BYSeS
- @patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
❇️ Check out our new OA article in the BJPS!
You'll find everything you love (hate?) like public perceptions of climate policy risk, IO backlash, devolution concerns, and trust politics in the UK.
Tldr: climate blacklash should be read through regional lenses.
Past thread: bsky.app/profile/fgen...
You'll find everything you love (hate?) like public perceptions of climate policy risk, IO backlash, devolution concerns, and trust politics in the UK.
Tldr: climate blacklash should be read through regional lenses.
Past thread: bsky.app/profile/fgen...
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This week we launched the West Yorkshire hub of @justcentre.bsky.social with 30+ regional partners to explore how to put social justice at the heart of climate change conversation and action. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, we are excited for what lies ahead!
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This week we launched the West Yorkshire hub of @justcentre.bsky.social with 30+ regional partners to explore how to put social justice at the heart of climate change conversation and action. A huge thank you to everyone who joined us, we are excited for what lies ahead!
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4️⃣ Rich frequent flyers will benefit most.
Communities near airports will face more noise and air pollution. Just 3% of the UK population take a quarter of all flights and around half don’t fly at all in any given year. 🛫
Communities near airports will face more noise and air pollution. Just 3% of the UK population take a quarter of all flights and around half don’t fly at all in any given year. 🛫
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
4️⃣ Rich frequent flyers will benefit most.
Communities near airports will face more noise and air pollution. Just 3% of the UK population take a quarter of all flights and around half don’t fly at all in any given year. 🛫
Communities near airports will face more noise and air pollution. Just 3% of the UK population take a quarter of all flights and around half don’t fly at all in any given year. 🛫
Finally came in the post!
October 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Finally came in the post!
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Check it! What a great opportunity!
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
October 14, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Check it! What a great opportunity!
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Amazing opportunity to join the Politics Department and the JUST centre at the University of Manchester!
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Amazing opportunity to join the Politics Department and the JUST centre at the University of Manchester!
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
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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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Many UK politicians, and Tories especially, still don't fully grasp the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions!
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New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com
UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023.
@tyndallcentre.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social
@climateuea.bsky.social
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UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023.
@tyndallcentre.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social
@climateuea.bsky.social
rdcu.be/eI4J3
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...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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!
👇👇👇👇👇👇
Many UK politicians, and Tories especially, still don't fully grasp the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions!
👇👇👇👇👇👇
another good analysis of Badenoch's dodgy claims in support of abandoning net zero from @granthamlse.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
October 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
another good analysis of Badenoch's dodgy claims in support of abandoning net zero from @granthamlse.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Fantastic paper. Data by sector, geography, investor entity & distributional impact (in terms of wealth, race, education).
@gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social's conclusion below: "taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715".
@gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social's conclusion below: "taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715".
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Fantastic paper. Data by sector, geography, investor entity & distributional impact (in terms of wealth, race, education).
@gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social's conclusion below: "taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715".
@gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social's conclusion below: "taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715".
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NEW PUBLICATION - in this article Will Hopkinson, Paul Tobin, @matpaterson.bsky.social and I show how Australian climate policy has changed since the Climate Change Act in 2022 after the ‘Lost Decade’. The article is Open Access - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From ‘Lost Decade’ to incomplete ‘transformation’: Australian climate policy via ideas, interests, and institutions
Australia’s centre-right Coalition government’s ‘Lost Decade’ (2013–2022) entailed the dismantling of climate policy. Subsequently, the centre-left Labor government passed the Climate Change Act in...
www.tandfonline.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
NEW PUBLICATION - in this article Will Hopkinson, Paul Tobin, @matpaterson.bsky.social and I show how Australian climate policy has changed since the Climate Change Act in 2022 after the ‘Lost Decade’. The article is Open Access - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The new book Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance asks: When it comes to climate change ... is it better to ‘lock in’ steady, long-term policies, or do we need dramatic political conflict and protests to force real change?
Open access link: buff.ly/KNNv8Sr
Open access link: buff.ly/KNNv8Sr
September 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The new book Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance asks: When it comes to climate change ... is it better to ‘lock in’ steady, long-term policies, or do we need dramatic political conflict and protests to force real change?
Open access link: buff.ly/KNNv8Sr
Open access link: buff.ly/KNNv8Sr
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What if the UK’s path to Net Zero meant digging backwards?
Pawan Srikanth & Daniel Welch explore how landfill mining could reclaim land, recover resources, and boost circular economy — sparking discussion on costs, benefits & risks for the UK.
👉Read it here: blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/09/...
Pawan Srikanth & Daniel Welch explore how landfill mining could reclaim land, recover resources, and boost circular economy — sparking discussion on costs, benefits & risks for the UK.
👉Read it here: blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/09/...
No room for waste - unlocking the potential of landfill mining
blogs.manchester.ac.uk
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
What if the UK’s path to Net Zero meant digging backwards?
Pawan Srikanth & Daniel Welch explore how landfill mining could reclaim land, recover resources, and boost circular economy — sparking discussion on costs, benefits & risks for the UK.
👉Read it here: blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/09/...
Pawan Srikanth & Daniel Welch explore how landfill mining could reclaim land, recover resources, and boost circular economy — sparking discussion on costs, benefits & risks for the UK.
👉Read it here: blogs.manchester.ac.uk/sci/2025/09/...
As @carlymclachlan.bsky.social is fond of saying, more zero, less net please. the evidence against carbon offsets keeps stacking up. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
As @carlymclachlan.bsky.social is fond of saying, more zero, less net please. the evidence against carbon offsets keeps stacking up. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A reminder of two launches of our new book, on the 8th and 16th October.
Please join us to discuss our book on Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (thread below). One launch on the 8th Oct, 10am EST, one on the 16th Oct, 4pm EST. See flyer for details and to register. The book is open access so you can quiz us. See you there! @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
A reminder of two launches of our new book, on the 8th and 16th October.