With the US walking back its environmental policies, where can activists find meaningful wins for the climate? One answer is to focus on getting people who care about the climate crisis onto corporate boards

Why? A short 🧵 on my new article w/ Iain Osgood doi.org/10.1017/bap.2025.6 #polisky 1/4

A pleasure to come to Aarhus and participate in a fantastic PhD defense by Karl Magnus Møller yesterday. Thanks to @henrikseeberg.bsky.social for inviting me as external examiner and the political science community at Aarhus for a great visit. What a lovely community - and ofc, city -they have 💫🇩🇰

This matches lots of things @michaelhlerner.bsky.social, I and others mapped in our World Bank study on CO2 pricing in GS:
openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/c...

Our expert interviews/surveys also say that in emerging economies CO2 trading is top choice but issues of public acceptability bite

New paper out at Environmental Research Letters! doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad9f84

In a conjoint experiment, we study how/when Global South experts prioritize ambition vs. risk in carbon pricing.
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• Political feasibility > effectiveness for who pays
• Effectiveness ≥ feasibility for who benefits

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Can confirm this. In expert interviews with @michaelhlerner.bsky.social and others for the World Bank (~1 year ago), CBAM came up as a clear justification for why Global South countries are engaging with carbon pricing.

If interested, our report is here: openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

Interesting read. If you are into experts’ take on carbon pricing specifically in the Global South, here is a World Bank report that @michaelhlerner.bsky.social and I and others have put together, out a month ago:

bsky.app/profile/mich...

Despite political distractions, the first 100 days of #climatechange governance under the #Labour government has gone (surprisingly) well! How so? I explain in my new post on the @lsegovernment.bsky.social blog (+ other excellent contributions by @lauraserra.bsky.social & Prof. Tony Travers)

New #WorldBank report! While the politics of #carbonpricing involve compromises and accommodations, real-world experiences show it can be a powerful, powerful, and politically feasible tool for accelerating #decarbonization in developing countries.

openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

As the clock starts to run out on the clean energy transition, we are seeing an increasing trend of states taking back local authority on siting decisions. Most recently we've seen this in Midwestern states. Now Massachusetts is exploring:
commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/commi...