Paula Castro
@paucastro.bsky.social
Climate policy and politics
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10 years after the adoption of the #ParisAgreement, Nature Climate Change has published a reflection of what has been achieved and what still needs to be done. I’m honoured to have contributed the section on countries’ nationally determined contributions (#NDCs).
Full text here: rdcu.be/eOpVp
Full text here: rdcu.be/eOpVp
Expert retrospective on a decade of the Paris Agreement
Nature Climate Change - To mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, Nature Climate Change asked experts to reflect on the progress of and barriers to several of its key Articles. They...
rdcu.be
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
10 years after the adoption of the #ParisAgreement, Nature Climate Change has published a reflection of what has been achieved and what still needs to be done. I’m honoured to have contributed the section on countries’ nationally determined contributions (#NDCs).
Full text here: rdcu.be/eOpVp
Full text here: rdcu.be/eOpVp
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🚚 🇪🇺 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 ⬇️
➡️ 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
www.tandfonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🚚 🇪🇺 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 ⬇️
➡️ Fix several methodological errors in its policy framework
➡️ Focus on other road freight #decarbonization levers
Read more ⬇️
Reposted by Paula Castro
Publication alert:
I look at how consumption based responsibility for global warming is distributed across the Swiss population (others have done that before me). Then, I discuss what the consequences of this for climate policy may be.
doi.org/10.1186/s419...
#ClimateSky #EnergySky
I look at how consumption based responsibility for global warming is distributed across the Swiss population (others have done that before me). Then, I discuss what the consequences of this for climate policy may be.
doi.org/10.1186/s419...
#ClimateSky #EnergySky
Consumption-based responsibility for global warming and the distribution of impacts of swiss climate policy - Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
Different consumption patterns have been linked to different levels of responsibility for current greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions, and it is well established that the affluent are responsible for highe...
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Publication alert:
I look at how consumption based responsibility for global warming is distributed across the Swiss population (others have done that before me). Then, I discuss what the consequences of this for climate policy may be.
doi.org/10.1186/s419...
#ClimateSky #EnergySky
I look at how consumption based responsibility for global warming is distributed across the Swiss population (others have done that before me). Then, I discuss what the consequences of this for climate policy may be.
doi.org/10.1186/s419...
#ClimateSky #EnergySky
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🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
July 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo
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"IHRL, the climate change treaties, and other relevant environmental treaties...inform each other. States must, therefore, take their obligations under IHRL into account when implementing their obligations"
Good to see IHRL coming out strongly as we go through the opinion
Good to see IHRL coming out strongly as we go through the opinion
July 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"IHRL, the climate change treaties, and other relevant environmental treaties...inform each other. States must, therefore, take their obligations under IHRL into account when implementing their obligations"
Good to see IHRL coming out strongly as we go through the opinion
Good to see IHRL coming out strongly as we go through the opinion
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Ahead of today's ICJ #ClimateChange #AdvisoryOpinion, I've seen a lot of "but it won't be binding."
This is, like a lot of things, technically true and also beyond the point. 🧵 #IntLaw
This is, like a lot of things, technically true and also beyond the point. 🧵 #IntLaw
July 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Ahead of today's ICJ #ClimateChange #AdvisoryOpinion, I've seen a lot of "but it won't be binding."
This is, like a lot of things, technically true and also beyond the point. 🧵 #IntLaw
This is, like a lot of things, technically true and also beyond the point. 🧵 #IntLaw
Reposted by Paula Castro
"The ICJ pointing the direction for the entire world and making clear that every nation is legally obliged to solve the climate crisis," says PIK director Johan Rockström in @rfi.fr. 1.5°C would now be recognised in international law as planetary limit.
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
World's top court paves way for climate reparations
The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states are obliged under international law to tackle climate change and warned that failing to do so could open the door to reparations.
www.rfi.fr
July 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"The ICJ pointing the direction for the entire world and making clear that every nation is legally obliged to solve the climate crisis," says PIK director Johan Rockström in @rfi.fr. 1.5°C would now be recognised in international law as planetary limit.
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
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70% of all fossil fuel emissions ever, occurred in my lifetime🤯
If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
70% of all fossil fuel emissions ever, occurred in my lifetime🤯
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Now FREE access: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process www.tandfonline.com/journals/tcl...
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Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas
Explore the article collection: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process: Assessing local-global scales of (in)justice within global climate governance arenas. Published in Climate and Development.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Now FREE access: Collaborative event ethnography of the UNFCCC process www.tandfonline.com/journals/tcl...
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How can we assess the implementation gap existing between climate change #mitigation pledges under the #ParisAgreement and national policy-making? In our just published Climate Policy article, we use a public policy approach to develop two Vertical Policy Harmonization indices that do just that.
January 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
How can we assess the implementation gap existing between climate change #mitigation pledges under the #ParisAgreement and national policy-making? In our just published Climate Policy article, we use a public policy approach to develop two Vertical Policy Harmonization indices that do just that.
Just at the end of 2024 we finally published our DeCIRRA report on “Future use of Carbon Management to achieve Emissions Reductions and Removals in Switzerland: Scenario and Modeling Analysis“. (decirra.ch/publikationen/).
Publikationen – DeCIRRA
decirra.ch
January 7, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Just at the end of 2024 we finally published our DeCIRRA report on “Future use of Carbon Management to achieve Emissions Reductions and Removals in Switzerland: Scenario and Modeling Analysis“. (decirra.ch/publikationen/).