🇪🇺🇮🇳 The EU–India FTA has landed. Two points: (1) The obligation to effectively implement Paris has been weakened: "effectively" has been dropped. (2) The dispute settlement process is 100% political: no expert review, no remedies. All in all, a significant weakening of the trade-climate nexus 🔻

Thank you @wti.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about trade–climate interlinkages in trade agreements. Such great questions from the audience! 👀 💫

COP30 BREAKING NEWS The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirão" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps Here's my snap analysis (pic) unfccc.int/sites/def...

Finally on trade measures, para 58 Opt1 take note of response measures / technical w'shops Opt2 dialogues at Bonn meetings Opt3 new info-sharing "platform" on trade measures Opt4 UNSG summit on trade + annual dialogue + report

🌱 Trade and climate policy shape each other, and no single discipline holds all the answers for how to govern this wisely. Research bridging economics, law, politics, and STEM is essential—but true interdisciplinarity takes time, trust, and supportive funding structures. How do we bring this about?

The ICJ delivers a landmark opinion, which makes clear that under the #ParisAgreement, NDCs need to: ✅ Become more ambitious over time, ✅ Make an adequate contribution to holding global warming to 1.5°C, ✅ Be implemented by putting in place domestic measures reasonably capable of achieving NDCs ❗

📢 Did you miss it? New publication in Geopolitics! 🔥 This is a piece about perceptions, power, politics, and the messy realities of sustainability governance through trade. It foregrounds the perspectives, concerns and agency of EU trade partners. 🌏 ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Known as a climate frontrunner, the world would need 4.7 planets if everyone lived like Danes. Green image, heavy brown climate footprint 🌍🇩🇰 #ClimateCrisis #PlanetaryBoundaries #OvershootDay #GreenTransition #EUClimatePolicy

COP30 & the EU’s role 🌱🇪🇺 ⏰ Still no updated EU climate plan; not a priority for the Polish Presidency. 🪖📉 EU’s security & competitiveness is perceived to be clashing with green goals. 1.5°C-aligned 2035/2040 targets? Unlikely. 🌍 If the EU can’t align climate, prosperity & security—who can?

Klimapolitikken er gledet ned ad den globale dagsorden. Men hvor langt? 2025 vil afsløre, om Parisaftalen stadig har politisk tyngde 🌱 ➡️ Læs min analyse i Berlingske i dag om hvorfor, at 2025 er et afgørende år, og hvorfor Trumps handelskrige gør global klimapolitik meget sværere 🇺🇸💰🥊

Klimakrise og handelskrig: Derfor bliver 2025 et skæbneår for Parisaftalen

Læs mere her.

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🚀 Calling all EU trade researchers and policy enthusiasts! I’ve just released an updated version of my open access dataset compiling every press release from the European Commission (DG Trade) — now covering 1989 to 2025 (until February 10). Check it out! ➡️ dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

🌍🔴 Climate delay or backslide? 📄 7 of the world's 10 largest economies missed the deadline yesterday to submit updated climate action plans (NDCs) under the #Parisagreement. Weak #COP climate talks and a challenging political landscape (🇺🇸 🇦🇷🇷🇺) are putting the ambitions of the Paris deal to the test

🌏 🌡️ 🇳🇿 Yesterday, a New Zealand coalition partner (ACT) floated the idea of New Zealand withdrawing from the Paris Agreement.🌱 This would not be inconsequential. Under the EU-New Zealand FTA, either party can suspend the trade deal in case the other withdraws from the Paris Agreement 🇪🇺 ⚖️🙅 🇳🇿

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Can EU trade agreements bolster climate action? @carolinebertram.bsky.social & @herminevc.bsky.social examine how commitments to effectively implement the Paris Agreement raise costs, strengthen duties and foster ambition. Will dispute settlement mechanisms deliver?

🍾⭐ I am deeply grateful to the European Union Studies Association for granting my PhD dissertation the Wade Jacoby Best Dissertation Award. This would not have been possible without the support of so many incredible individuals who guided me through this journey. A heartfelt thank you to everyone! 🤍

Just ticked a box for @uaces.bsky.social summer conference confirming I’m *not* submitting a full male panel. As a woman in a male-dominated field, I appreciate the nudge and the reminder that balance matters everywhere 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 –– will I see you at EUSA in Philly and UACES in Liverpool? 🇪🇺 #EUstudies

Can EU trade agreements bolster climate action? @carolinebertram.bsky.social & @herminevc.bsky.social examine how commitments to effectively implement the Paris Agreement raise costs,strengthen duties &foster ambition. Will dispute settlement mechanisms deliver?👉 www.greendealnet.eu/Strengthenin...

I'm so proud of the Carbon Brief #COP29 team for finishing our big summary of the talks It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –NCQG –Stocktake –Article6 –China +Much more …delivered in record time after a brutal fortnight of sleep deprivation! www.carbonbrief.org/...

🌎🌡️ Big news: The EU-Mercosur trade agreement was finalised yesterday—despite pushback from member states and environmentalists 🌱 @herminevc.bsky.social & I have just published research on the legally binding commitment to effectively implement the Paris Agreement present herein (1/4) 👇

Really an amazing gang of climate & ecological crisis political economists across Øresund - feat. @jptilsted.bsky.social @carolinebertram.bsky.social @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social @voldsgaard.bsky.social @jonasalgers.bsky.social @lbogner.bsky.social Cornel Ban, Søren Lund Frandsen, Caroline Ahler +++

Caroline Bertram and I just published a new paper! In this open access article, we explore the role of EU trade agreements in bolstering the Paris Agreement's obligations (a wordy🧵) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Strengthening the Paris Agreement through trade? The potential and limitations of EU preferential trade agreements for climate governance - International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Ec...

Since 2019, a commitment has been included in the European Union’s (EU) preferential trade agreements to effectively implement the Paris Agreement. This commitment now exists in nine ratified or pendi...

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