🔓️OPEN ACCESS: Mauricio Böhl Gutierrez & Daniele Malerba identify key design characteristics which support the successful implementation of #energysubsidy reforms: 1️⃣ Gradual subsidy removal 2️⃣ Government-controlled pricing mechanism 3️⃣ Robust communication strategy Read more below⬇️

Reviewing the implementation design of energy subsidy reforms: insights from novel cross-country data

Over the past two decades, energy subsidy reforms have increasingly gained importance as mitigation measures to fight climate change. Still, many countries subsidize fossil energy consumption, and ...

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🚗 How do import tariffs on new energy vehicles from China impact countries' energy transitions? Junjie Zhang et al. find: 📈 Below 5.8% tariff: complements domestic research & development, stimulating #energytransition 📉 Above 5.8% tariff: crowds out funding, hindering #energytransition Read ⬇️

How import tariffs on China's new energy vehicles affect host countries’ energy transition

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🌍️ Prohibiting fossil fuel subsidies risks incompatibility with international investment law, says Ted Gleason. To successfully implement fossil fuel reforms, States must align reforms with existing legal obligations, ensure the right to regulate and modernise old-generation treaties ⬇️ 🔗

Fossil fuel subsidies prohibitions in the 2024 agreement on climate change, trade and sustainability (ACCTS): an international investment law perspective

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🇧🇷 Well-designed rural credit schemes can significantly advance recovery of degraded pastures, effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions and generating positive environmental co-benefits, find Pedro de Barros et al. in new study on Brazil's Low-Carbon Agriculture Policy ⬇️ 🔗 🌾

Does rural credit promote pasture recovery? Evidence from Brazil's Low-Carbon Agriculture Policy

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🇧🇷 Climate- and nature-related transition risks deepen existing financial vulnerabilities and expose both high- and low- pressuring sectors to capital stranding, with notable geographical spillovers - particularly to China, find Angela Modica Scala et al. in new study from Brazil⬇️ 🔗

Climate- and nature-related transition risks in Brazil: capital stranding and financial vulnerability

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🇹🇿 Adoption of climate-smart livestock technology among small-scale Tanzanian dairy farmers is constrained by input market inefficiences and unequal access to essential services, finds Felister Tibamanya ⬇️ 🔗

Innovation on hold: climate-smart livestock technology adoption among small-scale dairy farmers in Tanga, Tanzania

Climate change poses significant challenges to Tanzania’s dairy sector. It increases climate variability, disease prevalence and fodder scarcity. These challenges threaten livestock productivity an...

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🏙️ Cities set ambitious #climate goals, but prioritisation is driven by institutional and economic feasibility, find Mia Dragović Matosović et al. This gap explains why #sustainability outcomes often fall short of stated ambitions⬇️ 🔗

A participatory multi-criteria decision framework for prioritizing SECAP actions: evidence from European cities

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Through analysis of >1 million papers, Nuno Bento et al. derive a data-driven typology of six major decarbonization pathways: 💻️ Technology Breakthrough 🔌 Electrification of Uses 💡 Integrated Policy ⚡️ Decarbonization of Electricity 📉 Demand Reduction & Co-Benefits 🌾 Land Use & Circularity Read⬇️

Strategic pathways for decarbonization: a data-driven typology to strengthen climate policy

As global temperatures approach critical thresholds and emissions continue to rise, the urgency for strategic, accelerated decarbonization grows. The climate mitigation literature is vast, but evid...

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🇨🇳 Wuhan's improved waste management systems have significantly reduced #carbonemissions, despite growing levels of waste, find Chao Tian et al. ✅️ The Zero Waste City approach, which redirects waste flows to more harmless & resource-efficient treatment methods, offers a model for other cities ⬇️ 🔗

Towards a zero-waste city: carbon emissions and reduction potential from solid waste management in Wuhan

The rapid growth of urban solid waste (SW), driven by population growth and economic development, poses significant challenges. Reducing waste generation and enhancing resource recovery through sus...

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💡 Combining multiple #climatepolicies drives #lowcarbon innovation more effectively than isolated measures, find Jin Yan et al. 📈 ⤵️ 1️⃣ Subsidies trigger innovation 💰️ 2️⃣ Performance standards offer regulatory support 🤝 3️⃣ Targets & governance reinforce credibility 💪 Read more below ⬇️ 🔗

The impact of sectoral policies and policy mixes on low-carbon innovation ‘take-offs’: an analysis of 18 countries 2001–2022

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🎉 We are excited to announce that Climate Policy hired six new Associate Editors earlier this year ⤵️ 🗞️ In the context of an ever increasing number of submissions to the journal, our AEs have provided invaluable support. We are delighted to officially introduce and celebrate them🙏 :

💡 NEW ISSUE: Issue 8 is out now, with the latest on public support for #climatepolicies, transformative #adaptation, Climate Assemblies & more 🌱 🖋️ @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social @mmikulewicz.bsky.social & more 🔗 & featuring our 2025 Editorial, "Researching climate policy in uncertain times" ⬇️

Climate Policy, Volume 26, Issue 8 (2026)

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The IMF’s Climate-Public Investment Management Assessment (C-PIMA) has no significant short-term effect on infrastructure investment, finds Seyoum Teffera Mengesha. Instead, baseline government effectiveness emerges as a key factor, highlighting the importance of strong institutional foundations⬇️ 🔗

Does climate-responsive public investment management facilitate infrastructure investment? Evidence from the IMF’s C-PIMA in Sub-Saharan Africa

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🔓️ OPEN ACCESS: Just transition policies receive electoral support at the implementation stage - mainly from direct beneficiaries - despite limited perception of local changes, find @dianebolet.bsky.social @fergusgreen.bsky.social & Mikel González-Eguino @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk ⬇️ 🔗

Just transition policy implementation in Spanish coal mining communities: feedback effects on policy attitudes and voting intentions

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🇱🇰 Sri Lanka’s schools are missing a key opportunity: #climatechange is taught in fragments, often without a local context or actionable steps. Chinthani Senavirathna calls for hands-on, inclusive #climateeducation to build a generation ready for a sustainable future ⬇️ 🔗

Assessing the integration of climate change education in Sri Lanka’s secondary education system

Climate change education is widely recognized as a cornerstone of global efforts to build climate resilience and sustainability. This study investigates the current status and integration of climat...

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🇨🇳 China's institutional compression pathway enables rapid integration through centralized mandates, offering emerging economies a leapfrogging alternative to the EU's incremental approach while sacrificing experimental flexibility for coordination speed, find Yu Tian & Bangjun Wang ⬇️ 🔗

Institutional compression in climate policy integration: coordinating green electricity certificates and carbon emissions trading in China

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🇯🇵 Why did Japan organise its Green Transformation (GX) sovereign borrowing programme around transition-labelled bonds? Yukino Kobayashi & Jiun-Da Lin find that government ministries and emissions-intensive industries played a major role, while environmental actors had less influence ⬇️ 🔗

Why Japan’s sovereign climate finance took a transition-bond form: bureaucratic mediation in an eco-developmental state

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🔓️ Sub-Saharan Africa’s clean energy transition is constrained by a financial architecture shaped by persistent perceptions of high risk, find Wikus Kruger et al. Sovereign credit ratings (SCRs) operate as a de facto ceiling on the financing terms of long-term, asset-backed clean energy projects⬇️ 🔗

Obstacles to Sub-Saharan Africa’s clean energy transition: the ‘tyranny of sovereign ratings’

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✈️ 📊 National hydrogen aviation policies are deeply unequal — and the Global North and Global South are unequal in very different ways. There is a striking disconnect between climate responsibility and policy action, find Saeed Rostami et al. through their novel Hydrogen Aviation Policy Index ⬇️ 🔗

National hydrogen policy inequality in aviation: a hidden barrier to climate mitigation

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🔓️ OPEN ACCESS: The actual #adaptation impacts of the #GreenClimateFund are unclear, find Jonathan Barnes & @susannahfisher.bsky.social⤵️ ➡️ Use of aggregated figures creates a sense of comfort - therefore sustaining investment - but obscures knowledge gaps & neglects meaningful local impact⬇️ 🔗

The production of adaptation results: how does the Green Climate Fund turn adaptation projects into impact?

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💰️ Yannick Glemarec @cired.bsky.social introduces a functional typology of #climatefinance interventions, grouped into 3 categories based on their intended impact on the risk-return profile of climate investments: 1️⃣ Aligning finance 2️⃣ Risk sharing 3️⃣ Public sector investment Read more⬇️

Towards a functional typology of climate finance interventions

Thousands of public policies have been deployed worldwide to help close the global climate–finance gap. Clarifying the nature and function of these interventions is therefore a foundational step to...

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🇨🇳 What factors influence Chinese farmers' adoption of #lowcarbon agricultural technology (LCAT) extension programmes? Yu Jiang et al. identify key preferences: 1️⃣ Organised by local agricultural bureaus & research institutions 2️⃣ Interactive, field-based methods 3️⃣ Participation cost Read below ⬇️

Designing farmer-centered extension programmes for low-carbon agriculture: evidence from a discrete choice experiment in China

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🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 7 is out now, with the latest on #carbondioxideremoval, non-state actors & COPs, voluntary #carbonmarket claims, policy packages with multiple goals & more 💡 🖋️ Research from @rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social @jensergon.bsky.social @rubenpruetz.bsky.social & more ⬇️ 🔗

Climate Policy, Volume 26, Issue 7 (2026)

Volume 26, Issue 7 of Climate Policy

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🌾 Growing climate misinformation in Canada's agri-food sector stems from: 1️⃣ Political & identity-based biases 2️⃣ Limited critical thinking & media literacy 3️⃣ Digital amplification of false narratives ...evidencing low trust in science & institutions, find Khondokar H. Kabir & Ataharul Chowdhury⬇️

Discourses on the roots and resilience of climate misinformation: perspectives from the Canadian agri-food sector

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🇺🇸 Increases in the economic value of green patents spurred an aggregate shift from brown to green energy companies only after the #ParisAgreement, find Jose Barrales-Ruiz & Pablo Neudörfer, highlighting the relevance of policy credibility & high-value technical breakthroughs in energy transitions⬇️

Bridging innovation and investment: the Paris Agreement’s effect on green and brown US-listed energy stocks

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🔓️ Most sustainable finance taxonomies are not yet designed to fully support the transition to #NetZero, find Catherine Marchewitz et al. @diw.de, as green economic activities are prioritised while transitional activities are largely omitted ⤵️

Sustainable finance taxonomies – Designed to support the transition to a net-zero economy?

A growing number of sustainable finance taxonomies aim to redirect capital towards climate change mitigation. Yet achieving net zero requires not only financing green economic activities but also t...

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New analysis of the Belém #Adaptation Indicators from @sunkiehabib.bsky.social highlights the importance of measurement justice & context-sensitive implementation for ensuring fair global tracking of adaptation progress. Lessons from Africa reveal how indicators can succeed or fail on the ground ⬇️

Bridging global ambition and local reality: African insights for the future of the Belém Adaptation Indicators

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🇰🇪 Locally led #adaptation in Kenya is constrained by centralized fiscal authority, find Judith Mulwa & Marie Ladekjaer Gravesen @diis.dk: ensuring local control over #adaptationfinance is just as important as increasing finance 💰️

From devolution to distortion: political and fiscal constraints on locally led adaptation in Kenya

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