Tenure Track Assistant Professor International Relations job at Waterloo! See link below. ⤵️ uwaterloo.ca/arts/sites/d...
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Marian Feist
@mjfeist.bsky.social
International climate politics: negotiations, diplomacy, and finance. Senior Fellow at the Hertie School. https://hertie-school.org/en/research/faculty-and-researchers/profile/person/feist
Germany’s chief climate negotiator, @jochenflasbarth.bsky.social, is stepping down ahead of #COP31. table.media/climate/them...
Flasbarth verlässt BMUKN: Was das für die deutsche und internationale Klimapolitik bedeutet
Der einflussreichste Klimaschützer der Bundesregierung hört als Staatssekretär im Umweltministerium auf. Jochen Flasbarth wechselt zur wichtigsten europäischen Klimastiftung. Dort wird er Nachfolger von Laurence Tubiana. Seine Nachfolgerin im BMUKN wird Heike Henn.
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Germany has dropped its Roadmap for Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels and here are my quick thoughts about it. www.bundesumweltministerium.de/en/download/...
Germany's Roadmap for Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels- BMUKN - Download
The roadmap lays out the policy framework and the key strategies Germany will be pursuing in the various sectors in order to achieve its goal of climate neutrality and thus transition away from the us...
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In a new paper with @jonasmeckling.bsky.social in Nature Communications (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), we provide the first empirical account of how countries use climate targets strategically.
Strategic objectives underpin national climate pledges - Nature Communications
Countries use international climate pledges not only to express domestic policy preferences, but to advance strategic goals like attracting finance, enhancing status, and setting standards for others....
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That’s a stellar line-up! Do join if you’re at #ESG2026.
IDOS_research@idos-research.bsky.social · 2mo ago#ESG2026 kicks off on Monday! Don’t miss this roundtable on “The #TripleCOP” Year 2026: Multilateral Environmental Governance between #GeopoliticalDisruption and Institutional Reform". Organised by the @uniofbath.bsky.social, @esgproject.bsky.social & IDOS. 📲 www.idos-research.de/en/events/de...
A sunny start to #EISA #PEC2026 in Lisbon! Join @meibauir.bsky.social and me for our panel on Investigating Great Power Politics in Flux – Wednesday at 2 pm.
"Trade-related environmental leverage can aim for better environmental sustainability of production, consumption & other aspects of trade, & for creating a lasting green agenda." A new book by Giulia Claudia Leonelli @lselaw.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
Can environmental leverage in trade policy achieve climate action? - LSE Review of Books
Environmental Leverage in Times of Climate Crisis by Giulia Claudia Leonelli is a socio-legal examination of how implementing stronger trade-related environmental measures can advance more…
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Insightful overview of five initiatives for plurilateral climate cooperation from @newclimate.bsky.social, including some interesting visualisations. newclimate.org/resources/pu...
Fact sheets on cooperative climate initiatives
In this fact sheet series, we assess progress, ambition and policy implementation of prominent cooperative climate initiatives.
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My job market paper is now out in World Politics! Why do some small states excel in IO politics, when conventional theory tells us that powerful states should dominate? I argue and show that small state diplomats outperform their peers from wealthy, powerful states because they are more experienced!
World Politics@worldpolitics.bsky.social · 3mo agoCan small powers set the #UN agenda? @sabrinabarias.bsky.social assembled a #dataset of proposed agenda items & the tenure of small states' #ambassadors from 1946 to 2018 to support her argument that they can. Have a read of her article in the July issue: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2... #research #evidence
Trade deals are becoming tools for the green transition, not just tariff cuts. 🌍 Our new Trade & Climate Tracker maps 71 agreements signed since 2025—climate cooperation appears in 59% of public texts & energy provisions in 67%. First findings 👉 https://bit.ly/4wNv9cE
#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Ad hoc coalitions across time: Shaping international cooperation amid political rivalry - https://cup.org/4wuc6nI - Stephanie C. Hofmann, @raffaelemstr.bsky.social & @anaprokhorov.bsky.social #FirstView
“When the certainty of rules is no longer guaranteed by its guardians, the integrity of the game is at stake” UEFA’s take on #internationalorder / the #worldcup www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
UEFA statement on the Balogun case
Statement on decision related to Folarin Balogun
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FT Exclusive: The International Energy Agency has forecast US-based spending on power plants fuelled by coal and gas will reach $50bn this year, as companies rush to build out data centres. ft.trib.al/aakY0J7
"Defending multilateralism today requires adapting it." "...not every challenge requires a negotiated outcome. Negotiations should focus on issues that genuinely require collective decision-making. " All-star lineup here www.climatechangenews.com/2026/06/18/t...
The UN climate process was built for negotiation - now it must support implementation
Consultations are underway on reforms to streamline the talks, which take too long to produce outcomes that are often not adequate to tackle the scale of the climate crisis
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In the Bonn closing plenary, chairs confirmed that SB64 is finishing with no agreement on the mitigation work programme - the only formal agenda item on mitigation in the process, Panama for AILAC said there had been continued problems within the MWP,
FT Exclusive: France, Germany and other European nations are discussing proposals for a radical overhaul of the EU’s 15-year-old diplomatic service, including stripping powers from the bloc’s chief diplomat. ft.trib.al/GX3OhIt
Useful overview from @ciel.org exploring potential legal avenues to establish a voting procedure for the #UNFCCC. www.ciel.org/reports/voti...
Breaking the Deadlock: Why and How Voting Can Advance Climate Negotiations Thirty Years On (June 9th, 2026) - Center for International Environmental Law
New CIEL briefing explores how voting reforms at the UNFCCC could break climate deadlock and accelerate ambitious global action.
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What happens to global environmental governance when the liberal world economy underpinning it fragments? New piece in @ripejournal.bsky.social, w/ Peter Dauvergne, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social & @policyrelevant.bsky.social. We ask what comes after ‘liberal environmentalism’. doi.org/10.1080/0969...
In what ways could the COP30 #MutirãoDecision open the door to deeper #TradeCooperation? This question will be at the heart of our discussion today at #SB64 during our official #UNFCCC side event! More information: 📲 www.idos-research.de/en/events/de... 📲 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Position GREENLOSS Project
2 Years - Postdoctoral Position Starting January 2027
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At #TAFF1 on Tuesday, the energy, climate, and security agendas collided, raising the urgency to transition away from #fossilfuels Concrete, justice-oriented solutions abound, as participants sought to ensure tangible outcomes Read ➡️ enb.iisd.org/transition-a... #climatechange
About to start in Santa Marta, Colombia hosts first meeting to quit fossil fuels. May there be preferential treatment to those taking action to end the use of fossil fuels and craft national roadmaps guiding a shift away from oil, gas and coal use? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Colombia hosts first meeting to quit fossil fuels as energy crisis worsens
‘Coalition of the willing’ kicks off strategy talks despite absence of big emitters
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excellent - and encouraging reading from the colleagues at @ember-energy.org. What if the current situation in the strait of Hormuz becomes a massive booster for the end of the fossil age, already in decline? ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember
How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age
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@consilium.europa.eu conclusions on EU energy and climate diplomacy data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...
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IEA's (@iea.org) Global Energy Review 2026 is out! Solar PV is leading the charge—supplying over 25% of global energy demand growth, ahead of natural gas at 17%. For the first time, a renewable source is the top driver of demand growth. ☀️🔌💡 #Solar #Renewables www.iea.org/reports/glob...
New op-ed in @globalpolicy.bsky.social: The genesis of the G7 #climateclub offers lessons for cooperation outside of the UN. www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/15/04/2...
The Club that Wasn’t
The genesis of the G7 climate club offers lessons for cooperation outside of the United Nations. Negotiating the international response to climate change has always been a slow and arduous process. Sh...
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@lindakalcher.bsky.social, Anne-Sophie Cerisola, and @gorissenn.bsky.social urge @ec.europa.eu to be more strategic about climate diplomacy. “Intangible, fragmented and not well communicated” is quite the assessment, but it certainly strikes a chord. strategicperspectives.eu/eu-climate-d...
EU climate diplomacy reset | Strategic Perspectives
As the geopolitical context for climate diplomacy keeps evolving rapidly, the EU is redefining its international position.
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India has withdrawn its offer to host the COP33 climate summit in two years time www.climatechangenews.com/2026/04/08/i...
India withdraws bid to host COP33 climate talks
The government gave only a brief explanation for its change of heart on the climate summit, saying it had reviewed its commitments for 2028
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