Unique opportunity here to serve as a Chapter Scientist for IPCC 7th Assessment Report. Apply by 18 October IPCC seeking highly motivated early-career researchers from developing countries and economies in transition to be Chapter Scientists for AR7. Details below… www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

Join our team working on Environmental Policy at U.Wisconsin. Delighted to announce The La Follette School of Public Affairs at University of Wisconsin-Madison has just launched a search for an Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy. Deadline: October 24, 2025. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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New book coming out July 18: 2nd ed. of How Solar Energy Became Cheap, now titled, “Pathway to a Solar Centric Economy.” New focus on long term implications of continued trends in PV: 1. Solar becomes the core of global energy system 2. Need to prepare to take advantage of it gregnemet.net/book

New paper led by Prof. Lena Neij "Beyond Market Failures" for solar policy. Focuses on the roles that policy can play in enabling residential adoption. Case study of Sweden. academic.oup.com/ooenergy/adv...

Beyond market failures: understanding the need for dedicated deployment policy for solar PV in Sweden

Abstract. The urgency of decarbonization calls for a deeper understanding of PV deployment in terms of planning, acquisition and installation, and of the j

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It should be more well known that @solarchase.bsky.social and @gregnemet.net and Erica Fuchs are quoted in the chapter, very much at the heart of what makes it excellent.

The State of CDR team is hiring. The Head of Partnerships position will help us advance international collaboration on scaling carbon dioxide removal. Come work with an international team. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/head-of...

Head of Partnerships - State of Carbon Dioxide Removal - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Job Summary: This is an exciting opportunity to lead the CDR institution building activities for the ground- breaking State of Carbon Dioxide Removal (SoCDR) initiative as it enters into a new phase...

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I am hiring a 2-year post doc at U.Wisconsin on “technological innovation and climate change“ as part of the GENIE project: genie.ece.iiasa.ac.at/about Priority deadline is 14 March 2025 and start is spring/summer 2025. More details at: uwmadison.box.com/v/techchange...

Thanks to @gwagner.com, @gregnemet.bsky.social and @cleanenergywire.bsky.social for sharing insights about what the new secretary of energy missed when talking about German energy policy.

Dan Gearino@dangearino.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote about Chris Wright's introductory speech, and his tangent about Germany's energy transition. To boil Germany's experience down to a cautionary tale is missing the plot. insideclimatenews.org/news/1302202... #energysky

Not every technology has the same learning rate—and some technologies don’t even have a learning curve. There has been some good research into what traits make a technology better for learning curves. We’d do a lot better as a society if that work was applied more readily to public policy.

Not so much about the history of solar technologies in my memory, but the book "Solar Power" (www.ucpress.edu/books/solar-...) and the great work by @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social 🔆

Solar Power by Dustin Mulvaney - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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❓How to achieve high wellbeing with low impacts: Our seminar at #COP29 shows demand-side solutions for green transformation. 👉 What's your example? 🕘15 Nov., 15:45 -17:00 local time Moderated by Joyashree Roy, talks by @dianaurge.bsky.social, @KeigoAkimoto, @BasvanRuijven, @gregnemet.bsky.social

For those at #COP29 join us at the Japan Pavilion on Friday 15:45 for a session on: “Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society” on our work on low energy demand with: Joyashree Roy, AIT Bas van Ruijven, IIASA Keigo Akimoto, RITE Greg Nemet, U.Wisconsin Diana Urge-Vorsatz, IPCC Also streamed:

Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society - EDITS at COP29

Diffusion of novel digital technologies and major social innovation trends are expected to bring about changes on the demand-side that roll-out GX in the entire socio-economy. A comprehensive evaluati...

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🚨 Join the COP29 seminar 📆 On 15.Nov. at 15:45 (local time)/12:45CET/20:45JST 📈 Pathway to the Green Transformation of Society ▶️ how novel digital technologies diffuse and what major social innovation trends are seen that positively influence our common future. iiasa.ac.at/events/nov-2...

Important report heading into COP29: The 2024 Climate Technology Progress Report from the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre. Follows up on where we are after the commitments made at COP28 last year. Report launch and webinar this Friday November 1 register.gotowebinar.com/register/120...

Cat Clifford captures challenges of the energy transition in a purple swing state, Wisconsin “Shared revenue programs” key to getting communities on board Large solar preferable to CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation) w water quality concerns and others www.ciphernews.com/articles/wha...

What it takes to build green energy in fossil fuel-dependent Wisconsin - Cipher News

For Wisconsin to lower its reliance fossil fuels, it will need a lot more solar farms. But in politically-purple Wisconsin, government pressure to pursue more clean energy has been middling.

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Paul Haavardsrud on CBC "Cost of Living" on the future of solar Solar is sneaking up on people It’s 6% of global electricity, growing at 30%/yr, and it's been growing like that for 30 years. It won’t take many more years of that to make an impact Revolutionary? maybe www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Read this fascinating Science|Business article on the origins of #SolarPower featuring research from Sugandha Srivastav and @gregnemet.bsky.social : sciencebusiness.net/news/how-che... @inetoxford.bsky.social @universityofoxford.bsky.social

How cheap solar power could have arrived decades ago

If there’s a good news climate change story right now, one to counteract the grim daily scroll of reports about wildfires, droughts, dying coral reefs, and deadly heatwaves, it’s the stunning rise of ...

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Good overview by @catclifford.bsky.social of clean energy policy in midwestern swing states: MI, PA, WI. - MI clear leader - WI has lagged, can look to MI - PA a fossil-state producer, but 35% RPS possible www.ciphernews.com/articles/loo...

Here's how cleantech stacks up in three swing states - Cipher News

We take stock of cleantech and the election in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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New paper “Lessons for scaling direct air capture from the history of ammonia synthesis” Led by Cameron Roberts   in short: If high temp DAC can grow like ammonia it can meet 2050 targets, but needs strong social consensus and support, currently missing authors.elsevier.com/c/1jdqo7tZ6a...

Nice overview of the challenges of upscaling Direct Air Capture to become big enough to be relevant to the climate challenge by Alec Kuhn in Scientific American “Can Pulling Carbon from Thin Air Slow Climate Change?” www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-...

Can Thousands of Huge Machines Capture Enough Carbon to Slow Climate Change?

Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Can it save the warming world?

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Carbon removal isn’t weird anymore. That worries scientists.

Tech fixes for sucking climate pollution from the air are gaining ground globally. It was never supposed to happen.

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“It’s now a sexy topic if you’re in Silicon Valley to have a CDR startup, which like five years ago would have been a crazy idea,” @gregnemet.bsky.social But is this a good or bad thing? Read on: eenews.net/articles/car... 1/

www.eenews.net/articles/car... @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social reports on the implications of mainstreaming carbon removal

Carbon removal isn’t weird anymore. That worries scientists.

Tech fixes for sucking climate pollution from the air are gaining ground globally. It was never supposed to happen.

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@mrmattsimon.bsky.social in Wired on assessing COP28 and the future role of carbon removal as an enabler of -- and as a distraction from -- net zero emissions. tldr: it's both. www.wired.com/story/why-de...

Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial

Delegates just agreed on a historic climate deal at COP28. But without more ambition, humanity will have to rely ever more on a contentious strategy: carbon removal.

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NEW paper: Deep emissions cuts the priority. Carbon removal is a longer term solution. But we need to get moving on CDR now   The next 10 years is the crucial “Formative Phase” for novel carbon dioxide removal (nCDR) Free: authors.elsevier.com/a/1i5aa_vpkk... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Near-term deployment of novel carbon removal to facilitate longer-term deployment

Scenarios—which account for the costs of and interactions among different mitigation options—show that we will need to remove hundreds of gigatons of …

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CALL OF PAPERS丨Special Issue Track: Comparing Climate Policy Implementation towards Carbon Neutrality Goals organized by: - Fang Zhang, Tsinghua University - Kelly Sims Gallagher, The Fletcher School, Tufts University - Zhilin Liu, Tsinghua University www.sppm.tsinghua.edu.cn/english/info...

“The literature assessing global economic potential of renewables,…shows that the economic potential is higher than current and near-future electricity demand” A pleasure to work with a strong post-IPCC-AR6 author team led by Nils Angliviel de La Beaumelle on: www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Fatih Birol International Energy Agency: The fossil fuel industry “needs to commit to genuinely helping the world meet its energy needs and climate goals – which means letting go of the illusion that implausibly large amounts of carbon capture are the solution. thehill.com/policy/energ...

COP28 president draws fierce backlash with attack on climate science

At this year’s United Nations climate conference (COP28), the summit’s president Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber — who also leads the United Arab Emirates’s national oil company — sparked cont…

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Weekend read 📖 Xie Zhenhua, China's climate envoy, is expected to retire after COP 28. I got to dive deep into his life and relationship with John Kerry for @foreignpolicy.com, examining how the two envoys have managed to forge progress against the odds. foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/08/u...

The Climate Envoys Who Could

John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua have forged a close working relationship as the superpowers they represent have drifted apart.

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