Jennie C Stephens
@jenniecstephens.bsky.social
Climate justice scholar activist feminist. Professor of Climate Justice. Maynooth University Ireland. Author of Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future’s for All (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024).
It’s time to stop subsidising fossil fuels. Promoting continued fossil fuel reliance is reinforcing energy injustice and worsening climate injustice - this is the opposite of what is urgently needed.
An Taisce@antaisce.bsky.social · 5h agoAn Taisce is also calling for greater support for public transport, including Leap card credits and a reversal of the recent increase in general transport fares. extra.ie/2026/10/03/n...
The Guardian covered our paper: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue
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Our new article on his decades of corporate capture made US universities vulnerable to current attacks.
Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · last wk.Corporate capture of universities is happening and has been happening. How do we use collective organizing to protect academic integrity? See CSSN scholar’s publication out today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A call for taking action together! Powerul interests want us to feel disempowered. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
It takes collective climate action to fight climate destruction
Working together on petitions, campaigns and taking a united stance is the way individual effort can have real impact
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ICARUS's Professor Jennie Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social spoke on RTÉ Radio 1 about El Niño and our increasingly turbulent, volatile climate. Climate destruction is accelerating fast, getting more dangerous - yet we're not collectively preparing or mitigating. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Super El Nino: What is it going to mean for you?
Sadhbh O’Neill, Climate and environmental researcher and Jennie Stephens, Professor of Climate Justice at the ICARUS Climate Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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"We can no longer afford to subsidise research for environmentally destructive, socially exploitative or military-linked industries in the name of increasing European competitiveness." - @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
Universities must be supported to lead on climate action
One critical public investment we can make to reduce devastating future societal costs is to dramatically increase third-level funding
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Criticising big tech in Ireland is like criticising the Catholic Church 50 years ago. Despite widespread concern about the harms, especially to women & children, big tech’s positive narratives are imposed on us by powerful, controlling patriarchal organisations www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Do women have an AI problem?
While big tech has been strategically investing to promote a positive narrative around AI, many rapidly expanding global networks of people and communities are resisting AI tools, writes Jennie C Step...
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Climate justice broadens the #climate agenda beyond narrow, technology-focused carbon emission reductions. A vision of alternative economic systems prioritising human rights & quality housing, food, healthcare, education for all. www.irishtimes.com/environment/... @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
Who Owns the Transition? Join @jlmacarthur.bsky.social, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, Dr Emanuela Ferrari & Laurie Reilly for a discussion on energy democracy and the power of community and cooperative renewables. 📅 22 June | 2–4pm 📍 Hybrid event Register www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
University policies are failing to protect against fossil fuel influence on academic research, harkening back to the days of Big Tobacco’s disinformation on campus. CSSN scholars and colleagues, C. Ceccon, @truzaar.bsky.social, and @jenniecstephens.bsky.social's study is in Climatic Change today!
CAAD_Coalition@caadcoalition.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat would you do with over $1 billion dollars? That’s how much Big Carbon spent on universities since 2010 to shape climate research and “reinforce denialist narratives.” Yet out of 39 University funding policies, only 3 mention fossil fuel companies directly, a new study shows.
What would you do with over $1 billion dollars? That’s how much Big Carbon spent on universities since 2010 to shape climate research and “reinforce denialist narratives.” Yet out of 39 University funding policies, only 3 mention fossil fuel companies directly, a new study shows.
Climate Action Against Disinformation | A Billion Little Lies: Dirty Energy Spent Over $1,000,000,000 Influencing Universities Since 2010
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ICARUS Professor Jennie Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social highlights the need for “exnovation” – the deliberate shift away from harmful processes or products that no longer serve society well – in her latest piece for The Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Time has come for exnovation away from fossil fuels
The fuel shortages caused by the US-Israel war on Iran highlight the need to move towards more peaceful renewable-based futures
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Militarisation and war are catastrophic for climate justice - and are boosting corporate climate obstruction. Check out my latest column in @theirishtimestoday.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Jennie C Stephens: Ireland can offer hope as militarisation hastens climate catastrophe
Irish neutrality shields us from involvement in senseless wars and helps us limit environmental damage
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Our new research reveals how the world’s largest fossil fuel companies undermine renewables in their corporate communication. Powerful corporations reinforce negative misleading narratives to reinforce fossil fuel dependence and slow down shift to renewables. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action - Energy, Sustainability and Society
Background For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied...
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“Petro-masculinity will continue to destroy both people and the planet. Can we stop it?” Making the case for feminist climate justice in the Irish Times Feminist climate justice offers antidote to petro-masculinity www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Feminist climate justice offers antidote to petro-masculinity
Jennie Stephens: Feminist climate justice principles are courageously demonstrated by Mary Robinson
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My column in the Irish Times on the dangers of corporate capture. Corporate interests dominate public policy while community needs go unmet. Greta Thunberg & BohsFC show us how to reclaim the public good @thunberggreta.bsky.social @bfcdublin.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Time to challenge corporate power in Ireland
Greta Thunberg and Bohemian Football Club together stress need to put communities before companies
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The fossil fuel industry’s “energy security” argument is dangerous, misleading and fundamentally flawed. Ireland should not be building new fossil fuel infrastructure. My piece in today’s Irish Times. #climate #climateobstruction #climatejustice #fossilfuels www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Ireland is falling for the American fossil fuel industry’s ‘energy security’ con
One of the reasons this argument has been so effective is because, like all good propaganda, there is an element of truth to it
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In her book, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social "insists that higher education reckon with its complicity in addressing the intersecting crises of systemic abandonment and ecological collapse." Read Dr. @mariavamvalis.bsky.social 's full review here: bit.ly/48ioTQS @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Honoured to meet President Catherine Connolly at a climate event today at An Taisce in Dublin & present on transformative climate justice. Inspired that she referred to my recent article on #climatejustice in the Irish Examiner. lnkd.in/eTnmvg5m @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
Spot on here by @orlakelleher.bsky.social 'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'
Irish Legal News@irishlegal.com · 11mo agoDr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
Resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education. Join the conversation 25 November REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4qE27dB co-sponsored by the @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social and the Campus Climate Network
New open-access resource on climate obstruction detailing all the ways industry has been strategically sabotaging climate action. Great collaborating with many colleagues at @cssn.org. I’m a lead author on last chapter on resisting climate obstruction. Check it out!
Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 12mo agoIt's finally here! 100+ scholars, global scope, practical insights. “Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment” shows how organized interests stall policy—and how governance can respond. Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
Join us Tuesday 21 Oct for panel discussion on Climate Justice Research for Transformative Action. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/geography/ev... Register to join us in person or online: forms.office.com/e/G9ktW4J9iF
Just published chapter on on "Politicizing financial innovations for transformative climate justice” with @martinsokol.bsky.social in open access book on climate politics. Thanks to @matpaterson.bsky.social Paul Tobin & @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social 4 editing+ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
Politicizing Financial Innovations for Transformative Climate Justice (Chapter 7) - Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance
Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance - August 2025
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Mat Paterson@matpaterson.bsky.social · last yr.Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/
Check out our new research w/ @martinsokol.bsky.social on redistributing higher ed to meet urgent community needs - moving away from financialized universities reinforcing profit-seeking competitiveness toward transformative accessible collective community-based orgs more like public libraries
Universities, polycrisis and regional redistribution - Review of Regional Research
As humanity faces a worsening polycrisis, the need for systemic change in society is becoming more widely recognized. This time of increasing disruptions of all kinds comes with new opportunities for ...
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Join us virtually to discuss universities, transformative climate justice & roles of academics in resisting dehumanization, fossil fueled authoritarianism, & militarism. With Laura Horn, Vera Trappmann Aaron Thierry & others. Wed July 2nd 9am EST, 2pm Ireland Virtual link here lnkd.in/evjcRj_j
Our new publication on why gender equity & care are essential for transformative climate justice. Integrating care, care work & feminist principles into climate policy is necessary for transformative change. Part of "Changing the Conversation About Climate Change" special issue lnkd.in/gWu-zrNS
Advancing climate justice requires resisting technocratic false solutions like solar geoengineering. Join me by endorsing the international non-use agreement on solar geoengineering
Solar Geoengineering Non-use Agreement@solargeoeng.bsky.social · last yr.Prof. Jennie Stephens, Professor of Climate Justice at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, on why she signed the Open Letter calling for an International Non-Use Agreement on Solar Geoengineering 💬 @jenniecstephens.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie
We raise concerns about the risks of corporate funding of Irish universities in @thejournal.ie. Entangling profit-driven agendas with the public good mission of universities Is dangerous. With Conchur O Maonaigh www.thejournal.ie/readme/fundi...
Opinion: Normalising the corporate funding of higher education in Ireland is a dangerous game
Professor Jennie C Stephens and Conchúr Ó Maonaigh of Maynooth University investigate how much corporate money is being used to fund education in Ireland.
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