Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months
Marion Leroutier
@leroutierm.bsky.social
Environmental economist and Assistant prof. at CREST and ENSAE, Paris Climate policy, air pollution, health Prev.: IFS, Misum; PhD from PSE & Cired Posts in English & French website: https://marionleroutier.github.io/
1/10 🧵 The U.S. just captured a sitting head of state in a military operation—and Trump says the U.S. will "run" Venezuela “for now.” Whatever you think of Maduro, this is the most consequential unilateral move in the hemisphere since Panama (1989).
🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨 We have 3 positions: 1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE 1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom) 1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique) econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Please circulate! #econsky
Just out: the latest version of our paper on gender and carbon footprints!
The gender gap in carbon footprints: determinants and implications | Institute for Fiscal Studies
We document that women emit 26 percent less than men from food and transport, using detailed consumption data from France.
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies@theifs.bsky.social · 9mo agoNEW #IFSWorkingPaper: The gender gap in carbon footprints: determinants and implications 📗 @leroutierm.bsky.social and @ondineberland.bsky.social use detailed consumption data from France to document that women emit 26 percent less than men from food and transport: ifs.org.uk/publications...
Mediapart et « Libération » révèlent des images inédites du 25 mars 2023. Elles montrent des consignes prohibées et dangereuses données par la hiérarchie. Enquête vidéo de @camillepolloni.bsky.social et @laurawoj1.bsky.social 👉 www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
📢 Two weeks left to apply for a (2-year) research fellowship @iast.fr A fantastic opportunity to work full-time on your own research, in an interdisciplinary environment, and in a lovely city in the South of France. Deadline: November 15, 2025 How to apply: www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
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We are hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Sociology! Come join a vibrant and diverse sociology and CSS team at CREST. Great students, great colleagues, and amazing working condition.
Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (UMR 9194)@crestumr.bsky.social · 10mo ago📢 CREST & ENSAE Paris (IP Paris) are hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Computational Sociology starting Sept 2026! crest.science/wp-content/u... 🧠 Quantitative & computational focus 🌍 Open to all 📅 Apply by Jan 31 2026 → recruitment@ensae.fr #AcademicJobs #Sociology #HiPARIS #CREST
Come work with us at @crestumr.bsky.social ! You will find a fantastic research environment, a collegial atmosphere and super bright students ✨
@undercoverhist.bsky.social · 10mo ago🚨 We economists at @crestumr.bsky.social IPParis are hiring🚨 We have 3 positions: 1 assistant prof in econometrics (ENSAE 1 assistant prof in Digital Economics and IO (Telecom) 1 assistant or associate, all fields (Polytechnique) econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Please circulate! #econsky
Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone. And you're cutting... the sleeper? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
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The potential for CO2 is prudently estimated at 0.7°C of warming. Meaning if we stay on the current trajectory of +2.7°C in 2100 (and not even net-zero by then), it will hardly be possible to reverse to +1.5°C.
Joeri Rogelj@joerirogelj.bsky.social · 11mo agoNEW STUDY: How much CO2 can we safely store in geological formations? In a new @nature.com study, we cross-check established academic and industry estimates with various risk factors. We find a prudent geological CO2 storage limit that is about 10x smaller. /1
L'asso Expertise climat fait un super travail pour que les médias s'appuient sur le travail des scientifiques et pas sur de pseudo-experts autoproclamés, pour traiter des questions de climat et de biodiversité. Ils ont besoin de vos dons pour un nouveau projet : www.helloasso.com/associations...
Racontons ce qui se construit. Pas seulement ce qui s’effondre
Financement participatif organisé par Expertises climat - Jusqu'au 8 octobre inclus, 1% for the Planet double vos dons au profit des 40 associations sélectionnées aux Rencontres pour la Planète.
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🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally - Nature Communications
The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings highlight the need for act...
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Influx of Chinese EVs along the lines of Japanese/Korean cars in the 80s: negligible overall GDP impact, acc to IMF calculations. Climate change, natural disaster scenario, until 2030: -4.7% of GDP in the euro area. Just to put that into perspective. www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...
Climate risks: no longer the tragedy of the horizon
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...
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Dans son rapport annuel, le Haut Conseil pour le climat regrette que le rythme de décarbonation ait "beaucoup ralenti" en France en 2024 et déplore les reculs environnementaux (ZFE, ZAN, etc). Ces retards "importants" sont "incompatibles" avec les objectifs 2030/2050 www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
La France a pris des « retards importants » pour tenir l’objectif de neutralité carbone en 2050
Dans son rapport annuel, le Haut Conseil pour le climat regrette que le rythme de décarbonation ait « beaucoup ralenti » en 2024 et déplore les reculs environnementaux, comme pour les zones à faibles ...
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Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
Very warm congratulations to @linusmattauch.bsky.social! Very well deserved.
EAERE@eaere.bsky.social · last yr.🏆𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘆🏆 We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 European Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Forty: Linus Mattauch (TU Berlin & Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
The energy transition continues to be the best beat. "India’s plan to expand one of the world’s largest coal power fleets in order to meet its growing energy needs is being undone by a shortage of companies able and willing to help build new plants." 🎁 link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Years of Coal Backlash Undermine India’s Energy Security Push
India’s plan to expand one of the world’s largest coal power fleets in order to meet its growing energy needs is being undone by a shortage of companies able and willing to help build new plants.
bloomberg.com
NEW ANALYSIS: UK's solar power surges 42% to a new record, after the sunniest spring on record * For the first time, solar was >10% of UK generation in consecutive months (April/May 2025) * In 2025, solar has already avoided gas imports that would've cost £600m www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uks...
🚨 New working paper! We show that women in France emit 26% less CO₂ than men from food & transport. 🥗Food + 🚗 Transport =50% of individual carbon footprint — we show this isn’t just about biology or labor market differences. A thread👇🧵(1/12) Link to wp: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
NEW: Researchers have created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-05...
Researchers remap the world's rivers to improve flood modelling |
A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and
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Merci @audreygarric.bsky.social pour cet article dans Le Monde présentant les résultats des recherches menées avec @ondineberland.bsky.social sur les écarts d'empreinte carbone femmes-hommes.
Audrey Garric@audreygarric.bsky.social · last yr.Les émissions de CO₂ des hommes sont supérieures de 36 % à celles des femmes dans les transports et l’alimentation, selon une étude publiée par la London School of Economics. La viande rouge et les voitures creusent l'écart. Très intéressante étude ⤵️ www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Dans un nouveau working paper co-écrit avec @ondineberland.bsky.social, nous trouvons que les femmes ont une empreinte carbone 26% moins élevée que les hommes dans l’alimentation et les transports en 🇫🇷 Ce n’est pas seulement dû à des differences biologiques ou sur le marché du travail. Un🧵(1/11)
In this new paper joint with @ondineberland.bsky.social, featured in The Guardian, we show that : -women in France emit 26% less CO₂ than men from food & transpor - the gap isn’t just down to biology or labor market differences. Thread will follow, see full paper here: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.Car use and meat consumption drive emissions gender gap, research suggests
One of the many emergent issues with the phrase 'net zero' is that it became a proxy phrase for 'the politics of climate policies', and not 'stopping the heating of the atmosphere and oceans so that we don't fucking die' Imagine a debate about "will Labour stick with or abandon cancer prevention"
Jacob Aron@jjaron.bsky.social · last yr.Utterly bizarre that at no point does this article define net zero, or explain that it is, according to the laws of physics, the only way to halt climate change www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
En France, la pollution aux particules fines augmente l'absentéisme des salariés, baisse leur productivité, affecte les consommateurs et nuit in fine aux entreprises. J'explique les résultats de notre étude menée avec Hélène Ollivier au micro de @vgarin.bsky.social pour RTL: shorturl.at/nbubg
Pollution de l'air : voici son coût astronomique pour la santé et l'économie en France
PODCAST - La pollution de l'air est responsable de 45.000 décès prématurés par an en France, mais l'impact ne concerne pas seulement notre santé.
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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
@carbonbrief.org has a solid piece summarising the current state of play on the cause of the blackout. Some nice quotes and covers many of the factors that have come up in the past few days. Of course, the main takeaway remains that we won't know for sure until the ongoing investigations are done.
Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · last yr.NEW – Q&A: What we do – and do not – know about the blackout in Spain and Portugal | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/ycaIGgX
In "Colluding Against Environmental Regulation," we study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation, applied to a case study about automakers and diesel vehicle emissions. With Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, and Mathias Reynaert. @reveconstudies.bsky.social
The Review of Economic Studies (REStud)@reveconstudies.bsky.social · last yr.Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Colluding against Environmental Regulation," from Alé-Chilet, Chen, @jingli-econ.bsky.social and Reynaert: www.restud.com/colluding-ag... #EconSky #REStud #pollution #regulation #collusion
I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Rightwing media falsely blame Ed Miliband for UK steel crisis, experts say
Net zero and clean energy can actually help save the steel industry, experts point out
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But wait... There's more! Did those who received cash get lazier and work less? Nope! "We find no evidence that people love doing nothing. This stereotype is not supported by research on basic income – or any other research."
John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · last yr.Basic income programs improve recipients' mental health durably and a lot! maxkasy.github.io/home/files/p...
