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
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
climatechangenews.com
@nrdc.org and @e3g.bsky.social have launched a tracker for countries' multiyear climate finance commitments to developing countries. We'll be updating it regularly as new pledges come in, and hope it can be a useful resource for govts, media and civil society.
Climate Finance Commitments Tracker
This new tool keeps tabs on countries’ multiyear climate finance commitments.
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UPDATED – Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change? ✍️ @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️
Q&A: What does China’s 15th ‘five-year plan’ mean for climate change? - Carbon Brief
China has published its 15th five-year plan, setting the strategic direction for the nation out...
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1/ New working paper by Greg Muttitt and me, on equitable fossil fuel transitions. GST called for nationally determined contributions to global efforts, incl “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner”. commerce.uct.ac.za/sites/defaul...
Not a coincidence that several debates from the post-Copenhagen malaise have gained traction again in recent years, notably on plurilateral cooperation.
Harald Winkler@haraldwinkler.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat's striking about current geopolitics - multilateralism under serious threat, US wild card, fragmentation very much a live scenario - is that this 2010 paper mapped exactly these risks and what fair and effective multilateralism looks like. Still worth reading doi.org/10.3763/cpol.2010.0130
"The obvious conclusion is that decarbonising Europe’s energy system is both more necessary and more achievable than previously thought."
Mats Engström@matsengstrom.bsky.social · 5mo ago"This is natural: creative destruction has few champions. But it is not wise. Europe is clearly capable of speeding up its transition to energy independence via renewables." Excellent piece by @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/content/a6be...
Looking forward to welcoming Joanne Yao (@qmulsse.bsky.social) and @notesnthemargin.bsky.social (@universityofleeds.bsky.social). Join us for their talk on 18 March. @hertiesustain.bsky.social @hertiesecurity.bsky.social www.hertie-school.org/en/sustainab...
Sustainability Colloquium with Joanne Yao and Danielle Young
A presentation on the development and use of solar geoengineering as another tool to lower global temperatures and the geopolitical implications of such technology.
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There are journal issues...and then there are journal issues! The truly epic 25th Anniversary Special Issue of the GEP journal, titled "Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics," is now live and free to read for the next 90 days through @mitpress.bsky.social.
Volume 26 Issue 1 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press
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The final agreement - adopted with significant delay - include three elements that increase the policy uncertainty in EU climate policy: • backdoors to revisit the target • unspecified flexibilities (CDR & international credits) • conditionalities for the upcoming reforms of policy instruments /2
A must read for those interested in advancing any form of care or action to protect our world. theconversation.com/addressing-c...
Addressing climate change without the ‘rules-based order’
Everyone who cares about climate action must now grapple with how climate politics can function in a new world of uncertainty.
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