What can we learn from a decade of net zero commitments? The new NZT Time Series Dataset provides a unique opportunity to answer that question. 📅 Join our briefing on Wednesday 22 July, 16:00 BST / 10:00 EST 🔗 Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A good article with an unfortunate headline. Talking about the impact of climate change on health is not 'taking politics out of cliamte change,' it's making a new kind of climate politcs, potentially a very powerful one www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/c...

This Former G.O.P. Politician Wants to Take Politics Out of Climate Change

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Watch out, world. The 2025-2026 cohort of @blavatnikschool.bsky.social Master of Public Policy students finished classes today. Each of them is profoundly different. But they all share one goal: serving their communities. In a world weary with cynicism, their determination shines brighter than ever.

How does a small but mighty country build a results-oriented coalition on climate in 2026? Fantastic discussion with President Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore on their vision for high value, high integrity carbon markets, leveraging the Oxford Climate Policy Hub data on regulatory alignment

I've admired @cathmckenna.bsky.social in and out of politics for a while. So it was a huge pleasure to host her to present her book #RunLikeAGirl in Oxford last night @blavatnikschool.bsky.social There are a lot of very boring political memoirs. This is not one of them. It bleeds authenticity.

Loved my trip to @ox.ac.uk to meet with students and profs, talk climate policy and do a #RunLikeAGirl book event! Thanks to all those who made it happen @thomasnhale.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

Inspiring book launch by Former Minister Cath McKenna in Oxford today on her book "Run like a girl" Nice comparison of the #climate crisis to a swimming competition: You have a long term goal and you have to "work at it every day" @cathmckenna.bsky.social @thomasnhale.bsky.social

Join us next Wednesday for the Oxford launch of @cathmckenna.bsky.social's Run Like a Girl as we discuss "finding your own path, breaking the rules, and fighting for the future--on your own terms" June 17th, 5:30pm, St Antony's College, Oxford Register: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/blava...

Blavatnik Book Launch: Run Like A Girl

Join author Catherine McKenna, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions, in conversation with Professor Thomas Hale, to discuss her new book Run Like A Girl.

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🧵New blog by me this week on #methane How methane policy will make or break the #climate crisis There’s no sign methane emissions are declining... Our team’s analysis at @oxfordnetzero.bsky.social aligns with @iea.org finding about an implementation gap theconversation.com/how-methane-...

How methane policy will make or break the climate crisis

The Climate Policy Monitor report found a trend of backsliding by one country in particular, but there are signs of hope at the global level.

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Deeply sad to hear that Raúl Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social has passed away. A true scholar, and also someone who infallibly brightened even the dullest professional conference. He will be missed.

Thanks to @markus-gastinger.eu for the thoughtful review of #LongProblems in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal..., which includes a wonderfully clear summary of the argument

This might be the cleanest example yet of what @thomasnhale.bsky.social @greenprofgreen.bsky.social and I called the politics of climate-forcing asset holders vs. climate-vulnerable asset holders 🌎

Joshua Basseches@joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👏👏👏 www.eenews.net/articles/haw...

#LongProblems don't have to be heavy problems. Paperback out now.

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In Long Problems, @thomasnhale.bsky.social outlines political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generations. This pathbreaking book is now out in #paperback! Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #PoliSci #ReadUP

Good to see UK moving new homes off gas…in 2028. 12 years later than 2016, the target first proposed by Brown in 2006. The majority of the 1.86m homes built since 2016 will have to be retrofitted. For a #longproblem, kicking the can down the road does not save money. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive

Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.

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RIP Habermas. The world today needs more than ever to look to the “forceless force of the better argument” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers

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One fossil fuel crisis costs the UK more than shifting to net zero by 2050. And how many more such crises can we expect in the next 24 years? A great example of how the proper temporal frame clarifies costs and benefits #longproblems www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

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Now in #paperback: Long Problems by @thomasnhale.bsky.social offers political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generations. Enjoy 30% off with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #PoliSci #ReadUP

Long Problems

Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generations

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Human health benefits are by far the largest benefit from most environmental regulations. By not monetizing these benefits moving forward, the Trump EPA is essentially saying there are no human health benefits to reducing air/toxic/climate pollution, improving drinking water quality, etc. 1/

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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The immediate effect of the US withdrawing from the UNFCCC is relatively small because the Trump Administration had already stopped US mitigation and adaptation efforts and financial support, and was not engaging diplomatically. But the medium-term effects are more damaging for the US and the world.

1. Look, there are basically just two ways to run the global oil market: petro-imperialism and petro-consumerism. Historically USA has embraced both, varying over time. The attack on #Venezuela is a return to naked petro-imperialism. Thread.

On the third day of christmas, our podcast gave to me: long-term questions shaping democracy’s future with @thomasnhale.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

@thomasnhale.bsky.social @naturebasedsols.bsky.social

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

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"In a year of worsening climate impacts and geopolitical conflict, COP30 was both absolutely necessary and completely insufficient." Prof @thomasnhale.bsky.social reflects on the outcomes of #COP30. 👇

University of Oxford@ox.ac.uk · 8mo ago

Researchers from across Oxford University were on the ground at #COP30 in Belém, taking part in side events, presenting new research, and working with partners to support the negotiations and inform the wider political process. Read on for perspectives from Oxford experts ⬇️

Final document for #COP30 just dropped and here are some hot takes 1/ No decisive language about FF phaseouts. This is a HUGE loss. The consolation prize is a political process toward phaseouts outside the official decisionmaking of the #ParisAgreement

🌍 Children are on the front line of the climate crisis – facing heat, hunger and disrupted education. Omnia El Omrani, MPP 2024, shares how the Children and Climate Initiative put children at the heart of the Belém Health Action Plan at #COP30.👇 https://ow.ly/Siom50XqrNB

Important to remember: scenarios are tools for asking "what if" questions, so implications of different assumptions/choices can be explored. They are not predictions. Dave unpacks some of the key (and in my view unrealistic) assumptions in the IEA's headline-grabbing new "current policies" scenario.

Dave Jones@cleanpowerdave.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡 What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?

The dominant narrative is that the world is rolling back climate policy. But what does the data say? The latest Oxford Climate Policy Monitor Annual Review from the Oxford Climate Policy Hub tells three key stories. bsg.ox.ac.uk/news/climate...

Join us tomorrow in Sao Paulo!

Thomas Hale@thomasnhale.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Is the world retreating from climate action? We need to look at evidence to separate trends from vibes. Next week we drop a detailed look at what countries are doing. The results might surprise you. Join us in Sao Paulo: luma.com/gzbzi7s7

Is the world retreating from climate action? We need to look at evidence to separate trends from vibes. Next week we drop a detailed look at what countries are doing. The results might surprise you. Join us in Sao Paulo: luma.com/gzbzi7s7