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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 2d

📈 Record interest in ERC Starting Grants 2026!

4,807 proposals - a 22% increase compared to last year’s call.

👩‍🔬 Women submitted nearly 43% of proposals - the highest share ever recorded in an ERC call.

More stats 👉 bit.ly/4hcYJln

#ChooseEurope

Starting Grants 2026 applications: Facts and figures

The ERC Starting Grants 2026 call closed for applications on 14 October 2025. These are the preliminary data on submitted proposals:

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Micael Castanheira @micaelcasta.bsky.social · 16d

Yes! Yes, we are hiring! Two positions are opened, one in International Trade. The other one in Microeconomics. Full time. Great colleagues. Great location. Have you already applied ?
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
#job #economics #professorship @ulbruxelles.bsky.social

American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026

www.aeaweb.org

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · 19d

For those who follow the debate in France on the @gabrielzucman.bsky.social tax : the mood among the ultra rich is about the same 🫠

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · 20d

@yvesrouyet.bsky.social, @chloevandriessche.bsky.social, @imaginebrussels.bsky.social and @strobbe.bsky.social in Brussels.

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · 29d

Was cursing against DB for being late again and sabotaging long-distance, low-carbon travel. A missed connection in Cologne would have cost me 3 extra hours of travel. And then🙏 they announced that the train to Brussels would wait for the connecting passengers. Thank you @deutschebahn.com !

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Sep 12

Please share 📢 The Belgian Climate Centre (Federal Gov) is hiring a Head of Department to lead its team and mission at the heart of Belgium’s climate transition.
www.climatecentre.be/post/job-opp...
Deadline: Sept 22 (need to speak either FR or NL)

Job opportunity: Head of the Belgian Climate Centre (m/f/x)

The Belgian Climate Centre is seeking a Head of Department to direct its team and mission.The position seeks a candidate who combines in-depth knowledge in a research field relevant to the climate tra...

www.climatecentre.be

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Sep 3

Good for them and good for you! Congratulations and welcome to Europe.

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 30

A quote from robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal... that also applies to our leaders in the EU. Time to uphold int'l and humanitarian law. Time to ask for journalists to be let in. And of course high time to let humanitarian organizations and food in.

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 20

Does it work for conservation ? Our proposal is best suited for re/afforestation. The economics of the conservation is very different & the flow benefits are smaller. Maybe w/ blended finance. 6/6

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 20

How does this differ from other emerging nature-shares proposals? We do not count on the marketable nature benefits (logging etc) to be enough to support demand. These slns may be ok to finance transitions to regenerative ag in the Global North, not for forests in the South. 5/6

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 20

Our proposal spurred interesting conversations. Is it Art. 6 compatible ? Yes. Countries could use the market to buy nature shares that deliver carbon dividends for their NDCs. How do you ensure a liquid secondary mkt? Using the info generated during the primary mkt (see paper for details). 4/6

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 20

Jurisdictions (rather than project developers) are on the supply side. A larger size reduces leakage, monitoring costs, risks, etc. To create demand, we consider a mandate on pension funds to be Paris-and Montreal-aligned. The carbon and biodiversity dividends reduce the funds’ footprint. 3/6

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 20

We propose to view nature as equity which generates carbon and biodiversity dividends. Viewing nature as a risky asset recognizes its impermanence. Using dividends to distribute its benefits = doing so prudently. But it requires to rethink the value of a market and how we create & support it. 2/6

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 20

I had the pleasure to work with Bea and Eric on scaling finance for forests in the Global South. Our starting point: the nature-based VCM is broken. Higher standards and better monitoring will not fix it. It can’t serve as a template for nature. Why? It can’t deal with nature’s impermanence. 🧵1/6

Abstract: We argue for a new approach to finance nature-based provision of carbon and biodiversity benefits: one that takes shares in projects as the main asset to be traded, rather than credits. In our mechanism, jurisdictions propose nature-positive large-scale projects. Investors buy shares in these projects. Shares do not affect land ownership but produce carbon and biodiversity dividends. Prices in the primary market are used to pin down investor preferences over project attributes and generate conversion rates for different projects in the secondary market, thereby fostering liquidity for investors. Compared to existing credit-based approaches, our mechanism accounts for the unavoidable non-permanence of forests and fosters long-term thinking for market participants. Additionally, our mechanism lowers transaction costs, encourages additionality, and reduces leakage. We propose several venues to support demand for this new market and discuss options available to adapt the mechanism to pure conservation projects, which are essential but less amenable to be turned into dividend-producing assets because they generate lower climate and biodiversity flow benefits.

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 17

Glad to see civil society and the judicial system taking over. The following quote from the article shows there's still some work to do. Fresh fish, really? And nobody's responsibility to check?????

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/area674da7

Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 15

Have fun !

Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jul 9

That would be my guess too. Currently collecting data that will help us figure that out. Stay tuned.

Bram Claeys @bramclaeys.bsky.social · Jul 9

Vaste contracten voor elektriciteit en gas bieden bescherming tegen prijsschokken door de klant de rest van de tijd meer te laten betalen.
www.tijd.be/ondernemen/m...

Energiefactuur: Vlaanderen verplicht leveranciers dynamische en vaste energiecontracten aan te bieden

De Vlaamse regering maakt komaf met energieleveranciers die enkel nog variabele tarieven aanbieden. Consumenten moeten bij de grootste leveranciers verplicht vaste prijzen kunnen krijgen en overal dyn...

www.tijd.be

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jun 17

I'm so looking forward to this conference. To catch up with friends, hear about new research and, of course, share our memories of YingHua.

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jun 15

If you’re in Brussels today: the dress code is red.

Alongside 150 civil society organizations, let's give our politicians some courage to draw the red line for Gaza.

11.be/en/draw-the-...
#RodeLijn #LigneRouge

Join us in drawing the red line for Gaza | 11.11.11

On Sunday 15 June we will draw the red line. Because all red lines in Gaza have long been crossed. On Sunday 15 June we will stand side by side. Thousands of citizens, organisations, trade unions, NGO...

11.be

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jun 4

👏👏 The power of remote sensing (and a little bit of AI).
Can it one day replace the costly Monitoring-Reporting-Verification cycle ?

Climate TRACE @climatetrace.org · Jun 4

A new study compared Climate TRACE emissions data to emissions disclosure reports from 279 companies, finding that 75 of those companies were significantly underreporting their emissions. www.ft.com/content/0392...

Social graphic with a background image of a gas flare emitting flames. Text reads:
"Did you know? Nearly 27% of companies in a new study underreported their scope 1 emissions. They are mostly US oil and gas companies."
Source: Lepere et al. (2025), Emissions Dissonance: Examining How Firm-Level Under-Reporting Undermines Policy.

Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Jun 4

Interesting. Yet again evidence of how this conflict is eroding the foundations of our societies. Across the world.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jun 4

It’s not Denmark’s children who can’t handle debating Gaza. It’s our politicians | Rune Lykkeberg

In banning a schools debate on Palestinian sovereignty, our leaders have revealed the nation we’re becoming, says Rune Lykkeberg, editor-in-chief of the Danish newspaper Information

www.theguardian.com

Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · May 25

Good news of the day: EU one percentage point away from meeting its 2030 climate target (-55% relative to 1990).
Yes, it can be done 💪 (and we have not even started doing the more difficult stuff: behavior & agriculture)
on.ft.com/4mr3Ro9
Next milestone: 2040 and -90% relative to 1990.

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · May 16

Thanks for sharing this podcast, Steve ! Very interesting and stimulating. Something new for me was how this is a recurring hype. Crazy that politicians, policy-makers, businesses and individuals keep being fooled.

Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · May 12

EV charging is a great source of flexibility for electricity markets. But we need EV charging prices that reflect the state of the wholesale market. Curious to read if Bram receives other answers.

Bram Claeys @bramclaeys.bsky.social · May 12

Interesting Q: which EV charger offers negative or significantly reduced tariffs during negative price moments on electricity spot market?

Jaap only found one: Sonnenstrom Saarpfalz in DE.

Do you know any others?

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · May 12

I only found one that actually offered negative prices to users: Sonnenstrom Saarpfalz in Germany! At locations with their own solar power generation, the rate was minus(!) 8.8 cents per kWh (those charging ad-hoc with
bank/credit card: 0 cents)

sonnenstrom-saarpfalz.de/preise/flex

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Estelle Cantillon @estellecantillon.bsky.social · Apr 29

Happy for Canada today. 🍁 From Carney’s victory speech: “Virtue is a muscle that grows with its exercise. We become just by doing just acts, brave by doing brave acts. When we are kind, kindness grows.” and, on top, he's a great economist interested in evidence and evidence-based policies.

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