Martin Sokol
@martinsokol.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
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President Connolly quoted CJUU Co-Chair @jenniecstephens.bsky.social in her inspiring speech: "the climate crisis is a symptom of bigger structural & systemic problems that are concentrating wealth and power among large corporate interests that are increasingly influencing our democratic processes"
Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, President Connolly says
Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, President Connolly says
Figures of possible fines of between €8bn and €26bn for breaching emissions targets ‘incredible’, President says
www.irishtimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
President Connolly quoted CJUU Co-Chair @jenniecstephens.bsky.social in her inspiring speech: "the climate crisis is a symptom of bigger structural & systemic problems that are concentrating wealth and power among large corporate interests that are increasingly influencing our democratic processes"
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Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says President Catherine Connolly
“Transformative action is required, action that places environmental responsibility and climate justice at the heart of everything we do”
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
“Transformative action is required, action that places environmental responsibility and climate justice at the heart of everything we do”
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says Catherine Connolly
Figures of possible fines of between €8bn and €26bn for breaching emissions targets ‘incredible’, President says
www.irishtimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Moral duty ‘to act now’ on climate change for future generations, says President Catherine Connolly
“Transformative action is required, action that places environmental responsibility and climate justice at the heart of everything we do”
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
“Transformative action is required, action that places environmental responsibility and climate justice at the heart of everything we do”
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social marching outside Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social - National Climate Demonstration 15th Nov 2025 #EndFossilPower #ClimateJustice
#COP30
#COP30
November 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social marching outside Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social - National Climate Demonstration 15th Nov 2025 #EndFossilPower #ClimateJustice
#COP30
#COP30
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The Climate Justice Universities Union proudly marched with thousands in Dublin today, in solidarity with indigenous peoples in Belém and people all around the world. Together, we called for faster, fairer climate action and an end to fossil power, influence, and obstruction of clinate justice!
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The Climate Justice Universities Union proudly marched with thousands in Dublin today, in solidarity with indigenous peoples in Belém and people all around the world. Together, we called for faster, fairer climate action and an end to fossil power, influence, and obstruction of clinate justice!
Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social marching in Dublin today - National Climate Demonstration 15th Nov 2025 #EndFossilPower #ClimateJustice
#COP30
#COP30
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Climate Justice Universities Union @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social marching in Dublin today - National Climate Demonstration 15th Nov 2025 #EndFossilPower #ClimateJustice
#COP30
#COP30
National Climate Demo in Dublin today - we will be marching under our ClimateUni flags! @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice
#EndFossilPower
#ClimateJustice
#EndFossilPower
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
National Climate Demo in Dublin today - we will be marching under our ClimateUni flags! @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social
#ClimateJustice
#EndFossilPower
#ClimateJustice
#EndFossilPower
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Wonderful to see our students become engaged thanks to the education we provide them with. A particular credit goes to @martinsokol.bsky.social for his finance and climate justice module. Please sign our students' petition!
c.org/5R7CkWHmSm
c.org/5R7CkWHmSm
Sign the Petition
Urge Trinity College Dublin to sign the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
c.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Wonderful to see our students become engaged thanks to the education we provide them with. A particular credit goes to @martinsokol.bsky.social for his finance and climate justice module. Please sign our students' petition!
c.org/5R7CkWHmSm
c.org/5R7CkWHmSm
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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!
It'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...
Open access available now! Or order for paperback and hardcover. cssn.org/wp-content/u...
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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!
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Join us on Nov 13th for the Climate Justice Universities Union Autumn-Winter All-Ireland Meeting, hosted by SETU Carlow. The focus is GenAI, Big Tech & implications for higher ed, with lots of time to connect with fellow CJUU members. Sign up here: climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/events/setu-...
October 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Join us on Nov 13th for the Climate Justice Universities Union Autumn-Winter All-Ireland Meeting, hosted by SETU Carlow. The focus is GenAI, Big Tech & implications for higher ed, with lots of time to connect with fellow CJUU members. Sign up here: climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/events/setu-...
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"while #climate action was, at best, part of the ‘3rd mission’ of the financialized university, it could be seen as the ‘1st mission’ of the climate justice university" - @martinsokol.bsky.social & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"while #climate action was, at best, part of the ‘3rd mission’ of the financialized university, it could be seen as the ‘1st mission’ of the climate justice university" - @martinsokol.bsky.social & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Various chapters focus on different economic sectors, with @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social focusing on coal phaseouts, @matpaterson.bsky.social looking at peat politics, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social at central banking, @vah301.bsky.social at insurance companies. 8/
August 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Various chapters focus on different economic sectors, with @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social focusing on coal phaseouts, @matpaterson.bsky.social looking at peat politics, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social at central banking, @vah301.bsky.social at insurance companies. 8/
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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...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
August 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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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 ...
link.springer.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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
NEW PAPER co-authored with @jenniecstephens.bsky.social :
We need to transform #universities from financialised, entrepreneurial ones to #ClimateJustice universities!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We need to transform #universities from financialised, entrepreneurial ones to #ClimateJustice universities!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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 ...
link.springer.com
July 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
NEW PAPER co-authored with @jenniecstephens.bsky.social :
We need to transform #universities from financialised, entrepreneurial ones to #ClimateJustice universities!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We need to transform #universities from financialised, entrepreneurial ones to #ClimateJustice universities!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Inspiring Educator Award 2025 (one of 12 in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social ) Many thanks to my wonderful #Geography students for nominating me!
June 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Inspiring Educator Award 2025 (one of 12 in Trinity College Dublin @tcddublin.bsky.social ) Many thanks to my wonderful #Geography students for nominating me!
Congratulations @jenniecstephens.bsky.social !
Powerful inaugural with standing ovations! 👏👏👏
@maynoothuniversity.ie
#ClimateJustice
Powerful inaugural with standing ovations! 👏👏👏
@maynoothuniversity.ie
#ClimateJustice
March 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Congratulations @jenniecstephens.bsky.social !
Powerful inaugural with standing ovations! 👏👏👏
@maynoothuniversity.ie
#ClimateJustice
Powerful inaugural with standing ovations! 👏👏👏
@maynoothuniversity.ie
#ClimateJustice
“Central banks and monetary policy in the age of climate disruption: between climate justice and climate obstruction” - joint paper with @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
Great discussion!
#FinGeo conference in Singapore
#climatejustice
#climateobstruction
#centralbanks
Great discussion!
#FinGeo conference in Singapore
#climatejustice
#climateobstruction
#centralbanks
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“Central banks and monetary policy in the age of climate disruption: between climate justice and climate obstruction” - joint paper with @jenniecstephens.bsky.social
Great discussion!
#FinGeo conference in Singapore
#climatejustice
#climateobstruction
#centralbanks
Great discussion!
#FinGeo conference in Singapore
#climatejustice
#climateobstruction
#centralbanks
Agreed! Also, how central #centralbanks are to all this - especially to #climate !
Great start to the #FinGeo Global Conference!
Great start to the #FinGeo Global Conference!
Fantastic opening plenary by Eric Helleiner at 2nd #FinGeo Global Conference on ‘Geopolitics & Geoeconomics of Finance’. Delicate work in pulling together different strands of pandemic, geopolitical, climate, and geoeconomic shifts, and how finance is central to this conjectural global polycrisis.
February 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Agreed! Also, how central #centralbanks are to all this - especially to #climate !
Great start to the #FinGeo Global Conference!
Great start to the #FinGeo Global Conference!
Great to be in Singapore at the 2nd Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) conference - just opened by our wonderful #FinGeo Chair Dariusz Wojcik
With @karenpylai.bsky.social ,
David Bassens , Michael Grote , and many others
With @karenpylai.bsky.social ,
David Bassens , Michael Grote , and many others
February 26, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Great to be in Singapore at the 2nd Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo) conference - just opened by our wonderful #FinGeo Chair Dariusz Wojcik
With @karenpylai.bsky.social ,
David Bassens , Michael Grote , and many others
With @karenpylai.bsky.social ,
David Bassens , Michael Grote , and many others
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Financial systems have been implicated in climate change from the start. Yet they’re also central to wealth redistribution and thus to CJ. @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social locate a profound contradiction where central banks aim to stabilize an inherently unstable system.
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Financial systems have been implicated in climate change from the start. Yet they’re also central to wealth redistribution and thus to CJ. @jenniecstephens.bsky.social and @martinsokol.bsky.social locate a profound contradiction where central banks aim to stabilize an inherently unstable system.
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An analysis of tweets from three major U.S. sectors shows coordinated messaging to reinforce fossil-fuel reliance by denying the science and delaying change. @alainakinol.bsky.social Y. Si, J.Kinol, & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social propose a discourse of climate obstruction framework: bit.ly/4gcA1iW
Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries
The use of fossil-derived hydrocarbons in fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture makes these three sectors mutually reinforcing and reliant on sustained fossil fuel extraction. In this pap...
journals.plos.org
January 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
An analysis of tweets from three major U.S. sectors shows coordinated messaging to reinforce fossil-fuel reliance by denying the science and delaying change. @alainakinol.bsky.social Y. Si, J.Kinol, & @jenniecstephens.bsky.social propose a discourse of climate obstruction framework: bit.ly/4gcA1iW
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The Federal Reserve has left the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) saying its work had “broadened in scope, covering a wider range of issues that are outside of the Board’s statutory mandate”.
greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/21/n...
greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/21/n...
Global central banks vow to keep fighting climate change together even without Fed
Network for Greening the Financial System committed to climate change fight as Fed departs on eve of Trump presidency.
greencentralbanking.com
January 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The Federal Reserve has left the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) saying its work had “broadened in scope, covering a wider range of issues that are outside of the Board’s statutory mandate”.
greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/21/n...
greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/21/n...
Excellent piece by @jenniecstephens.bsky.social on #ClimateJustice in Ireland
In 2025, a narrow focus on limited, gradual emissions reductions is not enough. My thoughts on the lack of ambition in the new Irish government’s climate plans www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Why is climate justice missing from new Government programme?
Ireland is uniquely positioned to lead on transformative climate justice, but the incoming Government is proceeding with business as usual
www.rte.ie
January 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Excellent piece by @jenniecstephens.bsky.social on #ClimateJustice in Ireland
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So much for CB independence..“If the Fed wants to fulfill its mandate, it will need to resist the political whims of the president & actually live up to claims of political independence. Policy reversals on the eve of the Trump inauguration” are revealing. greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/21/n...
Global central banks vow to keep fighting climate change together even without Fed
Network for Greening the Financial System committed to climate change fight as Fed departs on eve of Trump presidency.
greencentralbanking.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So much for CB independence..“If the Fed wants to fulfill its mandate, it will need to resist the political whims of the president & actually live up to claims of political independence. Policy reversals on the eve of the Trump inauguration” are revealing. greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/21/n...