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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · 1d

🌡️🏢 Who's most at risk of #energypoverty and how can we spot the warning signs early?

📊Our new paper introduces #energyvulnerability index combining building efficiency and people's capacity to adapt.

✊Because energy poverty isn't just about insulation - it's about empowerment.

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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · Aug 21

Our new paper in Energy Policy shows how people can shape fairer, more democratic energy systems—and what drives or blocks #energycitizenship.
Altruism, patience, and trust boost energy citizenship. But age and energy vulnerability shape it too.
#energyjustice
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · Aug 14

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say: Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows ...

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say: Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms The prolonged Nordic heatwave in July was supercharged by the climate crisis and shows ...

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · Aug 13

WHO group urges Europe to tackle heat health emergency

Experts are calling on governments to immediately implement heat-health plans, cut fossil fuel use, and adopt new measures of progress that put health first

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International Energy Agency @iea.org · Jul 28

🗣 “Rising cooling demand is testing the grid, but the right technologies can offer relief”

As extreme heat becomes more common, our latest commentary looks at what’s needed to keep cool without straining the energy system 👉 iea.li/44RpQxZ

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Adrien Fabre @adrien-fabre.bsky.social · Apr 1

🤩🤩 Paper finally out in the AER!

With my co-authors (incl. @bluebery-planterose.com & @s-stantcheva.bsky.social) we surveyed climate attitudes in 20 countries covering 72% of global emissions.

In brief, people want ambitious, global, and fair climate policies. A 🧵⬇️

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Georg Zachmann @gzachmann.bsky.social · Feb 9

In a big study the JRC breaks down the EU Green Deal’s broad objectives into 154 sub-targets.

This useful! overview showed mixed results:
-32 ‘on track’
-64 need acceleration
-15 are ‘not progressing’ or ‘regressing’
-for 43 there are no data

publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

Delivering the EU Green Deal - Progress towards targets

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of progress towards the European Green Deal (EGD), the European Union’s transformative agenda for achieving climate neutrality by 2050. The analysis enc...

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hannah Arendt on loneliness as the common ground of terror and how tyrants use isolation as a weapon of oppression

Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi… but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between t…

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · Jan 28

No biggie, just >2 million dead Europeans this century due to climate change.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Climate deaths will soar without action
An extra 2.3 million people in European cities could die as a result of extreme temperatures — both hot and cold — by the end of the century if decision makers don’t act to mitigate climate change. Researchers analysed temperature and mortality data from urban areas in 30 European countries to model various warming scenarios and the possible temperature-related deaths associated with them between 2015 and 2099. The results suggest that heat-related deaths will surpass those caused by cold conditions in even the most optimistic scenarios, and that temperature-related deaths overall could increase by nearly 50%.

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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · Jan 25

We have all the solutions we need to beat climate change and create a sustainable, equitable, and prosperous world — as these countries, cities, and organisations have proven:

theprogressplaybook.com

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The Progress Playbook is focused on the policies and projects that are succeeding in driving sustainable development and could be replicated elsewhere. A solutions journal, we report on proven ideas f...

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Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social · Jan 23

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#BOOSTING: Empowering citizens with behavioral science

New, freely available paper in Annual Review of Psychology.
PDF: tinyurl.com/boosting2025

For more: scienceofboosting.org

@arc-mpib.bsky.social @mpib-berlin.bsky.social

@annualreviews.bsky.social
#policy #behavioralscience

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The image is the cover page of an article from the "Annual Review of Psychology" titled "Boosting: Empowering Citizens with Behavioral Science" by Stefan M. Herzog and Ralph Hertwig. It features a brief abstract, keywords, and publication details. The abstract outlines the concept of "boosting" as a behavioral public policy that emphasizes empowering individuals to make informed decisions, in contrast to "nudging," which subtly steers behavior. The abstract reads:

Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (e.g., that it does not promote agency and relies on benevolent choice architects), other behavioral policy approaches focus on empowering citizens. Here we review boosting, a behavioral policy approach that aims to foster people's agency, self-control, and ability to make informed decisions. It is grounded in evidence from behavioral science showing that human decision making is not as notoriously flawed as the nudging approach assumes. We argue that addressing the challenges of our time—such as climate change, pandemics, and the threats to liberal democracies and human autonomy posed by digital technologies and choice architectures—calls for fostering capable and engaged citizens as a first line of response to complement slower, systemic approaches.

List with summary points:

1. Behavioral public policy garnered widespread attention with the introduction of nudging, which aims to steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice.
2. Criticisms of nudging include that it does not promote agency and competences and that it relies—overly optimistically—on the presence of benevolent choice architects.
3. The proliferation of environments threatening people's autonomy, the slow pace of systemic approaches to tackling societal issues, and the intrinsic benefits of empowerment make empowering citizens an indispensable objective of behavioral public policy.
4. Boosting is a behavioral public policy approach to empowerment grounded in evidence from behavioral science that shows that humans’ boundedly rational decision making is not as flawed as the nudging approach assumes.
5. Boosts are interventions that improve people's competencies to make informed choices that conform to their goals, preferences, and desires.
6. In self-nudging boosts, people learn to use architectural changes in their proximate choice environment to regulate their own behavior—that is, they are empowered to adapt their own choice environments.
7. There are boosts to foster core competences in many domains, including finance, online environments, and health, as well as broader, overarching areas, such as motivation, risk, and judgment and decision making. Boosts should be part of a policy mix that also includes system-level approaches.
8. When implementing boosts, policy makers need to avoid the trap of individualizing responsibility and to be mindful that, due to differences in cognition and motivation, inequalities in the desirable effects across boosted individuals may emerge.

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Breffní Lennon @breffnilennon.bsky.social · Dec 23

Looking for some new reading for the new year? While hardcopies of our new book on energy citizenship will be available Jan 2025, the ebook version has already landed! You can download it for free at: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Energy Citizenship

This open access book develops a deeper understanding of what is an increasingly applied term across policy cycles and academic discourses

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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · Dec 19

💡 10.6% of the EU couldn’t heat their homes adequately in 2023. Tackling this requires more than quick fixes—it’s about addressing energy vulnerability.
In our policy brief, we develop an index to start measuring it
🔗 publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...
#EnergyPoverty #EnergyVulnerability

Identifying energy vulnerability in Europe: a multidimensional index for policy action

We propose a multidimensional framework combining building energy performance and adaptive capacity. Building energy performance varies across EU regions, influenced by local climate and building char...

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Louison Cahen-Fourot @louisoncf.bsky.social · Dec 18

Want to learn more about Behavioural Ecological #Economics ?

👉 Today at 5 pm. CET live webinar @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=YikZ...

with @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social, Tommaso Luzzati & Tiziano Distefano discussing the #EcologicalEconomics Behavioural Econ special issue

#EconSky #AcademicSky

What is Behavioral Ecological Economics?

YouTube video by The International Society for Ecological Economics

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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · Dec 17

Congratulations Christina 🎉

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Karoline Rogge @karogge.bsky.social · Nov 26

New method for mapping actors in (UK) policy consultations: helps to track how policy-subsystems are merging due to unfolding multi-system transitions (e.g. to e-mobility) or who participates and how this changes over time (policy, business, society, academia): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Figure shows number and share of actors involved in energy-mobility transitions consultations in the UK (2008-2021).

Figure shows changes in the actor types in the emergence and acceleration phase of UK energy-mobility transitions.

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The Guardian Climate News (unofficial) @guardian-climate.bsky.social · Nov 24

Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean: Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politics The resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the clim...

Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean

Cop29 showed climate progress can survive a Trump presidency – despite a disappointing deal | Geoffrey Lean: Away from the brutal main negotiations, there were important strides forward. The science can – and must – rise above politics The resolutions reached at Cop29 on tackling the clim...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Nov 23

Energy efficiency needs a radical rethink.

Making fossil fuel technologies & processes incrementally more efficient is no longer enough.

It might even perpetuate their use.

In my new article I explore how energy efficiency needs to evolve to remain relevant.

medium.com/p/41741abea59b

Why energy efficiency needs a radical rethink

Energy efficiency has historically been the most significant contributor to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Over the past few decades…

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Anna Goeddeke @annagoeddeke.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi #EconSky,

Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Behavioural Public Policy @bppjournal.bsky.social · Nov 21

On the challenges of targeting systems for behavioural change, instead of individuals - Latest (open access) article on our Firstview page www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An s-frame agenda for behavioral public policy research | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core

An s-frame agenda for behavioral public policy research

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Eugenio Verrina @verrinaeugenio.bsky.social · Nov 20

Super happy to see this finally in print 🏔️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Personal norms — and not only social norms — shape economic behavior

We propose a simple utility framework and design a novel two-part experiment to study the relevance of personal norms across various economic games an…

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Nives Della Valle @nivesdellavalle.bsky.social · Nov 14

Just travelled back from the beautiful Innsbruck, where I had the pleasure of presenting our latest @EU_ScienceHub
#economicexperiments on #behaviouralspillovers and #energypoverty at Innsbruck University. Grateful for the opportunity to engage in inspiring discussions with bright minds!