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by Federica Genovese

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@fergusgreen.bsky.social @peterwyckoff.bsky.social you must be following closely!
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by Federica Genovese

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Ah, somebody should try that!

by Federica Genovese

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Long but worthy article that made me wonder if pragmatic technopopulism (à la Sheinbaum or, on the other side of the ideological spectrum, Meloni) is the most stable political equilibrium right now

www.ft.com/content/4ca4...
How long can Mexico’s president straddle populism and pragmatism?
In her first year in office, Claudia Sheinbaum has deftly managed tensions with the US and at home. But the pressure is starting to mount
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by Federica Genovese

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Huge free public good — well done to the @cssn.org team and all the authors
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 1d
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...
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Reposted by Federica Genovese, Robert Falkner, Silvia Secchi , and 3 more

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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...
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Reposted by Federica Genovese, Jean Bonnet

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Great to speak at the @energy-uk.org.uk conference just now, about the tenuous relationship between many media headlines & reality

Here's a taster

#eukconf25
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by Federica Genovese

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of course some jobs really do not need *A level* English; just some English. and of course it is not my favourite policy. just not sure it is the debate one should spend a lot of political capital on
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by Federica Genovese

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of all the hills out there, the fact that adults looking for work in the UK would need A-level English language skills is really not one I will die on.
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by Federica Genovese

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“OpenAI has chosen not to disclose the carbon footprint of ChatGPT-5, its most advanced AI model to date. […] The company does not have formally announced climate or sustainability targets.

Altman has also expressed that he thinks artificial intelligence will solve climate change.”

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by Federica Genovese

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As *always*, nothing happens in a power vacuum and who controls institutions controls the winners and losers of technological innovation
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by Federica Genovese

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I think this might be a similar type of normative question like flying in the academic climate science community, just on steroids.

When do we limit ourselves? When do we stop?
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by Federica Genovese

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In the higher education sector, I am hearing discussions of how AI may help ramp up climate education and spur climate awareness. Good qs but imo we cannot honestly speak abt that w/o speaking about how computing power is currently eating fossil fuels and asking how that research offsets that cost.
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d
AI will have all types of effects on skilled work, some bad some perhaps good, but everyone who cares about climate disruption needs to explicitly confront that ramping data centers *in the current economic model* (with the current people in charge) will only accelerate greenhouse gas emissions.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 2d
OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...
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by Federica Genovese — Reposted by Federica Genovese

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AI will have all types of effects on skilled work, some bad some perhaps good, but everyone who cares about climate disruption needs to explicitly confront that ramping data centers *in the current economic model* (with the current people in charge) will only accelerate greenhouse gas emissions.
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Rei Takver @rtakver.bsky.social · 2d
OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...
OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist
The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.
www.desmog.com
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Reposted by Federica Genovese

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I fully agree! Most people don't know that the Green party holds power in almost every major city in France (or is in the leading coalition). The RN has just one.

Mayor is Green: Lyon, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Besançon, Tours, Annecy, Grenoble and Poitiers.

In coalition: Paris & Marseille.
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Reposted by Federica Genovese

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I know this case refers to a cosmopolitan metropolis, but yesterday, Hamburg held a successful referendum approving a binding climate protection law aimed at achieving climate neutrality by 2040. Mobilization was particularly high among younger people.

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Volksentscheide in Hamburg: "Ja" zu mehr Klimaschutz, "Nein" zum Grundeinkommen
Rund 1,3 Millionen Hamburgerinnen und Hamburger waren am Sonntag aufgerufen, bei zwei Volksentscheiden ihre Stimme abzugeben. Während der "Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid" für besseren Klimaschutz eine Me...
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by Federica Genovese

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Yes, despite mediocre turnout
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rtakver.bsky.social
OpenAI *really* isn't hiding its intention to power the AI boom with fossil fuels.

New from me @desmog.com

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...
OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist
The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.
www.desmog.com
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by Federica Genovese

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Thanks @melinscribe.bsky.social for the invitation!
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by Federica Genovese

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Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research.

Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊
Brexit paper presentation, October 14, Mannheim University
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by Federica Genovese

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Local elections Monday:

Portugal resisted!

Will Tuscany resist (beyond expectations)?
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by Federica Genovese

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Oh the post was well taken :) what we don’t know is how many progressive localized environmental movements can lead (if at all) to a large wave of mobilization on climate, and this is exactly what people like me should study more
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by Federica Genovese

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There is a rich qualitative literature on local level mobilizations, and my meta reading of it is that success is more attainable around localized environmental problems where negative externality attribution is simpler and so is governance. Climate change is a whole different beast.
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by Federica Genovese — Reposted by Christoph Bertram

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This also reminds me that it is basically impossible to teach climate politics holistically by teaching only the present without the past, the domestic side without the international one, the political economy aspects without the identity politics ones.

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by Federica Genovese — Reposted by Federica Genovese, Christoph Bertram

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This brings me to my plea:

if we political scientists are (for obvious legit reasons) so obsessed with explaining the acceleration of far right success in the past decade, we should similarly track when progressive movements accelerated in history, taking actors by surprise, and how *that* worked.
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by Federica Genovese

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As it appeared that those assumptions were actually not stable *at all*, or at least no longer in the GN, the fossil fuel establishment panicked at their marginal losses.

But bc at that point they had lost the control of the narrative, they could only engineer a violent backlash.

And here we are..
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by Federica Genovese

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Paris accord was meant to be small beans as the int’l community was recovering from many fiascos.

🟢 parties were meant to remain niche as kitchen table issues dominated post-2009 politics.

Scientists were meant to stay unpopular technocrats/geeks.

Chinas electrification was meant to take decades.
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by Federica Genovese

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It’s so difficult to mobilize ppl on green things and the power balance between movements and industry/fossil fuels is super skewed

So it’s v hard to overstate how, in the incremental logic of 30+yrs of climate politics, *that* moment should have not happened, at least not then & that aggressively.
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by Federica Genovese — Reposted by Federica Genovese, Simon Hix, Benjamin Braun

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Going through some history of climate politics notes from last week, I realize we dont appreciate enough the climate mobilization of mid2010s and subsequent electoral green wave of late 2010s.

That moment was never really meant to be in the cards and we need to better study how we got there

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