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🇺🇸 President Obama's first term in office prioritised #climatechange science & advanced climate-policymaking, while his second term defended the integrity of #climatescience & relied on administrative actions, reflecting increased climate skepticism, find Youngmin Oh & David Sonnenfeld ⬇️ 🔗
🇨🇳 Distributive justice in #lowcarbon urban renewal is not merely a product of liberal democratic procedures, but emerges from context-specific governance configurations of political accountability, participatory inclusion and cultural recognition, find Chunyu Shi et al. ⬇️ 🔗
👴 💰️ Elderly individuals are much more likely to support #carbontaxes if they are perceived as fair, find Yuhao Ba et al. in new study from Singapore🇸🇬 ⬇️ 🔗
🔓️ The US Environmental Protection Agency has the regulatory authority to abate industrial emissions of nitrous oxide, which could deliver important environmental, economic & human health benefits from avoided climate change & stratospheric ozone depletion, find David Kanter et al. ⬇️ 🇺🇸
🔓️ Emphasising #carboninequality increases public support for using wealth tax revenues to finance the #greentransition, especially if spent on public investment in transport infrastructure & subsidies for #lowcarbon technologies, find Leo Ahrens, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Lukas Hakelberg ⬇️ 🌱
🔓️ Why stay in #climaterisk areas if moving is financially feasible? @bjoernvollan.bsky.social @steimani.bsky.social @maxburger.bsky.social & Andreas Neef find that place attachment, selective risk information avoidance, sunk-cost reasoning, & low adaptation self-efficacy shape mobility decisions ⬇️ 🇧🇩
🌊 Marine #carbondioxideremoval (mCDR) is scientifically uncertain and politically controversial, find Coline Seralta et al. in new paper analysing US, UN & EU regulatory frameworks ⬇️
🇺🇸 US incentivises mCDR deployment
🇺🇳 UN restricts mCDR deployment
🇪🇺 EU remains unclear
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📣 SPECIAL ISSUE: Our Special Issue "Deep #Decarbonization Pathways for national development consistent with #carbonneutrality" is out now, with the latest research on #NetZero transitions in 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 🇮🇩 🇲🇽 🇿🇦 , across key sectors (energy, transport, land use) & across diverse national contexts ⬇️ 🔗
🖥️ While #AI negatively impacts #carbonneutrality (CN), accelerating CN conversely boosts AI development & enhances technological capabilities, find Chi Wei Su et al. in new 🇨🇳 study, suggesting a complex long-term relationship in which AI & CN may both complement and constrain each other over time⬇️
🔓️ How ready are West African countries to tackle #LossAndDamage? @sunkiehabib.bsky.social & Susan S. Ekoh @idos-research.bsky.social apply a diagnostic framework across 5 nations, showing most remain Nascent while none are Integrated. Key gaps: non-economic losses, finance & institutional mandates ⬇️
