@fgenovese

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Political scientist at University of Essex • cross-national politics, political economy, politics of crises and climate • she/her • 🇪🇺
Website:www.federica-genovese.com
Location:Palermo, IT | Colchester, UK

Et voila: our ✨heatpump✨

Not installed yet and a bunch of work on the rads still to do — but we have it now ❤️

Together with induction, our fully electrified home is a small/big effort to take climate change seriously and, you know, fight Putin along the way.

New to Mastodon? Here are some brilliant colleagues who work on #climate politics.
Do feel free to add anyone I missed.

Sander Chan @sanderchan
Sarah Colenbrander @sarah_colenbrander
Claire Dupont @Cladupont
Matthias Duwe @matthiasduwe
Christian Flachsland @ChristianFlachsland
Federica Genovese @fgenovese
Mike Jakob @mike_jakob
Brigitte Knopf @BrigitteKnopf
Wolfgang Obergassel @obergassel
Maria Pastukhova @Energy_in_Asia
Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts
Felix Schenuit @FelixSchenuit

Well back on this site again, I guess?
Please join us for the 1st EuroPOW seminar of the Spring this Wed 2/22 10am ET/4 PM CET. @twitter@zeynsom & I are excited to host ‪@fgenovese‬ & @twitter@pol_economist who will present on climate policy & backlash against intl cooperation. Zoom link & info on the series @ europow.com cc @politicalscience
@sethkjolly @mcopelov As a European with small kids I am *very* grateful!

Join us for another exciting #MAXCPE seminar this Wednesday, Jan 11th at 4pm CET with a presentation by Patrick Bayer & Federica Genovese on "Climate Policy Costs & Backlash against International Cooperation"

Sign up to our mailing list for the Zoom invite:
👉https://mpifg.de/max-cpe-workshop-series

MAX CPE Workshop Series

Reading an old interview to Margaret Atwood and this by her hit me: “The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it; when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it it can go very quickly”

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Now that the 118th #Congress is *finally* sworn in, re-upping this piece about what to expect on #climate. With the concessions made in the #HouseSpeaker negotiations, these points are even more relevant. @brookingsinst

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2023/01/03/what-to-expect-on-climate-change-from-the-new-congress/

What to expect on climate change from the New Congress

There are clear areas of disagreement but also opportunities for collaboration on climate change in the new Republican controlled congress.

Brookings

Sure I am loving my sabbatical, but seriously these recs about innovation patterns and reversing the ‘declining trend of disruptive science’ are 💯

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time - Nature

A decline in disruptive science and technology over time is reported, representing a substantive shift in science and technology, which is attributed in part to the reliance on a narrower set of existing knowledge.

Nature
Heartbreaking. The political geography of inequality — in the UK and most countries — keeps society hostage of solving the biggest collective problems ahead (eg cost of life crisis, future pandemics, climate change): https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-16/consumers-fall-into-debt-traps-as-illegal-lenders-exploit-credit-deserts
Consumers fall into debt traps as illegal lenders exploit people in 'credit deserts'

A care worker has told of living in constant fear of the bailiffs who aggressively terrorised her family.

ITV News