Max Koch

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says

✍️ @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

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A lone battle: Why is Pedro Sánchez the only European leader to take on Trump? As the Spanish PM decries the war in Iran, other politicians are unable – or unwilling – to speak against the US president

Looks like there is one leader left in Europe: “It is naive to believe that democracies or respect between nations can spring from ruins. Or to think that practising blind and servile obedience is a form of leadership ...".

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

150+ countries admit what we already know: endless GDP growth and sustainable biodiversity cannot coexist.

GDP growth = more extraction, more land use, more pollution.

Death by GDP is a choice. We need a Wellbeing Economy!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Norge skal til fotball-VM, men må de fly på business? KRONIKK: Globalt tilsvarer fotballens samlede utslipp omtrent hele Østerrikes klimafotavtrykk, hvor mesteparten kommer fra flyreiser, skriver innsenderne.

The Norwegian national football team is likely to go far at the World Cup. But if they go there (and not boycott) they should at least travel by ship.
Another take of our work on #football in the #climate emergency, this time in Norwegian: www.forskersonen.no/fotball-klim...

Among many other things Palme served as a peace negotiator in the Iran Iraq war. The contrast to contemporary "leaders" could hardly be greater

So much more than a human being was shot 40 years ago

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

Green victory in UK byelection carries a lot of hope:

"Instead of working for a nice life, we’re working to line the pockets of billionaires. We’re being bled dry. And I don’t think it’s extreme or radical to think that working hard should get you a nice life”. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Open Letter of Scholars in Support of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

"Rather than taking every possible measure to hold the Israeli government accountable, you have weaponized false allegations of antisemitism to delegitimize a United Nations official who is seeking to uphold international law."

voelkerrechtsblog.org/de/open-lett...

On #SocialJusticeDay, I’ve launched a policy brief with UNTFSSE & the Global Coalition for Social Justice @ilo.org on the social & solidarity economy as a driver of post-growth #poverty eradication. From decent work to care & climate resilience, see how SSE delivers: www.neep-poverty.org/news/sse/

"With deep regret, I must say that I will not be attending the Berlinale."

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out? Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

How far do we have to be in deep water until we stop discussing if absolute decoupling of economic growth and environmental resource use is actually possible?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate Action Delay Discourses in the Sports Sector: Insights From Interviews With Athletes and Staff There is a major contradiction between the current model of international elite sport and efforts to mitigate climate change. This study investigates climate action delay discourses within the sports...

How can elite sport become a climate leader?

Read more about the barriers and how to overcome them in our new study:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Perspectives on Social and Justice Issues in Climate Policy – Comparing the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco‐Social Policy Literatures Mapping the Just Transitions, Sustainable Welfare and Eco-Social Policy Literatures along the axes of capitalism/growth approaches and global justice demonstrates that there is a large gap in researc....

Nice to start the week with publication of a co-authored review on #Justice Issues in #Climate Policy led by @mmbuchs.bsky.social. What are the sustainable #welfare and #JustTransitions literatures saying, e.g., on capitalism and growth?
Check it out:
wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Klimatforskningen ryms inte i Söderholms förenklade konflikt Ola Söderholm gör både forskningen och samhällsdebatten en otjänst.

Angelica Wågström: "Samhällsvetenskapen är avgörande för att förstå hur klimatorättvisa uppstår, vilka politiska styrmedel som faktiskt minskar utsläpp och vilka som riskerar att bli kontraproduktiva."

www.etc.se/debatt/klima...

Why is it so hard to process the dismantling of democracy? Is there some trait in habitus that makes us believe in the continued power and efficiency of institutions even though these may have, from an 'objective' point of view, stopped functioning? Some kind of institutional hysteresis effect?

@oxfam.se: Sveriges 46 rikaste personer äger mer i förmögenhet än nästan 80% av befolkningen – 8 miljoner människor.

Samtidigt lever 700 000 svenskar i fattigdom enligt SCB och den siffran har ökat med 120 000 på ett år

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Davos 2026 - Oxfam Sverige Fattigdomsbekämpningen i världen står i princip stilla, samtidigt som världens dollarmiljardärer gjort ännu ett rekordår.

@oxfaminternational.bsky.social: The planet's 12 richest personers own more than the poorest 50% - more than 4 billion people

At the same time, one in four is undernourished, an 41% increase since 2015.
oxfam.se/resisting-th...

Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.

“I couldn’t be part of that society, and I don’t want my children to grow up in it.”

www.972mag.com/israeli-emig...

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows

@oxfamgb.bsky.social: "The world’s richest 1% have used up their fair share of carbon emissions just 10 days into 2026", while "the richest 0.1% took just three days to exhaust their annual carbon budget". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot

Simón Bolívar in 1829: the United States seem "destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty."

Sverige erbjuder hjälp – kan ta emot brandskadade Sverige är redo och har erbjudit sig att ta emot brandskadade patienter efter barbranden i Crans-Montana i Schweiz, säger sjukvårdsminister Elisabet Lann (KD) till TT.

Sverige erbjuder sig att ta emot brännskadade från Schweiz, ett av världens rikaste länder. Däremot vägrar Sverige ta emot skadade från Gaza där sjukhus bombats sönder och vården inte fungerar.

Den här regeringens hyckleri framträder i blixtbelysning.

Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Zur Unmöglichkeit eines israelischen Genozids im deutschen Kriegsdiskurs: Varianten der Zurückweisung

wichtiger Text von @hannapfeifer.bsky.social zur systematischen Leugnung genozidaler Gewalt und dazu, wie unterschiedliche Typen der Leugnung diese Gewalt legitimieren, unsichtbar machen, mit ermöglichen:

www.pw-portal.de/das-fach-pol...

Football in the climate emergency: exploring air travel reduction in the Norwegian senior national football teams Globalization and commodification trends in football negatively impact the climate in terms of greenhouse gas emissions from leagues and international tournaments. A significant share of these emis...

6. Also employing a social practice lense, a related joint study looked into the field of #football and its enormous #climate footprint, this time taking the case of #Norway www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“What have future generations ever done for us?” Future expectations and present dispositions for social-ecological transformations The concept of ‘sustainable welfare’ conceptualizes welfare and wellbeing within planetary limits. Yet there is a lack of knowledge about possible soc…

5. In the same project we took a Bourdieusean perspective, reconstructed people's present dispositions and analysed their envisionings of a socially and ecologically transformed future www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

4. Sustainable welfare is also at the heart of our mixed-method study of Swedish cities. We identify pathways of intertia, emergence and transformation bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

Europe in the Postgrowth Era: Towards a Sustainable Welfare Deal Europe is confronted with a multiple crisis while coming to grips with its colonial legacy. Given the lack of empirical evidence for sufficient absolute decoupling of gross domestic product (GDP) gro...

3. is a summary of results and an overview of gaps in #postgrowth research in relation to #Europe considering ecological overshoot, social inequality and colonial trajectory. It also sketches a sustainable welfare deal for the #EU: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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While 1. showed diminishing returns of existing Western welfare states for health-related needs only, 2. dives into the potentials of providing #autonomy in #postgrowth circumstances: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The year is coming to a close. The ESRC may not like it, but this what we published in 2025 on #postgrowth issues and #degrowth issues: 1. A comparative study on current OECD welfare states and their capabilities of satisfying human needs without growth journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why Academic Freedom and Post-Growth Research Is Needed A joint statement from ISEE and ESEE on academic freedom, post-growth research, need for scientific inquiry amid eco and social crises.

The British ESRC aims to put economic growth “at the heart” of the council’s future. Postgrowth research should face a high bar to win grants.

ISEE and ESEE react here: #Postgrowth research is necessary for our very survival - and should be funded generously

www.isecoeco.org/why-academic...