New paper published in PNAS today!

Joint work with Jeffrey Shrader, Stephan Thies, Derek Lemoine, and Laura Bakkensen: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Danke für die Einladung und spannenden Diskussionen!

Klimaschutz und Wirtschaft: Stimmt es eigentlich, dass zu viel Klimaschutz der Wirtschaft schadet? Ob beim Verbrenner-Aus oder der Industriekrise – Politiker verteufeln den Klimaschutz als Wirtschaftskiller. Vorn mit dabei: Kanzler Merz. Aber stimmt das eigentlich?

„Der Klimawandel beeinflusst Nahrungsmittelpreise, Produktivität, Gesundheit, Landwirtschaft, Strombedarf – eigentlich fast jeden gesellschaftlich relevanten Bereich.“

PIK-Forscherin @leoniewenz.bsky.social in einem lesenswerten @zeit.de-Artikel zu #Klima & #Wirtschaft

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TU Berlin for Future – Die Ringvorlesung zum Klimaschutz Klimaringvorlesung der TU Berlin. Immer montags um 16.15 Uhr bis 17:45 Uhr / Auftakt am 24. April 2023, Abschlussveranstaltung am 17. Juli 2023, Ort: Online

In der #Ringvorlesung zum #Klimaschutz an der @tuberlin.bsky.social geht es heute ab 16:15 darum, wie multiskalige Erdbeobachtung dazu beiträgt, die Verletzlichkeit von Ökosystemen zu verstehen und Strategien für Klimaschutz zu entwickeln. Es referiert Prof. Christine Wallis. Mehr Infos & Anmeldung:

… is to emphasize that our paper’s qualitative conclusions are strongly supported by a wider evidence base: climate change has substantial impacts on the economy, these are very unequally distributed and outweigh the costs of ambitious climate policy.

This week we retracted our 2024 Nature paper in response to two matters arising. We are grateful for the community‘s engagement and have worked on addressing the issues raised - but the changes exceed a mere correction of the published article. More info below. What is really important to me …

Heute Abend diskutieren wir im #Futurium Berlin über die Zukunft der Wissenschafskommunikation - mit Utopiemobil!

If you’re in Leeds on the 15th of October, come to my inaugural lecture on “Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat - Exploring Future Trajectories, Surveying the Past and the Present” www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...

Zweigeteiltes Bild. Links ist ein grüner Schfiftzug "Grenzen", rechts ein Porträt von Leonie Wenz. Sie hat lange dunkle Haare und trägt eine rosafarbene Bluse. Über dem Portrait steht "Grenzüberschreitende Folgen des Klimawandels" in gelber Schrift auf Dunkelblauem Hintergrund. Fotorechte bei Jenna Dallwitz

#Klimawandel kennt keine Ländergrenzen – seine Folgen aber treffen uns weltweit und oft ungerecht verteilt. 🌍🔥
Klimaökonomin @leoniewenz.bsky.social vom @pik-potsdam.bsky.social zeigt im aktuellen #JAM31, warum wir globale Antworten brauchen:
Hier lesen:
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And finally, on Thursday, Anna Reckwitz will talk about the „The impact of freshwater changes on economic production worldwide“, in the Impacts of climate change and policy session

This afternoon, Jakob Wedemeyer will then share insights from our work on “Climate-induced cross-border migration at global scales“ in the Climate change impacts: health, food and migration session

Today in the Carbon leakage egg timer session, Timothé Beaufils will present our WP „The potential of carbon border adjustments to foster climate cooperation“, joint work with @joschkawanner.bsky.social

Sadly, I can’t be at #EAERE2025 myself but lots of our work will be presented 👇🏼

Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage Communications Earth & Environment - Climate change accounts for about 4% of total news coverage in one of Germany’s leading television news programs. 80% of climate change coverage is...

Wie häufig und wie prominent werden welche Klimawandel-Themen in der Tagesschau behandelt? Das hat Tanja Schirmag in ihrer Bachelorarbeit am PIK @pik-potsdam.bsky.social und der Uni Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social untersucht. Die Ergebnisse wurden heute in Comms Earth & Environment veröffentlicht 🎉

Neural topic modeling reveals German television’s climate change coverage Communications Earth & Environment - Climate change accounts for about 4% of total news coverage in one of Germany’s leading television news programs. 80% of climate change coverage is...

How often and how prominently are which climate change-related topics covered in Germany’s major TV news program Tagesschau? In her Bachelor’s thesis, Tanja Schirmag developed an NLP-based algorithm and applied neural topic modeling to find out. The results have just been published 🎉

Important indeed!
Timothé Beaufils, @leoniewenz.bsky.social and I investigate exactly this strategic dimension of the CBAM in our joint work: www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leonie Wenz: Professor of Environmental Economics at the TU Berlin 04.03.2025- Leonie Wenz has been appointed Professor of Environmental Economics at Technische Universität (TU) Berlin with effect from 1 March 2025. The new position is a joint appointment with the Po...

Extremely happy and excited to have been appointed professor of environmental economics, with a focus on climate damages and adaptation, at Technical University Berlin.

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Vielen Dank, ich freue mich sehr!

Excellent piece on climate adaptation by Chris Callahan!

Join my new Public Economics team at @unileipzig.bsky.social! A 100% PhD/Postdoc position with teaching and a 75% PhD position in a DFG research project on the triangle of growth, housing and voting in Germany with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Apply until Feb 28

Looking forward to my talk and visit at INET Oxford today+tomorrow!

Thank you for hosting me (and the prize!) - I had a great time with inspiring and insightful discussions!

Lesenswerter FAZ-Beitrag zu den Kosten, wenn Klimaschutz vernachlässigt wird: Menschenleben, Sachschäden, Konflikte und Unruhen, Flüchtlingsströme… Die Frage ist deshalb nicht, OB sondern WIE der Klimaschutz vorangetrieben werden sollte.

Our recent Nature publication on the economic cost of climate change came in second!

PhD scholarships as part of the research project, “Behavioral Barriers to the Green Transition", CEBI, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

Only one week left to apply for 1 of 2 PhD positions investigating the behavioral barriers of the green transition with me at University of Copenhagen. jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:

The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time)
🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy
This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!

Postdoctoral Position in the Sustainability Economics Group

We are advertising a PostDoc position in the Sustainability Economics Group at ETH Zurich (1-6 yrs, >$100K salary), offering excellent conditions to pursue innovative research projects & prepare for a professorship. Please spread the word to interested candidates: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Maximilian Kotz receives Leibniz Dissertation award for “The economic costs of climate change” 11/28/2024 – The 2024 Leibniz Dissertation Award has been granted to Maximilian Kotz for his outstanding research on the economic costs of climate change, completed at the Potsdam Institute for Climat...

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