Kathy Hochstetler

Like me, a graduate of Earlham College in Indiana news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

🎤 My next book talk "Green Political Economy" will be at LSE @lseideas.bsky.social - on Tuesday 13 October, 6pm-7pm. The talk will introduce key themes of my new book, and specifically how geoeconomics plays into the global green transition. Registration needed at: www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/events...

📖 Just over a month to go until my new book, Green Political Economy, is published by @politybooks.bsky.social. Available in paperback, hardback and ebook, you can get it in the UK by late September, and in the US by early December 2026.

Here is my urgent call to place Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the centre of the Humanitarian Response and discussions about #ReconstructionEfforts. Thanks to @hpg-odiglobal.bsky.social for their invitation. odi.org/en/insights/...

A diverse group of 21 Venezuelanist social scientists has produced a working paper on what we think needs to occur for a fulsome democratic transition to take place in Venezuela. @dsmilde.bsky.social @masayalb.bsky.social @beccahanson.bsky.social @maryhenjimenez.bsky.social ⬇️ t.co/PMZ75AVDvz

This one has been on the makings for years now, glad to finally see it out there!

EXTRACTION will have its UK debut soon. I will be coming to London, Cambridge and Oxford for events the week after this one. See my website for event specifics and to RSVP www.theariofrancos.com/upcoming-eve...

5 postdocs just advertised: Come work with us at the LSE Global School of Sustainability @gsos-lse.bsky.social. With 150 people working full-time on the political economy of decarbonisation, you'd be joining the largest research community on the topic. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

NEW – Brazil’s biodiversity pledge: Six key takeaways for nature and climate change | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/rjHKA2e

📢 Public Event Announcement Join us for Professor Hertog's inaugural lecture: "How oil rents fuel populist foreign policy" on 21 January 2026 at 6.30pm In-person and online tickets available 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/events/21-ja... #LSEEvents @lseevents.bsky.social @shertog.bsky.social

Really interesting and plausible parsing of who was on which side of a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels at COP30

Great to have the book out there...110 authors, it's a Great Leap Forward in our understanding of why we're failing to act on climate change. Book is free at CSSN.org And a whole video of the 30 min presser is up: www.youtube.com/live/xdBwlaD...

Want to learn more about Colombia's energy transition? @npr.org has you covered. 🫡 🇨🇴 🎧 ⬇️

A useful reminder about the heavy environmental and social costs of the existing energy sector www.theguardian.com/environment/...

¡Acompáñanos en el Pabellón Colombia, en la Zona Azul de la #COP30, el próximo sábado 15 de noviembre, de 5:30 a 6:15 pm! 🇨🇴🌍 Conversaremos sobre los discursos de demora en el debate sobre la transición energética justa en Colombia y cómo enfrentarlos. @redcfal.bsky.social @cssn.org

My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements

Many thanks to the author of this piece, Fermín Koop, published by @dialogueearth.bsky.social , for the opportunity to share some comments on the participation of Latin American countries in the COPs and the impact of their regional groups, such as AILAC. dialogue.earth/en/climate/c...

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BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...

HOT OFF THE PRESSES! Check it out! OPEN ACCESS! #energy #USpol #EU #China #ClimateJustice #ActOnClimate #Brazil #Germany #Protest #coaltoclean #peat #COP30 Stability and #Politicization in #Climate #Governance - www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

"A Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) entregou à ministra do Meio Ambiente e Mudanças Climáticas do Brasil, Marina Silva, o prêmio WCS Distinguished Leadership in Conservation, a principal honraria da organização que reconhece o compromisso extraordinário com a natureza e as pessoas."

‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️ Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

New study from Carlos R.S. Milani, Janaina Pinto, and Arthur Facini on the organized obstruction observed in the Brazilian government and industries. Read the full article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/18 Is China's economy collapsing or dominating? Meg Rithmire's new piece in Current History argues it's doing both simultaneously—and that's the problem.

You really should read this fascinating and profound interview with Columbian President Gustavo Petro. How many other world leaders are acknowledging that "Climate change is just the atmospheric mirror of capital accumulation on Earth"?

New issue! Volume 34, Issue 6 out now. With seven research articles, a review article, and three book reviews. Full details: environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...

Interesting piece by Matias Spektor on Brazil and India making their own way. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

- Rolling back environmental impact assessment - Doubling down on oil and gas production

I'm pleased to have a contribution in here - and it's open access too, for everyone to see.

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

📢 Quick reminder: Deadline this Sunday (24 Aug) to submit abstracts for the Workshop on Climate Change, Inequality & Policy Contestation (10–11 Nov 2025, LSE). Hosted by @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social in partnership with @gsos-lse.bsky.social 🔗 Submit: forms.gle/x3Css36pU8kb...

BREAKING: Brazil’s partial veto of the “#DevastationBill” stops some setbacks but leaves critical loopholes that threaten Indigenous land rights & environmental protections ahead of #COP30. Read the full press release: amazonwatch.org/news/2025/08... #DefendTheAmazon #VetaTudoLula

📢 Call for Papers! Join us at the Climate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation workshop, hosted by LSE’s @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social, @gsos-lse.bsky.social & the Sustainable Social Policy & Welfare States Hub. 🗓️ 10–11 Nov 2025, London

US & Russia coercing countries to lock in carbon. But "countries w green industrial bases & supportive domestic political coalitions are more resilient to such pressure." Two policy briefs: 1 plataformacipo.org/en/publicati... 2 www.netzeropolicylab.com/brics-going-... bsky.app/profile/bhbr...

Very happy to endorse it: While she is clear-eyed about the many problems of extraction, Riofrancos also offers thoughtful steps toward a more humane and decarbonized world. Deeply researched, beautifully written, the book provides an accessible roadmap through difficult concepts and phenomena.

Our 2025 global trends in climate change litigation report shows that climate change litigation is reaching the highest courts in the world. This video illustrates how the number of global cases has changed over the last few years. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Fossil fuel companies will try to sue states that ban new or existing production. When I speak with powerful actors in energy policy, this fear is a central concern in how governments think about the risks of phasing out fossil fuels. Here is an important intervention in how to reduce those risks:

Nace CFAL - la red para la reducción de Combustibles Fósiles en América Latina y el Caribe. Unirse acá @redcfal.bsky.social cf-al.org

Yesterday, Brazil took a dangerous step toward environmental deregulation. The Senate approved a bill that guts licensing rules—letting many projects skip environmental review entirely. Now it heads to the lower house, where it's likely to pass.

@theigc.bsky.social is hiring! Want to be part of LSE's IGC and our new Global School of Sustainability? @gsos-lse.bsky.social

It's tough to overstate just how shockingly unusual an article like this is. Despite the fact that this is the response of the vast, vast majority of neighbours for both wind and solar farms, they are mostly erased from existence in coverage of attitudes of neighbours to utility-scale renewables