Penny Mealy@PennyMealy

Senior Economist @WorldBank | Research Associate @INETOxford @TheSmithSchool | Adj Snr Research Fellow @TheRealSodaLabs | Applied Complexity Fellow @sfiscience

Joined April 2019
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🚨Call for contributions🚨 Workshop: Complex System Approaches to 21st Century Challenges: Inequality, Climate Change & New Techonolgies @sfiscience 31Jul–2 Aug 2023 Publication: SFI Press volume and journal special issue Travel & Acco funding available santafe.edu/conferences/comp…
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Thanks @TennantReed! Stoked! 😁
Tennant Reed@TennantReed
27 Jan 2023
Spoiler Alerts have expired and I am pleased to tweet that the winner of the inaugural Let Me Sum Up Podcast Wonky Award for best climate/energy paper of 2022 was… “Empirically grounded technology forecasts and the energy transition” podcasts.apple.com/au/podcas…
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How much will the net zero energy transition cost? @camjhep presents the Wright answer!
Oxford Smith School@TheSmithSchool
9 Nov 2022
Big day today with TWO Oxford-led events as part of the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC!). Smith school Director @camjhep kicked off with analysis from an incredible paper about the cost of the energy transition. Some key insights 🧵
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A new @oxmartinschool study has found: - Achieving a net zero carbon energy system by 2050 is possible and profitable - A fast transition to clean energy is cheaper than slow/no transition - The idea that going green will be expensive is ‘just wrong’ Read more ⬇️

Decarbonising the energy system by 2050 could save trillions

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“Our latest #research shows that scaling up key #GreenTechnologies will continue to drive their costs down, and the faster we go, the more we will save.“ Rupert Way Publication: cell.com/joule/fulltext/S254… @MonashBusiness @oxmartinschool @INETOxford @CellPressNews
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Nice summary, thanks @AssaadRazzouk!
Assaad Razzouk
@AssaadRazzouk
14 Sep 2022
Ground-breaking Oxford University paper (which had a soft launch earlier but now is in scientific journal Joule) deserves enormous air time It overturns the common thinking that decarbonizing will be hugely expensive. It’s not – in fact it saves us $5-15 TRILLION THREAD
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A fast push to clean energy isn't just necessary for the environment, it is better economics. @INETOxford @TheSmithSchool @oxmartinschool new study covered by BBC bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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Want to save trillions? Switch to renewables -- fast! Delighted to see this paper with Rupert Way, @mat_ives and Doyne Farmer finally out in @Joule_CP cell.com/joule/fulltext/S254…
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Did mental health concerns contribute to the record high job quits of the #GreatResignation? – Yes, suggests our #newpreprint📢 Mental health concerns prelude the Great Resignation: Evidence from Social Media arxiv.org/pdf/2208.07926.pdf Studying the work discourse on #Reddit 🧵
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Recently published paper @ITAXjournal "To them that hath: economic complexity and local industrial strategy in the UK" by Penny Mealy (@PennyMealy) & Diane Coyle (@DianeCoyle1859)
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Marton Posfai@mposfai
14 Feb 2022
This week at the @dnds_ceu seminar: Maria del Rio-Chanona @RMaria_drc on network models of the economy at noon CET, Feb 16. Details and rsvp here: events.ceu.edu/2022-02-16/da…
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Nice to see! Here's a link to the published paper link.springer.com/article/10…

To them that hath: economic complexity and local industrial strategy in the UK

International Tax and Public Finance - Divergent economic performance in many countries has led to renewed interest in place-based policies, such as the UK’s local industrial strategies at...

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Bennett Institute for Public Policy@BennettInst
2 Feb 2022
Research on "Economic complexity and local industrial strategy in the UK" by @DianeCoyle1859 & @PennyMealy also referenced in government's #LevellingUpWhitePaper for explaining economic geographies. bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/p…
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So well deserved @MaxCRoser and team!! 🥳
Our World in Data
@OurWorldInData
30 Nov 2021
We won a prize for our work on the pandemic! The @TheOxfordTrust awarded us the "Covid Innovation Heroes Awards­ 2021”: theoxfordtrust.co.uk/covid-i… We are very grateful for this recognition here in our hometown of Oxford.
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We can win the climate fight if countries ambitiously use policy to "make the clean stuff cheap". My latest with Doyne Farmer in @DemJournal #COP26 democracyjournal.org/argumen…

A New Strategy for Climate: Make the Clean Stuff Cheap

World leaders announced a new initiative at the Glasgow COP to drive down the costs of clean energy. Done right and at scale, this strategy could transform the climate fight.

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In September, researchers at @INET and @TheSmithSchool published research that uncovered trillions of 💰 of savings if the #energytransition was sped up. Yesterday, at #COP26, world leaders agreed to do just that: theguardian.com/environment/… @mat_ives @camjhep @PennyMealy

World leaders announce plan to make green tech cheaper than alternatives

UK, US and China among countries representing two-thirds of global economy to agree to push green energy and cars

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Drawing on research by team members Doyne Farmer, Rupert Way, @mat_ives and @PennyMealy, watch @camjhep at #COP26 tomorrow - see below for details
Post Carbon Transition@oms_postcarbon
3 Nov 2021
📢 Don’t miss @camjhep at #COP26 tomorrow, spreading the word on how a rapid clean energy transition will likely save us trillions of dollars – and that’s not including the avoided climate damages!

⏰ 08:30-10:30 GMT

Register here to watch live - bit.ly/3mNe7KV
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Today we release in @Nature an inventory of Earth's utility-scale photovoltaic solar energy facilities built with #remotesensing and #machinelearning. With coauthors @DescartesLabs and @WorldResources, we localise 68,661 facilities in 131 countries. go.nature.com/3nsSpL8 🧵

ALT A new global dataset of solar energy facilities created showing the growth of solar generating capacity 2016 through 2018.

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Two big things going for us on climate - great piece by @billmckibben covering our @INETOxford work on dramatic fall in renewable prices. The faster we go the cheaper it gets. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

It’s easy to feel pessimistic about climate. But we’ve got two big things on our side | Bill...

One is the astonishing fall in the cost of renewable energy. The other is the huge growth in the citizens’ movements demanding action, says academic and climate campaigner Bill McKibben

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Yes @_HannahRitchie!! more open data --> more problems solved.
Max Roser
@MaxCRoser
7 Oct 2021
We all need data on the world's energy system. The largely publicly funded @IEA produces excellent data on this – but the stipulations of the energy ministries mean that this data cannot be used publicly. In her new @Nature piece @_HannahRitchie explains nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Max Roser
@MaxCRoser
4 Oct 2021
What will the energy system of tomorrow look like? This here by @PennyMealy, Rupert Way, Matt Ives, & Doyne Farmer is a major new paper on technology forecasts and the energy transition inet.ox.ac.uk/files/energy_t… The chart on the left is one of the most important charts I know.
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