New article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social with @james7jackson.bsky.social"The political economy of China’s green transition." To support non-China specialists working on climate change, we provide a structured approach to understanding China's green transition: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New commentary article out, published by @gsos-lse.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social I argue that while China has reduced its climate ambitions in its new five-year plan (which is indeed disappointing), this does not mean the country has given up on a green transition.

New op-ed out in the Danish media oulet Børsen: "Selling off the state-owned company Ørsted will weaken Danish energy security." Co-authored with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, @rosiecollington.bsky.social, @voldsgaard.bsky.social, and Søren Lund Frandsen borsen.dk/nyheder/opin...

Pleased to be quoted in today's @nytimes.com, supporting their reporting on the Iran war with a China angle: “China’s push for renewable energy is not motivated by the environment but by the need for energy security and also as a driver of growth.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

New article out in Climate Policy with @james7jackson.bsky.social: "Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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/...

Applications are open for the Finance & Democracy Summer Workshop! Looking forward to teaching the session on 'Finance and the Chinese State'

New article out in Politics & Society with @danieldrisc.com and @maxkiefel.bsky.social : "Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New op-ed out in @prospectmagazine.co.uk with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: "Green growth versus degrowth is a false choice: The growth split in the climate movement only benefits the far right" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...

New commentary piece out in @greencb.bsky.social with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social in which we discus central bank independence, green monetary policy and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) - greencentralbanking.com/2026/01/13/c...

New op-ed out in LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social:

'Two decades of analysing the state in the green transition: Where are we now?' Mathias Larsen, James Jackson & Environment and Climate Politics Working Group "suggesting that the debate surrounding the conceptus of the state has become overly conflated." 🌳 Full article 👉 https://ow.ly/JYmB50XvChB

Great to see our data used by the @iea.org in their new World Energy Outlook. The outlook uses our data to show the massive increase in Chinese outward investments in clean tech manufacturing.

Pleased to have my research featured in @nytimes.com reporting on China's role in a global green transition www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c...

New paper out with @james7jackson.bsky.social in the working paper series of @granthamlse.bsky.social: 'Revisiting central bank independence for the climate era: insights from the People’s Bank of China' www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

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New article out in Ecological Economics with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: 'Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Chinese overseas FDI is nearing $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.” NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0

I’m excited to have started a job at the LSE as a Senior Policy Fellow, leading the China work at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment @granthamlse.bsky.social

New op-ed published in @carnegieendowment.org's China blog, edited by @michaelpettis.bsky.social: “How China’s Growth Model Determines Its Climate Performance: Rather than climate ambitions, compatibility with investment and exports is why China supports both green and high-emission technologies.”

New op-ed out in the @carnegieendowment.org's China-blog edited by @michaelpettis.bsky.social: “How China’s Growth Model Determines Its Climate Performance" carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/0...

New policy report just published with groundbreaking data showing that China's new global role in the green transition is investing in manufacturing, not financing infrastructure: "China’s Green Leap Outward" www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

New article with @james7jackson.bsky.social out in Competition & Change: The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New op-ed out in The Diplomat @thediplomat.com: 'China’s Political System Makes Consumption-led Growth Impossible: Beijing’s prioritization of political security necessitates a reliance on investment and exports – not consumption – to power the economy.' thediplomat.com/2025/08/chin...

New article out in World Development: 'Green industrial policy under financial constraints: Insights from India’s state-led decarbonization' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW ARTICLE out in Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social: The archetype of a ‘big green state’? What China tells us about green macrofinancial regimes doi.org/10.1080/0969...

In my latest op-ed just out in Environmental Finance, Calvin Quek and I asses what policy tools are most central in how China finances green industries. Taxonomies, disclosure, and green bonds get most attention but these are not that impactful. www.environmental-finance.com/content/anal...

New article out in Socio-Economic Review @sasemeeting.bsky.social: 'The pullback of Chinese overseas financing and its implications for a post-neoliberal global financial order.' doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

‪New article out in New Political Economy! My co-author, @james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really nice discussion of how US monetary policy affects decarbonization in emerging economies, from @danieldrisc.com www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'll be in Beijing all of May and June as a visiting scholar at Peking University's Carbon Neutrality Institute. Let me know if you're in town or if you know someone I should meet.

NEW ARTICLE out in Capital & Class revisiting the debate on whether China is capitalist or socialist: ‘Reconsidering the ‘China model’ through structure and agency: The hybrid realities of Chinese capitalism and ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We have another phenomenal panel on green finance tomorrow morning at #ISA2025! We're bringing the energy with papers on solar investment, state-owned investment banks, the Bridgetown Initiative, sovereign green bonds, and more! 8:15 am in the Mobley Room!