Is this Black Mirror or Monty Python material? The jury is still out on this one.

🙏A fashionably (and unduly) late thanks!

Great piece A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

It is criminal what the US has done to its children through car culture. They go from supervised activity to car to supervised activity to car ... no wayfinding, no autonomy, no agency, no risk, no sense of adventure or surprise. We're raising helpless, emotionally fragile computer kids.

A much larger problem than Australia

Que los maten pero en otro sitio a ser posible

a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a “disease of the Arab mind” and got hired by the Times AFTER that

A massive victory for climate litigation - and a setback for fossil fuel companies and the silencing of criticisms through defamation suits. For an English recap of what this was about: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This meme but a book:

Another free idea for a research project: studying the rise of the spreadsheet and the corporate and project finance model as a tool for presenting stylized aesthetic world views of an asset.

Tim and I have been reading & talking about BRICS over the last few weeks. What is this group of countries really about? Not so much an anti-western or an anti-dollar bloc; these days it’s more a “remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty, in a new era of globalization.”

“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” — New: @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

It's increasingly hard to get good news, especially when you have a worldview that is not limited to the Global North. So, in hopes of supporting good sources, I tracked where I get my news for a few weeks and wrote it up in a post timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/where-i-ge...

NEW REPORT from IPES-Food just out! 🛢️Industrial food systems are hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of the climate conversation. 🔥Using 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals #FuelToFork lays out the risks – and a path to #FossilFreeFood. 👉https://ipes-food.org/report/fuel-to-fork

Delighted to share the latest @ipes-food.org report Fuel to Fork that unpacks the myriad ways fossil fuels are embedded in #foodsystems The report also lays out a clear blueprint to build fossil-free, resilient food systems. Link below!! ⤵️ ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

On Tuesday, we at the University of Helsinki group "Researchers for Palestine" emailed the Rector, Board and Chancellor with the signed petition. A physical copy was also delivered to and registered with Kirjaamoo. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

And yet, 10 years since Paris, coal consumption shows no sign of peaking - it's nearly doubled since 2000. Why so?

Lo and behond, the US Senate is abandoning any pretext that DAC/CCS should do anything else than help boost oil production.

NEW PAPER Oil, shipping, tariffs: We are back in a world of cost shocks. Our AI/LLM analysis of 138,962 corporate earnings calls shows how economy-wide cost shocks let large firms raise prices & increase profits—triggering sellers' inflation. 🧵 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture. For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...

New review article out in @climate-policy.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social - with @ernestaigner.bsky.social (@leuphana.bsky.social), Nathan Barlow (@degrowthvienna.bsky.social) & Andreas Novy (@wuvienna.bsky.social, @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1080/1469... Key messages below

The best translated literature from Chinese! Read these five excellent titles if you're looking to read some great lit out of China, Taiwan, or even Maoist rebels in the Malaysian jungle! chinabooksreview.com/2025/04/15/s...

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

This was the predictable response and follows a long pattern of similar export restrictions/license requirements in response to previous trade actions. Nonetheless, we are not prepared for this. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...

In the latest @thepolycrisis.bsky.social I ran through a few possible ways that the US being confirmed as an unreliable (at best) international actor could affect decarbonization, middle income and low income countries. Plus: China's role. buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas A really clever data story from @source-material.org and the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New from me: I've spent the last 6 months compiling a map of data centres, whose locations are generally secret, operated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Cross-referencing that map with areas of water scarcity shows many are in the world's driest areas. www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...

“The question of water is going to become crucial,” says @lopalasi.bsky.social, founder of The Ethical Tech Society, as our investigation reveals data centres are being developed in the driest parts of the world. www.source-material.org/amazon-micro...

"Consider how the US emits more CO2 from oil than India does from coal, but there is virtually no discourse calling for a scale down of such production that can correspond to the global recognition to do the same for coal" carboncopy.info/ipccs-climat...

“For decades, Mexico has been characterized by the micropolitics of clientelism. The return of ‘democratic planning’ would mark a sea change in the country’s political economy.” NEW: David Adler, Vanessa Romero Rocha, and Michael Galant on Claudia Sheinbaum www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

Incredible. The Trump administration calculated "tariff rates" by taking the US trade deficit with the respective country and dividing it by the country's exports to the US. And then the tariff rate of the US is often just set by cutting that made-up "tariff rate" in half.

The European Commission is considering revising landmark energy legislation as part of its drive to ease requirements on the EU’s struggling businesses.

Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

Against the despair of a disastrous election and unassimilable geopolitical upheavals, the case of Luigi Mangione offers a kind of clarity: the conjuncture in a nutshell. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

There are a lot of damning nuggets of information in these texts that warrant commentary, like the fact that nobody, at any point, raised a single concern about the loss of civilian life or the risk of increasing hostilities with Iran. www.currentaffairs.org/news/jeffrey...

📣 New article by me in @plosclimate.org! We can’t decarbonize energy by focusing on supply alone—we must tackle demand too. 🔹 Efficiency has cut more emissions than renewables 🔹 Smarter demand = less fossil fuel reliance 🔹 Cleanest energy is energy we don’t use journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

New open-access article with a great team of scholars, expertly led by @matpaterson.bsky.social and @jacquelinebest.bsky.social, on central bank action on climate change. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @campolis.bsky.social

'If the book offers “no emancipating green utopia,” it is because this “essay in materialist history” (p. 332) is primarily concerned with the technico-material limits that condition all environmental policy.' An excellent review of an excellent book.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

🚨 New Publication 🚨 Out in Energy Research and Social Science today with @matpaterson.bsky.social and others colleagues at @uompol.bsky.social, we propose a new political economy framework to capture the disruptive nature of green energy transitions - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank

This is not nothing: "The measures include a reform of the debt brake rule to exempt defence spending worth above 1% of GDP" + €500 bn for infrastructure investments

⛔️87 organizzazioni internazionali dicono NO a un progetto coloniale che ostacola l'accesso equo all'energia per servire un'agenda guidata da multinazionali come #SNAM 👇 www.recommon.org/recommon-e-8...

The deadline is this Sunday, March 23rd! (DL for workshop papers is March 21st)

That rarest of things in contemporary academic life - a permanent job! L/SL in Global Political Economy here at the University of Manchester. DM me if you have questions. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

More on this in J B Fressoz's latest book: an all-consuming read. www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145...

1/5 Yicai: "China will promote reasonable salary growth by strengthening employment support in response to economic conditions and improving minimum wage adjustment mechanisms." www.yicaiglobal.com/news/china-l...

"1) we give a summary of the book. 2) we problematise some conclusions. 3) we concentrate on Mattei’s key comparison btw Britain and Italy after WWI, to draw different inferences. 4) we pull together the main themes, looking at the more recent decades and the book’s theoretical foundation."

Oh? Have the laws of physics changed?! @wimcarton.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @kevinclimate.bsky.social @jamesgyke.bsky.social