New paper: Bending the Climate Change Curve by Blending Finance: What Is The Real Potential Value-Added of Guarantees? by Stijn Claessens and @sonykapoor.bsky.social for @cepr.org and @findevlab.bsky.social findevlab.org/wp-content/u...

A huge congratulations to everyone who decried planned, equitable and gradual emissions cuts as too radical. Now you get to experience unplanned, unjust and whiplash-inducing emissions cuts instead. Maybe lets not make the same mistake again? www.afr.com/companies/re...

This is *so* good. The only question is whether European regulators will respond to the current ensh*tification of... everything.

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

Thought I would ask Anthropic's LLM about its use for target selection in Iran, as detailed in the attached WaPo article. This was its response. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

Important thread.

It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still. 1/3

On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.

John Oxley points out the clear yet often overlooked point that young men 18-24 are the second most liberal, left-leaning group in society (after young women) - being more so than young-ish thirtysomething women, and older women, as well as than men in older cohorts

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

1/ So, should the EU retaliate against Trump's Greenland tariff threats? There are roughly three schools of thought, each progressively more interesting than the last. A brief tour through the logic of escalation and deterrence: 🧵

The utterly shameless & widely covered "report" out today, claiming net zero will "cost" £9tn is based on: * Assuming free fossil-fuel energy, free petrol cars, free gas boilers, free gas power plants etc AND * Including climate damages in the "cost" of net zero I kid you not, it is that stupid

The Bluesky elders will remember that in the old days (2023) all Bluesky climate science lists were managed on various Google sheets. How lucky we all are to now have easy starter packs! ✅💚🌍 Follow all for a diverse set of climate updates in your feed 😊

History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, a #climatefinance story: After the $100bn climate finance goal was agreed in 2009, the UN Secretary General created a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) to study potential sources of revenue to meet the new goal, led by the PMs of 🇪🇹&🇳🇴

Europe urgently needs to shape a credible, politically viable response on adaptation finance at COP30, where climate finance-particularly for adaptation-poses a major risk to global cooperation. This is what a credible response looks like.

This is powerful research showing that the UK has saved over £100 Billion on our energy bills due to the roll out of wind power. That is the saving after accounting for green subsidies. This shreds false claims by Reform that renewables drives up energy bills. They are lying. The reverse is true

The fundamental risk to the IMF's core mandate - global financial stability - is climate change. encompass-europe.com/comment/the-...

Europeans are going to have to grasp the mantle and take global leadership on climate finance. This is how they can - and why they must. www.e3g.org/news/how-the...

The Global Gateway Forum starts today in Brussels, a key moment for #Europe to align its #climate and development finance ambitions. In a new E3G blog, @franklinsteves.bsky.social sets out priorities for coherence, accountability and private finance mobilisation. www.e3g.org/news/how-the...

Europeans are going to have to grasp the mantle and take global leadership on climate finance. This is how they can - and why they must. www.e3g.org/news/how-the...

Ed Matthew, E3G, UK programme director: "This is a new low point for Kemi Badenoch as she blows up the Conservative party’s credibility for protecting nature and the climate in her quest to ape the far-right policies of Nigel Farage." https://bit.ly/4gT1l7G

Kemi Badenoch has now aligned the Tory party on climate with Trump and the far right parties of Europe. Tragic. It shows that she is more interested in the profits of oil and gas companies than the security of the country. The Tory party can no longer be trusted on the environment or the economy

At #UNGA80, leaders must treat #ClimateAction as the defining test of political will ahead of #COP30. Delivering ambitious NDCs, closing the finance gap and driving a clean, resilient energy transition are vital for global security and prosperity. See press release: www.e3g.org/news/cwny-un...

NEW – Q&A: Will China and the BRICS fill the ‘leadership gap’ on climate change? | @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @yixiansun.bsky.social Jennifer Allan @jamesnorman.bsky.social Beatriz Mattos @katelogan.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/WVyH1Y0

In London, hate will never win.

Yesterday at Africa Climate Week (#ACW2) in Addis Ababa, we, alongside Talanoa Institute & Institute for Climate and Society convened senior leaders from the @cop30brazil.bsky.social, developing countries & donors for a high-level dialogue on scaling adaptation finance. 🧵 👇

What Could a New Adaptation Finance Goal Look Like? At COP30 countries should set an int'l adaptation finance goal. Here is analysis of the 7 potential scenarios that have been proposed. www.nrdc.org/bio/joe-thwa... from @joethwaites.bsky.social @adellethomas.bsky.social

Very much looking forward to #ACS2 in #Addis Ababa- a vital opportunity for African political & civil society leaders to again demonstrate the continent's leadership on climate finance and the measures needed for deep-rooted reform of the international financial architecture #IFA for climate safety.

Voices promoting coal are increasingly marginalised as real-world trends show that coal power is on its way out 📉 "Clean" coal is unproven, unscalable, and unaffordable: countries pursuing that risk falling behind in the energy transition My blog for @e3g.bsky.social: www.e3g.org/news/the-end...

I am once again saying that clean energy is inherently cheap, and the reason we don't benefit from that is because the energy market doesn't let us. Great stuff here from my colleague @chrisgalpin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... - our latest E3G report showing that with policy reform, running a heat pump could be half the price of running a gas boiler. The future is electric !

Motherfucking wind farms…

I will need to read the full report, but this thread totally neglects to address some obvious (to those who study net wealth taxes/NWTs) points, which refute these simplistic arguments against NWTs: * the q is not effect of raising £24bn from NWT but comparison with raising £24bn from other taxes /

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo. Trump’s “Big Beautiful” budget bill took a serious blow. Democrats held onto key seats. And the Kennedy Center turned into a venue for queer resistance. If you’re wondering whether there’s still fire on the left, this week answered with a resounding Yes!

Beyond Bretton Woods and E3G are organising an #LCAW2025 roundtable on 'Reimagining the Global Financial System for Planetary Resilience: Proposals for the 21st Century'. Long-term thinking about deep structural reform to the international financial system. Details here:

Fortune published my piece on the @e3g.bsky.social report showing 97% of execs support a transition to renewables. This maps onto the fact that we underestimate how much appetite there is for climate action globally, with 89% of people favouring stronger climate action. @coveringclimatenow.org

Disappointing to hear @andrewhunterm.bsky.social on #NSTAAF extol the brilliance of the Silvertown Tunnel - even if he's focused on the engineering aspects of TBMs - w/o understanding how bad it'll be for road congestion and air quality for local residents. silvertowntunnel.co.uk/what-is-it/w...

"Another thing you learn when you work in energy is the sheer ferocity of the oil and gas lobby..." Great explainer from my @e3g.bsky.social colleague @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social of why electricity prices in the UK are so high, even if you use a renewables provider.

🌍💸 Climate impacts are hitting harder and financial systems are responding. From stress tests to capital buffers, momentum is growing across Europe, the UK, and Asia-Pacific. Explore where action is accelerating and where more is needed in our latest blog👇 www.e3g.org/news/financi...

The spring statement ignored climate and net zero—raising concerns, but also some relief that green investment escaped public spending cuts. Missing the clean economy means missing a major growth opportunity. Read more in @theguardian.com, incl. insights from E3G’s @edmatthew.bsky.social:

The drastic aid cuts will shatter the UK’s ability to deliver on its international climate finance obligations for years to come, just as climate change is causing untold damage to the lives and livelihoods of millions of the world’s poorest people and leading to growing political instability.

@franklinsteves.bsky.social, E3G Senior Policy Advisor, warns: 📢 “The climate crisis presents serious global security threats, but Labour is prioritising short-term fixes over a long-term strategy for both security and economic growth.”

🚨 In Today’s spring statement, UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has left a “huge open goal” by neglecting the clean economy as the primary driver for growth in the UK. Meanwhile, devastating cuts to overseas development aid undermine UK security. Read our rapid reaction👇🧵

Millions of renters are stuck in cold, damp homes, paying the price for weak enforcement of housing standards. E3G's @jamesdyson.bsky.social's new report makes the case for better council funding to fix this. 📅We'll be discussing this further in a webinar on 8 April. More in the post below 👇

The talk in Europe is “how to get a seat at the table.” Respectfully, that’s the wrong question. The right question is, “how can Europe build a new table.”

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