Just co-wrote a blog on what’s at stake in the Bonn 2025 climate talks 🌍 We dig into: – Trust-building in multilateral climate talks – What to watch on GGA, JTWP & GST – How Brazil could shape a new phase of the Paris Agreement Read here at @iddri.bsky.social ➡️ www.iddri.org/en/publicati...

New (open access!) paper out now with Eric Helleiner and Hongying Wang in New Political Economy: "A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift" 1/ A brief thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1356...

From @nature.com: New research shows that with every increment of global warming, the number of people facing unprecedented lifetime exposure to crop failures, droughts, floods, wildfires, and cyclones increases sharply. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

+7° en moyenne ce 2 Mai 2025 sur la France p/r au climat de référence [1971-2000], climax d'une séquence annuelle sans équivoque (Cf👇). L'été de mon enfance est le printemps de ma vie d'adulte. Ça va vite, trop vite pour le non-humain qui ne pourra pas s'adapter & nous avec. Quelle irresponsabilité!

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

📚✨ New paper alert: How are we doing on turning nature into a source of calculable risk? We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it. #openaccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Overheard at an OECD social event: "the class system is a market failure"

The failure of euro internationalizing is baffling. We show that the euro is used in just 31% of FX transactions—barely more than the D-mark before the euro launched. Even European firms often prefer to trade in dollars.

You can ignore climate change. The political system can ignore climate change. But the insurance industry cannot ignore climate change.

interesting new law review article about the Fed's climate scenario analysis and stress testing from David Wishnick at Georgetown Law "Horizons of Risk: Climate Stress and the Federal Reserve" chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...

There we go. Executive order coming. Trump administration will conduct a 6-month review of US participation in global institutions, including the IMF and World Bank - to see if they are „contrary to the interests of the US" or "can be reformed". Project 2025 called for the US to pull out. 1/2

🌏Looking East: What can European and Asian economies learn from NGFS #Climate Scenarios? A few findings from an article that P. Champey and I wrote for MNB's "Eurasianomics", in which we explore implication of #NGFS Scenarios (Current policies and Net Zero 2050) for the transition in Eurasia.⬇️ 🧵1/9

Debates seem to focus on MDBs' role for transition and dev finance, but the potential of national dev banks should not be underestimated: MDB assets = 2% of G20's GDP, while assets of G20 NDBs = 24%. With FiCS coming up, a few avenues worth exploring to unlock NDB finance in IAG's latest release⬇️

BoE published this today on CB staffing levels 🤔

Trump and the politics of spectacular destruction - in other (older) words "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing" Great article by @irgarner.bsky.social for @grandcontinent.bsky.social legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/02/0...

Au milieu de la tempête parlementaire qu'apporte la censure, le constat posé cet été est toujours valable : il y a une majorité verte. La transition doit être le référentiel de stabilité, de prospérité et de sécurité. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2024/07/1...

How does "urge" compare with "invite" or "request"? Is "welcome" warmer than "note"? (Yes, obvs!) Here's your complete guide to verbs in UNFCCC text: