nice read from @cornelban.bsky.social 'price stability and planetary stability can no longer be separated. Every rate hike now carries climate consequences. Liquidity provision has become a form of environmental policy—whether central bankers admit it or not' geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...

Rather happy with my reading pile for this holiday season (and yes, I know I am late to the 'Debt' party)

'Paris-aligned indices (PAB) have similar return and volatility to conventional indices. Thus, they may offer investors, including institutionals, an opportunity to green their portfolios without taking on additional risk' www.banque-france.fr/en/publicati...

interesting observation from @annpettifor.bsky.social underscoring why state of the art climate litigation is targeting finance: "The fossil fuel sector would not be where it is today without the finance sector. So I regard the finance sector as more powerful" greencentralbanking.com/2025/12/15/c...

Higher thresholds for ESG reporting proposed in EU's Omnibus present a dual challenge for large banks: fewer competitors are faced with reporting requirements, while fewer of their customers will be obliged to produce the data on which they rely. Bad idea all around think.ing.com/articles/esg...

Triodos bank's 'financial system vision' is well worth the read with a relevant analysis and interesting - and sometimes even radical - reform proposals. Commendable that a private financial institution brings out such a vision! www.triodos.com/en/press-rel...

Only one of the world’s four most powerful monetary authorities is acting as though the climate transition is a problem for #CentralBanks: The People's Bank of #China. @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social & @james7jackson.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk for @lsebr.bsky.social.

New update from @shareaction.bsky.social 'most banks are failing to take the concrete steps needed to transition their business from a fossil-dependent economy to new green opportunities' shareaction.org/reports/in-d...

onderzoek DNB "Alle generaties bankklanten waarderen een ‘groene bank’, die rekening houdt met natuur en klimaat" (www.dnb.nl/algemeen-nie...). Wil je meehelpen om te zorgen dat ook ING die waardering verdiend? Ga naar milieudefensie.nl/niet-met-mij...

The G-20 has done important work on sovereign debt, access to finance and debt crisis resolution. I visited their website to read materials from their recent summit. All the links to previous work of the G-20 are gone -- they point only here. Sad for global governance and embarassing for the US.

Interesting reading to ponder over during the Christmas break

👇🎯 This interconnectedness is exactly why more bank capital - not what we got post-GFC, but <a lot more> - was necessary. As soon as this web makes it to systematically important financial institutions (& it probably already has), & one does a Lehman, we’re facing another systemic financial crisis.

The Swiss National Contact Point of the OECD has delivered an interesting statement regarding passive investing (in this case UBS involvement in private prisons). It indicates passive investing does not warrant turning a blind eye to human rights abuses of the companies invested in 1/3

Euhm, this is not really how international fora work. America is not the boss of the G20, they were not even the ones which came up with the idea of this G-group

Toffe #vacature @milieudefensie.bsky.social: hoofdonderzoeker Shell-zaken. Ook wel bekend als mijn olie&gas-counterpart :) Zegt het voort en DM me als je vragen hebt (DL 8 december) milieudefensie.nl/over-ons/wer...

LOL about the Nixon echo, 'I am not a crook'

Toffe #vacature @milieudefensie.bsky.social: hoofdonderzoeker Shell-zaken. Ook wel bekend als mijn olie&gas-counterpart :) Zegt het voort en DM me als je vragen hebt (DL 8 december) milieudefensie.nl/over-ons/wer...

🇳🇱 @dnb-nl.bsky.social says climate change, particularly flooding, poses rising risks to Dutch financial stability—warning of “sudden & substantial costs” for households & firms. The bank is working with NGFS & @nlenvironagency.bsky.social to assess impacts. 🔍

A bit of bright news in these dark times

Ultimatum aan ING: over een jaar stappen we over. Tenzij ING eindelijk stopt met ons spaargeld steken in: ❌ Bedrijven die nieuwe olie- en gasvelden starten ❌ Bedrijven die mensenrechten schenden Steun je deze eisen? Doe dan mee: bit.ly/Niet-Met-Mij... ✍️ #NietMetMijnGeld

Te groeien of niet te groeien, dat lijkt de vraag in het klimaatdebat. Moeten we streven naar een wereld van overvloed of moeten we genoegen nemen met minder? Twee denkbeelden botsen in de strijd om de toekomst. www.groene.nl/artikel/meer...

A miniature political economic analysis of AI corporations that is worth listening too

We merken steeds meer de gevolgen van klimaatverandering, ook bij het afrekenen van de boodschappen. De klimaatcrisis raakt mensen die het al moeilijk hebben en dieren en natuur het hardst. Eerlijk klimaatbeleid is nú nodig! www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...

Strong words on #climaterisk from the French central bank @banquedefrance-off.bsky.social: "Make no mistake: climate disasters will become more frequent, with increasing economic and financial costs. Even climate change deniers will eventually realise this" 🧵 www.banque-france.fr/fr/intervent...

Het Actiefonds steunt directe actie, omdat wij geloven in een betere wereld die nooit alleen binnen de gevestigde politiek te behalen is. Hiervoor vragen wij jullie steun, denk buiten het (stem)hokje en doneer aan Het Actiefonds. hetactiefonds.nl/denk-buiten-het-stemhokje/

A new network of scholars, activists and organizers influenced by Marxism in the Netherlands @marxism-nl.bsky.social wil be launched on Dec 3 at an event at Pakhuis de Zwijger. This is the website of the network marxism-nl.org/en This is the event on Dec 3 dezwijger.nl/programma/ma...

🚨You always wondered about how to make sense of the many accounts on Green Finance? We got you covered: @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @danmertens.bsky.social ky.social Julius Kob and I critically review existing accounts and argue for an integrated analytical approach👇 doi.org/10.1017/fas....

To all concerned with climate finance! In my article published in @climate-policy.bsky.social, I find that overlooking the influence of banks’ types of equity on sustainable lending narrows the scope of analysis and limits the tools available to reach Paris-aligned portfolios. See abstract for more!

Interesting find, although classifying environmental protest as 'cultural' strikes me as odd. Climate change is dangerous for both human rights and the economy, and requires an economic transformation of big corporations to address it

Bij de opening van Oleum Shell Isla de Curacao van Tinkebell. www.torchgallery.com

Timmermans benadrukt in zijn email aan de @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social leden wederom dat de fusie een 'voldongen feit' is. Dan heb ik ook een 'voldongen feit': de primaire onderbouwing van de fusie ('meedoen in de strijd om de macht') blijkt bijzonder wankel, om niet te zeggen: afwezig...

Zo, burgerplicht weer vervuld. Gestemd voor een duurzame economie en ontspannen samenleving. Dat zouden meer mensen moeten doen #TK25

🌍💰 The world is burning – and banks are cashing in. From 2021–2024, global banks channelled $1.6 trillion to fossil fuel firms driving new carbon bombs that push emissions beyond the world’s carbon budget 11× over – even as experts warn it could run out in four years. 🔗 Read the story below:

When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...

Het wereldwijde uitstootbudget is bijna op, toch investeren ING en Rabobank nog altijd miljarden in bedrijven met fossiele projecten die extreem veel nieuwe CO₂-uitstoot veroorzaken. Daarmee kopen we geen toekomst, maar fossiele afhankelijkheid, waarschuwt de directeur van Milieudefensie.

Een groene boodschap voor derde weg sociaal democraten

Late stage capitalism meets the misguidedness of GDP accounting: when one big chunk of growth is a technology bubble responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions and another big chunk is cleaning up the mess caused by those emissions

From FaS to FAZ! The paper "From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century" by Niklas Kullick and @johannespetry.bsky.social was just quoted in one of Germany's leading newspapers. 😎 Check out the paper here 👇

"No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity, research has found. Most banks that have recently updated their climate policies have weakened them" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ben ik de enige die het communicatielijntje van GroenLinks-PvdA dat ze "het enige alternatief" voor rechts zijn (terwijl ze standpunten opnoemen die nog een handvol partijen in het linkerkwadrant hebben) irritant vind?

🧠 mensen zijn eerder ecocentrisch dan antropocentrisch www.ipsos-publiek.nl/actueel/nede... 🧠 over onze waarden en hoe we onderschatten hoeveel De Ander om de levende planeet geeft research.rug.nl/nl/publicati... 🧠 over efficacy video.uva.nl/media/UvA+le...

'Given the potential for severe and irreversible harm from environmental change, a shift to a pre-damage control approach based on the precautionary principle is essential' greencentralbanking.com/2025/10/01/f...

Rich interview with one very political science question: can Green parties emphasize economic inequality without losing their reputation on climate. Our work on the German Greens shows: yes. More emphasis on redistribution does not weaken perceived competence on climate and increases overall support

Heat waves, droughts, floods, and extreme weather affect the economy and the financial system. Ignoring the risks doesn't make them go away.

De enige manier van dynamic pricing die acceptabel is van concertorganisatoren: een korting (gratis biertje) geven als mensen ook het voorprogramma komen kijken. Hulde #EKKO (tevens voor de beprijzing naar draagkracht, nog zo'n mooie innovatie)

Flashbacks keep on coming! Robust PSI (private sector involvement) mechanisms in sovereign crises were strongly resisted by the US government back in the day. But these days up is down and down is up I guess

Een uitgesproken Groene partij naast een sociaal-democratische partij die - zoals gebruikelijk - huiverig is om een daadwerkelijk links alternatief te presenteren. Het VK laat zien hoe je energie creëert om het Overton window echt de goede kant op te trekken www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...

Good piece. Growing threat to Labour from Greens on the left flank has been evident for a number of years now - clear in local election results, in polling, and in last year's general election. Polanski has increased this by (a) boost membership - crucial reource (b) increasing attention to Greens

The artwork which we used during the public delivery of our climate litigation summons to ING bank is now part of the Dutch Design Week! Come take a look: ddw.nl/programme/da...

Read @brettchristophers.bsky.social's The Price is Wrong with my book club and it was awesome. I learned a lot about the electricity market from this very insightful (albeit slightly depressing if you aim to avoid dangerous climate change) application of PE (with nice Polanyi ref)