🧵 New report: “A trillion dollars of climate risk” 📊🔥 Finance Watch’s latest research reveals the world’s 60 largest banks hold $1.1–1.6 trillion in fossil fuel exposures. This creates a dangerous climate-finance feedback loop. Let’s break it down 🧵👇

Stop doing bad things: 'Intensive farming practices have had a significant impact (...) Farmland bird populations have fallen by about 62%' Start doing good things: 'woodland bird populations are beginning to stabilise as more habitat is restored across the UK' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Stuk laat mooi de ideologische uitdaging van de fusie partij zien (en hoe de leden op zijn minst partieel geïnformeerd werden toen de partijtop steeds riep in het begin 'dit is geen fusiebesluit'). Ik heb wel moeite met de ontkenning van de Groene ideologische traditie...

⏰ Last week to apply! We're #hiring a Researcher to explore how finance can reduce inequality, fund a green transition & shape a democratic digital euro. €48.4k/year + great benefits (holidays, insurance, hybrid + EU remote) Apply by Sunday ⬇️ positivemoney.org/vacancy/rese...

Donderdag kwam ING met een klimaatrapport. 📝 Spoiler: het zijn 30 pagina’s vol kletspraat en herhaling. Niks nieuws, en dat is schokkend. Terwijl de klimaatcrisis uit de klauwen loopt, blijft ING - bankier van de klimaatcrisis - stilzitten. Dit bevestigt de noodzaak van onze klimaatzaak tegen ING.

Wonderful start of @hetactiefonds.bsky.social donor day with speeches from within the movement, historical anecdotes, and proud supporters

Dit dus. Het zou lachwekkend zijn als het tegelijk niet zo gevaarlijk was

Whohoo, hardcopies! This makes me more happy than I guess it should in the 21st century. Anyways, for normal people: doi.org/10.54648/euc... #BankClimateTransitionPlans

ING released its 2025 climate update today. Disappointingly, the Dutch bank has failed to take any new steps to restrict financing for fossil fuel expansion. www.ing.com/Newsroom/New...

The withdrawal from ESG policies under Trump pressure is costing US asset managers business (and rightly so). Long-term investing does not sit comfortably with a climate catastrophe www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...

When niche debt instruments (seemingly based in regularly arbitrage) suddenly grow, that always bodes well, right? Right??!?

Worth the read! 'A dramatic climate-insurance breakdown that shocks the financial system of entire national economies will be preceded by something more banal, but perhaps equally sinister: years of more vulnerable communities getting more squeezed' www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

'markets may be powerful, but they are not enough. Markets found an alternative to whale oil; whaling increased nonetheless. It took a ban to save the whales. It’s not sufficient to have a hand, invisible or not. You have to decide what you’re going to do with it' www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

chief economist of Triodos bank argues that the demise of the Net Zero Banking Alliance demonstrates that binding regulations are necessary: 'capital rules, binding climate obligations, fines' www.dekleurvangeld.nl/artikelen/20...

Mark Carney's 'Tragedy of the Horizon' speech is approaching its 10th anniversary. Some reflections here on why the 'measure risk to manage risk' paradigm it set out has largely failed and alternative path forwards. medium.com/iipp-blog/th...

Varieties of capitalism, dairy farmers style: institutions matter and different business models can be economically succesfull (and have significantly different nitrogen pollution impacts) (graph from Van der Ploeg, 2023)

Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

🚨new publication alert🚨 'Bank Climate Transition Plans: Universal Owners and EU Requirements' in European Company Law Journal with @jonashulsens.bsky.social and Nicky van Dijk #climatecrisis #transitionplanning #banks kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

🚨new publication alert🚨 'Bank Climate Transition Plans: Universal Owners and EU Requirements' in European Company Law Journal with @jonashulsens.bsky.social and Nicky van Dijk #climatecrisis #transitionplanning #banks kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

Intelligence is... 'spending a lot of time checking and redoing the code that AI systems had produced—often more time than it would have taken to simply write it themselves'

Shareholders over solutions: How big industry favours payouts over the energy transition friendsoftheearth.eu/publication/...

Interesting analysis 'With the anti-green pivot of the centre-right and some segments of the business community since then, Greens need to realise that the years ahead will be dominated by politics, not policies' www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-greens-h...

Not only is claiming you're 'apolitical' deeply political, it is disingeneous at that. It is your company, it is your choice to continue to reinsure fossil fuels, and it is your choice that helps ensure misery for millions in a >+1.5 degree world. Own up to it www.theguardian.com/business/202...

NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.

a rather depressing geopolitical take on the current moment... 'the division is between those who see ecological modernization as a biogeochemical imperative for sustaining planetary habitability, and those who see decarbonization as a threat to their way of life' foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

De Engelse Groenen hebben een leider gekozen met een iets andere lijn richting Sociaal-Democratie dan GroenLinks: 'My message to Labour is very clear: we are not here to be disappointed by you. We are not here to be concerned by you. We are here to replace you' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Laatste week om te solliciteren op deze prachtige uitdaging voor een scherpe en kritische econoom!

📈 #ClimateLitigation is a growing material risk for companies and financial institutions, write @jasprblom.bsky.social‬ & Rick Bosman of @milieudefensie.bsky.social#ClimateLitigation Yet, since the Paris Agreement, the world’s 65 largest banks have financed fossil fuels by $7.9tn. 💵

Laatste week om te solliciteren, kom maar door met die brieven!

🚨Together with 31 other orgs, we urge the europarl.europa.eu to keep a key clause in the #CSDDD asking for a review of finance’s role in human rights & environmental impacts Removing it would send the signal that the EU is letting the financial sector off the hook 👇 shareaction.org/policies/joi...

🏛️ @jasprblom.bsky.social‬ & Rick Bosman of @milieudefensie.bsky.social on climate cases against #ING & @group.bnpparibas#ING If successful, they could create a legal duty for banks to phase out fossil fuel assets with major implications for the financial system. https://greencb.co/4oV9RXE

📈 #ClimateLitigation is a growing material risk for companies and financial institutions, write @jasprblom.bsky.social‬ & Rick Bosman of @milieudefensie.bsky.social#ClimateLitigation Yet, since the Paris Agreement, the world’s 65 largest banks have financed fossil fuels by $7.9tn. 💵

Ben je lid van GroenLinks of PvdA en voor dierenwelzijn? Steun amendement 1316 tegen de bontindustrie, met steun van @bontvoordieren.bsky.social amenderen.groenlinkspvda.nl#edited?amend...

💚 ❤️ GroenLinks of PvdA lid? Steun deze amendementen voor het verkiezingsprogramma, waarmee we serieus werk maken van het urgent stoppen van de opwarming van de aarde: 1. 💶 Financiële sector in lijn met Parijs: amenderen.groenlinkspvda.nl#edited?amend...

New op-ed out @greencb.bsky.social with Rick Bosman. I like our little kicker: 'The age of consequence-free financing of high-emitting activities is coming to an end' greencentralbanking.com/2025/08/26/f...

Excellent work-life balance, I would say

Fantastische kans bij @milieudefensie.bsky.social voor een onderzoeker op het gebied van klimaattransitie en reductiepaden. Superleuk team en interessant en nuttig werk! DL 7 september, RT wordt gewaardeerd #vacature #superbaan milieudefensie.nl/over-ons/wer...

Fantastische kans bij @milieudefensie.bsky.social voor een onderzoeker op het gebied van duurzaamheid & (financiele) economie. Superleuk team en interessant en nuttig werk! DL 7 september, RT wordt gewaardeerd #vacature #superbaan milieudefensie.nl/over-ons/wer...

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

'zonder goed klimaatplan lopen multinationals grote juridische en financiële risico's. Dat zet @milieudefensie.bsky.social op een rijtje in een brief die vandaag bij CEO's op de mat valt' milieudefensie.nl/actueel/grot...

Happy to report that new publication is out with a chapter by me, it's available open access so check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

“Zo zien populisten wetenschap vooral als een ingenieursbureau. Ze willen niet dat wetenschappers hen confronteren met feiten (‘speaking truth to power’), maar willen wel dat wetenschappers problemen ‘oplossen’.”

Very interesting to follow the England&Wales green party leaders' elections, which tap into a classic positioning debate within the green party family (and kudos for having such an open election, that already tells something about the sort of party greens are) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

nice to see our climate litigation against ING has not gone unnoticed in this interesting review of CSO campaigns against banks (p.4) - too bad the article focuses on reputational issues without taking account of other impacts of campaigns journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A recalibration of sustainable finance is underway. We hosted our third Oxford Sustainable Finance Summit on the theme of reinvention and renewal. If you missed #OSFS25, you can check out some highlights here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_AY...

🦆Vogels in je broekzak? Dat kan realiteit worden! De @EuropeanCentralBank startte een ontwerpwedstrijd voor de toekomstige look van eurobankbiljetten. Ben je grafisch ontwerper in de EU? Dien jouw ontwerp dan in! 📅Dien je ontwerp in vóór 18 augustus 2025 🔗 www.europa.eu/!cWfmdT

Interesting review - good to see climate justice pops up as one of the ways to avoid the backlash

Banken zijn dol op engagement als (enige) middel voor verduurzaming van klanten, maar hoe effectief is dat als ze zelf engaged worden? "vaak werkt dat gewoon niet, heb ik ingezien. ING gaat pas veranderen als haar klanten echt helemaal weggaan"

I don't share Scranton's pessimism, but he gets your green thinking going 'none of the forms of wisdom, insight, ethics, and knowledge that humans developed (...) were capable of coping with the planetary nature of human agency in the 21st century' www.diacriticsjournal.com/embracing-pe...

Insurance seems likely to be the needle that is going to pop the carbon bubble in the financial markets. In Australia, 3% of loan assets become uninsurable. That might not sound like a lot, but is about the same as the Basel leverage ratio buffer greencentralbanking.com/2025/08/05/a...