Nice opportunity for a political economist to work with the awesome @angelawigger.bsky.social and others in lovely Nijmegen www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Awesome!

On Friday 13 March, the Visions for the Future Project and Studium Generale Utrecht will be hosting Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff in Utrecht's City Library. They will talk about their book MUSKISM. Tickets are free: www.sg.uu.nl/agenda/2026/...

De boodschap van de oliegigant: de verantwoordelijkheid ligt bij de consument. Maar juist een speler als Shell heeft wél de macht om de koers te veranderen. Met zijn enorme financiële middelen, technologische kennis en wereldwijde invloed kan Shell de overstap naar duurzame energie versnellen.

On my way to Amsterdam to speak about The Global Casino at De Balie this evening... and at the University of Amsterdam tomorrow..

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

👏👏👏 @shareaction.bsky.social is calling on institutional shareholders to vote against re-election of bank bosses overseeing climate row-backs. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The deadline is nigh for our (voluntary) Board vacancy @hetactiefonds.bsky.social. Check it out and apply if you want to make a contribution to direct activism across the world from Amsterdam. With nice Board colleagues to boot www.oneworld.nl/job/het-acti...

Goed nieuws in de week waarin @ftm.nl weer eens blootlegde hoe pervers het huidige financieringsmodel van wetenschappelijke publicaties is. Blij dat de Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politicologie hier achter is gaan staan!

interesting, innovative new climate litigation using anti-trust law: 'Michigan sued BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the API (...) alleging an “illicit conspiracy” to delay the transition to renewable energy and maintain market dominance of fossil fuels' www.climateinthecourts.com/michigan-sue...

while EU banks prance about with specific sustainable investments and tweak definitions to inflate their green financing, in China 'clean energy industries drove more than 90% of the country’s investment growth last year' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social

Nice and punchy! (But I am nerd enough to look forward very much to reading the book-length version). The asset-focus also underscores the importance to tip the scales among corporations, such as through climate litigation against financials

I can't say I'm surprised... 'excessive purchase of carbon credits can actually hamper in-house emission reductions. It also finds that there is no link between carbon credit use and climate ambition' carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/11/25/c...

All-star line-up at the 'Future for Monetary and Financial Governance' seminar at DNB honoring prof. Underhill's contributions to the field. Looking forward to an awesome day of discussions and pushing said stars on the impacts of dangerous climate change on the field

Interesting nugget from this @compchange.bsky.social paper from @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and vd Heide: not the largest NL bank ING, but 2nd and 3rd bank ABN AMRO and Rabobank have the most memberships of transnational sustainable finance initiatives (pdf): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Er is een bekend gedragseconomisch experiment waarin twee partijen 100 euro mogen verdelen. A stelt een verdeling voor aan B, als die weigert krijgen ze beiden niets. De rationele econoom leert ons dat B een verdeling van 99-1 moet accepteren, want 1 euro is meer dan geen euro. In de realiteit...

This seems a very relevant result for all the naysayers who complain that climate policies are either ineffective (symbolic) or too costly (quod non)

You should read Malm and Carton's Overshoot. Its account of the assets that would be stranded in the resolution of the climate crisis (and the reverberations of that stranding) explains so much about elite behavior in our current conjecture. This is a TL/DR: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

It strikes me that 'science-based' and 'company-backed' are at odds with each other - to the detriment of us all

Mooie #KenUwPolitiekeKlassiekers van toen @groenlinks een houseparty organiseerde in een Tweede Kamer verkiezingscampagne

Interessante info over de rendementen op energieportfolio's en de mogelijkheden om goede overall ROI te halen en toch Paris-proof te zijn, lezenswaardig

Leuk overzichtje van bluesky-loze collega's Zeilmaker & Dufraing van de relatie tussen de klimaatzaken van @milieudefensie.bsky.social, klimaatwetenschap, en rechtsbeginselen rond rechtvaardigheid zoals common-but-differentiated-responsibilites arsaequi.nl/product/mili...

Interesting that you would need a new bill for this

a bit of good news to start the day: 'The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973 and was driven by a record roll-out of clean energy projects' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A civil servant standing up for institutional independence and checks&balances. And yet, I can't help but think about the Fed's departure from the NGFS in the face of clear evidence of price pressures from climate change...

Nice factoid from Graeber's Debt, which I never realized when seeing the Rosetta Stone (always too crowded to read the plaque): it announces a debtors amnesty - a much more common occurrence in times past

'Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing surveyed more than 950 institutional investors (...). The headline result is simple: more than four out of five expect to increase allocations to sustainable investments over the next two years. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

"opvallend" #GenosseDerBosse 'In de jaren 90 was het opvallend genoeg een PvdA’er, Willem Vermeend, die Nederland verder in de richting van fiscale vrijplaats voor bedrijven duwde' www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ge...

Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business

look forward to engage with Kingsnorth's new book, here discussed by @rupertread.bsky.social. Dark green food for thought. I, for one, will be thinking through whether rootedness is localised or stems from a connection to the biosphere wherever we are perspecteeva.substack.com/p/what-else-...

zeer relevante quote uit het boek van @coenvdven.bsky.social over de linkse fusie: "in het Europees Parlement stemmen de NL sociaaldemocraten vaker mee met de Groenen dan met de eigen S&D fractie." Het fusievehikel zal in Europa met de billen bloot moeten en kiezen voor een vd partijfamilies..

'The Urgenda case was one of the first rumblings of a wave of climate litigation around the world (...) Over the past 12 months, there have been many more important rulings and tangible changes on climate driven by legal action' And more to come, I might add! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This year has been brutal for the #climate movement. Rollbacks, repression, & outright denial, especially in the US, have made progress feel fragile & uneven. Which is exactly why it matters to pause & look back at what did move forward in 2025. Here are 12 real wins 🏆, one for each month 🧵⬇️

Got around to this one in the holiday break. One wonders: if banks say they find the climate transition of their customers important enough to ease credit conditions for green companies, then why are banks' own transition plans so woefully inadequate? www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/d...

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...