Greenpeace and other campaign groups are set to take the European Commission to court today, seeking to overturn EU rules that class nuclear energy and natural gas as climate-friendly investments👇#taxonomy
political bombshell this morning in Berlin: CEO of publisher Springer ordered Germany's biggest tabloid paper to campaign in support of FDP so they could more effectively counter the Greens and thinks climate change is a good thing for human civilisation
Gains in global renewable energy capacity from 2010 to 2020 have been outstripped by growth in fossil fuel use by a factor of three.
Scaling up renewables is not enough. We need to actively scale *down* fossil fuels. And right now none of our leaders have plans to do this.
Thrilled to see How #China Escaped #ShockTherapy being picked up in the debates around the post-socialist transformation of Eastern Europe. Thanks Zoltán Pogátsa @VisegradInsight for the joint review with @JulianGewirtz's book!
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Unless you want to argue that Sweden would, counterfactually, have had an even worse recession in 2021 than the one it actually experienced, the “Swedish COVID policy” tradeoffs are looking pretty bad right now! @johnauthers h/t @SoberLook
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In my new book Mission Economy I look at changes needed inside governments and public-private relationships to make ‘stakeholder’ capitalism real. NASA had “no EXCESS profits” clause in contracts with business. Capabilities and confidence get us to moon! https://t.co/9mFiSTLyj9
You can watch the video of this panel on my book, courtesy of @FESonline @FESnewsbrief, featuring @FocaalBlog founding-editor Don Kalb, @DorottyaSzikra, Krisztina Soreg & @PogiZoli. @PalgraveSoc
Video: https://t.co/B9ITBC8wUG
Check out the book: https://t.co/HhBvvqbsST