Alex Erquicia

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[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

"Wherever we live, our weather is getting much weirder": From Texas to Kolkata, the era of unprecedented droughts, floods, wildfires and deadly heat is here https://t.co/STELyHu1ou via @climate

[Forum New Economy @ForumNewEconomy]

More than 50 world leading experts call for urgent action against rising popular distrust. Governments should counter the loss of confidence in democracies.

How?

Read more here:
https://t.co/xeLLE19xkH

@gabriel_zucman @jsuedekum @IsabellaMWeber @ojblanchard1 @MkBlyth @CFieschi

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

Spain sees US-style economic boost from immigrant workers https://t.co/V7BWyibXvW

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

How will you experience climate change?

Excellent tool to personalise the consequences of climate change to you, by @WimThiery: https://t.co/PJBBRYoz2F

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

The world's in a 'polycrisis' — and these countries want to quash it by looking beyond GDP: Finland, Iceland, Scotland, Wales and New Zealand are all members of the Wellbeing Economy Governments partnership https://t.co/qgYwd41NWB

[Miguel Aguado Arnáez @maguadoarnaez]

Pregunto en cafetería del ALVIA a Santander al finalizar de tomar café:“disculpa,¿tenéis contenedores para los envases?”,“no, los separamos y luego los vuelven a juntar”,Pues está muy mal, pero me refería para que yo lo deposite aquí”, “No, tampoco”.Ya va siendo hora @Renfe, ¿no?

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

@Ferco010 Hola, si. Hablamos por privado?

[Ros Atkins @BBCRosAtkins]

This week, Sepp Blatter said choosing Qatar to host the World Cup was a 'mistake'. As the furore around the decision continues - here's 4 minutes on how, in 2010, it happened. Produced by Michael Cox. https://t.co/XCPxm4lehv

[David Gambarte @davidgambarte]

La productora de cerveza escocesa BrewDog acaba de lanzar una campaña publicitaria como anti-patrocinador del Mundial de Qatar.
"BrewDog Is The Proud Anti-Sponsor Of The World F*Cup" encabeza el texto-manifiesto de su CEO en LinkedIn.

[Santander @bancosantander]

🇪🇺 What are the main concerns of European citizens regarding technology? @ieGovernance provides the keys 👇 https://t.co/bqTNxC6N0s

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

Open letter: 25 leading economists (@JosephEStiglitz, @MazzucatoM, @adam_tooze, @KateRaworth, @rodrikdani, @StephanieKelton, @B_Eichengreen, @MkBlyth, @gabriel_zucman) ask if @OECD should be headed by ideological free marketeer and climate policy sceptic https://t.co/R9ZP3ynWcc

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

Transferred ownership of Patagonia, valued at $3B, to a specially designed trust and a nonprofit created to preserve independence and ensure that all of its profits — $100M a year — are used to combat climate change and protect undeveloped land https://t.co/Pj0DXPwNCJ

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

The major driving forces of international politics, according to IR theory, suggest that the new Cold War among the United States, China, and Russia is unlikely to be peaceful, argues @MatthewKroenig https://t.co/9OE0R4z5Eq

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

For many of the investors and entrepreneurs who have just lived through a historic boom in venture investing, it is even possible to pretend a crash isn’t happening at all https://t.co/cpOxp6Tyfw

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

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[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

If you’ve spent much time on eco TikTok, you’ll know that they’re extraordinarily good at shaking off the climate dread and spreading climate optimism – perhaps it is the acceptance stage of grief https://t.co/CyeEIxtbYD

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

Even worse, in the first six months of the year, start-up sales and initial public offerings — the primary ways these companies return cash to investors — plummeted 88 percent, to $49 billion, from a year ago https://t.co/TVgcMd8lNZ

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

We just published our latest update of our Big Oil Reality Check analysis.

Instead of actually confronting the climate crisis, big oil and gas companies’ climate pledges and plans still appear to be designed to disinform and distract.

[Alex Erquicia @alerqui]

A growing number of startups are emerging to challenge the status quo. Many of them are rooted in their founders’ experiences, within the industry’s leading giant, Facebook’s parent company, now known as Meta Platforms Inc https://t.co/xfhxmA7eK7