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[Sustaining Capabilities @EnergyDevBlog]

New post by @mcguine_ryan on this years' BP Statistical Review: "Another consistency from past years is a large and growing divergence between climate rhetoric and action.

https://t.co/LVOwhaBOR9

[Dietz Vollrath @DietzVollrath]

Implications of additive growth https://t.co/LQAsYtmgM7

[Sustaining Capabilities @EnergyDevBlog]

"Fortunately, some countries have already decoupled greenhouse gas emissions and incomes by making structural changes to the way humans already live. Unfortunately, this remains far from a global reality."

[Sustaining Capabilities @EnergyDevBlog]

New post by @mcguine_ryan on this years' BP Statistical Review: "Another consistency from past years is a large and growing divergence between climate rhetoric and action.

https://t.co/LVOwhaBOR9

[Sustaining Capabilities @EnergyDevBlog]

"In that respect, the current energy transition is panning out similar to past ones. However, the mathematics of climate change demands actually reducing consumption of existing resources while ramping up deployment of new ones – something that has never been done before.

[Boydell Africa @Boydell_Africa]

Contested Sustainability is here!
This is a timely examination where scholars from a range of disciplines analyze the governance of sustainability in 3 key natural resource sectors in Tanzania: forestry, wildlife & coastal resources.

An Open Access book! https://t.co/CBfsDGB8NW

[William Easterly @bill_easterly]

The recommended texts are Poor Economics; Development as Freedom; AJR Colonial Origins of Comparative Development; How China Escaped the Poverty Trap; The White Man's Burden
https://t.co/RKKNU3FZhd

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Pritchett & Lewis defend economic growth as necessary AND sufficient for not just reducing poverty but also for meeting "everything basic to human material wellbeing."

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[Vijayendra Rao @bijurao]

My friend Michael Woolcock's nice new paper (w Kate Bridges) on "Measuring What Matters.." develops a framework for thinking about why & how to mix qual and quant data for problem-solving and learning in public administration https://t.co/DHpcOxFCLq

[Morgan Bazilian @MBazilian]

The latest paper in our series on industrial decarbonization is out!

This one follows others on steel, hydrogen, ceramics, glass, etc. and focuses on the role of natural gas in hard-to-decarbonize sectors.

Deep dives for decisionmakers (TM).

https://t.co/h53iLLAjBH

[Sustaining Capabilities @EnergyDevBlog]

"However, there is no time to wait & many instruments are available in the meantime. Policies like net-zero infrastructure hubs, procurement standards, & green banks would all accelerate carbon management, while being flexible w/in different markets & political systems."

[Sustaining Capabilities @EnergyDevBlog]

New post by @mcguine_ryan on carbon capture: "CCUS is criticized as a way to extend operating license to the status quo. However, this kind of 'either-or thinking' is faulty – the sheer scale and complexity of climate change requires 'both-and thinking.'
https://t.co/awjmSVm3in

[Sustaining Capabilities @EnergyDevBlog]

"While humanity simply cannot continue burning fossil fuels at near its current rate, meeting climate targets will be nearly impossible without lots of CCUS. The adoption of an economy-wide price on carbon would speed up its development by internalizing the externality of carbon.

[Pep Canadell @pepcanadell]

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How do we know for sure that the growth in atmospheric CO2 is due to human activities, & not due to volcanoes, geological seeps, wildfires, decomposition of permafrost C.

It might sound like a rhetorical question in 2022 but the evidence is great C cycle sciences.

[Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd]

Where did the industrial revolution start?

Places with high skill but low wages

https://t.co/CEkPyfw4uq

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

What if I told you that roughly $500 for therapy + a little cash helped the most troubled young men in West Africa drop their crime and violence by half. For at least 10 years.

Almost 350 fewer crimes PER PARTICIPANT over 10y.

That's ~$1.50 per crime averted.

New paper & a 🧵

[Arvind P. Ravikumar @arvindpawan1]

🚨New Preprint Alert🚨Much ink has been spilled on emissions impact of global #CoalToGas transition.

But we never asked if it were even feasible.

Led by @LydiaYang21, we study infrastructure limits to global coal to gas switching. #LNG @S_HastingsSimon https://t.co/loxwyjSqkk

[Sustaining Capabilities @EnergyDevBlog]

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[Mark Koyama @MarkKoyama]

As How the Rich Became Rich hits the bookshelves in the US next month @jaredcrubin and I are releasing powerpoints to accompany it. The first two sets of slides on geography and institutions are up https://t.co/lAM6Ic4Ywa

[JEEA @JEEA_News]

Forthcoming article by @wmaloneyworldb1 and @felipev84 "Engineering Growth" @EEANews @OUPEconomics
Teaching slides available: https://t.co/tCzfSWh4Lu
https://t.co/TAH20vl7FG