The Polycrisis

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[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

Guardian's editorial on BRICS inspired by us? "The postwar order stood on three pillars: US dominance, hydrocarbons and open trade. Today,all 3 are cracking" https://t.co/S4jPEmRlTi
Read @kmac @polycrisis first for analysis, that's read by millions :)
https://t.co/4pFDTSg8DE

[Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld]

“The postwar geopolitical order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.”

https://t.co/R3ijxnuMZt

[The Polycrisis @polycrisis]

New dispatch alert: #China has made advances in green #energy, manufacturing, and non-dollar trade. But for BRICS, moving away from the #dollar in #trade & finance still remains the biggest challenge.

More in our latest edition of The Polycrisis ⤵️
https://t.co/fFAfQACFdF

[Noah Gordon @noah_gordon_]

"For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower."

That's the key thread in the excellent new @polycrisis piece on the BRICS in 2025 https://t.co/vYqg91ml2H

[The Polycrisis @polycrisis]

BRICS export ties with the #US have weakened since 2000, except for #India.
While others pulled back, India’s exports to the US have quietly grown.

More on this in our latest edition.⤵️
https://t.co/fFAfQACFdF

[The Polycrisis @polycrisis]

BRICS is transforming. #Fossil Fuels now account for less than half of the bloc’s total electricity generation.

Read our latest edition to know more⬇️
https://t.co/fFAfQACFdF

[The Polycrisis @polycrisis]

The video of our panel: "Oil and politics in the mid-transition" is up! https://t.co/JNotZXddrX

[The Polycrisis @polycrisis]

@JHGrace6 @kmac @JesseJenkins Yes it's online now, hope the wedding was good. https://t.co/JNotZXddrX

[The Polycrisis @polycrisis]

@BlondeelMathieu @kmac @adam_tooze @WilliamOman @AmyJaffeenergy @70sBachchan @phenomenalworld hi, yes it's here: https://t.co/JNotZXddrX

[Kate Mackenzie @kmac]

The global economy is beginning to contend with something it's never seen before: secular decline of oil demand.
Our next @polycrisis panel will discuss the implications across markets, exporting countries, and politics. https://t.co/SS7RiNeMgb

[The Polycrisis @polycrisis]

NEXT WEEK, we're presenting a panel: Oil and Politics in the Mid-Transition:
@AmyJaffeenergy
@WilliamOman
@MBazilian
Alex Turnbull, and
@adam_tooze
Hosted by @phenomenalworld
October 5 at 4pm ET. Register now: https://t.co/RrTOUFffmb

[Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld]

NEXT WEEK, a @polycrisis panel—

Oil and Politics in the Mid-Transition, with: @AmyJaffeenergy, @WilliamOman, @MBazilian, Alex Turnbull, and @adam_tooze.

October 5 at 4pm ET.

Register now: https://t.co/B7YUZXh4c4

[Kate Mackenzie @kmac]

The liberal trading order has been weaponized; security, not efficiency, is the new watchword. Yet fragmentation narratives belie resilience. New from @70sBachchan and me at @polycrisis @phenomenalworld https://t.co/iHGc5W3syD

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

The best of times, the worst of times.

Brilliant brilliant text by @AntheaERoberts and @nicolas_lamp, brilliant charts by @yusuf_i_k and all of it in the brilliant @polycrisis!

[Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld]

“Coverage was dismissive of BRICS ahead of its August meeting. But a vast gulf separates the Western commentariat from Western policymakers.”

NEW @polycrisis by @kmac and @70sBachchan

https://t.co/UVsRrMrNM8

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

China now exports more to the developing world than to the US, EU, and Japan.

New @polycrisis: On South-south relations in an escalating Cold War and republican U.S. congress that refuses to pony up for reform of western institutions like IMF world bank https://t.co/zf831jbDvn

[Kate Mackenzie @kmac]

Can “mobilising the trillions” of private capital save the world? @advaitarun_ explores what institutional investors can actually do in the latest @polycrisis essay
https://t.co/TIbnrmy1si

[advait @advaitarun_]

The biggest problem in climate finance today is not derisking per se. It's that policymakers' insist on "unlocking" the private sector in emerging markets without making any efforts to fix the global financial system that warps how investment flows in the first place.

[advait @advaitarun_]

The problem with "mobilizing private capital" to fight climate change in the Global South is that it's way harder than policymakers make it sound. Institutional investors can't do it!

I'm back in @phenomenalworld's @polycrisis series to explain why not:
https://t.co/VcpcInDP2D

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

wanted to title this piece:
Why Are Climate Politics in grip of liberal fantasies?

Subtitle: A big F U to methodological nationalism, liberal individualism and ecological blindness in age of @polycrisis

.....but this is why you have editors 🤪
https://t.co/juOYs1E6eI