Day 3 of the heatwave and literally the *only* place I’ve seen do something like this is a modest cafe owned by Turkish immigrants. Confusing, as I was told by Nigel Farage that all immigrants do is take.
Savannah Cox
@savannahcox.bsky.social
Asst prof at Sheffield Uni. climate-changed cities, politics, and markets.
Behold, a multiyear effort to chart what we think is a general direction of travel in climate governance. It involved piecing together arcane, seemingly disparate developments wi/ global financial system by following everyone’s favorite rating agency, Moody’s, and writing god knows how many drafts.
Jeb Bush's Iconic 'Please Clap' Moment
ALT: Jeb Bush's Iconic 'Please Clap' Moment
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John Hogan Morris@johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨New article w/ @savannahcox.bsky.social & @zacjtaylor.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social🚨 "Inscription networks: finance, infrastructural power, and the governance of climate risk" explores a longstanding player in state-market entanglements -Moody's- as it shapes how climate change is governed.
[In Carrie Bradshaw voice] "And I couldn't help but wonder: what if the most truthful, and human, answer is yes, I am a robot?"
At cafe, playing terrifying game of “am I having a stroke or are they just speaking a Scandinavian language”. Thankfully it happens to be the latter in this round.
Human Geography at Leicester is facing closure. Staff contracts are to end in June 2026; students are to be relocated to other universities, or taught out by a maximum of two (!) teaching-only staff. Other departments and subjects are facing closure, too. Please join the demo!
“We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed “public man-made death”…As of November 5th, [conservative models] estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay. Crews are asked “To be fully mentally present, especially in this environment, and it’s hard to do that when you know you can’t potentially make ends meet.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/w...
Melissa was one of the strongest storms on record. NOAA’s Hurricane Hunters flew into it without pay | CNN
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters have spent the past week diving into the eye of Melissa — a storm of historic ferocity — to gather life-saving data. But the gov...
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Get yourself a friend who can use a brush, some paint, and paper to bring you much closer to your elderly pug across the pond. Thank you @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social for my lovely portrait of Margo aka Presh 😍
Absolutely loved learning about @natashaheenan.bsky.social’s work on geoengineering and its status in the broader politics of climate repair. Super provocative and original thinking—highly recommend folks read it!
Natasha Heenan@natashaheenan.bsky.social · last yr.My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
Call for abstracts: "Insurance, Climate Change, and Spatial Governance" paper session for the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 17-21, 2026 I'm co-organizing this session with some amazing scholars. Here's our extended abstract:
Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here: forms.gle/wQNrgtRmJETV...
This is today folks! Finance/risk/urban climate obsessives, please join!
Savannah Cox@savannahcox.bsky.social · 11mo agoUpcoming launch event for a C40 Cities special issue that @zacjtaylor.bsky.social & I have edited on climate risk, finance, and adaptation! We’ll speak with some stellar panelists: @pmbigger.bsky.social, @lindashi.bsky.social, @kellyhereid.bsky.social & Kayin Venner. Register here: bit.ly/4m7kCDo
I'm so excited to share the launch of a new collaboration between @cmmonwealth.bsky.social and @cplusc.bsky.social: The Transition Security Project. TSP will be a home for research, analysis, and new policy thinking at the intersection of climate, economy, & the military industries of the US and UK🧵
To get a flavor for what we'll talk about, check out the special issue here: utppublishing.com/toc/jccpe/4/1
Contents | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy 4, 1
This special issue explores the centrality of finance, risk rating, and valuation in driving urban adaptation pathways and outcomes. The articles in this issue do so through a vast set of sites. These include adaptation efforts underway in high- and low-...
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Savannah Cox@savannahcox.bsky.social · 11mo agoUpcoming launch event for a C40 Cities special issue that @zacjtaylor.bsky.social & I have edited on climate risk, finance, and adaptation! We’ll speak with some stellar panelists: @pmbigger.bsky.social, @lindashi.bsky.social, @kellyhereid.bsky.social & Kayin Venner. Register here: bit.ly/4m7kCDo
Upcoming launch event for a C40 Cities special issue that @zacjtaylor.bsky.social & I have edited on climate risk, finance, and adaptation! We’ll speak with some stellar panelists: @pmbigger.bsky.social, @lindashi.bsky.social, @kellyhereid.bsky.social & Kayin Venner. Register here: bit.ly/4m7kCDo
I get that the UK is basically managing decline now, which among other things means that many of its “world leading” universities offer a pittance for research funds, forcing sharp rises in small grant apps. But can we please at least still “fail” through the eyes of a human rather than a machine?
My theory is that if we taxed most of these people without telling them and the people they pay to manage their money didn't tell them, they'd never notice. And if you'd never notice you should be taxed even more.
@saint-timonious.bsky.social · last yr.MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...
“National grid-private solar generation fights but make it Taylor Swift” (I won’t keep this as the subhead…maybe)
Excited to have an article on housing, finance, and climate change in this special issue. It was a fun and wide-ranging conversation with @ianguelovski.bsky.social @lindashi.bsky.social, @savannahcox.bsky.social, and others.
C40 Cities@c40cities.bsky.social · last yr.With the right funding, cities can better protect people from devastating climate impacts like heat, flooding, and storms. But local governments often miss out on the money they need, even in wealthier cities. Read all about it in our latest journal issue: utppublishing.com/toc/jccpe/4/1
One of my favorite discussions in the issue. How often do you get a climate scientist, legal scholar of corporations and climate risk, and an urban geographer together to talk about the stakes of private finance shaping public knowledge on urban climate risk? More of these conversations, please.
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Majority World cities are already bearing the brunt of climate change but remain woefully underfunded to adapt to a warmer reality. In this new paper, I interview Manny de Vera and Fayola Jacobs about barriers to just urban climate adaptation in the Philippines and the Caribbean. 🧵 of key takeaways:
Structural Barriers to Financing Just Adaptation in Majority World Cities | Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy
This interview offers multiple vantage points on the challenges and barriers to climate adaptation faced by cities in the Global South. Experts from the Caribbean and the Pacific emphasize the need for a nuanced understanding of urban climate adaptation finance, drawing on examples from the Philippines and St. Kitts and Nevis to illustrate how physical and financial risks are deeply cojoined in climate-vulnerable cities. The discussion highlights the increasing reliance on blended finance and de-risking strategies to attract private capital, while questioning the effectiveness of these approaches in addressing the unique needs of diverse urban contexts. The discussion underscores the importance of recognizing historical and structural factors, such as colonial legacies, extant modalities of climate finance disbursement, and fiscal federalism, that shape the climate adaptation needs. The interview identifies key reform priorities to the international financial architecture, particularly concerning institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, to alleviate the burdens of debt-bearing climate finance that disproportionately affect vulnerable communities. The conversation indicates that without addressing systemic macroeconomic issues, cities will continue to face escalating risks from climate change, ultimately jeopardizing their resilience and sustainability.
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Back in the US. Suburbs. Made the fatal error of thinking it would be a good idea to work from a cafe. As a punishment, I am seated next to a woman in Private Equity who has made the word “deals” polysyllabic. Please send prayers.
Having read “economic sociology” throughout my PhD, constantly wowed, it was such a treat to be invited to write an essay for it. Drawing on my work on cities, bond markets, and infrastructure, I discuss how the subfield can take up climate adaptation and inequality.
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · last yr.🌍 New issue of “economic sociology” edited by Leon Wansleben on “Loss and adaptation on a warming planet” out now. With @lucaschancel.bsky.social @savannahcox.bsky.social David Bresch @ethz.ch , @sebastiankohl.bsky.social @sebbillows.bsky.social econsoc.mpifg.de/50712/26-3
[My mom, Pam, tapping out of the Hannah Arendt documentary at 9:30 pm]: Let’s finish this tomorrow. I want to give this the attention it deserves. Me: are you going to bed? Pam: no, I’m going to watch something else. Me: you’re the worst. Pam [deadpans]: no, Heidegger is the worst. /scene
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last yr.If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.
Your 'moment of doom' for June 27, 2025 ~ If? "If the Amazon hits a tipping point, our calculations show we are going to lose 50-70% of the forest. That would release between 200 and 250bn tonnes of carbon dioxide between 2050 and 2100..."
‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached
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