It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens

Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests

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More than two-thirds of FTSE 100 restate climate metrics, analysis finds ft.trib.al/EIFKgjY

More than two-thirds of FTSE 100 restate climate metrics, analysis finds

Deloitte review of annual reports shows a tripling in the number of companies forced to revise calculations

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So much news about the far-right turn of French elites these days that I'm making a thread... 👇🧵 #1: Jordan Bardella (Marine Le Pen's sub if she can't run in 2027) is dating Louis XVI's heiress, Princess Maria de Bourbon Deux-Siciles. Rassemblement National officials call it a 'modern fairytale'...

I was just there, on a day trip after the SASE conference in Bordeaux. Where thousands of academics had gathered (in unbearably hot university buildings). Many (most?) had travelled there by plane. Still thinking that if we keep doing conferences at all, we need much stricter air travel rules.

France orders total evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads

‘Intense and highly unpredictable’ blaze forces more than 40,000 people to flee popular holiday spot

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Does Investor Pressure Matter? Look at What Oil Companies Are Actually Doing

The closure of Investors for Paris Compliance has prompted renewed debate about whether investor pressure on climate ever really mattered.  Critics argue that shareholder resolutions rarely...

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Encouraging interested people to apply to this conference on 'narrating eventness' that brings together historical and literary scholarship. It will take place May 2027 at Humboldt University, Berlin. Deadline for applications is September 15, 2026. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

NEW – Q&A: What the EU’s carbon market review means for climate action ✍ @orladwyer.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️ www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-...

I'm pleased to share this new paper, "The myth of 'catch-up' development". The paper assesses trends in core-periphery inequality since 1960, and draws several main conclusions: 🧵https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2026.2659076

The myth of catch-up development: trends in core–periphery inequality from 1960 to 2023

The conventional narrative in international development holds that poorer countries are “catching up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. This paper assesses this claim ...

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This really can't be the EU's response to both the greatest oil and gas uncertainty in decades and its largest heatwaves ever www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Europe’s most effective tool to cut greenhouse gas emissions ‘risks being weakened’

European Commission proposal to overhaul emissions trading system would give companies less demanding pathway to reductions

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My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.

Er de, som oplever seksuelle krænkelser økonomisk dårligere stillet i mange år efter? Ja- meget! I Frankrig præsenterede jeg forskning, som viser at mænds og kvinders forventede løntab er 6% og endnu mere ved jobskifte, og hele 26% for kvinder, hvis krænkelser fra både kollegaer og kunder.

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From ‘green finance’ to ’woke finance’: where should sociology stand in the critique of green finance and implications for a research agenda

Green finance, once heralded as a pragmatic tool for aligning capitalism with climate action, is now accused of being ‘woke’. While the social sciences have been strong on the critique of market-ba...

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These will be among the iconic images of the global warming era. Such sadness and awe

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Global decarbonization is a necessity to secure a safe & livable future. Supporting global green development is central to decarbonization. The structure of the global economy & financial system poses a problem. Here’s what we can do about it. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...

Beyond The Climate Finance Gap: The Global Financial System, Decarbonization, and the Failure of the Wall Street Consensus

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This should be (yet) a cue for the few remaining countries that still have not recognised Palestine to follow suit. DK, FI, NL, IT, ... US, DE. www.brusselstimes.com/2218260/belg...

Belgium to start Palestine recognition process after Hamas government dissolution

Belgian Foreign Minister, Maxime Prévot announced on Monday that he preparing the formal recognition of Palestine as a state.

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The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

New publication! Earlier this week, my new paper was published in @mihjournal.bsky.social: 'Fossil Neoliberalism: Towards an Intellectual History of Neoliberal Climate Change Denial' It's Open Access! 1/ doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Irony is dead

The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/

How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵

Muve to the beat. Muve the conversation. Muve mountains. Today @eurosky.social announces mu.social, a new microblogging app to experiment with the future of social! 🪩💖

extra happy these days to be in the complicity-denoucing pensions space

Danish pension fund excludes SpaceX citing governance and valuation

Danish pension fund Akademikerpension said on Friday it had placed SpaceX on ​its portfolio exclusion list ahead of ‌the company's initial public offering, citing concerns about the governance structu...

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Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

you may have left twitter but you're still funding Elon Musk with your pension savings. unfortunately, we won't see many denounce that complicity.

Pleased to see my article "Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments" published in @mihjournal.bsky.social. In short, it explores the relationship between financial law, Chicago school theory, and continued fossil-fuel investments. 1/

Pleased to see my article "Prudently Heating the Planet: Tracing the Legal Logic Bolstering Fossil-Fuel Investments" published in @mihjournal.bsky.social. In short, it explores the relationship between financial law, Chicago school theory, and continued fossil-fuel investments. 1/

’Something is ripe in the state of Denmark’ 1/ A climate-focused thread 🧵 on the new Danish government programme, listing what I see as key initiatives (and omissions) regarding overall climate policy, mobility and related areas (energy and land use planning). #dkpol #dktrp #dkgreen

Søren Have@sorenhave.dk · 2mo ago

The new Danish government programme was announced today👇. I'm still reading the details, but so far I want to credit it for mainstreaming the benefits of the green transition. An example is that the 85% CO2 reduction target (increased from 82%) is in the section about 'A more prosperous Denmark'.

🚨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.

Does anyone know of a solid 'green company' list? Say of companies that produce green energy (wind, solar etc) & perhaps other central green energy activities (eg storage, grid). I wanna compare pension funds' holding lists with a green company list, but I cant find any good reference list to use

Afstemningerne om danske pensionskassers investeringspolitikker er vigtige. Der er i disse dage afstemninger flere steder, bl.a. i AkademikerPension med forslag om klima og Israel. For at kunne stemme om begge forslag anbefaler jeg at man udfylder en "instruktionsfuldmagt" her: xn--grnpension-1cb.nu

Publication alert! 🔔 My new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social shows that the way in which credit ratings assess climate risks is detrimental to chances of the green transition. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DEWKJ... 1/n 🧵

Tragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings

How do financial markets influence the green transition? Advocates of harnessing markets to foster the green transition claimed that market rationality is a reliable mechanism to channel investment...

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The Hungarian election is a relief. But where is the push to strengthen the EU's democracy measures? Changing Art 7 should now be possible. Free, critical journalism should be further ensured. ... And then we can also discuss more radical measures, like economic democracy, economic justice, etc.