Save the date: Sommerakademie von #Attac vom 10. bis 12. Juli in Frankfurt 🚀 Alle Infos und Anmeldung: www.attac.de/soak #soak2026

Neue Zahlen, alte Probleme: Der Schuldenreport 2026 von @erlassjahr.bsky.social und @misereor.bsky.social ist soeben erschienen. Er zeigt

📢 Very timely new paper by @paulahaufe.bsky.social - give it a read! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Green financial power in geoeconomic times: Development banks between Wall Street and Paris - Paula Haufe, 2025

Public climate finance in the third decade of the 21st century is awkwardly positioned between the Wall Street Consensus (WSC), state capitalism, and climate ju...

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Jopin our launch event of our [tra:ce] Working Paper No. 6 exploring how European financial institutions respond to stranded asset risks! 🔗 Register for the event: www.uni-wh.de/launch-des-t... 📄 Read the paper: ssrn.com/abstract=568... Looking forward to seeing all of you!

📣 Avec plus de 120 organisations, experts, chercheurs et entreprises, nous appelons la Commission européenne à garantir l'exclusion des entreprises développant de nouveaux projets d'énergies fossiles des futures catégories du SFDR afin de lutter efficacement contre le greenwashing. Lire la lettre ⤵️

There is no room for fossil fuel developers in any sustainable finance categories - Reclaim Finance

The review of the SFDR is coming to an end with the publication of the proposal for a revised regulation by the European Commission announced for Q4 2025.

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Inspiring, empowering, and full of bold research: the summer school was a reminder for how vital it is to build more inclusive spaces in political economy. 💜 Thanks to everyone involved and especially @palmapolyak.bsky.social & @dustinvoss.bsky.social

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

Happy to share a new open-access article from the SuFi project at Witten/Herdecke University, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @simonschairer.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good

The Capital Markets Union (CMU) project aims to create more integrated capital markets in Europe. However, the project faces resistance, and despite ongoing efforts EU capital markets remain fragme...

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Figure from our #policy #report: 1. The main barrier to #financing the necessary activities for the sustainable transition is their lack of #bankability 2. High GHG-emitting activities remain #bankable and thus continue to attract financing from banks and shadow banks www.uni-wh.de/en/your-camp...

Our #policy #paper has just been published: "Financing the #green #transition: Increasing #bankability, phasing out carbon investments and funding 'never bankable' activities". We ask: Why does a large green financing gap persist? What policies do we need to change it: www.uni-wh.de/en/your-camp...

Banks have been slow to increase green lending and continue to finance high-GHG-emitting activities. Why? Based on 88 interviews, in our new @trace working paper, we argue that there are three main reasons: bankability, business model, and regulations. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🚨 New Working Paper published with @simonschairer.bsky.social @janfichtner.bsky.social @david castro @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social : 🛢️💸🏝️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Important contribution by @simonschairer.bsky.social and colleagues on the evasion of carbon financing from traditional banks to the opaque shadow banking sector 👇

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Recent years saw regulatory efforts to steer the financial system towards financing the transition to a net-zero economy and phase out carbon financing. However, EU regulation has left the nexus of offshore finance and the shadow banking system untouched.

🚨 New Working Paper published: Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk 🛢️💸🏝️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... A 🧵 with our main arguments:

How can we finance a globally just sustainable transformation? In this piece with @naguila.bsky.social, @jwullweber.bsky.social we explore the need to reform the international monetary system for that purpose. Big thank you to @isrfoundation.bsky.social for publishing it and amazing editorial work👇

Independent Social Research Foundation@isrfoundation.bsky.social · last yr.

Towards a Green International Monetary System Nicolás Águila, @paulahaufe.bsky.social and @jwullweber.bsky.social argue for the Ecor, a new international monetary tool, based on Keynes's Bancor, that could break the current impasse surrounding climate transition financing. isrf.org/blog/towards...

What makes urban climate finance and where do the politics lie? - Look into this paper for an innovative and really productive analytical approach. Much appreciated contribution and highly recommended 🙌

John Hogan Morris@johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've got a new paper out with the brilliant @savannahcox.bsky.social & Emma Colven! We took a social studies of finance lens to explore the practices of 'framing, standardization & classification' that 'center' private finance at the core of urban climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Important, timely and very helpful paper. Do check it out!

Jan Fichtner@janfichtner.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New paper by the Uni Witten SuFi Project in @finandsoc.bsky.social Channels of influence in sustainable finance: A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A 🧵 on our main arguments:

The who, what & how of Sustainable Finance has gotten very complex - Our new paper helps out conceptualizing Channels of Influence used by private financial actors to shape green transitions. We hope it is a helpful resource for scholars 📚, policy debates 🗞️, practitioners 🏦 and civil society 📣 a🧵⬇️

Jan Fichtner@janfichtner.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New paper by the Uni Witten SuFi Project in @finandsoc.bsky.social Channels of influence in sustainable finance: A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A 🧵 on our main arguments:

Trump, Musk, Kickl, Orban, die AfD... Rechtsextreme sind auf dem Vormarsch. Jetzt kommt es auf uns alle an. Unsere Antwort: Wir stehen zusammen und wehren uns gegen den Rechtsruck. Wir werden den Rechtsextremen nicht unsere Zukunft überlassen. Komm zum Lichtermeer für Demokratie und Zusammenhalt!

I have published a short piece in German summarising recent work on International Financial Subordination. Mainly for my parents so that they know what I do:)

Economists for Future e.V. | DE@econ4future.bsky.social · 2y ago

💲Die Finanzmärkte im globalen Norden zementieren Abhängigkeiten im globalen Süden. Aber was tun? @anninak.bsky.social zeigt Auswege auf. 👇 @makronom.bsky.social makronom.de/wie-der-uebe...

Der #Sozialstaat als „Hängematte“? Die wahren Zahlen zu Sozialleistungen sehen anders aus: Während der Missbrauch klein ist, verzichten Millionen auf das, was ihnen zusteht, zeigt eine aktuelle Analyse für unser @wsiinstitut.bsky.social 🤯 Aber Warum? 👉 www.boeckler.de/de/boeckler-...

Wow. These are powerful remarks by Indermit Gill in his Foreword to the World Bank’s International Debt Report 2024, which has just come out. They are both timely and necessary as we approach the 4th FfD Conference, where discussions on an international solvency insolvency framework are critical.

"By examining the intertwined relationships between finance, extraction, and transitions, researchers can gain insights into the power dynamics, contradictions, and alternatives shaping the future of energy production and consumption" From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1874

Unravelling the Geographies of the Green Transition: Understanding the Finance-Extraction-Transitions Nexus

By Tobias Franz and Angus McNelly The transition from fossil fuels to green energy in the 21st century – driven by the urgent need to address anthropogenic climate change – represents a monumental …

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Pre-announcement! A little while ago @nathantankus.bsky.social asked me to write a short piece on wartime central bank independence, Schacht, Norman, the BIS and Nazi gold for his Notes on the Crises website. After a wonderful collaboration it is now ready and will appear tomorrow! Stay tuned!

Central banks in financially subordinated countries act differently from CBs in the core, particularly during crises. In this paper, I study peripheral CBs' last resort intervention by looking at Argentina in 2020. Peripheral CBs face limits due to their position in the int'l currency hierarchy

Central Banking in Financially Subordinated Countries During Crises: The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic’s Response to the Pandemic in 2020

Central banks in financially subordinated countries face structural limits derived from the position of the currencies that they issue in the international monetary hierarchy. These constraints bec...

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Ich gebe Montagabend ein Online-Probeseminar "Klimakrise, Staat und Markt - wie die Transformation finanzieren", zugleich ein Schnupperabend für unseren B.A. Global Sustainability und B.A. PPÖ. Es wird Raum für Diskussion und Fragen geben. Studierende werden auch vor Ort sein lnkd.in/eRku2zgm

🌎 #COP29 Analysebericht: Die Konferenz brachte keine echten Fortschritte im #Klimaschutz, ein Rückschritt wurde gerade noch verhindert. Alle Ergebnisse zu #Klimafinanzierung #Energiewende und mehr hier ausführlich nachlesen: wupperinst.org/a/wi/a/s/ad/...

In slightly longer form, what is becoming an annual rant about what the failures of this COP summit reveal about climate politics. nickbernards.substack.com/p/if-this-wa...

If this was the finance COP, where is the finance?

The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan was hyped up in advance as the ‘finance COP’. High on the agenda for COP 29 was a revis...

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If, like me, you’ve been searching Bluesky for fellow @finandsoc.bsky.social participants, look no further! I’ve made a starter pack 👍 (DM me if I’ve missed you! I went by names on the programme but appreciate folk use different usernames etc) go.bsky.app/EoRCUHE

Apply now for the #BA #Global #Sustainability. #Climate #Justice #Transformation. A critical B.A. study (+practice) program about global political + economic transformation processes @Uni Witten/Herdecke. More Info: www.uni-wh.de/en/uwh-inter...

Lesenswerter Artikel von Rainer @vossman.bsky.social in der FR zu @paulahaufe.bsky.social @naguila.bsky.social und meinem Vorschlag für eine Nachhaltigkeits-orientierte Weltwährung und Weltzentralbank um Transformationsprozesse global, gerechter und flexibler zu finanzieren www.fr.de/wirtschaft/g...