for the series #greenwashingwithprettypictures

Pretty stunning: *No* major estimate of climate change’s financial costs includes the cost of these wildfire smoke days, Marshall Burke tells me In other words, any estimate you’ve ever read of climate change’s costs did not include the cost of this heatmap.news/climate/wildfi…

New article! In Globalizations, I reflect on the persistent failure of the ‘private turn’ in development finance to actually mobilise capital on the scale intended, and what this says about the place and power of finance in the world economy. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The financial constraints on a developing country are holding so many back from doing more to deal with climate change. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/globa…

It's awesome to see so many people sharing my piece! Infrastructure finance is complex―so I want to break down my argument as best I can and provide some extra context along the way. Albert Pinto Kate Mackenzie The Polycrisis 🧵1/25 x.com/advaitarun_/st…

It is an extremely on-the-nose summary of international climate politics that the US is lobbying to rename the Loss and Damage Fund to the 'Resilient Futures Fund'. Even the mention of 'damage' is apparently too close to an acknowledgement of unequal responsibility...

NOW! Scientists and activists are blocking the main street at Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen to demand Denmark ban private jets! #dkpol #dkmedier Stay Grounded - @staygroundednet on Bluesky 🦋 Scientist Rebellion

Our paper with Florence Dafe Ingrid H. Kvangraven and Iván Weigandi on local currency debt markets in Africa is now online. We show that though mitigating on some of the risks of foreign currency debt, local currency debt markets are no panacea - especially if developed with a 1/2

NEW OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives report on $100 billion out today: Developed to developing country #climatefinance increased 7.6% ($6.3bn) to $89.6bn in 2021. Adaptation finance fell -14% ($4bn) OECD says $100bn likely met in 2022, but no public data. It's a mixed bag 🧵 oecd.org/climate-change…

📣Just released a paper on State repression of #Environmental #Protest and #CivilDisobedience. The repression faced by #EnvironmentalDefenders is a threat to #HumanRights & #Democracy. Read the thread below for my calls to action and read the full paper 👇unece.org/sites/default/…

My first single-authored paper is out in Competition and Change Journal as part of a special issue on the IPE of Green Finance by @mbabic_1 and Sarah Sharma! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

"About half of International Development Association (IDA)-eligible countries failed to recover to pre-pandemic income levels." The scarring since COVID has been brutal. Chartbook 277 on the dev finance crisis of 2023 check it out and sign up here: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-27…

New paper alert! I identify members of “the climate establishment”: “insider INGOs working within the multilateral process and with large corporations to influence rulemaking, soft law and firm behavior.” THREAD link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Delighted to announce the release of APEC’s report on Int'l Investment Agreements & Climate Change #ClimateAction rb.gy/zi6ek1 It maps the multiple ways in which IIAs and climate change intersect, highlighting the tensions between ISDS and governing under uncertainty

Is there empirical support for #MitigationDeterrence for carbon removal? See case studies in this special issue: tinyurl.com/mr2t6wvp 1/10 Alina Brad Etienne Schneider @stheothanley Joachim Peter Tilsted Juanita v Rothkirch Holly Jean Buck @wimcarton Kate Dooley Jens Friis Lund

EU Green Deal’s 2030 agricultural & forestry targets could result in a 23.9 Mha increase in demand for agricultural land outside the EU, which would increase land-use-related carbon emissions by 758.9 MtCO2-eq & a biodiversity loss of 3.86 million species nature.com/articles/s4189…

1/ We're rightly terrified of feedback loops and tipping processes in the climate system - but what about climate feedbacks in our social and economic systems? 🧵

this is a really great short paper from Lukas Bogner about the complex legal regimes behind multilateral blended finance programs for climate and how they're evolving!