🇪🇺🇮🇳 The EU–India FTA has landed. Two points:
(1) The obligation to effectively implement Paris has been weakened: "effectively" has been dropped.
(2) The dispute settlement process is 100% political: no expert review, no remedies.
All in all, a significant weakening of the trade-climate nexus 🔻
Drawing on work by @keanbirch.bsky.social @greenprofgreen.bsky.social @nickbernards.bsky.social @hadoose.bsky.social @paullangley.bsky.social @saraheknuth.bsky.social among many others :)
New Paper out with @financeandspace.bsky.social (open access!) about attempts to make voluntary carbon markets 'liquid' via legal standardization, and a source of climate finance for the Global South. Plenty of strange things happening in the process. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📣 Publication day! The first paper from my project on Europe’s EV battery roll-out is finally out
I unpack how the EU’s EV battery boom is entangled with sacrifice zones—investment in Serbia & Hungary de-risked through autocracy.
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
New interesting looking paper on Climate obstruction and the African Petroleum Producers Organization.
Research on climate obstruction is dominated by studies of the North American and European context, so this kind of research is very welcome!
Check out our new article "Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production" co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social and Daniela Soto Hernandez in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨
What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions
I just taught IPE students about mercantilism and the limits to historical comparison today, will share this with them! :)
So instead of electrifying vehicle fleets to address climate change we are are instead using battery technology to drive more AI slop? No thanks.
www.ft.com/content/8b0a...
PhD Position at Roskilde University - indigenous rights, green transition in the arctic. Great colleagues! Feel free to share. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
EU research excludes refugee scholars through contradictory policies. Academic freedom is meaningless if it applies only to scholars with the privilege of unrestricted mobility.
Read the statement by the @europeanisa.bsky.social endorsing concerns raised by @isanet.bsky.social
In honour of the FT and Statista declaring Deloitte and PwC the top consultancies for sustainability services, worth re-upping @rosiecollington.bsky.social's and my piece on the rise of climate consulting:
Ownership infinity pools: finding control strategies in multinational enterprises, by David P. Castro & Leonard Seabrooke
It's like the guy from Suno claiming that musicians don't actually like to make music...
"Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment"
SpaceX is 100% correct about this, even if their proposed solution is hollow nonsense
www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...
Congrats, looking forward to read!!
On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Roskilde University has an open call for PhD proposals at the international section, great for interdisciplinary critical research in IPE, sciology, socio-legal studies, etc. Come and apply! (and please share if you know someone who would want to join us) :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Central bank independence and financial market reaction appear to be two more supposed liberal bulwarks against fascism which have, shockingly, failed.
Just a few things I'd like to say about this @hausfath.bsky.social piece.
The first is that every 10th of a degree of heating over 2C raises risks for multiple irreversible catastrophes MORE than every 10th of a degree of heating under 2C.
That's why the 2C target exists. It's not random.
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How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield?
Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.
Great reflection points: post-neoliberalism isn’t a rupture; it’s the new centrism. A depoliticized consensus language of “place,” “dignity,” and “storytelling” that avoids power, omits justice and climate, and stabilizes elite rule, serving as a rhetorical bridge between left and right elites.
New commentary!
I’ve been doing some work on World Bank experiments with trust funds for conservation in the 1990s.
It looks like, having run out of other ways to private finance our way out of climate crisis, they’re back at COP 30 with the TFFF.
theconversation.com/the-worlds-n...
I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
I'm very happy that my dissertation about legal expertise in climate finance was accepted for defense, which will be on November 24th, 14:00 CET. For those interested in listening in online, there's more info here: ruc.dk/en/events/lu... :)
🚨New Article Out! “The Scottish Road to Net Zero: Corporate Welfare and Assetization Cascades”
The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.
The fact that not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still increasing, but the *rate of CO2 increasing* in the atmosphere is still increasing is true nightmare stuff.
Still dancing.
