Klaudia Prodani

What a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace - Greenpeace International A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.

So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms. 

But we will not be silenced.

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State capacities for decarbonization: from investable transitions to green transformations Researchers increasingly invoke the concept of ‘state capacity’ to analyze how and when states pursue decarbonization and renewable energy policies. Drawing on a review of recent climate governance...

The literature on state capacity for decarbonization has grown so much since I started my PhD back in 2020, so this review has been rewritten so many times (and I had to cut a lot in this final iteration). Hope I’ve done it justice. Available open access here 🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Unsustainable for a democracy.

I'm going to try this when students ask me hellishly difficult questions like "what is the rationale behind Plato's geometric number for human sexual reproduction"

Goldman to Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as 'the Gestapo' or 'secret police' encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is you have it backwards. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."

Bedrijven kunnen niet zonder biodiversiteit. Mooi artikel over het #businessandbiodiversity assessment van #IPBES.

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Met inbreng van o.a. @wietekewillemen.bsky.social @kprodani.bsky.social en anderen

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Many thanks to the Chapter 6 contributing authors @romainsvartzman.bsky.social @rensvantilburg.bsky.social @gerdie knijp @maud abdelli!

Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The UK student loan system — and its danger for Labour Growing anger among millions of graduates who face decades of debt is causing unease in Westminster

“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.”

It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years!

“Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question.
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Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Front page of the report, available here: https://reportondemocracyatwork.org/en/the-report/

Picture of Yolanda Diaz and the expert committee members at the report's launch in Madrid, 2 Feb 2026.

Spain's constitution promises democracy at work. Last year, @yolandadiaz.bsky.social convened an expert group to study how to make good on that promise.

Lead by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we have delivered what is, we think, the highest-level 400-page report on economic democracy out there. 1/2

Sounds fascinating! @estherturnhout.bsky.social

The problem of knowledge in the Anthropocene In the twentieth century, debates about economic planning were largely shaped by arguments concerning knowledge and the acquisition of information. As the century drew to a close, the dispute was a...

In this paper I show that the prevalent forms of knowledge production and use are inadequate to guarantee the perpetuation of a safe ecological space and argue in favor of planning episteme against green finance 1/
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@tandfresearch.bsky.social @dehes.bsky.social

Hello London-ish people! I will be there doing a book talk on Pollution is Colonialism week after next! Feb 3. Free and open to all!

Dropkick Murphys' Unveil Anti-ICE Song: "Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop" Dropkick Murphys are releasing an anti-I.C.E. song, "Citizen I.C.E.," as part of their tour-only split LP with Haywire. Learn more.

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E."

The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
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Troubled ontologies: an economisation approach to climate risk and its politics Whether as economisation or performativity, scholars in market studies have problematised various entanglements between financial markets and climate change. Studies have identified, for instance, ...

NEW: Troubled ontologies: an economisation approach to climate risk and its politics - Matthias Taeger and Daniel Buenza www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social

The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com

A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Revisiting central bank independence for the climate era: insights from the People’s Bank of China - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment This paper explores the relationship between independence and climate action through an in-depth study of the PBoC, comparing it with Western central banks.

This new report from the Grantham Institute is crucial. And it's quite striking to see it published... it seems to indicate people are willing to consider policy ideas long treated as taboo.

www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

That’s nothing: Where I’m from, “junior scholar” lasts to 42.

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?

Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7

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Late stage capitalism meets the misguidedness of GDP accounting: when one big chunk of growth is a technology bubble responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions and another big chunk is cleaning up the mess caused by those emissions

US jury finds French bank BNP Paribas complicit in Sudan atrocities The French banking giant said the ruling by a jury in New York was 'clearly wrong' and that it plans to appeal.

Looking for readings — what scholarship historicizes and theorizes financiers’ legal responsibility for financing harm, how have conceptions of their responsibility changed over time, and how are these perhaps very different in different countries?

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power Power is frequently acknowledged in conservation as a limiting factor, something to be cited, problematized, or managed, less frequently is it engaged with as a lived, situated, and multidimensional ....

New in Conservation Letters: a guide to understanding power relations in conservation science. "A cross-cutting matrix enables users to trace how their own position shapes what they see, do, and make possible in conservation contexts" doi.org/10.1111/conl...

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

Sounds very interesting. It says "page not found" when I click on the link.

Rebuilding Gaza — For Profit | Adam Tooze YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development.

Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
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