ADAM TOOZE

@GoldenBav Further grist to the mill. Excellent. Indeed, from any medium to long-term perspective decarbonization is after all best thought of not as a “cost”

@Zulutron @MichaelArouet Yes. This is the (horrible) stuff that global climate politics is made of.

@Noahpinion Yeah. Thats where I though I was with @ForeignPolicy But then things sometimes go really quickly. Price you pay for congenial and excellent editing,

@Noahpinion Hi @Noahpinion Do your privileges at Bloomberg extend to picking your own headlines? Mine dont at @ForeignPolicy So then I have to do a

Hmm … still struggling to see where we disagree. I think Xi’s announcement puts EU in a rather difficult spot. I would see climate neutrality

RT @RushDoshi: @adam_tooze @alpinemacro @SoberLook From that perspective, “effort” may reveal itself in more granular behavior that is not…

RT @RushDoshi: @adam_tooze @alpinemacro @SoberLook A good observation, but aggregate spending is less revealing of PRC strategy and intenti…

I didn't venture this "intentionalist" power political reading of Xi's climate move even more loudly in the @ForeignPolicy piece because folks like @sinocism @jordanschnyc @KaiserKuo

Simple intentionalist readings of CCP policy easily end up impaled on cynical/power political/realism v. idealism/ideology fork, which I find profoundly unilluminating. I'm scarred by my

My guess, equally unfounded in deep inside knowledge, would be that climate problem is "good fit" for CCP leadership worldview: a. China acts on science

Xi's announcement that China is aiming for max CO2 < 2030 and neutrality by 2060 may turn out to be a world historic turning point.

I dont think we know enough about what is going on inside China's leadership. I certainly dont. But … as I hinted in @ForeignPolicy piece,

4. leveraging Germany, in particular. 5. global green energy industrial leadership. 6. internally Xi is defining a new economic policy agenda. For all of these

… Xi's bold climate policy announcement as part of a piece with moves on Hong Kong. It is an expression of confident power. A consolidation

@sortofhere @ForeignPolicy Hi. I dont see these as incompatible. Climate announcement is not about being “nice, because Green". More plausible to see it as a

As we digest the implications of Xi’s commitment to make China carbon neutral by 2060 can we redo @jasonhickel calculations on responsibility for climate breakdown?

@MuellerTadzio @SchickGerhard @doublingtime Will be fun. I count on you @SchickGerhard

@NatBullard @ForeignPolicy @EIAgov And that small matter of land use … Cited mainly on account of population to indicate that hidden in that “ROW” box

@IngmarVon @APHClarkson Yeah … Point of piece is that Xi can make more credible commitment than US and is plausible partner for EU, which, you

With Xi declaration of 22 Sep 2020 China has staked its historic claim to CO2 real estate. Max < 2030. Neutral by 2060. So where

@MuellerTadzio @SchickGerhard @doublingtime Die prägenden Jahre meiner Jugend in Heidelberg anschliessend ab (Juni) 1989 in Berlin (West) … Wessiebiographie – with a difference.

As we digest the implications of Xi’s commitment to make China carbon neutral by 2060 … Can we redo @jasonhickel calculations on responsibility for climate

@doublingtime @JKSteinberger Lets just say that with regard to twitter I invoke my own Glück Der Späten Geburt. If I’d been into this medium at

RT @doublingtime: On that note, this seems to be popular @adam_tooze 👇🏿—thanks (to you & @JKSteinberger & all) for yr kind words! I hope no…

@MuellerTadzio @SchickGerhard Oh mit Freude. Das thread zum Systemwechsel das @doublingtime gerade retweetet war hard-hitting aber genial. Sehr zum Punkt. And the feelings re @SchickGerhard

RT @alexwagner: In 2013, a Democratic president invited an 80 year-old, two-time cancer survivor, Supreme Court justice to lunch to convey…

RT @bhbradlow: Is the GND movement ready for a political reality in which the US is not the central player? Worth serious reflection. https…

@MaxJerneck Yeah … you may be right that that is a bit of exaggeration for effect. In trying to capture the shift in the center

RT @ForeignPolicy: With two short sentences, China’s leader may have redefined the future prospects for humanity, writes FP's @adam_tooze.…

RT @Jmhaas: @adam_tooze @bentleyballan @70sBachchan @policytensor We don't know in detail what the EU offered during the recent summit, but…

RT @ArjanDevDebate: @adam_tooze Momentous indeed, thank you for this piece. It’s be great to hear more about how the huge divestment from o…

RT @Jmhaas: Absolutely must read re the new Geopolitics of climate by @adam_tooze foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/25/xi-… @christophbals @LutzWeischer @cli…

It may seem hyperbolic to ask this question, but was it at this moment on 22 September 2020, by way of this video link that

RT @EmilyJonesBSG: Fascinating analysis by @adam_tooze on China’s landmark climate move “China’s new commitment will by itself lower the p…

@jerometenk I agree it is a fascinating and world historic balancing act! And the proof of the pudding …

RT @joethw8s: Good piece on the geopolitical importance of China's carbon neutrality commitment, and what it means for the US, EU and India…