If China wants to have any chance of being compatible with a 1.5 degree world by 2060, it needs to take coal out of its
If Draghi’s Italian government can deliver this growth path, NextGenEU will go down as a success. It isnt revolution but it would be a big
To be consistent with a world of only 1.5 degree warming, China would need to cut emissions by 90%, energy consumption by 39% and invest
Moving to net zero may not hurt as much as we think Technical challenge is huge, but result need not feel like a revolution. It
Environmentalists Decry Campaign of ‘Intimidation’ By Irish Politicians And Agri-Industry Over New Cheese Factory. Yup its the new frontier of climate pol Econ. Seriously: Expanding
2020 was terrible for young people but the collapse in employment for those 15-24 after 2008 in Italy and Spain still stands out as Europe’s
In light of flux in German politics we need an update on Joachim Jachnow’s great “What’s become of the German Greens?” Piece of 2013 from
At an April 21 summit on semiconductor resilience, Pres Biden quoted a bipartisan letter from senators and House members warning that CP was “aggressively planning
@Esang_Ekarika Do you disagree with the analysis of the article I link to?
"The Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed more nationalist feelings worldwide causing countries to increase their military spending, according to the chief executive of Swedish defence group
Boko Haram grabs the headlines but the majority of abductions in Nigeria in 2020 were by communal militia. ft.com/content/d8d9bf… https://t.co/Wn3ZMTAXdI
RT @tedfertik: Seriously though. How loud do we have to shout on twitter that $1tn over 8 years for decarbonization won’t cut it before the…
RT @conor64: The quickest, easiest way that America could help marginalized people and advance global equity right now is to give away the…
RT @fipaddict: J’étais passé à côté de ce superbe papier d’@adam_tooze sur l’évolution intellectuelle de Paul Krugman et du camp démocrate.…
RT @LuGuangMing: Lisbon 25 April – Guinea Bissau June 1945 https://t.co/l0eIWBf3sB
In October 2020 the World Bank pledged $12bn for vaccines and their roll-outs globally, but as of April 20th it had approved projects worth only
Vaccine supply is a huge problem for Africa. But of 45 countries for which the WHO has data, 32 have used less than half of
Vaccine makers have warned US officials that temporarily scrapping patents for Covid-19 shots would risk handing mRNA technology to China and Russia … you kind
Russia has international reserves of $596bn. Share held on American territory fell from 30% in 2013 to just 7% now. It has more of its
in 2012-19, Russian gdp growth averaged just 1% = half the rate the Soviet Union saw from 1977 to 1985, the era known as “Stagnation”.
Britain has 2nd-largest legal market in world after America, at $51bn by fee revenue. As @KatharinaPistor has shown Brit commercial law is key to global
@debye_huckel Hi, Söder is a talented “Alpine populist”. There is a constituency for that in Germany too. politico.eu/article/markus…
Russian real incomes fell by 3.5% in 2020 -> average income 10% down on 2013. After a 6-week lockdown nearly 1/2 of households had little
"In nur-sultan, capital of Kazakhstan, there is a small corner of England. The gleaming court of the Astana International Financial Centre, an investment zone opened
“To put it mildly,” Werner Hoyer, president of the European Investment Bank, declared in January, “gas is over.” economist.com/business/2021/… https://t.co/UoHWQCOtEO
Two polls out of Germany now put Greens ahead of CDU. H/t @OlafStorbeck twitter.com/OlafStorbeck/s…
Just one poll but it has the Greens ahead of CDU! twitter.com/EuropeElects/s…
RT @DanielaGabor: 15 months ago, in conversation with @MESandbu I warned that EU's Green Deal, with its Green Third Way approach to nudging…
RT @DanielaGabor: the Taxonomy is now even more indefensible than the private ESG metrics for green financial instruments https://t.co/Oj9…
If anyone is pushing depolarization of trade it is Russia: Less than half of Russia’s trade with China is settled in dollars. In trade with
The 2008-2014 dash for gas by the big fossil fuel companies has left them with tens of billions in impairments. Has it locked the world
There’s a passage somewhere in one of the Freiburg volumes on Germany in WWII in which a general complains that infantry are increasingly just ammo
Congratulations @AnnaArabindan What fabulous news! twitter.com/SPHLibrary/sta…
RT @gray_sky_guy: @zeithistoriker @adam_tooze @JWMason1 This writer should read Tooze's latest in the New Statesman about how Biden's clima…
RT @LRB: ‘The mantra on everyone’s lips is a blunt statement of Krugman’s position. Do not repeat the mistakes of the early Obama administr…
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