EU green policy must bring the population with it
April 7, 2023
The commission’s industrial policy debate has been singularly lacking in bottom-up public participation Read the full article at The Financial Times.
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Climate Political Economy
The Cop26 message? We are trusting big business, not states, to fix the climate crisis
November 16, 2021
The summit exposed a world looking beyond a broken neoliberal model Cop26 delivered no big climate deal. Nor, in truth, was there any reason to
Opinion: the Fed can, and should, take big steps on climate
July 26, 2021
In the last two years the central banking community has embraced the issue of climate change. That is not to say that central bankers have
Climate crisis offers way out of monetary orthodoxy
July 12, 2021
On July 8th the European Central Bank announced the results of the Monetary Policy Strategy Review initiated by its president, Christine Lagarde, in January 2020. Delayed by
Was ist die grüne Erzählung von Politik und Emotionen?
June 14, 2021
Das große Rad drehen: Ökonomie und Psychologie der ökologisch-sozialen Transformation Moderiert von Ellen Ueberschär (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung) entwickeln Adam Tooze (Columbia University NY), Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die
Can Elites Start the Climate Revolution?
June 3, 2021
Financial capital and the courts are quietly creating the conditions to stop global warming—if politics does its part, too. Will the spring of 2021 prove
Adam Tooze on Climate Politics After COVID
May 21, 2021
Back in autumn 2019, when COVID was still just a twinkle in Satan’s eye, the world was already hurtling toward crisis. The Arctic Sea ice was
Investment and Decarbonization
May 20, 2021
A roundtable discussion with: Anusar Farooqui, Yakov Feygin, Daniela Gabor, Robert Hockett, JW Mason, Saule Omarova, and Tim Sahay, moderated by Adam Tooze.
Green mortgages: Homes need to catch up to climate change
May 13, 2021
When we think of tackling the problem of climate change we might think of smoke-belching power plants, or gas-guzzling trucks, or the guilty pleasure of
How Radical Is President Joe Biden On Climate? With Aaron Bastani on Downstream
April 27, 2021
For some Joe Biden has already exceeded expectations. For others his economic program is nowhere near enough to address the climate crisis and American decline.
America’s race to net zero
April 21, 2021
Does Joe Biden’s climate plan go far enough? On 22-23 April the Biden administration is hosting a global climate summit to mark Earth Day, named
Europe’s decarbonisation challenge? ‘Wir schaffen das’
March 22, 2021
In the 18th century, Europe was the cradle of the fossil-fuel revolution. Now, we are calling time on the energy sources which have hitherto defined
Talking Politics Podcast – The Tragic Choices of Climate Change
March 18, 2021
David talks to Helen Thompson and Adam Tooze about the choices facing the world in addressing climate change. Can we transition away from fossil fuels
The Green New Deal’s time has come – but what’s happened to Labour’s radicalism?
March 11, 2021
The party risks a dead end with its ‘Little Britain’ thinking, in marked contrast to the bolder path taken by Joe Biden What a difference
After Escape: The New Climate Power Politics
December 11, 2020
The vista painted for us by Bruno Latour, Eva Lin, and Martin Guinard in their concept for the Taipei Biennial 2020 is alarming: “We are
China takes the climate stage
October 19, 2020
This was supposed to be a big year for climate politics. It has lived up to expectations. But not, perhaps, in quite the way Europe
Welcome to the Final Battle for the Climate
October 17, 2020
The great powers have taken big steps to fight global warming. Now attention turns to the rest of the world. China’s unilateral commitment to carbon
How Xi Just Saved the World
September 25, 2020
In a little-noticed speech this week, China permanently changed the global fight against climate change. China will scale up its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions by
Carbon pricing and the exit from fossil fuels
July 6, 2020
Adam Tooze argues the European Green Deal and young Europeans’ activism are fostering a virtuous circle favouring more rapid decarbonisation. In the 1980s the dawning
COVID: First Economic Crisis of the Anthropocene
May 7, 2020
In the spring of 2020 the streets of the major commercial capitals of the world from Lagos to Shanghai, London, and New York were eerily
Politics for the end of the world
April 1, 2020
History right now shifts with dizzying speed. Anatol Lieven’s new book is about climate change and the nation state. Lieven wants us to think about
NYU Abu Dhabi: Green New Deal Twentieth Century Shadows on Climate Crisis
February 5, 2020
The climate crisis is the greatest challenge of the 21st century, but Western politics continues to approach it through the lens of 20th-century history. References
Davos prioritises environment as activists invest hope in greener finance
January 21, 2020
“Our house is on fire,” Greta Thunberg told delegates at the World Economic Forum last January. In the months that followed, “Greta” became the uncompromising
The Fierce Urgency of COP26
January 20, 2020
There are turning points in history. Moments that matter. Moments that mark beginnings and ends. As Martin Luther King reminded us “There is such a
How Climate Change has Supercharged the Left
January 15, 2020
The climate emergency is stirring radical politics across the world. Most notably, the left wings of both the Democratic Party in the United States and
How Britain beat Germany in the race for green energy
December 9, 2019
In the UK there is now considerable euphoria around decarbonisation. This is, to say the least, a surprise. In the 19th century Britain led the
Germany Chooses Economic Nostalgia Over Saving the Planet
October 31, 2019
When Kristalina Georgieva had to choose a panel for her debut as managing director of the International Monetary Fund at the organization’s fall meeting, the
Grosse Koaltion, Small Klimapaket
September 30, 2019
In Germany Friday September 20th 2019 was billed as the moment at which Angela Merkel’s Grosse Koalition would reclaim leadership in climate politics. There was
Hurricane in the Bahamas is a harbinger of our future
September 3, 2019
For the government of the Bahamas, the devastating hurricane that struck the Abaco Islands is a national emergency. Around the world it has unleashed a
Why Central Banks Need to Step Up on Climate Change
July 20, 2019
In October 2012, the global financial system got its first taste of the effects of climate change when Hurricane Sandy roared through lower Manhattan, shutting
Europe’s Coal Problem
June 10, 2019
The European Union likes to pose as a leader on environmental politics, but when it comes to climate policy Europe has a skeleton in its
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