There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China.
But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves.
New paper & thread 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is a far bigger fuel,fertilizer,food crisis for Asia & Europe than it is for US. That has been my argument since war began That weakest people will suffer most.Again, just as after Ukraine
20-30% SUPPLY is out.Asian govts now doing Covid-style DEMAND-side reductions
tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...
Another @laurenleek.eu classic
Anyone teaching energy/IR/finance/ecology/political science etc, please do share with students & colleagues
I concluded my talk with @picharbonnier.bsky.social wise words.
Slides here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...
@katemac.bsky.social & my podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER tinyurl.com/PolycrisisPo...
Very useful comparative oil shock data viz.
Oligopolisation?
It is vital that EU policymakers find effective ways to syphon off the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies. It is the only way to lessen the economic shock, using price controls or transfers, while limiting the pressure on public finances.
1/4
As with renewables, European authorities are, again, on the wrong side of history for this one www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Reste à convaincre certains banquiers centraux toujours frileux envers la nécessité d'un activisme monétaire vert, notamment Pierre Wunsch (BNB), et à stopper les omnibus, soutenus par les conservateurs et l’extrême droite, démantelant les règles environnementales. www.lesoir.be/672873/artic...
Si elle devait augmenter ses taux d'intérêt, elle devrait en exempter les investissements dans les énergies renouvelables (Green TLTRO), qui souffrent plus des hausses de taux que leurs concurrents fossiles. Un pas de plus vers la fin de notre addiction aux fossiles et pour le climat planétaire.
Avec @jvtk.bsky.social, nous avons écrit une tribune pour le monde, appelant la @ecb.europa.eu à ne pas renouveler les erreurs commises en 2022, quand elle devra réagir au nouveau choc énergétique et inflationniste qui s'annonce. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Let's prepare for "long lasting" energy shock, without mentionning once "renewables", says the EU commissionner for energy. www.ft.com/content/7d3a...
I would like to be glad to say "Schadenfreude", but given upcoming famine risks in global south and wealth transfers from low/middle class households to energy companies shareholders, I just cant.
The big short, tous les ans!
La tribune est vmt bof. Dingue d ecrire sur ce sujet sans indiquer a un seul moment hallucinations, absence de fiabilite, effets cognitifs deleteres. Et de presenter les charbots comme un outil dappui plutot que leuur motivation prinxipale dutilisation: la flemme (ie l ex devaluer les memoires avec)
Does being high-skilled protect you from ethnic bias when applying for a UK visa? In a new pre-registered experiment to be published in International Migration Review, I find that high occupational status doesn't shield immigrants from ethnic prejudice — it may activate it.
Fully agree! With @felixsimon.bsky.social we wrote "the proliferation of AI content may increase the value and demand for authentic content"
knightcolumbia.org/content/dont...
Another episode of "How fossil fuels dependence weakened the EU's economic and political autonomy":
www.ft.com/content/6bf1...
Can Péter Magyar win a deeply rigged election? Would Orbán leave power—and would anything change even if he did? How did we even get here, and why, against all odds, do we still cling to hope? I wrote up my (admittedly messy) thoughts ahead of April 12
brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/can-hungar...
Sachant qu'il y'a 2x plus d'espace alloué aux golfs en Belgique qu'aux energies renouvelables, oui il serait temps www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
“Stock markets rise on five-day delay of war crimes”, is a headline somewhere I guess?
The home page of the website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium
Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium!
politicaleconomy.be
🔍 Meet the team
📚 Browse publications
🔬 Explore projects
📅 Stay tuned for events
The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...
Meanwhile, somewhere in the EU bubble: how can we add "slash green regulations to improve market competiveness" in that list?
Picture showing the percentage of wholesale gas covered by Russian long-term contracts, domestic production, other long-term contracts and spot / flexible LNG. 2021 vs. 2022
As a prep for an interview with a journalist, I looked for info on the prevalence of long-term contracts for gas in Europe. I found this: globallnghub.com/europes-expo... I don’t know whether the situation in 2026 is similar, but if it is, it’s time for the industry to hire more risk managers. 😱
"When the wise person points at China's role in expanding renewable capacities worldwide by crasing green utilities' price, the fool (ahem, European Commission) looks at markets' distortions/industrial overcapacity/disloyal competition.
Brilliant take from @triofrancos.bsky.social. The Western green movement was so fugace. And the Great Green Dismantling started well before the Trump 2.0 fascist backlash: weak politicians, powerful carbon lobbies, disorganised green industry, mediocre conservatives lurred into "antiwoke" narratives
Oh, a ripple effect.
Et avec tout ça, on ne sait toujours pas si Dune est une fable écolo/tragédie des ressources pimpée au LSD ou une grosse vrille libertarienne/reac/islamophobe pimpée au LSD.
