Without energy efficiency, the EU would need — and pay — 31% more for energy today.

Since 2000, efficiency has removed 265 Mtoe of demand from the market entirely.

The best protection against a price shock is not finding cheaper oil and gas. It's needing less of it.

Visionen als sozialdemokratisches Problem Lars Klingbeil, die SPD und die Frage der Zukunft

Lars Klingbeil war angezogen wie der Totengräber der deutschen Sozialdemokratie, schwarzer Anzug, dunkle Krawatte, Trauerflor. Und das, was er zu sagen hatte, ließ wenig Raum für Optimismus. Lieber sprach er von Opfern. Aber wer will solche Politik? Mein Substack:

open.substack.com/pub/georgdie...

Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition Over the last decade, green technologies have been deployed at record-breaking speeds across the world. No actor has been more important to this process than China, which now dominates what is cons...

🆕 🗞️ New Publication online today: Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition - with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

eine der Pathologien des pol. Zentrismus ist, dass man bis zum bitteren Ende glaubt, man könnte mit den Feinden der offenen Gesellschaft diskutieren und evtl. etwas 'lernen'. Glaubt ihnen, wenn sie sagen, wer sie sind und wo sie stehen.

Chart showing the rise and fall of US clean energy manufacturing investment since 2018.

The US clean energy manufacturing investment bust really is dramatic, and not slowing down.

Great investment tracker maintained by @jayturner.bsky.social and students.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...

What Tarik says.

Hinzu kommt: soziale Medien sind nicht das Problem, sondern die Milliärdäre und Oligarchen, denen diese Firmen gehören. Warum sollte ein kommerzfreier öffentlicher digitaler Raum mit Spielregeln und unter demokratischer Kontrolle schlecht für Jugendliche sein?

Die Geoökonomie der Dekarbonisierung im deutschen Exportmodell Deutschlands hastiger LNG-Schwenk droht in eine neue Abhängigkeit zu führen – diesmal von den USA. Der Versuch, Industrie und Exportmodell zu schützen, hat die Energiewende gebremst und einen gefährli...

Deutschlands hastiger LNG-Schwenk droht in eine neue Abhängigkeit zu führen – diesmal von den USA. In einer geoökonomischen Welt ist Dekarbonisierung kein Ballast, sondern unabdingbar für strategische Autonomie, zeigen @mbabic.bsky.social & @danmertens.bsky.social:

Geoökonomische Schocks sind mehr als Preisschocks.
@mbabic.bsky.social & @danmertens.bsky.social zeigen, warum #Dekarbonisierung geopolitisch kein Ballast ist, sondern Autonomie + Resilienz stärken kann.
👉 makronom.de/die-geooekon...
@makronom.bsky.social #econ4future #Geoökonomie #Energiewende #LNG

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
doi.org/10.1177/0032...

New paper in CNS:

'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'

This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...

An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️

RIPE is delighted to welcome @mbabic.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) as a new editor at RIPE from January 2026. His work explores the shift from neoliberal to post-neoliberal order—especially changing state/corporate power and how to decarbonise large state-owned firms. milanbabic.com

A new politics, rising out of the void. This is breathtakingly beautiful.

Thanks Dan, hope all is well!

while the richest person on the planet cannot shut up about satellites, we mere mortals (w. @joschabels.bsky.social) are left to study the pesky cables here down on earth in the mud (or rather on the seabed).

Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK

Danke!

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

Holy hell, what an obituary

@abenewman.bsky.social is right. There is an alternative. as.ft.com/r/7b8f914c-f...

Grenzen dicht, Zölle zurück: Ist das Ende der neoliberalen Globalisierung erreicht? Für den Politökonomen Milan Babic hat das Zeitalter der Geoökonomie begonnen.

Mit David Vogel sprach ich letztes Jahr über das Ende der neoliberalen Globalisierung. David hat daraus einen richtig guten Podcast gemacht, inklusive soundbites von Reagan, Thatcher und Gerhard Schröder (what's not to like?).

Das Ergebnis könnt ihr hier nachhören: www.nzz.ch/podcast/gren...

Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Milan Babić: Geoökonomie: Anatomie der neuen Weltordnung

Zölle, Handelskriege, Industriepolitik: Ist die neoliberale Globalisierung vorbei? Und falls ja, was kommt danach? @mbabic.bsky.social bringt die großen Verschiebungen auf den Begriff der Geoökonomisierung. @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social (@mpifg.bsky.social) hat das Buch für uns rezensiert @suhrkamp.de

RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.

@pollypw.bsky.social check this

The decision to finance arms for Ukraine through collective EU debt is taboo-breaking--but also part of a larger security turn in Europe. Ophelia Bentley & I have a new piece out that shows how the EU has geopoliticized markets in an unexpected arena: competition policy. doi.org/10.1017/elo.... 1/

Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

The Chinese Billionaires Having Dozens of U.S.-Born Babies Via Surrogate Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites are building mega-families—testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them.

Every billionaire is a policy failure, example 3290853

www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...

one week left to submit your abstracts for next year's SASE conference in Bordeaux 👇👇👇

Back when Dems governed like they meant business.

Cutting through the noise

Cutting Through The Noise

How can we not only cultivate our pessimism of the intellect, but also foster an optimism of the political will against all odds? In this #ISRFbulletin contribution, @mbabic.bsky.social suggests three avenues that might help with this task.

isrf.org/blog/cutting...

Interesting thing about the debate around ‘populism’ is that the concern about populism on the right is that it can destroy democracy and human rights, and the worry about the left is that … well they have nice ideas but maybe some of them might be hard to put into practice

Hope is here.

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Screenshot Lebensmittelzeitung: Rossmann kündigt Mitgliedschaft bei Familienunternehmerverband.

Screenshot Handelsblatt: Deutsche Bank storniert Mietvertrag des Verbands

Unerwartet, trotzdem da:

Rossmann Deutsche Bank Antifa.