France 🇫🇷 doubles electrification support to €10bn/year through 2030 — EVs, heat pumps, industry.
The reason?

The Strait of Hormuz crisis making fossil fuel dependence impossible to ignore.

Geopolitical shocks don’t just raise prices. They change what’s politically possible.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk

Another example of refusing to collect data whose results you don’t like:

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Mapping pesticide mixtures to cancer risk at the country scale with spatial exposomics - Nature Health Using an integrative spatial Bayesian framework that merges high-resolution environmental pesticide risk modelling with comprehensive cancer registry data, this analysis reveals spatial patterns of pe...

Wow! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The White House will ask Congress for $1.5 trillion for defense in 2027, its highest level in modern history

The (h)arms industry is a critical obstacle to world peace and global health

Berlin weighs ‘sin taxes’ to stabilise strained health insurance system | Euractiv Plans include new taxes and scrapping free spousal coverage to plug funding gap

Germany is considering common sense health taxes www.euractiv.com/news/berlin-...

Community experiences of the impacts of climate-induced extreme weather events in Uganda: A qualitative study Climate change is impacting health, social systems and livelihoods of populations across the world with sub-Saharan Africa being particularly hard-hit. Lived experiences of the impacts of climate chan...

A new qualitative study supported by the Alliance documents how communities are adapting to climate change impacts in #Uganda.

🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The security council has allowed unchecked power and brutality. To protect peace, we must reform the UN | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva A world without rules is an insecure world. It’s time for multilateralism that truly reflects the global order, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

"It is time to respond with resolve by restoring the capacity of a reformed United Nations to act, so that it no longer remains a mere spectator to events that affect us all." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Good Research Fails - Science Politics Most research fails not because the science is poor, but because the systems surrounding it are misaligned with how scientific evidence is produced, used, and sustained.

why good research fails: sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/17/w...

A white poster board sign sporting a checklist - NO KINGS but green checks for books, art, empathy, love, and tacos

Or…ride a bicycle.

From crisis response to country control: Restoring agency and sustainability in global health journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Attention Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social

Price of Crude Oil WTI (USD/Bbl) over a five-year period, spanning from 2021 to early 2026. The chart shows a significant price peak in 2022 reaching over $120, followed by a general downward trend with various fluctuations, eventually hitting a low near $55 in late 2025 before a sharp vertical spike to the current price of 90.900. This recent surge represents an increase of +23.880 (+35.63%), highlighted in green text above the blue line graph.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

📢@alliancehpsr.bsky.social opened a🆕Call for Proposals: “Realizing health taxes:co-producing knowledge & strategies to implement health taxes”
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Eligible countries:Cambodia,China,Kenya,Indonesia,Nigeria, South Africa,Sri Lanka,Thailand&Viet Nam
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The @alliancehpsr.bsky.social has a new call for proposals on #healthtaxes in #Cambodia, #China, #Kenya, #Indonesia, #Nigeria, #SouthAfrica, #SriLanka, #Thailand, and #VietNam deadline 26 March ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

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Life in Plastic: It’s Not Fantastic

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/b...

The @alliancehpsr.bsky.social has a new call for proposals on #healthtaxes in #Cambodia, #China, #Kenya, #Indonesia, #Nigeria, #SouthAfrica, #SriLanka, #Thailand, and #VietNam deadline 26 March ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...

Peace is really almost always better.

Peace is really almost always better.

I bet this will be great! @emorwee is, age aside, a true veteran of these wars!

Masterclass in public communication

Achieving the 3 by 35 Initiative in Nigeria: Are the Current Health Taxes Strong Enough? - Nigeria Health Watch Yasir Jamal Bakare and Onyinye Oranezi (Lead writers) In July 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the 3 by 35 Initiative,...

Achieving the 3 by 35 Initiative in #Nigeria: Are the Current Health Taxes Strong Enough? articles.nigeriahealthwatch.com/achieving-th...

Protecting global health in the era of the America First Strategy As Washington recasts its global health agenda, the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS) presents itself as a corrective to decades of aid dependence.1 Open-ended assistance is replaced with t...

"The policy challenge is therefore not how to restore a depoliticised global health order, but how to protect health systems in an environment in which leverage determines engagement and continuity." powerful piece in @lancetgh.bsky.social from Nelson Evaborhene www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The paradox of trust in health care in the age of social media Health systems worldwide face two fundamental and connected challenges: pervasive misinformation and disinformation and eroding public trust. This erosion reveals a paradox at the heart of contemporar...

"Addressing the paradox of trust requires not only technical accuracy but also co-production from outset, overarching horizontal communication, infrastructures for transparency and emotional resonance, and regulatory reforms for algorithms and digital environments" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Advancing health policy and systems research and analysis: new frontiers, renewed relevance Abstract. Health systems are at a crossroads. Globally, health systems are straining under the weight of responding to persistent and emergent challenges.

Recommended reading---> Advancing health policy and systems research and analysis: new frontiers, renewed relevance academic.oup.com/heapol/advan...

Every child deserves to protected from preventable diseases - it is their right to health

China and the World to Come • EQUATOR How elites in Beijing view the collapse of American hegemony

Pankaj Mishra interviews the Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei about the coming multipolar order: ”I’d already said that the American model will not work for the Global South, but it doesn’t even seem to be working for the West itself now.” www.equator.org/articles/chi...