Useful new site detailing how dependent EU member states are on nature:

countries.encorenature.org/profiles/

How climate change is driving up insurance losses - new report. A couple of standout facts for me:

- 'Peak losses' where there is a major event, typically a US hurricane, projected to reach $400bn by 2030.
- Most losses are already not insured.

www.swissre.com/dam/jcr:4b56...

The new Nature Finance Tracker tells you what the UK government spends on nature.

www.naturefinance.uk?mc_cid=887b5...

Changing Finance: new this month - March - Finance Innovation Lab Financing the economy? The World Inequality Report 2026 is out, so it’s time to ask, ‘how are billionaires getting on?’ Less than 10% of UK bank lending is for productive investment. The Bank of Engla...

From billionaires to bank lending: is the economy serving people or profits? Read @jesselgriffiths.bsky.social
latest round up of this month's news, views and articles here. bit.ly/3PCPXDr

State of Civil Society 2026 report from @civicusalliance.bsky.social is out and it's grim reading (though there is hope in there too).

www.civicus.org/documents/re...

The World Inequality Report 2026 is out - confirming just how unequal the world is, especially for wealth, where the top 10% hold 75% of personal wealth. Loads in there to get you fired up to do something about this!

wir2026.wid.world/www-site/upl...

Battery storage costs have plummeted. Solar is cheap. UK rooftops have 117 GW of potential. Solar + batteries can be installed quickly.

Just what we need when horrendous wars remind us we need to get off fossil fuels as soon as possible.
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"Bad actors ... can conceal ... the true source of their crypto donations through the use of tools such as secrecy coins, mixer accounts, 'smurfing,' ‘chain hopping’ & coin-swapping services."

We need to ban crypto donations to political parties:

www.spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/u...

Credit is vital for businesses to invest and grow - and yet only a small sliver of UK bank lending is for such purposes.

No wonder we have an investment problem and small businesses are starved of credit.

www.datocms-assets.com/132494/17727...

Country Focus Ukraine: Debt Cancellation for a Fresh Start After the War - erlassjahr.de Ukraine had long been a heavily indebted country. Then, Russia attacked in February 2022. This was an external shock of the largest possible magnitude, causing not only immense suffering to the…

Useful article on Ukraine's debts. Let's hope they get what any country should where repaying debt would deepen poverty & prevent development:
- A fair & rapid process
- Cancellation of unfair & unpayable debts
- Protection from creditors that won't play ball

erlassjahr.de/en/kampagne/...

Where do AI searches get their news from? Interesting and important research from @ippr.org

www.ippr.org/articles/ais...

"5.2 billion people live in countries where debt payments are higher than total social spending."

We are in the midst of the "worst debt crisis ever" - and we need fundamental reform to fix it and stop another happening.

Powerful & important from Matthew Martin

www.equals.ink/p/debt-justi...

Big Financial Institutions are doing very little overall to integrate methane - a major contributor to climate change - into their Transition Plans.

New report from Climate Policy Initiative.
www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/u...

I spent years campaigning for more aid from rich countries to the Global South & for its quality to improve. Recent aid cuts have destroyed millions of lives — but rich countries have also undermined aid quality & how much reaches the Global South - see new @eurodadnews report.

tinyurl.com/ykw4947e

Economists really don't understand climate change & it could cost us the earth - new @carbontracker report.

Massive mistakes include not properly considering extreme events and tipping points even though 'extremes, not averages will define the future.'

carbontracker.org/reports/reca...

The proportion of people living in poverty who experience deep poverty is rising - one of many shocking stats in new UK Poverty 2026 report from @jrf-uk.bsky.social .

tinyurl.com/jrf2026

State of Finance for Nature 2026 UNEP's State of Finance for Nature 2026: Nature in the Red: Powering the Trillion Dollar Nature Transition Economy tracks global finance flows to Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and reveals that we are f...

Here you go!

www.unep.org/resources/st...

More than £10.5bn of UK pension savings are invested in thermal coal - the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel.

That’s bad for pension savers, the economy, and the climate.

Read our new research with LINGO Initiative.

filab.uk/3ZNdX8O

This is hopeful - India is on a faster decarbonisation track than China in terms of electrification of energy. New report from @ember-energy.org

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Our pensions system is deeply unfair - especially for women. New @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social report:

- 57% of pensioners in poverty = women.
- 58% of people with zero pension wealth = women.

The govt's reforms should fix this & guarantee decent pensions for all.

www.wbg.org.uk/publication/...

The Chinese central bank is a major driving forces for the global green economy. Its four main tools are summarised in the pic.

These tools are available to Western central banks too (some use them now, and most have in the past.)

greencentralbanking.com/2026/01/13/c...

This new UN report is truly shocking: globally, THIRTY TIMES as much finance flows to nature-destroying activities as to nature-supporting activities.

Finance directly harmful to nature reached $7.3 trillion, while investments
in nature-based solutions were only $0.22 trillion in 2023.

Just 28% of frozen criminal funds are permanently seized.

Important review of how well/ badly the UK is doing on recovering stolen assets from @spotlightcorruption.org :

www.spotlightcorruption.org/report/targe...

Oxfam's latest extreme wealth report is required reading. The headlines are that 12 billionaires had more wealth than half the global population. In the UK, the 56 richest had more wealth than the bottom 39%.

Lots of important analysis & recs in the report too:

tinyurl.com/ogb26

Worth a read - what kind of crisis would a bursting AI bubble cause? Makes the point that bank capital ratios are too low & falling, & the system is so interconnected & little understood that the chance of a major financial crisis should not be discounted: mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/01/what...

A damning & important warning from the Treasury Select Committee: “by taking a wait-and-see approach to AI in financial services, the three authorities are exposing consumers and the financial system to potentially serious harm,”

I couldn't agree more!
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FRC chief urges audit reform before next corporate scandal | Jesse Griffiths Audit reform is dead. Long live audit reform?! The government has abandoned long-planned audit reforms, saying that "..our priority is to promote economic growth and reduce administrative burdens."...

Audit reform is dead.... Long live audit reform!

Govt ditches reform as burdensome. But: risks remain, conflicts persist, & reform would strengthen the economy. We now have to wait for a scandal to get the reform (bad politics & bad economics!).

My full argument:

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Very interesting new @balancedeconomy.bsky.social report setting out the links between concentration of ownership in the financial sector and climate damage.

Here's one killer graph: over half of fossil fuel profits to the top 1% in the US.

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Brilliant news! Well done @gareththomasmp.bsky.social - this Bill would be a real game changer for the millions who have been forced into the arms of illegal lenders and loan sharks. It would also transform the prospects for the responsible banking alternatives we so desperately need.

Shocking stat of the day: the bottom half of the UK population have a PPP-adjusted average income of less than £7k (€7,751).

Is it any wonder people are so angry and looking for politicians with radical alternatives?

wir2026.wid.world/www-site/upl...