Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...

Now available in print www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A useful read to understand the behaviour of some of the largest actors in the global politicsl economy today. Enshitification, whilst giving us lisence to use a swear word in work discussions, gives us a useful term to describe the rise of AI, crypto and big tech.

Newspaper famous for lying repeats lies by well known liar, Richard Tice, famous for telling lies about fossil fuels because rich liars pay him to repeat their lies.

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What if energy security is slowing climate action?

Research by Dr @james7jackson.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk & Mathias Larsen finds that concerns about relying on China for green tech are reshaping climate policy — and could delay the adoption of renewables.

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PSA26 Programme - Political Studies Association PSA26 will take place over three days, from Monday 30 March to Wednesday 1 April 2026. Registration will open at 8:30am, with panels starting at 9:30am and finishing at 5pm. The conference programme i...

Two more panels today and then we finish on a roundtable with @james7jackson.bsky.social, @cisk.bsky.social and Paul Tobin (@uomsoss.bsky.social) talking about their recent/upcoming climate politics books.

Roundtable is at 3.30 in Room 9.

📅 Full programme: www.psa.ac.uk/conference/p...

Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are.

Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition

🔓️ 🇨🇳 China's support for clean technologies is effectively subsidising a global green transition, argue @james7jackson.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. Chinese dominance presents dilemmas for the EU, the US & other countries: compete, cooperate, surrender, or abandon the green transition🌏️

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We argue that this presents all others countries with essentially four options

We argue that this, on the one hand, it a good development in climate policies, as green technologies have never been as bountiful, nor as cheap. Yet, because of this, we can see that would-be competitors to China, particularly the EU and the US, are beginning to regress on climate policies.

In this debate/viewpoint article, we argue that due to China's vast production of the 'new three' green technologies (batteries, EVs and solar), it is essentialy subsiding global decarbonization.

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....

Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills, says UKERC - Carbon Brief High gas prices are responsible for two-thirds of the rise in household electricity bills since before the global energy crisis.

Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills

www.carbonbrief.org/expensive-ga...

An important contribution to the work on critical mineral extraction, clarifying an area I think a lot of us talk about in a very general way.

China shows monetary independence may hinder net zero progress Government direction has spurred PBoC to adopt green monetary policy measures, argue economists Mathias Larsen and James Jackson.

New commentary piece out in @greencb.bsky.social with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social in which we discus central bank independence, green monetary policy and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) - greencentralbanking.com/2026/01/13/c...

Read the current in book on China from 2025. The distinction between China’s focus on supply and the US’s on demand is nice. It still, predictably, goes for the ‘China is amazing at X but it should still be more like the US’ angle.

The idea of the Engineering State is also a bit reductionist.

Climate action faces key tests in 2026 New EU carbon tax and large clean energy projects are on the horizon

Some key issues in 2026 - www.ft.com/content/33ba...

Greenwashing, illegality and false claims: 13 climate litigation wins in 2025 Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans

'The Urgenda case was one of the first rumblings of a wave of climate litigation around the world (...) Over the past 12 months, there have been many more important rulings and tangible changes on climate driven by legal action' And more to come, I might add! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Berlin launches ‘Germany Fund’ to lure private equity investors Initiative aims to raise €130bn in investments amid growing interest from firms including KKR and Apollo

Germany pushing on with the #WallStreetConsensus, as if the past three years of derisking failures havent taught them anything about competing in a world of transforrmative state projects

www.ft.com/content/52c7...

Paris-aligned investments offer similar returns and stability | Banque de France Post No. 422. This study shows that Paris-aligned indices (PAB) have similar return and volatility to conventional indices for both equities and bonds. Thus, from an investor’s perspective, Paris alig...

'Paris-aligned indices (PAB) have similar return and volatility to conventional indices. Thus, they may offer investors, including institutionals, an opportunity to green their portfolios without taking on additional risk' www.banque-france.fr/en/publicati...

Screenshot from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dave: HAL, can you cite a real academic paper? HAL 9000: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

Bumper Christmas for air travel as 300mn take to the skies Airlines on track for the biggest holiday season getaway in history as industry braces for record demand

The true festive spirit..... www.ft.com/content/2dff...

It’s all in the details: comparing and explaining variation in the ‘policy specificity’ of sub-city climate activities Comparative analyses of policy datasets enable explanations of variation, but not all policy activities are extensive enough to be assessed through the established ‘policy intensity’ approach. We i...

NEW PUBLICATION - Paul Tobin, Neil Carter, Josh Barritt, Anna Sanders and I have a new article examining the development of Climate Action Plans in London. Treat yourself to an early Christmas present, it's Open Access - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’ Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say

Winter isn’t coming

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New report recasts Global South as climate finance investor, not recipient The report by IHLEG dilutes historical responsibility, focusing instead on domestic reforms, private capital, and...

"Tackling climate change & nature loss is one of the greatest economic opportunities of our era.” This line may have forever changed the language of climate finance from one of responsibility of richer nations...to one of investment, esp. for the Global South." 🙄🤨 carboncopy.info/new-report-r...

While Western central banks hesitate on climate, China’s acts - LSE Business Review Only one of the world’s four most powerful monetary authorities is acting as though the climate transition is a central banking problem.

Only one of the world’s four most powerful monetary authorities is acting as though the climate transition is a problem for #CentralBanks: The People's Bank of #China.

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New blog!

Two decades of analysing the state in the green transition: Where are we now? by Mathias Larsen and James Jackson.

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