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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Feb 13

Last I checked there was an election in November and millions of people voted.

Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨 **Quick Take on the New U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund** 🚨

An executive order for a U.S. sovereign wealth fund was announced *yesterday*. What does it mean?

I shared my thoughts on BBC Radio Newshour—tune in from the **38-minute mark

(www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...)

Newshour - China announces retaliatory tariffs on some American goods - BBC Sounds

China hits back at Donald Trump with tariffs on US

www.bbc.co.uk

Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Jan 23

The sole criteria for ERC is (or at least was) scientific excellence.

Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · Jan 5

As of this week, EU regs mean that EVs have to make up a much higher share of all the vehicles sold. Good news!

uk.news.yahoo.com/eu-car-indus...

EU car industry must speed up electric sales or face billions in fines

The European car industry faces a pivotal year after tough EU CO2 emission standards came into force on 1 January, requiring a sharp increase in electric vehicle production to avoid hefty fines. With ...

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Jan 2

A bit faster than you Brett, but not by much!!! 😁

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · Dec 24

Your holiday season read is here! The Spectre of State Capitalism is free to download: academic.oup.com/book/57552

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 13

WSJ op-ed pages have been consistently skeptical and critical of Trump, and was so during the campaign.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 13

Is that good or bad?

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

Agreed. My concern is the over-conflation of climate change at the expense of other explanations that are more important and can be addressed more easily at source. I'm not making an argument for ignoring climate change.

Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · Dec 11

Video of a book launch and roundtable we did in Edinburgh early October
@adamdixon.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xAw...

The Spectre of State Capitalism

YouTube video by Adam Smith's Panmure House

www.youtube.com

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

So climate change caused Russia to invade Ukraine? To be clear: I do not discount the effects of climate change. But there are other more significant causal factors.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

Climate change is real. But there are other proximate, and more significant, causes of conflict: www.iied.org/does-climate...

Does climate change cause conflicts in the Sahel?

The Sahel is often recognised as a hotspot of violent conflict. As climate change becomes a leading global political issue, an emerging and increasingly powerful policy narrative presents global warmi...

www.iied.org

Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

So Russia invaded Ukraine because of climate change? By conflating climate change with just about everything, we make the problem much harder to solve.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

No, that's not my point. It's how proximate it is as a cause. It's fine to claim that climate change is a driving force of .... but by how much? And to be clear, I see climate change as a problem to solve.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

My issue is the risk of attributing problems to climate change when the actual cause is something else (e.g., building more and more houses in hurricane prone areas).

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

But it's still not clear to me where climate change is causing geopolitical disruption.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

Where is evidence that climate change is a primary causal factor in geopolitical instability? Is instability in say Ukraine/Russia a climate change issue, or is instability in the Levant because of climate change?

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

Climate change is given too much prominence as a causal factor. Most of these issues have more significant proximate causes. Conflating climate change with every challenge we face isn't helpful. And we must address climate change.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 11

What geopolitical chaos is caused by climate change? That's not clear from the article. Geopolitical tensions have much more proximate causes -- climate change not being one of them. Conflating climate change with every political and social challenge is unhelpful.

Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 10

Ilias, I'd like to confirm that I've read and am now responding to your post. Bluesky is underwhelming so far. But then again, I was never good at the whole twitter thing. I go days without opening. Algorithms don't care for people like me.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 9

What does build public power from the get go mean? I agree with @brettchristophers.bsky.social in the main that public utilities are a sound long-term option. But such a build out will entail all kinds of private actors. And most countries these days would farm out operations.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 6

Successive generations of academics typically want to think they've discovered a topic few if any have written on before.

Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 5

@brettchristophers.bsky.social I don't think Tooze is right about the US. Have a listen/watch the latest episode of the podcast with Aniket Shah: youtu.be/oYVKG2K_2sk?.... We mention you Brett!!! Trump doesn't spell the end of decarbonization in the US.

China may have already won the green innovation race

YouTube video by Adam Smith's Panmure House

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Dec 3

Well done! Persistence pays.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Nov 27

🌍 Is the West Losing the Green Tech Race to China?
In the latest New Enlightenment Podcast, Aniket Shah and I discuss this and what Trump means for US climate policy. 🎙️Listen on Spotify, Apple, or YouTube:
🔗 spoti.fi/3XGc7pT | apple.co/3AVJbkT | lnkd.in/eTfYv4Pu
#ClimatePolicy #EnergyTransition

Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Nov 25

Surprising but true: sovereign funds from oil-rich nations could play a major role in driving the green transition. 🌍💡 #SustainableFinance #GreenTransition #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #ESG
www.financemiddleeast.com/opinion/sove...

Sovereign wealth funds poised to drive global energy transition - Finance Middle East

By investing in renewable energy, SWFs can help resource-rich countries pivot away from their reliance on oil and gas revenues.

www.financemiddleeast.com

Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thanks for your remarks.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Nov 23

Having a large-scale battery manufacturing in Europe, especially in northern Sweden where green energy is cheap, is still a good idea and still possible. This isn't a failure of green industrial policy, it is a failure of 'economic (EU perhaps) economic nationalism.

Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Nov 22

I don't think this will dent the green transition very much. A start-up in a mature industry. China, Japan, and South Korea will sell Europe the batteries it needs.

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Adam Dixon @adamdixon.bsky.social · Nov 22

I'm not on Truth Social, but I'd like to see it merge with @bsky.app. I like to see what different groups think...

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