Chris Hopkins
@chrishopkins.bsky.social
Interim Policy Director @GECoalition.bsky.social, @IIED.bsky.social 💚 Personal views & 🌭🐶 content only.
Econ, env. policy, geopolitics, football 🤓 stuff. He/Him. Occasionally ChrisHopkins99.
Econ, env. policy, geopolitics, football 🤓 stuff. He/Him. Occasionally ChrisHopkins99.
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Chris Hopkins
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· Nov 14
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We know what policies and laws are needed to build a green, fair future. But which countries are leading the way - and which are lagging behind?
greeneconomytracker.org
Will get around to a proper pinned post, but here's one interesting thing I do - the Green Economy Tracker.
greeneconomytracker.org
41 countries, 21 policies, crowd sourced assessment of green transitions. Evolution in progress... 🧬
greeneconomytracker.org
41 countries, 21 policies, crowd sourced assessment of green transitions. Evolution in progress... 🧬
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Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment
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Sorry but Vatican giving a "fuck you" to Meloni and every other anti-renewables chud pol in Europe not only making clear they're now 100% fossil free electricity, from solar *agro-voltaics" makes me smile.
Can't believe the Telegraph hasn't run w Tory MP decrying "Papist Energy Hurts Farmers".
Can't believe the Telegraph hasn't run w Tory MP decrying "Papist Energy Hurts Farmers".
The Vatican Is First 100% Solar Country Via Agrivoltaics: Who Is Next?
The Vatican is now completely powered by a farm that sports solar panels to help shade-tolerant crops thrive. This new coupling of solar and agriculture is growing fast.
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Sorry but Vatican giving a "fuck you" to Meloni and every other anti-renewables chud pol in Europe not only making clear they're now 100% fossil free electricity, from solar *agro-voltaics" makes me smile.
Can't believe the Telegraph hasn't run w Tory MP decrying "Papist Energy Hurts Farmers".
Can't believe the Telegraph hasn't run w Tory MP decrying "Papist Energy Hurts Farmers".
We don't need the good folks at World Weather Attribution to weigh in on this one.
I give this throwback, god-king adoring sycophancy four out of five 📉📉📉📉 on the civilisational-decline-o-meter.
Cosplaying a less successful pharaonic dynasty, but with nuclear weapons ☢️
Great timeline, no notes.
I give this throwback, god-king adoring sycophancy four out of five 📉📉📉📉 on the civilisational-decline-o-meter.
Cosplaying a less successful pharaonic dynasty, but with nuclear weapons ☢️
Great timeline, no notes.
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 3, 2025 at 6:53 PM
We don't need the good folks at World Weather Attribution to weigh in on this one.
I give this throwback, god-king adoring sycophancy four out of five 📉📉📉📉 on the civilisational-decline-o-meter.
Cosplaying a less successful pharaonic dynasty, but with nuclear weapons ☢️
Great timeline, no notes.
I give this throwback, god-king adoring sycophancy four out of five 📉📉📉📉 on the civilisational-decline-o-meter.
Cosplaying a less successful pharaonic dynasty, but with nuclear weapons ☢️
Great timeline, no notes.
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How did they write "allowing AI to train itself" and not "The Inhuman Centipede"
The same story over and over again. “The tech we’re creating is either so good it will change everything or so bad it will destroy everything.”
And media outlets keep on publishing the exact same story.
Until the bubble bursts
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
And media outlets keep on publishing the exact same story.
Until the bubble bursts
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself
Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
How did they write "allowing AI to train itself" and not "The Inhuman Centipede"
Commitment is key for indirect economic effects. As others are rightly pointing out, some of the most damaging parts of Brexit will have been the untying of common bonds to standards, politics and predictability
Those were realised by the decision and implementation, but cannot be reversed by them.
Those were realised by the decision and implementation, but cannot be reversed by them.
It is perfectly possible to believe that the economic costs of the UK leaving the EU and the economic benefits of rejoining are asymmetric.
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Commitment is key for indirect economic effects. As others are rightly pointing out, some of the most damaging parts of Brexit will have been the untying of common bonds to standards, politics and predictability
Those were realised by the decision and implementation, but cannot be reversed by them.
Those were realised by the decision and implementation, but cannot be reversed by them.
2045:
I, an inflation dove, am pleading with the children not to have to do this political cycle again. The discourse is too painful.
Everyone nods, and I am quietly put out to pasture by a friendly clanker 🤖
I, an inflation dove, am pleading with the children not to have to do this political cycle again. The discourse is too painful.
Everyone nods, and I am quietly put out to pasture by a friendly clanker 🤖
The best part is that between inflation, disinflation, and deflation - the one people want the most is the one they'll hate the most.
Hahaha, such a cursed economic cycle. Kinda makes you an inflation hawk just on the basis of not wanting to lose a decade of politics to misapprehension.
Hahaha, such a cursed economic cycle. Kinda makes you an inflation hawk just on the basis of not wanting to lose a decade of politics to misapprehension.
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
2045:
I, an inflation dove, am pleading with the children not to have to do this political cycle again. The discourse is too painful.
Everyone nods, and I am quietly put out to pasture by a friendly clanker 🤖
I, an inflation dove, am pleading with the children not to have to do this political cycle again. The discourse is too painful.
Everyone nods, and I am quietly put out to pasture by a friendly clanker 🤖
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Forget the Free Market: we have friends to cater to.
December 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Forget the Free Market: we have friends to cater to.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
To complete my own thought - it's why the current political superpower par excellence is a combination of supreme self-confidence and zero-shame.
It's necessary to be able to claim the upside of modern mass, viral information environment, while being inured to criticism and admission of fault.
It's necessary to be able to claim the upside of modern mass, viral information environment, while being inured to criticism and admission of fault.
Every politician is in a defensive crouch because successes are less successful (and scarce), while mistakes are catastrophic and regular.
It's corrosive and leads to the slow bleed of power to populists and platform owners.
It's corrosive and leads to the slow bleed of power to populists and platform owners.
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
To complete my own thought - it's why the current political superpower par excellence is a combination of supreme self-confidence and zero-shame.
It's necessary to be able to claim the upside of modern mass, viral information environment, while being inured to criticism and admission of fault.
It's necessary to be able to claim the upside of modern mass, viral information environment, while being inured to criticism and admission of fault.
Do take a look and share; really interesting stuff that will subvert quite a lot of expectations on green attitudes... 🌱
⏰Exciting new #greeneconomy polling:
Partnering with @savanta.bsky.social, our new Global Green Attitudes Survey 2025 has once again polled 10,000 people across 10 key countries to understand their views on the green transition.
@gecoalition.bsky.social
#GreenEconomyAttitudes #polling #greensky
Partnering with @savanta.bsky.social, our new Global Green Attitudes Survey 2025 has once again polled 10,000 people across 10 key countries to understand their views on the green transition.
@gecoalition.bsky.social
#GreenEconomyAttitudes #polling #greensky
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Do take a look and share; really interesting stuff that will subvert quite a lot of expectations on green attitudes... 🌱
⏰Exciting new #greeneconomy polling:
Partnering with @savanta.bsky.social, our new Global Green Attitudes Survey 2025 has once again polled 10,000 people across 10 key countries to understand their views on the green transition.
@gecoalition.bsky.social
#GreenEconomyAttitudes #polling #greensky
Partnering with @savanta.bsky.social, our new Global Green Attitudes Survey 2025 has once again polled 10,000 people across 10 key countries to understand their views on the green transition.
@gecoalition.bsky.social
#GreenEconomyAttitudes #polling #greensky
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
⏰Exciting new #greeneconomy polling:
Partnering with @savanta.bsky.social, our new Global Green Attitudes Survey 2025 has once again polled 10,000 people across 10 key countries to understand their views on the green transition.
@gecoalition.bsky.social
#GreenEconomyAttitudes #polling #greensky
Partnering with @savanta.bsky.social, our new Global Green Attitudes Survey 2025 has once again polled 10,000 people across 10 key countries to understand their views on the green transition.
@gecoalition.bsky.social
#GreenEconomyAttitudes #polling #greensky
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This is so funny.
"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This is so funny.
"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
"I'm afraid the economy now runs primarily on me and my idiot threads throwing more and more money at the Create the Torment Nexus project. We can't afford to go backwards. Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne."
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
This is like a D tier pub bore anecdote (amongst many).
You'd walk away from this relative after less than 5 minutes at the extended family event - why is this person taking up any space in our public culture, let alone the government? 🤷♂️
You'd walk away from this relative after less than 5 minutes at the extended family event - why is this person taking up any space in our public culture, let alone the government? 🤷♂️
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is like a D tier pub bore anecdote (amongst many).
You'd walk away from this relative after less than 5 minutes at the extended family event - why is this person taking up any space in our public culture, let alone the government? 🤷♂️
You'd walk away from this relative after less than 5 minutes at the extended family event - why is this person taking up any space in our public culture, let alone the government? 🤷♂️
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COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.
MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.
MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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Incredible that the doyan of longtermism literally built a platform that just spouts out reductios of longtermism 24/7, with lashings of hard coded egotism on top.
These are not serious people.
These are not serious people.
Incredibly, it gets funnier
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Incredible that the doyan of longtermism literally built a platform that just spouts out reductios of longtermism 24/7, with lashings of hard coded egotism on top.
These are not serious people.
These are not serious people.
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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Think big picture story is big chunks of RoW asking 2 qs.
1) what can we do with America? And the answer is “deals”.
2) what can we do without America? And the answer is try to build an alternative institutional architecture that facilitates dealing.
1) what can we do with America? And the answer is “deals”.
2) what can we do without America? And the answer is try to build an alternative institutional architecture that facilitates dealing.
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Think big picture story is big chunks of RoW asking 2 qs.
1) what can we do with America? And the answer is “deals”.
2) what can we do without America? And the answer is try to build an alternative institutional architecture that facilitates dealing.
1) what can we do with America? And the answer is “deals”.
2) what can we do without America? And the answer is try to build an alternative institutional architecture that facilitates dealing.
That headline, plus that subheading, with SP's massive face in frame - is a legitimately excellent Onion post on a different day.
It's easy to forget, amidst the amusement at Seb's frantic and futile scrapping for a Tory seat, that he is a complete imbecile www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Meet the elite think tank responsible for Britain’s decline
The Resolution Foundation wants to make life better for the poorest in society but its noble aims result in policy that stifles growth and penalises the rich
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
That headline, plus that subheading, with SP's massive face in frame - is a legitimately excellent Onion post on a different day.
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the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
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I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
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Lots of optimism today from the IEA on the future for oil and LNG growth. The US and Qatar are going to flood the global market with LNG in the next few years. We are told the market is thirsty for this energy.
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Qatar Agrees to Divert 24 LNG Cargoes; Pakistan to Pay Price Difference
Pakistan and Qatar have agreed to divert 24 liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes next year as domestic demand continues to weaken, particularly from the
propakistani.pk
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Lots of optimism today from the IEA on the future for oil and LNG growth. The US and Qatar are going to flood the global market with LNG in the next few years. We are told the market is thirsty for this energy.
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Meanwhile, back in the real world....