Fascinating and hugely depressing stuff by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social There’s a void at the heart of Labour: it needs a battle of ideas

www.thetimes.com/article/7177...

11/ "The transition will happen with or without US participation. By withdrawing from these industries and blocking allies from Chinese partnerships, America risks becoming a bystander to the biggest economic transformation of our time."
Great thread on our report: bsky.app/profile/jona...

the amount of Chinese investment in green manufacturing plants around the developing world is mind boggling.
www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

We're hosting our first Critical Minerals Research Showcase in a few weeks in Cambridge to highlight our latest research on CM demand, supply chains, policy and risk
Come join us in person if you're in town or check us out online!
Details below!
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Good article this. Lots of astute observations and smart snapshots.

Interesting to ponder the role that Europe may play in the new energy-themed geopolitical clash between USA and China. Big Cold War vibes.

But I am a bit skeptical of the narrative the article builds around Europe’s position…

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There are two basic facts that are essential to understanding global climate policy:

1) The preferred geopolitical weapon of the modern US empire has been the imposition of energy starvation.

2) The primary strategic vulnerability of China is that they are reliant upon energy imports.

Happening today! 2pm!

I spend a lot of time thinking about what the future will look like, so it was amazing to sit down with up & coming students to discuss exactly that with the people who will make it. We touched on what it means study climate policy and how to keep fighting for action in the current climate

Excited to announce my research group is launching a new monthly webinar series, 'Critical Conversations'!
In our first session @saleemali.bsky.social kickstarts the conversation discussing the importance of equity when thinking about resource extraction
Register to join here: shorturl.at/HC46U

I spend a lot of time thinking about what the future will look like, so it was amazing to sit down with up & coming students to discuss exactly that with the people who will make it. We touched on what it means study climate policy and how to keep fighting for action in the current climate

Our latest interview is an anchor point for reality, and is also a way to leapfrog the gap in education on climate. 3 students spend an hour asking pointed questions to @samdstephenson.bsky.social.
As a newly minted PhD, Sam now works on climate policy in the UK...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

PS you can think the CCP are an awful, oppressive, authoritarian party and still think this is a crazy take.
Particularly in light of the world that US, oil based hegemony has produced

I share a deep anxiety about Chinese global hegemony–the CPC are frightening and oppressive authoritarians–but I simply don't see Chinese renewable energy production offering anywhere close to the global stranglehold swing oil producers have over the world now

Genuinely such a mind blowing take from a member of a party which claims to care about ordinary people (on a global scale)

Geopolitical uncertaitny --> Hi Fossil fuel prices --> more countries breaking free of expensive hydrocarbons & dollar dependence

It'll all be very rapid in 2020s as local energy production machines (solar PV+Batteries+EVs) are getting cheaper and better thanks to China. bsky.app/profile/kate...

It’s been amazing to be in Singapore at #ISIE2025 conference presenting new research linking together ongoing work on net zero pathways and critical minerals. Concerns over economic and energy resilience offer new arguments for government action to reduce energy demand to help meet net zero goals

It’s been amazing to be in Singapore at #ISIE2025 conference presenting new research linking together ongoing work on net zero pathways and critical minerals. Concerns over economic and energy resilience offer new arguments for government action to reduce energy demand to help meet net zero goals

Great to be at the #csapconference2025 today speaking on the panel about the role of critical minerals for decarbonisation. Attempting to bridge the gap between understanding UK demand and mineral extraction in the global south

If we are going to build an argument for climate realism that is premised on the fact that other countries' emissions will matter more than the United States going forward, we need to have a theory of change for how they will decarbonize.

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

You'll be shocked to learn a Cato guy does not understand how supply chains work.

"Market mechanisms undermined China’s attempt at resource leverage...By 2014 China’s market share of rare earths had fallen from more than 90% to ~70%."

(They’re still processing 90%.)

🔌💡
www.wsj.com/opinion/chin...

Great to see this report I helped co-author still getting attention 6 months after publication!

'One person called the exercise a “red herring” while a senior government official said: “I’m not sure there’s enough energy behind it. It needs to be an A*, all guns blazing exercise. I’m not sure we are there yet.”'

www.ft.com/content/7c49...

Happy Tuesday! How about an anti-Matt-Yglesias climate economics thread?

I'll start by saying "material prosperity" is not opposed to "reasoning backwards" from temperature targets — doing what we must NOW to halt global heating at a safe level will INCREASE Americans' material prosperity.

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