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Chris Hopkins

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Interim Policy Director @GECoalition.bsky.social, @IIED.bsky.social 💚 Personal views & 🌭🐶 content only. Econ, env. policy, geopolitics, football 🤓 stuff. He/Him. Occasionally ChrisHopkins99.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · Nov 14

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... 🧬

Home

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

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 6h

As ever, Dan is great here on why we need to pay attention to leading indicators in planning - even (especially?) when they're potentially stupid feathery/slimy creatures.

No one relishes the complex world we know we live in, where it's less theres no free lunches and more there's no free land.

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 6h

in which, I continue to plead for systems thinking in planning, reprising last night's bluesky rant, so people who read that can be excused. backofmind.substack.com/p/canaries-a...

canaries and islands

the indicator species in the system

backofmind.substack.com

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 7h

Quality varies, but when you get a good place you keep it close to your heart 🍕

Place just down our street used to do 18" half an half of what ever you wanted for (~conversion math~) under $15. Life saver 🤤😋

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 7h

Without wanting to be too definitive - from the images and description there's _loads_ of this kind of pizza in the UK.

It's super common as the cheap, independent, high street takeaway pizza option. Grew up with it in early 00's, and it's still a staple today.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 8h

You know this is 💯 actually part of the internal governance norms that enabled this kind of thing.
Who wants to be the guy saying 'no, the most Catalan thing to do is not give the tax authorities over there an excuse'. Much less fun.

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 10h

Oxford PPEists should have to undertake exchange programs with other universities, so they can find out what their non-preferred letters actually stand for before they graduate 👀

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 11h

His name was Khaled Mohammed Fathi Jabr - 7 years old.

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 11h

This one tipped me over this morning.
Why the horse. Human emotional responses are so irrational.

What do you say. How do we stop the death laid on deaths laid on deaths.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Tufton Street is both incredibly biddable, and incredibly cheap* in international influence market terms.

*Trump's 'Article 5 protection, in return for a big plane' aside.

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 1d

The evidence on the deficiencies of the median, or even above average, offset scheme just keep piling up.
We now need:

- High integrity only, or
- Carbon credits without (likely false) offset claims

Do check the actual study as well, which is very readable
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 1d

How to get pensioners to buy more synergistic B2B financial service solutions, and taste-making premium digital media products from people 35 years their jr... the UK's future depends on it!

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure I can survive Blobby yookay-thought

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

This piece of prose is about to permanently unbalance political discourse in my household - contained within which is: me, plus one progressive, Northern Irish, Mr Blobby mega-fan.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Plus, they also have in common that they're excited to overshare on the internet about the latest large lever they've found.

*Is booed off the stage, deservedly*

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 2d

Truly searing report by the NYT’s Roger Cohen on where 🇮🇱 & 🇵🇸 stand 2 years on. “Israel at war with itself” is the title.

2 Octobers ago I told BBC that Israel was diving headlong into “the terrorism trap.” It didn’t have to. Netanyahu strode right into the door Hamas opened.

Some reflections 🧵

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Amongst everything else that can ,(and should) be said against this - it's clearly, surely not sustainable or workable from an enforcement perspective.

It's madness to arrest people for objecting to a proscription.

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

- ‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

#climatechange
Story by @kenzabryan.ft.com
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.ft.com/content/841f...

Global banking climate alliance folds four years after launch

‘Net zero’ financial sector group votes to cease operations after losing members under political pressure

www.ft.com

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty bleak, and a warning for the change model that put large emphasis on enthusiastic, voluntary corporate action.

Note - lots of NZ activities and investment will still be being pushed, but geographically segmented, and with very different PR.

Energy Voice @energyvoice.com · 2d

Net-Zero Banking Alliance folds amid climate pushback #energysky

Net-Zero Banking Alliance folds amid climate pushback

The group will keep its decarbonisation resources available.

dlvr.it

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

'No, you can't legally do that to them.' French subscriptions plummet.

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

The shadow of Salah's incredible last season is that about one half of the year (almost by definition, but it happened to be concentrated in time) we were pretty much 'Mo Salah-team' - and this year we've currently got not that, while pieces are also fitting together.
Great to have the points tbh!

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

(Returning to original QT)
Wow, guess we should put lots of these operators in charge! What's the worst that could happen?

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Is it cruel, trite, or just apt to point out that this is just the council-level terminus of Thatcherist econ - where you do eventually run out of other people's money (the public's assets to flog).

And you aren't even operating with levers to affect incentives and animal spirits! Horror show.

Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, they can save an operation, shorten a conflict, but they can't fix a fundamentally doomed war goal... 😅

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

Your elite force needs to be scaled to you only getting a one (or a small number of) use cases, verses a much more versatile strength in depth formation for the more likely grind.

Two starkly diverging paths.

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Chris Hopkins @chrishopkins.bsky.social · 2d

I was going to say, Hostomel is both the case in point - but also the steel man counter example.
A non-foolhardy decapitation strike that could have worked is imaginable - and look at what the counterfactual return on investment would have been?

But look how useless those units are in attrition...

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