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Daniel Driscoll
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Assistant Professor at UVA Nonresident Fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org‬ Political Economist of Decarbonization danieldrisc.com
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · May 13
🚨 More bad PR for the dollar. My latest (open access!) paper explores how USD centrality and strength constrains global decarbonization — from emissions to climate financial flows to green tech manufacturing.
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The US dollar and decarbonization: Exploring constraints | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
The US dollar and decarbonization: Exploring constraints
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.
How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d
Charlottesville: come out to UVA tomorrow where I’ll be giving a talk and participating on a panel about AI and the environment as part of UVA’s Environmental Futures Forum. www.environmentalfuturesforum.org
UVA Environmental Futures Forum
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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 4d
New publication!

Aleš Kudrnáč and I have a new paper in npj Climate Action about public support for climate policymaking. Prior studies have emphasized the importance of people's perceptions of policies' costs. But we find perceptions of benefits matter even more!

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Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 8d
Americans widely support affordable green housing policies, including requiring competitive wages and safety standards (77%) and energy efficiency and electrification upgrades (74%).
Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: National Adults Widely Support Green Affordable Housing Policy Solutions. Description: Below are some housing-related policies being considered in your state. Please say whether you support or oppose each policy. Requiring affordable housing developers to provide competitive wages and high standards of workplace safety in their development projects — Support: 77%, Oppose: 10% Investing in energy efficiency and electrification upgrades for low- and moderate-income households — Support: 74%, Oppose: 13% Providing low-interest government loans and other financial support to affordable housing developers to construct new affordable housing with high sustainability standards — Support: 72%, Oppose: 14% Read the full crosstabs: https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2025/9/dfp_green_housing.pdf
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 10d
This is the way.
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Democrats Bid to Become the Party of Cheap Energy: Exclusive
Representatives Sean Casten and Mike Levin have a new package of legislation designed to lower electricity prices — in a way that just so happens to be “clean.”
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Jonas Meckling @jonasmeckling.bsky.social · 13d
🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
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New Left EViews @newlefteviews.bsky.social · 14d
🚨🎙️

Friends –– David Adler, Anton Jäger and I are restarting our 'Eurotrash' podcast. Our first ep back is actually an important one, with David reporting from the Global Sumud Flotilla currently en route to Gaza, bearing aid and being attacked by drones. Listen in!

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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 14d
I very much enjoyed my conversation with @michaelpettis.bsky.social, and so, I have no doubt, will you. www.ft.com/content/8ee5...
China’s economy vs the world. With Michael Pettis
Will China’s trade imbalance throw the world off-kilter?
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 26d
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering.

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China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 15d
Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Johannes Petry @johannespetry.bsky.social · 16d
*new article*

We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎

'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social

Check it out here:
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 28d
Well done, Max!
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Max Willems @maxwillems.bsky.social · 28d
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️

It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...

It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Short 🧵 ...
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Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · Sep 8
Distinguished economists Michael Bordo & Bob McCauley with a stern warning to the Senate regarding the potential for new appointments to the Fed's Board of Governors to undermine the central bank's international liquidity role & threaten the dollar

Link: www.ft.com/content/6485...
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · Sep 8
"The real question is no longer whether the state will act, but whose interests it will serve. Will it merely prop up incumbents and invite capture? Or can public ownership and golden shares be harnessed for resilience and equity?" @toddntucker.com newrepublic.com/article/2000... @newrepublic.com
Democrats: Don’t Let Trump Define What State Capitalism Can Be
There’s no turning back from Trump’s moves on Intel and U.S. Steel. The challenge is to make public ownership serve the people.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · Sep 7
Huge congrats!!
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Sep 7
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

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Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Sep 5
The idea that Europeans will see the absence of robotaxis as a sign of decline assumes they noticed the absence of air conditioning, free refills, ice cubes, or large coffees over the past 50 years. Just saying.
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The Economist @economist.com · Sep 5
Will the absence of robotaxis in Europe mark the moment its citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?
Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe
A slow-motion car crash on Europe’s roads
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cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · Aug 28
Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds
This paper examines China’s distinctive approach to financing innovation, contributing to debates on the derisking state, neo-developmentalist alternatives, and economic statecraft. It focuses on t...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · Aug 27
After 60 years of trying to electrify populations with fossil fuels, people finally figured out there was a much better way. One with less corruption. Electricity poverty is real and clean energy is now at scale to solve it. This will unleash human flourishing.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Aug 26
For a long time renewable energy uptake in Africa was lacklustre at best.

But that is changing: Solar panel imports to Africa have surged over the past year—a shift poised to touch nearly every country on the continent as new Ember analysis shows.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · Aug 25
A nice explainer of why electricity rates are rising. TLDR: they aren't determined by market forces alone, but by government regulation and infrastructure costs. (1/)
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How Electricity Got So Expensive
You’ve probably noticed — even Trump has noticed — but the reason why is as complicated as the grid itself.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · Aug 23
It’s pretty simple:

- AI is driving electricity demand up

- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built

- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 23
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Aug 22
Cheap Chinese solar panels are fueling a bottom-up energy revolution in Africa.
Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels
Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.
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