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Louison Cahen-Fourot @louisoncf.bsky.social · 15h

#Denmark politicians wage a #culture #war on #academia —with @roskildeuni.bsky.social as their go-to target.

These attacks are assaults on #freedom, #rights and #democracy. We spoke out:

@berlingske.bsky.social : www.berlingske.dk/synspunkter/...

@politiken.dk : politiken.dk/debat/debati...

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 17h

Me and a bunch of brilliant colleagues got an op-ed responding to the recent political attacks on Roskilde University in the Danish newspaper Politiken today.

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Louison Cahen-Fourot @louisoncf.bsky.social · 21d

Hostility towards #academia and #immigrants is widespread. #Denmark is no exception. Under political and media pressure, earlier this week @roskildeuni.bsky.social decided overnight to close its Master's degree in Business Administration and Leadership (BAL) from 2026.

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 2d

Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social

Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations

International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...

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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Historically, science fiction has served as a playground for radical imagination, challenging oppressive systems and imagining alternatives. But in Silicon Valley, the genre’s emancipatory potential has been stripped away, repurposed as a legitimizing script for what I call reactionary futurism.”

Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · Aug 27

My new piece is up: Silicon Valley billionaires use science fiction to justify dystopia, AI overlords, space colonies, escape plans. I call this “science fiction materialized”. But radical science fiction offers blueprints for resistance + rebuilding and new worlds. untoldmag.org/silicon-vall...

How Silicon Valley Billionaires Use Sci-Fi to Rule – and How We Can Resist - Untold

Tech billionaires use science fiction to justify a dystopian future of AI rule and space colonization – but radical sci-fi still gives us tools to resist and rebuild.

untoldmag.org

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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is very good so far but one thing it doesn't have is a visual representation of just how far these companies are from breaking even on their AI-related capex:

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Hannah O’Neill @hannahoneill.bsky.social · Aug 19

Deutschland muss zur Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels bis 2035 aus fossilem Gas aussteigen. Trotzdem lobbyiert Siemens Energy weiter für den ungebremsten Ausbau von Gaskraftwerken. Fakt ist: Sauberes Gas ist eine dreckige Lüge! Mehr dazu im neuen Bericht von urgewald: www.urgewald.org/shop/siemens...

Siemens Energy – Grünes Image, fossiles Lobbying

Champion der Energiewende: So präsentiert sich Siemens Energy gern nach außen. Auf der Unternehmenswebsite bezeichnet sich der Konzern als Unterstützer im „Übergang zu einer nachhaltigeren Welt“ und h...

www.urgewald.org

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Anissa Bougrea @anissabougrea.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨New article out with @mattvermeir.bsky.social in @compchange.bsky.social: "Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? MDBs & the Trilemma of Private Capital Mobilization"
We examine why MDBs are failing to deliver on the promise of "mobilizing trillions" for the SDGs👇
Here:

Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization - Anissa Bougrea, Mattias Vermeiren, 2025

This article offers the first comprehensive account of the challenges Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) face in implementing the Wall Street Consensus, a fi...

journals.sagepub.com

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Jul 23

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.bsky.social · Jul 22

This article now has a volume & issue number 🥳

Lukas Bogner @lbogner.bsky.social · Jan 17

Now out with New Political Economy: What's going on in the legal back-end of 'innovative' climate finance constructs? I provide some additional clues to why it's so hard to de-risk private climate finance by public means. Open access, too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · Jun 14

📢 Publication alert – How often have you thought "Oh, that's a bad policy"? Then this is the right book (OA) for you: "Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices", co-edited by Roberge, McKeen-Edwards & Campbell-Verduyn. ⬇️ /1
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Mar 28

Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · Mar 13

4. Lukas Bogner wrote a great piece on the role of law and transnational expertise in shaping the 'asset coding' of green finance that upholds many pillars of conventional finance (and hence limits its effectiveness)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · Mar 13

a few years in the making: our special issue on the IPE of Green Finance is complete!

🧵on its content:

1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · Mar 7

I had some fun writing an accessible text for learners seeking resources to problematize mainstream economics. This is especially meaningful to me because since my bachelor's in economics, I have spent much of the past decade thinking about how to study politically the economy shorturl.at/lohRl

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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.bsky.social · Mar 6

The Guardian dropped this piece on third party funding of ISDS cases yesterday - I can very much recommend the 2021 RIPE article by Dafe & Williams covering this for further reading doi.org/10.1080/0969...

Revealed: how Wall Street is making millions betting against green laws

Guardian analysis finds fossil-fuel and mining firms have won $92bn of public money from states, with a growing number of cases backed by financial speculators

www.theguardian.com

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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.bsky.social · Feb 27

Some more examples from a paper I wrote last year here:

An offshore finance news outlet describes the ‘tough competition between IFCs [International Financial Centres] globally (big and small) to win the rights to domicile newly established ESG-based funds and similar vehicles’ (IFC Review, 2022). In practice, this competition means that jurisdictions compete on legal affordances that can be drawn on (race to the bottom) rather than on the legal provisions (race to the top) that would regulate green finance flows.
For example, a report published by the Hong Kong Green Finance Association develops a series of recommendations to develop Hong Kong as a ‘leading investment fund hub for green and sustainable infrastructure financing’. The report includes various concrete recommendations as to how Hong Kong can expand its definition of tax-exempt infrastructure and live up to investor expectations towards ‘tax neutrality’ and emphasizes the common law and favourable dispute resolution capacity in the SAR. It summarizes that ‘Hong Kong is already a popular hub for fund managers to manage both onshore and offshore funds. It can also become an important hub for public and private infrastructure funds which can effectively channel local and international investors’ monies to target [green and sustainable infrastructure] assets’ (2022:4). Its recommen- dations on enforcement of green requirements for funds registered in Hong Kong contain mainly voluntary/private-led measures while concrete regulatory suggestions are effectively absent. The report directly compares its location advantages with other intermediary jurisdictions such as the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg and Singapore.
This is followed by another example from India

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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.bsky.social · Feb 27

I study legal experts so there's a lot of talk about what jurisdictions do. There is e.g. competition between Singapore and UK to have 'favorable legal environments' for voluntary carbon markets. The UK develops an entirely new category of property ('digital assets') for it, also covering crypto.

The Global City

With world leading financial expertise, the UK is ready to work with you

www.theglobalcity.uk

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · Feb 26

Tax havenry as a climate adaptation strategy - that's a new one

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · Feb 26

Nauru is selling citizenship to finance relocation of current residents as sea levels rise. This is next level dark shit.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Nauru sells citizenship to help fund relocations as sea levels rise

A new ‘golden passport’ scheme aims to raise funds to relocate people inland as climate change raises sea levels

www.theguardian.com

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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.bsky.social · Feb 26

was just writing about commercialized sovereignty in the discussion section of my phd (about climate finance), this is a nice little add-on, thanks!!

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · Feb 24

3 lessons here:
1/ fossil asset owners will keep these assets as long as gov'ts will let them.
2/ oil and gas net zero pledges are an elaborate distraction -- both for ESG optimists and consumers
3/ liberals take note: the market won't supply decarbonization.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BP expected to scrap renewables target in shift back to fossil fuels

Goal of increasing renewable energy generation 20-fold to be ditched, shareholders to be told this week

www.theguardian.com

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · Feb 23

@danielagabor.bsky.social on the revamped wallstreet consensus under Trump 2.0
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/how...

How to DOGE USAID | Daniela Gabor

The Wall Street Consensus and development financing under Trump

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · Feb 13

This is an excellent paper, must read for people interested in the shortcomings of private finance for development/climate.

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

Insufficient pipelines of ‘investment-ready’ projects are widely seen as a key impediment to unlocking private capital for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), prompting various interventions ai...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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