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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 14h

If Germany doesn’t put in place a pro-competitive industrial policy for cars, centred on market building, the country may well end up down the line giving messy bailouts, regulatory rollbacks in response to mounting political and union pressure - only for the sector to wither anyway.

Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 20h

German auto summit tomorrow.

The sole focus on the EU combustion engine phase-out, which is 10 years away, is baffling because German cars have a demand problem today

Berlin worries a new EV subsidy scheme would be fiscally too expensive.

But demand-side support is a fiscal no-brainer here.

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Benedikt Bender @benediktbender.bsky.social · 2d

🚨New publication out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

@danielk24.bsky.social & I show that the support for green subsidies by unions & business interest groups in the 🇺🇸 & in 🇩🇪 goes hand in hand with the support for eco-social policies.

Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/rego...

A summary below 👇

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Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social · 10d

Short version: using two county-level difference-in-difference strategies, we show that the Act had significant employment effects that began with a Senate precursor bill (USICA) and anticipated the actual CHIPS awards. Check it out. Final version will be posted soon.

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Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social · 10d

It was a real pleasure to present at the @brookings.edu BPEA conference on Thursday, a new paper on the employment effects of the CHIPS Act in the US, with @josephestiglitz.bsky.social and @bilgeerten.bsky.social. Video, slides, and preliminary draft are here: www.brookings.edu/events/bpea-...

BPEA Fall 2025 Conference | Brookings

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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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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 12d

Renewables are winning — because they are cheaper and better.

Trump has little to no effect so far.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% on 2024 despite Trump rollback

Growth rate slightly lower than previous first-half years but sector still strong and resilient, experts say

www.theguardian.com

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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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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 26d

Always hard to calibrate the "OMG, climate risks much larger than thought" with "decarbonization is unstoppable"

Here's our attempt to say it all in one slide: business.columbia.edu/insights/cli... @columbiabusiness.bsky.social

Columbia Business School: Early Investment in Decarbonization Can Help Save Trillions in Climate Costs

Early decarbonization investments are key to keeping temperatures within livable range and saving trillions in climate costs

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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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Tobias Wuttke @tobiaswuttke.bsky.social · 28d

New Paper out in Development & Change (open access): "Opportunities for Latecomer Technological Catch-up in the Era of Renewables Capitalism" with @lindsaywhitfield.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@devandchg.bsky.social

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Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social · 28d

Submission deadline for the Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference is this Friday, Sept. 12, 11:59pm ET. Congressman Ro Khanna (@khanna.house.gov) will be the keynote speaker. Send us your papers!

Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social · Aug 7

Call for papers! 3rd New Thinking in Industrial Policy Conference ‪at Columbia, Nov. 6-7, 2025. Submit here by Sept. 12: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F.... Conf page: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-.... Hosts:
‪@ipdcolumbia.bsky.social‬, @cdepcolumbia.bsky.social, ‪@columbiaigp.bsky.social‬, CPE.

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Bentley Allan @bentleyallan.bsky.social · 29d

🌍 New piece: despite political blowback, thermodynamic and geopolitical forces continue to drive the energy transition.

My latest in @noemamag explores how we need to update global climate governance for this new era:
www.noemamag.com/the-new-geop...

The New Geopolitics Of The Green Transition | NOEMA

The only path forward for tackling the climate crisis hinges on cooperative industrial strategies to coordinate clean energy investment and infrastructure development.

www.noemamag.com

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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · Sep 8

Did a pod with the Drilled folks on carbon dominance as what unites US domestic and foreign policy: drilled.media/news/anti-re...

Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere

The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.

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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · Sep 2

The IEA in 2014 saw European coal demand rising 0.1% between 2013 and 2019. In practise, it fell 30%.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great illustration of how the energy transition works in practice.

Also worth noting that Hungary's solar explosion has been engined by China's foreign investments.

So, in essence: the energy transition is a sensible economic project that can materialize. Waging a cultural war around it is dumb.

Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · Sep 1

Solar power is taking off quickly in Hungary ☀️⚡️

Our latest data insight: ourworldindata.org/data-insight...

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Nils Kupzok @nilskupzok.bsky.social · Aug 28

A sentence, I wasn't expecting to read: "the US is on track to retire more coal capacity in 2025 than it did under the Biden administration last year"

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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...

www.tandfonline.com

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here it is

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

www.newyorker.com

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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · Aug 21

Check out a new piece by @mkblyth.bsky.social and me: 'Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization'. The Strategy? BLOCK Chinese green tech, PUSH US fossil fuels. @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/RE8I5Ix

Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization

Mark Blyth & Daniel Driscoll conclude that the US is intentionally undercutting the global demand for green technologies.

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Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · Aug 19

New in @foreignaffairs.com w/ @himself.bsky.social. As the economic weapon proliferates, how can states (particularly the US) protect itself and the world. Hint: not by decapitating it understanding of the world economy.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Weaponized World Economy

When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagi...

www.foreignaffairs.com

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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · Aug 19

I just published a chapter on "US-China Relations and the Competitive Turn of Green Industrial Policymaking" in this volume on climate policy (thanks @matpaterson.bsky.social and @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social!) Since the book went to press, developments have validated my core arguments. 1/

Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · Aug 19

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

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advait @advaitarun.bsky.social · Aug 17

Yesterday I wrote about how far the Inflation Reduction Act didn’t go, as comprehensive climate policy, even as it transformed how the state shaped markets.

Heatmap News @heatmap.news · Aug 16

On the third anniversary of the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, @heatmap.news contributor @advaitarun.bsky.social mourns what U.S. climate policy has lost — but more importantly, charts a course to what comes next:

Now We Decide the Future of U.S. Climate Policy

On the third anniversary of the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act, Heatmap contributor Advait Arun mourns what’s been lost — but more importantly, charts a path toward what comes next.

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Alex Wang @greenlawchina.bsky.social · Aug 17

www.caixinglobal.com/2025-08-14/r...

Record Spending on Belt and Road Initiative Targets Energy and Mineral Resources

Strategic pivot sees more money being invested in the energy and mining sectors

www.caixinglobal.com

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · Aug 17

Drawing on the likes of Leah Downey, Arjun Jayadev, Leon Wansleben & @geoffmann.bsky.social, I have a new piece in @nybooks.com on money, power, and central banking.

Whose Fed? | Brett Christophers

For the past twenty years, central banks have rarely been out of the news. Called upon to stabilize the global financial system when it appeared at risk

www.nybooks.com

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