Rubén Vezzoni
@rubenvezzoni.bsky.social
Political economy of green transitions at Uni Helsinki / energy policy, global commodities, post-growth economics, agroecology, and all that jazz
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My book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world.
Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...
Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...
Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
Finding Lights in a Dark Age | Chris Smaje
My new book Finding Lights in a Dark Age is being published in the UK in October 2025 and the US in November 2025. Global society is unquestionably heading into a period of grave crisis, when the mode...
chrissmaje.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
My book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world.
Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...
Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding...
Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
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En el contexto actual de transición energética, esta reflexión es necesaria. ✍️ Pere Roura (@univgirona.bsky.social)
¿Debe supeditarse la transición energética al decrecimiento económico?
En numerosos países europeos, la economía crece con un menor consumo de energía. Este hecho pone en entredicho la necesidad del decrecimiento económico para acometer con éxito la transición energética.
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
En el contexto actual de transición energética, esta reflexión es necesaria. ✍️ Pere Roura (@univgirona.bsky.social)
October 16, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Almost half of the 59 MEPs disclosing secondary jobs work on files that appear directly related to their side jobs.
"The vast majority of them decided there was no need to declare a conflict of interest"
www.ft.com/content/0466...
"The vast majority of them decided there was no need to declare a conflict of interest"
www.ft.com/content/0466...
October 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Almost half of the 59 MEPs disclosing secondary jobs work on files that appear directly related to their side jobs.
"The vast majority of them decided there was no need to declare a conflict of interest"
www.ft.com/content/0466...
"The vast majority of them decided there was no need to declare a conflict of interest"
www.ft.com/content/0466...
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BREAKING:
Colombia expels Israeli diplomats following Israel’s abduction of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro also announces concrete steps in response to Israel's attack on Global Sumud Flotilla vessels.
Other countries must follow suit.
Enough is enough.
Colombia expels Israeli diplomats following Israel’s abduction of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro also announces concrete steps in response to Israel's attack on Global Sumud Flotilla vessels.
Other countries must follow suit.
Enough is enough.
October 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
BREAKING:
Colombia expels Israeli diplomats following Israel’s abduction of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro also announces concrete steps in response to Israel's attack on Global Sumud Flotilla vessels.
Other countries must follow suit.
Enough is enough.
Colombia expels Israeli diplomats following Israel’s abduction of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro also announces concrete steps in response to Israel's attack on Global Sumud Flotilla vessels.
Other countries must follow suit.
Enough is enough.
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30 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla remain steadfast, just 46 nautical miles from Gaza, despite relentless hostility from the Israeli navy. The Israeli navy has intercepted 13 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla so far.
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
30 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla remain steadfast, just 46 nautical miles from Gaza, despite relentless hostility from the Israeli navy. The Israeli navy has intercepted 13 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla so far.
Is this Black Mirror or Monty Python material? The jury is still out on this one.
Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’
Miles Pickering says ‘everyone was laughing at how silly’ his arrest was and calls Palestine Action ban ‘ridiculous’
It was only after Miles Pickering arrived at Scotland Yard following his arrest that the police realised they had got things embarrassingly wrong.
The T-shirt worn by the Brighton engineer did not express support for a proscribed terrorist group, instead the words on it read “Plasticine Action” and inside the letter “o” was an image of the stop-motion character Morph giving two thumbs up. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Is this Black Mirror or Monty Python material? The jury is still out on this one.
🙏A fashionably (and unduly) late thanks!
Great piece
A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union
A shifting paradigm in economic policy is re-asserting the centrality of the state for the transformative overhaul of global energy systems. Amid a burgeoning interest in state policy, however, contem...
www.degruyter.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
🙏A fashionably (and unduly) late thanks!
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Great piece
A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union
A shifting paradigm in economic policy is re-asserting the centrality of the state for the transformative overhaul of global energy systems. Amid a burgeoning interest in state policy, however, contem...
www.degruyter.com
December 20, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Great piece
A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
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It is criminal what the US has done to its children through car culture. They go from supervised activity to car to supervised activity to car ... no wayfinding, no autonomy, no agency, no risk, no sense of adventure or surprise. We're raising helpless, emotionally fragile computer kids.
The number of children injured or killed by cars while walking or riding a bike has fallen steadily since the 1970s, but CDC researcher note that this decline is not because streets are safer, but because fewer kids are out and about in the first place.
Kids need freedom. Dangerous roads make it hard to grant it.
Bigger cars, distracted drivers and worried parents mean fewer kids are roaming freely.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It is criminal what the US has done to its children through car culture. They go from supervised activity to car to supervised activity to car ... no wayfinding, no autonomy, no agency, no risk, no sense of adventure or surprise. We're raising helpless, emotionally fragile computer kids.
A much larger problem than Australia
Hydrogen projects seem to have collapsed in Australia & elsewhere
@petemilne.bsky.social shines a light on their demise:
"That completely daft ideas, like exporting liquid hydrogen or blending it into suburban gas networks, were entertained shows how badly policy is developed in Australia."
@petemilne.bsky.social shines a light on their demise:
"That completely daft ideas, like exporting liquid hydrogen or blending it into suburban gas networks, were entertained shows how badly policy is developed in Australia."
“The country is scattered with hydrogen projects born with fanfare but allowed to die quietly.” @petemilne.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
A much larger problem than Australia
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Que los maten pero en otro sitio a ser posible
The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible.
I spoke again with Gideon Sa'ar to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear that IDF must stop killing people at distribution points.
All options remain on the table if Israel doesn’t deliver on its pledges.
I spoke again with Gideon Sa'ar to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear that IDF must stop killing people at distribution points.
All options remain on the table if Israel doesn’t deliver on its pledges.
July 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Que los maten pero en otro sitio a ser posible
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a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a “disease of the Arab mind” and got hired by the Times AFTER that
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a “disease of the Arab mind” and got hired by the Times AFTER that
A massive victory for climate litigation - and a setback for fossil fuel companies and the silencing of criticisms through defamation suits.
For an English recap of what this was about: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For an English recap of what this was about: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
July 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
A massive victory for climate litigation - and a setback for fossil fuel companies and the silencing of criticisms through defamation suits.
For an English recap of what this was about: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For an English recap of what this was about: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This meme but a book:
July 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This meme but a book:
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Another free idea for a research project: studying the rise of the spreadsheet and the corporate and project finance model as a tool for presenting stylized aesthetic world views of an asset.
July 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Another free idea for a research project: studying the rise of the spreadsheet and the corporate and project finance model as a tool for presenting stylized aesthetic world views of an asset.
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Tim and I have been reading & talking about BRICS over the last few weeks. What is this group of countries really about? Not so much an anti-western or an anti-dollar bloc; these days it’s more a “remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty, in a new era of globalization.”
“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” —
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
July 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Tim and I have been reading & talking about BRICS over the last few weeks. What is this group of countries really about? Not so much an anti-western or an anti-dollar bloc; these days it’s more a “remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty, in a new era of globalization.”
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“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” —
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
July 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” —
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
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It's increasingly hard to get good news, especially when you have a worldview that is not limited to the Global North.
So, in hopes of supporting good sources, I tracked where I get my news for a few weeks and wrote it up in a post
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/where-i-ge...
So, in hopes of supporting good sources, I tracked where I get my news for a few weeks and wrote it up in a post
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/where-i-ge...
Where I Get My News
It's hard to find good sources. Here are my favorites.
timhirschelburns.substack.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It's increasingly hard to get good news, especially when you have a worldview that is not limited to the Global North.
So, in hopes of supporting good sources, I tracked where I get my news for a few weeks and wrote it up in a post
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/where-i-ge...
So, in hopes of supporting good sources, I tracked where I get my news for a few weeks and wrote it up in a post
timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/where-i-ge...
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NEW REPORT from IPES-Food just out!
🛢️Industrial food systems are hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of the climate conversation.
🔥Using 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals
#FuelToFork lays out the risks – and a path to #FossilFreeFood.
👉https://ipes-food.org/report/fuel-to-fork
🛢️Industrial food systems are hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of the climate conversation.
🔥Using 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals
#FuelToFork lays out the risks – and a path to #FossilFreeFood.
👉https://ipes-food.org/report/fuel-to-fork
June 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW REPORT from IPES-Food just out!
🛢️Industrial food systems are hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of the climate conversation.
🔥Using 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals
#FuelToFork lays out the risks – and a path to #FossilFreeFood.
👉https://ipes-food.org/report/fuel-to-fork
🛢️Industrial food systems are hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of the climate conversation.
🔥Using 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals
#FuelToFork lays out the risks – and a path to #FossilFreeFood.
👉https://ipes-food.org/report/fuel-to-fork
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Delighted to share the latest @ipes-food.org report Fuel to Fork that unpacks the myriad ways fossil fuels are embedded in #foodsystems
The report also lays out a clear blueprint to build fossil-free, resilient food systems. Link below!! ⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
The report also lays out a clear blueprint to build fossil-free, resilient food systems. Link below!! ⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
Fuel To Fork - IPES-Food report
Our food system uses 40% of petrochemicals and 15% of fossil fuels – yet it's left out of the climate conversation. Here's the path to fossil-free food.
ipes-food.org
June 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Delighted to share the latest @ipes-food.org report Fuel to Fork that unpacks the myriad ways fossil fuels are embedded in #foodsystems
The report also lays out a clear blueprint to build fossil-free, resilient food systems. Link below!! ⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
The report also lays out a clear blueprint to build fossil-free, resilient food systems. Link below!! ⤵️
ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...
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On Tuesday, we at the University of Helsinki group "Researchers for Palestine" emailed the Rector, Board and Chancellor with the signed petition. A physical copy was also delivered to and registered with Kirjaamoo.
www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
Gazan sota | Yli 700 työntekijää vaatii Helsingin yliopistoa lopettamaan yhteistyön Israelin yliopistojen kanssa
740:n allekirjoittajan joukossa on myös julkisuudesta tunnettuja asiantuntijoita.
www.hs.fi
June 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
On Tuesday, we at the University of Helsinki group "Researchers for Palestine" emailed the Rector, Board and Chancellor with the signed petition. A physical copy was also delivered to and registered with Kirjaamoo.
www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
And yet, 10 years since Paris, coal consumption shows no sign of peaking - it's nearly doubled since 2000.
Why so?
Why so?
Breaking!
Lazard 2025 levelized cost of energy out
Solar and wind win again. Coal and nuclear lose big.
Utility solar $58 (38-78)/MWh
Onshore wind $61.5 (37-86)
Fossil gas $78.5 (48-109)
Coal $122 (71-173)
Nuc $181 (141-220)
www.lazard.com/media/eijnqj...
Lazard 2025 levelized cost of energy out
Solar and wind win again. Coal and nuclear lose big.
Utility solar $58 (38-78)/MWh
Onshore wind $61.5 (37-86)
Fossil gas $78.5 (48-109)
Coal $122 (71-173)
Nuc $181 (141-220)
www.lazard.com/media/eijnqj...
www.lazard.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
And yet, 10 years since Paris, coal consumption shows no sign of peaking - it's nearly doubled since 2000.
Why so?
Why so?
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Lo and behond, the US Senate is abandoning any pretext that DAC/CCS should do anything else than help boost oil production.
June 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Lo and behond, the US Senate is abandoning any pretext that DAC/CCS should do anything else than help boost oil production.