Adrien Vogt‐Schilb

Adrien Vogt-Schilb

@vogtschilb.bsky.social

Do you mean something like "maths wants to be free and open source and most mathematicians agree that's a very important core value, and it is perverse to pay them to take their thoughts out of the public domain" ?

Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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What does it mean ? 100 percent real question

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Paul Kelleher 🎃

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A screenshot of an ebook, which reads: "In all these cases, the outcome of the CBA or another quantification exercise will have a misleadingly reassuring precision. Decision makers may understandably take this precision to mean that they can confidently rely on the recommendation of the CBA, when in fact it is no more reliable than the dubious numbers on which it is based. The situation is reminiscent of an apocryphal story about weighing hogs in Texas.

'Down there, they put the hog in one pan of a large set of scales, put rocks in the other pan ... until they exactly balance the weight of the hog. Having done that very carefully, they guess how much the rocks weigh.'"

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Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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I'd love it to show solar PV for comparison

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Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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I hope that is true! Cannot help but wonder if the snowstorm is part of the reason

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Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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@gro-tsen.bsky.social

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Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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- a dollar spent on mitigation yields most in a rich country, while a dollar spent on poverty reduction (kind of the same thing anyway) yields most in a poor country
- the accounting of climate adaptation finance tends to exclude normal development finance for political reasons

Adrien Vogt-Schilb

@vogtschilb.bsky.social

To be sure I quoted that, but the whole piece is littered with what everyone seems to need to read about climate finance
-adaptation consists of my mostly private or locally public goods easy to fund, but impossible to measure
- mitigation is a global good but is mostly provided by private goods

Is Climate Finance Fixable?

Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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"the misapprehension that because two things are both good things for the world...they need to be tackled together" 👌

Ranil Dissanayake @scepticalranil.bsky.social · Dec 23

The first words of my final blog for CGD before starting as Deputy Chief Economist at FCDO:

“Climate finance is a disaster.”

But the problem is not that there isn’t enough of it. It’s far worse than that. It’s that none of it makes sense, and we’ve designed it in a way that minimises its impact.

Climate finance is a disaster. COP29 ended with a hotly-contested and almost universally-loathed agreement for rich countries to provide $300 billion each year to developing countries, to defray the c...

Is Climate Finance Fixable?

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Ranil Dissanayake

@scepticalranil.bsky.social

The first words of my final blog for CGD before starting as Deputy Chief Economist at FCDO:

“Climate finance is a disaster.”

But the problem is not that there isn’t enough of it. It’s far worse than that. It’s that none of it makes sense, and we’ve designed it in a way that minimises its impact.

Climate finance is a disaster. COP29 ended with a hotly-contested and almost universally-loathed agreement for rich countries to provide $300 billion each year to developing countries, to defray the c...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.

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Paolo Crosetto

@paolocrosetto.bsky.social

How do public policies stack up? Is the impact of two policies larger than the sum of its parts?

We look at this in the context of food - labels + price policies - & find they are *extremely* sub-additive.

Also, labels do way better than prices.

Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Brent Toderian

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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.

www.businessinsider.com

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Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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Thank God. Those footnotes were tedious.

Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · Nov 25

A little paragraph in the NCQG text with important accounting effects:

Under $100bn goal, because MDB shareholders are developed + developing, only 71% of MDB climate finance counted.

Now all MDB climate finance counts. At current levels, this means $21 billion more counted towards NCQG per year

On Aid and Climate, Don’t Make the Poor Pay Twice

Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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"aid shouldn’t be diverted away from high return projects in the poorest countries in order to help rich countries build a façade of global climate solidarity". Bold !

Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · Nov 24

Rule number one for climate negotiators should be ‘don’t make poor people pay twice for climate.’ The gathering in Baku utterly ignored that in the rush to a big number.
www.cgdev.org/blog/aid-and...

A few months ago, the experts at the OECD who decide what’s in and what’s out when it comes to what counts as official development assistance (ODA) said spending on research towards a Covid vaccine wa...

On Aid and Climate, Don’t Make the Poor Pay Twice

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Tim Hirschel-Burns

@timhirschelburns.bsky.social

A little paragraph in the NCQG text with important accounting effects:

Under $100bn goal, because MDB shareholders are developed + developing, only 71% of MDB climate finance counted.

Now all MDB climate finance counts. At current levels, this means $21 billion more counted towards NCQG per year

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Charles Kenny

@charlesjkenny.bsky.social

Rule number one for climate negotiators should be ‘don’t make poor people pay twice for climate.’ The gathering in Baku utterly ignored that in the rush to a big number.
www.cgdev.org/blog/aid-and...

A few months ago, the experts at the OECD who decide what’s in and what’s out when it comes to what counts as official development assistance (ODA) said spending on research towards a Covid vaccine wa...

Adrien Vogt-Schilb

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#dmdulives

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · Aug 8

i laughed

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