Lukas Bogner
@lbogner.bsky.social
PhD fellow at Roskilde University, Denmark
studying politics, expertise & law in climate finance.
studying politics, expertise & law in climate finance.
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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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So instead of electrifying vehicle fleets to address climate change we are are instead using battery technology to drive more AI slop? No thanks.
www.ft.com/content/8b0a...
www.ft.com/content/8b0a...
Manufacturers pivot from EV batteries to storage as AI boom drives demand
Retooling of factories comes as cell makers have cancelled enough capacity to produce 2mn electric cars
www.ft.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 PM
So instead of electrifying vehicle fleets to address climate change we are are instead using battery technology to drive more AI slop? No thanks.
www.ft.com/content/8b0a...
www.ft.com/content/8b0a...
PhD Position at Roskilde University - indigenous rights, green transition in the arctic. Great colleagues! Feel free to share. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
PhD Fellowship in Indigenous Rights and the Green Transition in the Arctic
The Department of Social Sciences and Business (ISE), Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD fellow as part of the Danish Research Coun
candidate.hr-manager.net
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
PhD Position at Roskilde University - indigenous rights, green transition in the arctic. Great colleagues! Feel free to share. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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EU research excludes refugee scholars through contradictory policies. Academic freedom is meaningless if it applies only to scholars with the privilege of unrestricted mobility.
Read the statement by the @europeanisa.bsky.social endorsing concerns raised by @isanet.bsky.social
Read the statement by the @europeanisa.bsky.social endorsing concerns raised by @isanet.bsky.social
📣 EISA endorses the concerns raised by the International Studies Association’s Academic Freedom Committee regarding systemic barriers that prevent refugee scholars from accessing European research funding
🔗 The full statement is available here: buff.ly/rpj4IcG
🔗 The full statement is available here: buff.ly/rpj4IcG
February 8, 2026 at 12:13 PM
EU research excludes refugee scholars through contradictory policies. Academic freedom is meaningless if it applies only to scholars with the privilege of unrestricted mobility.
Read the statement by the @europeanisa.bsky.social endorsing concerns raised by @isanet.bsky.social
Read the statement by the @europeanisa.bsky.social endorsing concerns raised by @isanet.bsky.social
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In honour of the FT and Statista declaring Deloitte and PwC the top consultancies for sustainability services, worth re-upping @rosiecollington.bsky.social's and my piece on the rise of climate consulting:
New development: Climate consulting and the transformation of climate governance
External consultancies’ involvement in climate governance has grown substantially in recent years. Public sector managers encounter them in government tasks from policy research and design to clima...
www.tandfonline.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:20 AM
In honour of the FT and Statista declaring Deloitte and PwC the top consultancies for sustainability services, worth re-upping @rosiecollington.bsky.social's and my piece on the rise of climate consulting:
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Ownership infinity pools: finding control strategies in multinational enterprises, by David P. Castro & Leonard Seabrooke
Ownership infinity pools: finding control strategies in multinational enterprises
Understanding the role of the firm and the corporation is an ongoing concern for political economy scholars. Following the increasing influence of the Multinational Enterprise (MNEs) and its develo...
www.tandfonline.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Ownership infinity pools: finding control strategies in multinational enterprises, by David P. Castro & Leonard Seabrooke
It's like the guy from Suno claiming that musicians don't actually like to make music...
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
It's like the guy from Suno claiming that musicians don't actually like to make music...
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"Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment"
SpaceX is 100% correct about this, even if their proposed solution is hollow nonsense
www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...
SpaceX is 100% correct about this, even if their proposed solution is hollow nonsense
www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...
SpaceX
SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
www.spacex.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:38 AM
"Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions, even in the near term, without imposing hardship on communities and the environment"
SpaceX is 100% correct about this, even if their proposed solution is hollow nonsense
www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...
SpaceX is 100% correct about this, even if their proposed solution is hollow nonsense
www.spacex.com/updates#xai-...
Congrats, looking forward to read!!
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Congrats, looking forward to read!!
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On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social
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bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
January 29, 2026 at 8:50 AM
On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Roskilde University has an open call for PhD proposals at the international section, great for interdisciplinary critical research in IPE, sciology, socio-legal studies, etc. Come and apply! (and please share if you know someone who would want to join us) :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
PhD Fellowship – Open Call: International Section
The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD of Social Science from September 1st, 2026, or a
candidate.hr-manager.net
January 19, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Roskilde University has an open call for PhD proposals at the international section, great for interdisciplinary critical research in IPE, sciology, socio-legal studies, etc. Come and apply! (and please share if you know someone who would want to join us) :) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Central bank independence and financial market reaction appear to be two more supposed liberal bulwarks against fascism which have, shockingly, failed.
January 12, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Central bank independence and financial market reaction appear to be two more supposed liberal bulwarks against fascism which have, shockingly, failed.
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Just a few things I'd like to say about this @hausfath.bsky.social piece.
The first is that every 10th of a degree of heating over 2C raises risks for multiple irreversible catastrophes MORE than every 10th of a degree of heating under 2C.
That's why the 2C target exists. It's not random.
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The first is that every 10th of a degree of heating over 2C raises risks for multiple irreversible catastrophes MORE than every 10th of a degree of heating under 2C.
That's why the 2C target exists. It's not random.
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January 5, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Just a few things I'd like to say about this @hausfath.bsky.social piece.
The first is that every 10th of a degree of heating over 2C raises risks for multiple irreversible catastrophes MORE than every 10th of a degree of heating under 2C.
That's why the 2C target exists. It's not random.
🧵
The first is that every 10th of a degree of heating over 2C raises risks for multiple irreversible catastrophes MORE than every 10th of a degree of heating under 2C.
That's why the 2C target exists. It's not random.
🧵
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How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield?
Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.
Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.
The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has become a site of struggle, around which a range of actors at multiple scales and in different legal, political and financial spheres are mob...
www.tandfonline.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield?
Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.
Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.
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Great reflection points: post-neoliberalism isn’t a rupture; it’s the new centrism. A depoliticized consensus language of “place,” “dignity,” and “storytelling” that avoids power, omits justice and climate, and stabilizes elite rule, serving as a rhetorical bridge between left and right elites.
I wrote about a conference marking the culmination of tens of millions of dollars of philanthropic spending to transcend neoliberalism. lpeproject.org/blog/post-ne...
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Great reflection points: post-neoliberalism isn’t a rupture; it’s the new centrism. A depoliticized consensus language of “place,” “dignity,” and “storytelling” that avoids power, omits justice and climate, and stabilizes elite rule, serving as a rhetorical bridge between left and right elites.
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New commentary!
I’ve been doing some work on World Bank experiments with trust funds for conservation in the 1990s.
It looks like, having run out of other ways to private finance our way out of climate crisis, they’re back at COP 30 with the TFFF.
theconversation.com/the-worlds-n...
I’ve been doing some work on World Bank experiments with trust funds for conservation in the 1990s.
It looks like, having run out of other ways to private finance our way out of climate crisis, they’re back at COP 30 with the TFFF.
theconversation.com/the-worlds-n...
The world’s new US$125 billion rainforest trust fund revives a 1990s idea – and shows its limits
Cop30’s flagship Tropical Forests Forever announcement puts investors before rainforests.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
New commentary!
I’ve been doing some work on World Bank experiments with trust funds for conservation in the 1990s.
It looks like, having run out of other ways to private finance our way out of climate crisis, they’re back at COP 30 with the TFFF.
theconversation.com/the-worlds-n...
I’ve been doing some work on World Bank experiments with trust funds for conservation in the 1990s.
It looks like, having run out of other ways to private finance our way out of climate crisis, they’re back at COP 30 with the TFFF.
theconversation.com/the-worlds-n...
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I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...
International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen
‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…
legalform.blog
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.
I'm very happy that my dissertation about legal expertise in climate finance was accepted for defense, which will be on November 24th, 14:00 CET. For those interested in listening in online, there's more info here: ruc.dk/en/events/lu... :)
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I'm very happy that my dissertation about legal expertise in climate finance was accepted for defense, which will be on November 24th, 14:00 CET. For those interested in listening in online, there's more info here: ruc.dk/en/events/lu... :)
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🚨New Article Out! “The Scottish Road to Net Zero: Corporate Welfare and Assetization Cascades”
The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.
The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.
October 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚨New Article Out! “The Scottish Road to Net Zero: Corporate Welfare and Assetization Cascades”
The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.
The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.
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The fact that not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still increasing, but the *rate of CO2 increasing* in the atmosphere is still increasing is true nightmare stuff.
“[Last year] CO2 in the global surface atmosphere increased by 3.5 ppm, the largest one-year increase since modern measurements began... This increase was driven by continued fossil CO2 emissions, enhanced fire emissions and reduced terrestrial/ocean sinks… which could signal a climate feedback.”
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The fact that not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still increasing, but the *rate of CO2 increasing* in the atmosphere is still increasing is true nightmare stuff.
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#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...
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...
October 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
#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...
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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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.
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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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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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September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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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