Mat Paterson
@matpaterson.bsky.social
Climate politics; political economy. University of Manchester Professor. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=im2kgFUAAAAJ&hl=en. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/matthew.paterson.
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💡ICYMI: Catch up on yesterday's webinar where we unveiled our net zero readiness tool!
Built on trusted datasets, the tool maps how prepared communities across the UK are for climate adaptation and just transition, from home energy retrofit to supermarket deliveries 🛒
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Built on trusted datasets, the tool maps how prepared communities across the UK are for climate adaptation and just transition, from home energy retrofit to supermarket deliveries 🛒
bit.ly/3N5RYXs
Webinar | Where should we put our energy (transition)? A place-specific approach to reach net zero
In this webinar we unveiled our innovative readiness mapping tool - built on trusted datasets - to show how prepared communities across the UK are for climate adaptation and just transition. In this replay you’ll: - Learn about the readiness tool’s new functionality, its development over the last five years and future impact. - Understand how policymakers, local organisations and climate actors can use it to prepare for or drive transition. - Get data-driven insights into how people live, travel, consume and work in UK regions. 💬 Share your thoughts and feedback in the comments 👍 Like and subscribe to stay updated with JUST's people-centred sustainability research Connect with JUST 🌍 Web: just.ac.uk LinkedIn: /company/just-research-centre BlueSky: @justcentre.bsky.social YouTube: @JUSTCentre
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December 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
💡ICYMI: Catch up on yesterday's webinar where we unveiled our net zero readiness tool!
Built on trusted datasets, the tool maps how prepared communities across the UK are for climate adaptation and just transition, from home energy retrofit to supermarket deliveries 🛒
bit.ly/3N5RYXs
Built on trusted datasets, the tool maps how prepared communities across the UK are for climate adaptation and just transition, from home energy retrofit to supermarket deliveries 🛒
bit.ly/3N5RYXs
Video of this webinar now here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yxz...
⏰ Today at 11am GMT: Don’t miss JUST's webinar where we'll introduce our innovative web-based mapping tool!
Be among the first to explore this innovative resource and help shape a tool to support communities in achieving fair and effective climate transitions 🌍
Sign up at the link below ⬇️
Be among the first to explore this innovative resource and help shape a tool to support communities in achieving fair and effective climate transitions 🌍
Sign up at the link below ⬇️
📣 WEBINAR | Where should we put our energy (transition)? A new place-specific approach to reaching net zero.
Explore our new web-based mapping tool to assess the readiness of places and communities across the UK to undergo climate adaptation and/or just transition.
🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/3MpOy1u
Explore our new web-based mapping tool to assess the readiness of places and communities across the UK to undergo climate adaptation and/or just transition.
🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/3MpOy1u
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Video of this webinar now here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yxz...
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The Paris Agreement sent a signal to states to decarbonize & support non-polluting economic sectors. China has seized on that incentive while the United States has not, leaving China in control of the main technologies driving the clean energy transition. That creates geopolitical risks of its own.
10 Years After Paris, China Is Shaping Our Climate Future
The seminal global climate agreement changed the world, just not in the way we thought it would.
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December 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Paris Agreement sent a signal to states to decarbonize & support non-polluting economic sectors. China has seized on that incentive while the United States has not, leaving China in control of the main technologies driving the clean energy transition. That creates geopolitical risks of its own.
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A major new book by Paul Tobin, @matpaterson.bsky.social @uompols.bsky.social @officialuom.bsky.social, and Stacy D VanDeveer @umassboston.bsky.social examines why climate strategies often clash—even among those committed to action.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
A major new book by Paul Tobin, @matpaterson.bsky.social @uompols.bsky.social @officialuom.bsky.social, and Stacy D VanDeveer @umassboston.bsky.social examines why climate strategies often clash—even among those committed to action.
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w...
@sustainableuom.bsky.social
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@sustainableuom.bsky.social
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A “Reform vs Not Reform” strategy is only going to work for Labour if they are seen as credibly “not Reform” by LD/Green curious voters. Every hardline intervention on immigration weakens that credibility but without persuading Reform curious voters.
December 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A “Reform vs Not Reform” strategy is only going to work for Labour if they are seen as credibly “not Reform” by LD/Green curious voters. Every hardline intervention on immigration weakens that credibility but without persuading Reform curious voters.
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📣 WEBINAR | Where should we put our energy (transition)? A new place-specific approach to reaching net zero.
Explore our new web-based mapping tool to assess the readiness of places and communities across the UK to undergo climate adaptation and/or just transition.
🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/3MpOy1u
Explore our new web-based mapping tool to assess the readiness of places and communities across the UK to undergo climate adaptation and/or just transition.
🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/3MpOy1u
Webinar: Where should we put our energy (transition)?
Taking a new place-specific approach to reaching net zero.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
📣 WEBINAR | Where should we put our energy (transition)? A new place-specific approach to reaching net zero.
Explore our new web-based mapping tool to assess the readiness of places and communities across the UK to undergo climate adaptation and/or just transition.
🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/3MpOy1u
Explore our new web-based mapping tool to assess the readiness of places and communities across the UK to undergo climate adaptation and/or just transition.
🎟️ Register now: bit.ly/3MpOy1u
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📣 Call for Abstracts!
Workshop on Emotions & Affect in Transitions
🗓 27 March 2026 | 📍 University of Manchester
We’re exploring how emotions shape climate action, mobility, sustainability & change.
Open to Master’s, PhD & ECRs.
📝 Submit 250–300 word abstracts by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 bit.ly/48tVSlo
Workshop on Emotions & Affect in Transitions
🗓 27 March 2026 | 📍 University of Manchester
We’re exploring how emotions shape climate action, mobility, sustainability & change.
Open to Master’s, PhD & ECRs.
📝 Submit 250–300 word abstracts by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 bit.ly/48tVSlo
Workshop on Emotions and Affect in Transitions – Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Environmental and Socio-Technical Change, University of Manchester, 27 March 2026
We invite abstract submissions to participate in the workshop “Emotions and Affect in Transitions: Exploring the Affective Dimensions of Environmental and Socio-Technical Change”. This interdisciplina...
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December 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
📣 Call for Abstracts!
Workshop on Emotions & Affect in Transitions
🗓 27 March 2026 | 📍 University of Manchester
We’re exploring how emotions shape climate action, mobility, sustainability & change.
Open to Master’s, PhD & ECRs.
📝 Submit 250–300 word abstracts by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 bit.ly/48tVSlo
Workshop on Emotions & Affect in Transitions
🗓 27 March 2026 | 📍 University of Manchester
We’re exploring how emotions shape climate action, mobility, sustainability & change.
Open to Master’s, PhD & ECRs.
📝 Submit 250–300 word abstracts by 15 Dec 2025
🔗 bit.ly/48tVSlo
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“We can’t all be expected to bike.”
Fair. But that’s not the point.
“Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.”
This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.
Fair. But that’s not the point.
“Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.”
This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.
Your Comeback Guide to all the Anti-Cycling Arguments You’ll Hear This Year
Anti-bike arguments aren’t just frustrating—they’re outdated, inaccurate, and often repeated without a shred of evidence.
momentummag.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“We can’t all be expected to bike.”
Fair. But that’s not the point.
“Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.”
This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.
Fair. But that’s not the point.
“Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.”
This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.
Many were optimistic about Carney on climate when he came in, given what he did at the BoE. But the Liberals are clearly back in the incoherent middle where in practice they decisively promote climate collapse when forced to choose. Worse now than when Trudeau came in but similar contradictions.
My armchair psychologist's degree is diagnosing this as 'Projection' given #MarkCarney 's Energy & Natural Resources Minister #TimHodgson is championing the energy systems of the last 100 years instead of the next 100. Nostalgia indeed🙄 #LosingTheEnergyTransition #cdnpoli #MarkCarney
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Many were optimistic about Carney on climate when he came in, given what he did at the BoE. But the Liberals are clearly back in the incoherent middle where in practice they decisively promote climate collapse when forced to choose. Worse now than when Trudeau came in but similar contradictions.
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Bill Gates, Tony Blair, CFR are rethinking climate change in the Trump era: more "realistically." Can we dismiss this trend or do we need to understand what it means global climate politics? 🧵
@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
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@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
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Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Bill Gates, Tony Blair, CFR are rethinking climate change in the Trump era: more "realistically." Can we dismiss this trend or do we need to understand what it means global climate politics? 🧵
@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
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@fgenovese.bsky.social and I write for @iojournal.bsky.social
#IOFoGG
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Shall we all bookmark this for when the Budget decides the Bike to Work scheme is unaffordable? www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Shall we all bookmark this for when the Budget decides the Bike to Work scheme is unaffordable? www.gov.uk/government/n...
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📢 SCI Annual Lecture 2025🚗 with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore
Join us on Tue 2nd December at AMBS for an inspiring lecture on the hidden costs of car culture, drawn from her new book Roadkill.
🎤 Includes panel discussion + Q&A
📍 AMBS Theatre 2.008 | 🕓 4:00–5:30
👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...
Join us on Tue 2nd December at AMBS for an inspiring lecture on the hidden costs of car culture, drawn from her new book Roadkill.
🎤 Includes panel discussion + Q&A
📍 AMBS Theatre 2.008 | 🕓 4:00–5:30
👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...
Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture: Prof. Henrietta L. Moore
Join us for an inspiring talk by Prof. Henrietta L. Moore at the Sustainable Consumption Institute Annual Lecture!
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November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
📢 SCI Annual Lecture 2025🚗 with Professor Dame Henrietta Moore
Join us on Tue 2nd December at AMBS for an inspiring lecture on the hidden costs of car culture, drawn from her new book Roadkill.
🎤 Includes panel discussion + Q&A
📍 AMBS Theatre 2.008 | 🕓 4:00–5:30
👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...
Join us on Tue 2nd December at AMBS for an inspiring lecture on the hidden costs of car culture, drawn from her new book Roadkill.
🎤 Includes panel discussion + Q&A
📍 AMBS Theatre 2.008 | 🕓 4:00–5:30
👉 Register: bit.ly/SCIannuallec...
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Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions
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November 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
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The #Fridays for Future Movement and the Repoliticization of #ClimateChange #Policy in #Germany (Chapter 2) - Stability and Politicization in #Climate #Governance -
#COP30 #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis
@matpaterson.bsky.social @frankbiermann.bsky.social
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#COP30 #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis
@matpaterson.bsky.social @frankbiermann.bsky.social
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The Fridays for Future Movement and the Repoliticization of Climate Change Policy in Germany (Chapter 2) - Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance
Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance - August 2025
www.cambridge.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The #Fridays for Future Movement and the Repoliticization of #ClimateChange #Policy in #Germany (Chapter 2) - Stability and Politicization in #Climate #Governance -
#COP30 #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis
@matpaterson.bsky.social @frankbiermann.bsky.social
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#COP30 #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis
@matpaterson.bsky.social @frankbiermann.bsky.social
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#US- #China Relations and the Competitive Turn of #Green Industrial #Policy-making (Chapter 15) - Stability and Politicization in #Climate #Governance
@jonasnahm.com #COP30 #GreenNewDeal #Trade #Tariffs #Energy #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #IndustrialPolicy
- www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
@jonasnahm.com #COP30 #GreenNewDeal #Trade #Tariffs #Energy #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #IndustrialPolicy
- www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
US-China Relations and the Competitive Turn of Green Industrial Policymaking (Chapter 15) - Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance
Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance - August 2025
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November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#US- #China Relations and the Competitive Turn of #Green Industrial #Policy-making (Chapter 15) - Stability and Politicization in #Climate #Governance
@jonasnahm.com #COP30 #GreenNewDeal #Trade #Tariffs #Energy #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #IndustrialPolicy
- www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
@jonasnahm.com #COP30 #GreenNewDeal #Trade #Tariffs #Energy #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #IndustrialPolicy
- www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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Can the world quit #coal?
#COP30 #energy #ActOnClimate #Brazil #China #India
@matpaterson.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social
theconversation.com/can-the-worl...
#COP30 #energy #ActOnClimate #Brazil #China #India
@matpaterson.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social
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Can the world quit coal?
Nearly a third of all countries worldwide have pledged to phase out their unabated coal-burning power. But China and India are still adding coal plants – for now.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction.
First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction.
First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom).
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom).
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C
Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Canada is such a filthy fossil fuel nation.
Even their so-called “good leaders” are filthy fossil fuel fools.
Oh Canada!
Even their so-called “good leaders” are filthy fossil fuel fools.
Oh Canada!
Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒
Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...
Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Canada is such a filthy fossil fuel nation.
Even their so-called “good leaders” are filthy fossil fuel fools.
Oh Canada!
Even their so-called “good leaders” are filthy fossil fuel fools.
Oh Canada!
Rachel Reeves perhaps not yet noticed that the GP was second to Labour in 40 seats in 2024, and is polling about twice as high as it was then... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Rachel Reeves perhaps not yet noticed that the GP was second to Labour in 40 seats in 2024, and is polling about twice as high as it was then... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Now getting a briefing from Louis W @thecccuk.bsky.social on how rail decarbonisation interacts with national carbon budgets.
This is very welcome as the government’s new CBDP is very vague on transport emissions reduction, plus noises about rail electrification being unaffordable have sown doubt
This is very welcome as the government’s new CBDP is very vague on transport emissions reduction, plus noises about rail electrification being unaffordable have sown doubt
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Now getting a briefing from Louis W @thecccuk.bsky.social on how rail decarbonisation interacts with national carbon budgets.
This is very welcome as the government’s new CBDP is very vague on transport emissions reduction, plus noises about rail electrification being unaffordable have sown doubt
This is very welcome as the government’s new CBDP is very vague on transport emissions reduction, plus noises about rail electrification being unaffordable have sown doubt
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Donald Trump has snubbed COP30.
COP29 was defined by hostility and division.
Global heating limits of 1.5C are increasingly unlikely.
So how can pro-climate actors agree on strategy?
@matpaterson.bsky.social and Dr Paul Tobin explore how to pull back from climate change.
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
COP29 was defined by hostility and division.
Global heating limits of 1.5C are increasingly unlikely.
So how can pro-climate actors agree on strategy?
@matpaterson.bsky.social and Dr Paul Tobin explore how to pull back from climate change.
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
November 11, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Donald Trump has snubbed COP30.
COP29 was defined by hostility and division.
Global heating limits of 1.5C are increasingly unlikely.
So how can pro-climate actors agree on strategy?
@matpaterson.bsky.social and Dr Paul Tobin explore how to pull back from climate change.
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
COP29 was defined by hostility and division.
Global heating limits of 1.5C are increasingly unlikely.
So how can pro-climate actors agree on strategy?
@matpaterson.bsky.social and Dr Paul Tobin explore how to pull back from climate change.
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This book is now out: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b.... A successor to the very much liked book of the same name edited by Andrew Leftwich. very pleased to be in the new one, edited by Colin Hay, with a chapter on 'politics as crisis management'.
This is the single most important way that the Labour government could connect up climate action with reducing inequality, and also having a chance to undermine support for Reform in 'red wall' places. Barmy to cut it on every possible ground. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This is the single most important way that the Labour government could connect up climate action with reducing inequality, and also having a chance to undermine support for Reform in 'red wall' places. Barmy to cut it on every possible ground. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?