Why does the IPBES meeting this week attract such little press interest here? A UK-co-founded IGO that plugs away through thousands of papers and comes to seismic conclusions on nature eg one of the underlying causes of BD loss is conc. of power and wealth. And they're here in the UK right now!

I'd think most of these "forms" of public interest would apply here ("the best use of public resources"?) (from ICO)

It's still total gibberish though. I'm thicker for having read it

I'm a little tense at the start of the UNDP's Learning for Nature course on biodiversity finance that started this week. Not yet said the word "de-risking" but some of the language here is eerily familiar

I was never a proper journalist but I always resisted the temptation to use words like "as" and "amid" to link two concepts without evidence in my articles

from Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty - otherwise a very serious, chunky economics textbook

Got gifted a subscription to @newint.bsky.social. What a birthday treat that @jasonhickel.bsky.social has contributed to the latest issue

'Instead of an effective wealth tax, which would be ineffective, how about an ineffective wealth tax?' Important commentary from the IFS, as ever, on a #wealthtax

The WHO's budget is "equivalent to just eight hours of global military expenditure". An almost unbelievable stat from yesterday's @devex.com newsletter