@davidwaskow.bsky.social
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yet again, carbon pricing (in the form of the EU CBAM) is proving to be a poison pill -- this time in the COP30 negotiations.
as I explain in Existential Politics, the politics of carbon pricing are generally terrible -- limited emissions reductions but a lot of pissed off people.
as I explain in Existential Politics, the politics of carbon pricing are generally terrible -- limited emissions reductions but a lot of pissed off people.
EU trade tensions threaten to hold UN climate talks hostage
China and India among exporters to challenge carbon border tax
www.ft.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
yet again, carbon pricing (in the form of the EU CBAM) is proving to be a poison pill -- this time in the COP30 negotiations.
as I explain in Existential Politics, the politics of carbon pricing are generally terrible -- limited emissions reductions but a lot of pissed off people.
as I explain in Existential Politics, the politics of carbon pricing are generally terrible -- limited emissions reductions but a lot of pissed off people.
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This is a BIG deal and a hopeful message: countries can cooperate to avoid a race to the bottom.
New OECD data, just out today:
For the third year running, the average global corporate tax rate *increased* - and more countries now *raise* than lower their corporate taxes.
This follows the adoption of the global minimum tax and essentially reverses four decades of racing to the bottom.
For the third year running, the average global corporate tax rate *increased* - and more countries now *raise* than lower their corporate taxes.
This follows the adoption of the global minimum tax and essentially reverses four decades of racing to the bottom.
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This is a BIG deal and a hopeful message: countries can cooperate to avoid a race to the bottom.
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remember folks, this is all fine and harmless because a single query sounds like not much energy or water use
Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small...
semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
remember folks, this is all fine and harmless because a single query sounds like not much energy or water use
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In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
China is building 74% of all current solar and wind projects, report says
Beijing is dominating construction of renewable energy sources, according to Global Energy Monitor
www.ft.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
In an effort to win this contest, China is building hegemony by exporting not just its green products but also in a structural shift exporting its technology, engineering, supply chains, and financing.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
www.ft.com/content/e517...
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6/ "1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history. 2) Kills solar industry, raising prices 3) almost a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 4) nursing homes shutting down 5) energy shortages 6) 4.5 trillion in NEW DEBT. — I promise you this bill is worse than you think." - @brianschatz.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
6/ "1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history. 2) Kills solar industry, raising prices 3) almost a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 4) nursing homes shutting down 5) energy shortages 6) 4.5 trillion in NEW DEBT. — I promise you this bill is worse than you think." - @brianschatz.bsky.social
“Delivery workers at Amazon receive significantly lower wages than at UPS and FedEx, we found. Wage gaps are especially large between the delivery workers at Amazon, who earn US$19 an hour on average, and the unionized drivers at UPS, who make $35.”
portside.org/2025-11-07/u...
portside.org/2025-11-07/u...
The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers: A Tale of 2 Workplace Models
American households have become dependent on Amazon. The numbers say it all: In 2024, 83% of U.S. households received deliveries from Amazon, representing over 1 million packages delivered each day an...
portside.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“Delivery workers at Amazon receive significantly lower wages than at UPS and FedEx, we found. Wage gaps are especially large between the delivery workers at Amazon, who earn US$19 an hour on average, and the unionized drivers at UPS, who make $35.”
portside.org/2025-11-07/u...
portside.org/2025-11-07/u...
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calling for a climate reset reset
November 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
calling for a climate reset reset
Israel Cannot Go On Winning Like This www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Opinion | Israel Cannot Go On Winning Like This
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Israel Cannot Go On Winning Like This www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Reacting at the Trump/Hegseth warrior summit
September 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Reacting at the Trump/Hegseth warrior summit
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Now this is Content
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Now this is Content
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It's good Microsoft "reviewed" whether it's technology was being used for mass surveillance (and military targeting & genocide). It's good they pulled the plug. Apparently, Israel just moved everything over to AWS. So, Amazon going to host a genocide? Might be good for more companies to "review".
Israel's use of AI and massive surveillance data has not been effective. They have not eliminated Hamas nor recovered the hostages. And Israel has killed massive numbers of civilians. They're either incompetent, or unethical, or both. It's a moral atrocity. Microsoft pulls the plug.
September 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It's good Microsoft "reviewed" whether it's technology was being used for mass surveillance (and military targeting & genocide). It's good they pulled the plug. Apparently, Israel just moved everything over to AWS. So, Amazon going to host a genocide? Might be good for more companies to "review".
Israel Is Flattening Parts of Gaza City www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Israel Is Flattening Areas of Gaza City
The city had been spared from widespread demolitions during previous military operations there. This time is different.
www.nytimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Israel Is Flattening Parts of Gaza City www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Appreciate @jeremywallace.bsky.social patiently trying to remind people that China's big gigawatt renewable capacity target doesn't mean all that much if the country's emissions don't fall fast enough
September 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Appreciate @jeremywallace.bsky.social patiently trying to remind people that China's big gigawatt renewable capacity target doesn't mean all that much if the country's emissions don't fall fast enough
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The basic dilemma for China's leaders is: you have to cut either the clean energy industry or the coal industry down to size; both can't continue to grow like they have. These targets just show they still haven't made up their minds, balking at the economic fallout from either.
Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.
September 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The basic dilemma for China's leaders is: you have to cut either the clean energy industry or the coal industry down to size; both can't continue to grow like they have. These targets just show they still haven't made up their minds, balking at the economic fallout from either.
Wake up Israel, hear the shofar’s call — End the war now!
@unxeptable.bsky.social @omdimbeyachad.leftodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@unxeptable.bsky.social @omdimbeyachad.leftodon.social.ap.brid.gy
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Wake up Israel, hear the shofar’s call — End the war now!
@unxeptable.bsky.social @omdimbeyachad.leftodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@unxeptable.bsky.social @omdimbeyachad.leftodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Azerbaijani authorities bust ring smuggling 'superior' Thai tamarind into country, undercutting local Azerbaijani tamarind market. Thailand views arrests as act of economic warfare & seizes shipment of Azerbaijani pomegranate molasses in retaliation🤪😜
September 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Azerbaijani authorities bust ring smuggling 'superior' Thai tamarind into country, undercutting local Azerbaijani tamarind market. Thailand views arrests as act of economic warfare & seizes shipment of Azerbaijani pomegranate molasses in retaliation🤪😜
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In Treasury's modelling, some early-stage posturing to eventually present Australia's fossil fuel exports as "net zero" by claiming exporting lithium magically undoes the damage of exporting coal and gas.....
treasury.gov.au/sites/defaul...
@rodcampbell.bsky.social @timinclimate.bsky.social
treasury.gov.au/sites/defaul...
@rodcampbell.bsky.social @timinclimate.bsky.social
September 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In Treasury's modelling, some early-stage posturing to eventually present Australia's fossil fuel exports as "net zero" by claiming exporting lithium magically undoes the damage of exporting coal and gas.....
treasury.gov.au/sites/defaul...
@rodcampbell.bsky.social @timinclimate.bsky.social
treasury.gov.au/sites/defaul...
@rodcampbell.bsky.social @timinclimate.bsky.social
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This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
August 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
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"... it is increasingly apparent that the Trump administration wants to halt decarbonization not only in the United States but globally."
Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization
Mark Blyth & Daniel Driscoll conclude that the US is intentionally undercutting the global demand for green technologies.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"... it is increasingly apparent that the Trump administration wants to halt decarbonization not only in the United States but globally."
The West Bank is seeing a creeping Nakba
August 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The West Bank is seeing a creeping Nakba
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Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels
You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
August 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels
You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.
www.ft.com/content/0f61...
You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism.
www.ft.com/content/0f61...