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Political economy of climate & other stuff
Monthly essays: https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
Weekly Dispatch: https://buttondown.com/polycrisisdispatch/archive/
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New dispatch alert: #China has made advances in green #energy, manufacturing, and non-dollar trade. But for BRICS, moving away from the #dollar in #trade & finance still remains the biggest challenge.

More in our latest edition of The Polycrisis⤵️
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
July 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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New dispatch alert: BRICS export ties with the #US have weakened since 2000, except for #India.
While others pulled back, India’s exports to the US have quietly grown.

More on this in our latest edition.⤵️
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
July 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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The transcript for our Oil, politics and the mid-transition panels is online now! Read about China's "central bank of oil" and the importance of an unprecedented decline in oil demand. www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/o...
Two line charts showing global oil stockpile estimates for the world and for China, one line the conventional estimates and another when adjusted for observed changes to China's SPR inventory. The latter line significantly increases the crude stockpile, eg current global stockpiles from about 3,300mb to over 4,000mb.
November 2, 2023 at 1:40 AM
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NEXT WEEK, a Polycrisis panel— Oil and Politics in the Mid-Transition.
Featuring:
Amy Myers Jaffe, Adam Tooze, Alex Turnbull, Morgan Bazilian, William Oman.
October 5 at 4pm ET.
Register now: bit.ly/transition-g...
"Card" for the panel, same text as body of post, with Polycrisis and Phenomenal World logos and an image of a floating oil faciilty.
September 28, 2023 at 9:48 AM
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"These storylines are important because they offer different interpretations about what the problems are, how they came about, who is responsible, and what should be done." The charts and narratives that define how we see economics, climate, politics.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/hoc...
Two "hockey stick" charts rising sharply on the y-axis: 1) global prosperity (world GDP over two millennia) and 2) cumulative CO2 emissions.
August 22, 2023 at 5:38 AM