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🇬🇧English: klimamonitor-dk.translate.goog/nyheder/deba...

Forskere: Er regeringen ved at underminere Parisaftalen uden at fortælle os det? Klimaministeren har med sine udtalelser sået tvivl om Danmarks engagement til ambitiøs klimahandling. Danmarks klimapolitik halter også efter, skriver tre forskere.

Has the Danish government quietly abandoned its commitment to the Paris Agreement? 🇩🇰 In this piece for @klimamonitor.dk, Jens Friis Lund, @jptilsted.bsky.social, and I call on the government to reiterate their support for the Paris goals. (English in the replies) klimamonitor.dk/nyheder/deba...

Great thread and the same flawed arguments are being peddled in Denmark

Following the price surge, the British right are pedalling a fantasy of self-sufficiency through North Sea oil. This has no serious basis in reality. Britain has been a net energy importer for 20 years. It has nothing to do with net zero and everything to do with decades of declining production🧵

The key players in North Sea oil and gas production decline and job losses haven't been government ministers or regulators. It's private companies who closed down fields and refineries as majors like BP and Shell exited and passed them on to smaller firms.

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran.

Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich.

Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

The "Overflowing Bucket" framework by @fergusgreen.bsky.social is really useful to challenge new oil and gas fields. I used it in my public hearing response against INEOS' application for oil and gas extraction from the controversial Hejre field in the Danish North Sea. www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production Abstract. Supply-side climate policy initiatives that restrict fossil fuel production are gathering momentum. A growing body of academic scholarship seeks to understand this new frontier in global cli...

Check out our new article "Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production" co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social and Daniela Soto Hernandez in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

From an actual expert

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Nominally serious media outlets produce so much nonsense about Danish politics. They are full of factual errors. “Denmark” in the political discourse of other countries has become a phantasm to justify their rightwing policy demands. It has very little to do with empirical reality in the country.

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Only 10% of DPP voters switched to Soc Dem between 2015 and 2019 elections. In recent poll, the far right has total of 17.7%. 2015 was a freak election, the far right has *not* been pacified. If it had, how does Cowley explain the far right vote share has increased between 2022 election and now?

Just a few examples:
1. Cowley thinks Denmark has a ‘left-wing government‘. It doesn’t. It has a grand coalition comprising centre-left, centre, and centre-right.
2. He claims Soc Dems captured far right votes to pacify DPP, but reason for poor DPP result in 2022 is two new far right parties emerged

As an academic born and raised in Denmark who researches and writes about Danish politics, I can confidently say that Cowley has no idea what he’s talking about. The piece is full of factual errors and falsehoods

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Opposition to solar power has become a key electoral battleground in Denmark.

Policymakers must return to the community-led ownership models that defined Denmark’s success with wind power –
@lslothuus.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social for
@lseeuroppblog.bsky.social

How a solar energy backlash engulfed Danish politics Faced with a solar backlash led by the Denmark Democrats, Denmark must return to the community-led ownership models that defined its success with wind power.

Denmark is often seen as a green frontrunner, but a recent backlash against solar power has thrown this into question.

✍ @lslothuus.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

How a solar energy backlash engulfed Danish politics Faced with a solar backlash led by the Denmark Democrats, Denmark must return to the community-led ownership models that defined its success with wind power.

How do right-wing/far-right politicians politicise opposition to solar power and obstruct climate action?

For @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social I explain the Denmark Democrats' success and how learning from community-owned wind power might reverse the backlash against solar blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

YouTube video by The BREAK—DOWN Ann Pettifor on how Wall Street gambles with your future

This week for @the-breakdown.bsky.social I spoke to the excellent @annpettifor.bsky.social about finance and the climate crisis—we covered everything from bond vigilantes to Keynes's legacy and bringing back usury as a sin 😉

Give it a listen below:

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Now also in German 🇩🇪:

I wrote it before, but glad to have been vindicated!

Jacobin republished my article on Greenland:

Por qué los vastos recursos naturales de Groenlandia no necesariamente se traducirán en enormes beneficios El valor de estos recursos es difícil de estimar, ya que los precios del petróleo y de las materias primas críticas fluctúan enormemente.

🇲🇽 My article on Greenland's natural resources was translated into Spanish and published by Forbes México: forbes.com.mx/por-que-los-...

This looks great and very useful for my own research. Congrats!

Like in Venezuela, the immense investments in fixed capital needed to extract a lot of Greenland's resources makes short term profit very difficult. Rather, it's about imperial ambitions. Interesting piece by @lslothuus.bsky.social

Thank you for reading and sharing!

Grønlands enorme naturressourcer fører ikke nødvendigvis til økonomisk gevinst Grønlands rige undergrund frister stormagterne, men vilkår og risici gør udvindingen usikker og meget vanskelig.

My article on Greenland's natural resources was translated and published in Danish by @videnskab.dk: videnskab.dk/kultur-samfu...

Why Trump’s sweeping 25% Iran tariffs have revived fears of global trade war Experts have warned of global economic and political ramifications if the policy is implemented

Spoke to The Independent on Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on any country trading with Iran. It is economic warfare. This kind of erratic trade coercion raises the risk of doing business with the US, accelerates its isolation, and fuels global de-dollarisation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Looking into Greenland’s rich mineral history and why Trump is eyeing the country The U.S. is sabre-rattling over Greenland once again. The vast island’s natural resources are back on the agenda, a year after then-U.S. national security advisor Michael Waltz announced: “This is abo...

The article has been republished by The Independent here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Absolutely

You are of course entirely right, this was an error that crept up in after I submitted the piece. Thanks for alerting me to it, getting it fixed now.