Jacqueline Best

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Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions - https://cup.org/4hZNlcX

- @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social & @jacquelinebest.bsky.social

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I'm so pleased to have this open access article out, "Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions" in Review of International Studies (@risjnl.bsky.social) with Sylvain Maechler!

Mardi prochain, nous recevrons Leonard Seabrooke, professeur d’économie politique internationale et de sociologie économique au département Organisation de la Copenhagen Business School.

➡️« Getting Action in World Politics »
Présidé par @jacquelinebest.bsky.social

>>> bit.ly/46gtcdq

I'm very much looking forward to chairing this talk by Len Seabrooke as our first IPEN event of the year!

Authors: Jacqueline Best, Matthew Paterson, Ilias Alami, Daniel Bailey, Sarah Bracking, Jeremy Green, Eric Helleiner, James Jackson, Paul Langley, Sylvain Maechler, John Morris, Stine Quorning, Adrienne Roberts, Jens van’t Klooster, Robert Watt and Stanley Wilshire. Abstract: In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. We argue that the current situation is a critical juncture in which recent crises have created a highly indeterminate situation regarding what central banks might do regarding climate change. To date, some central banks have used these crises as opportunities for expanding their role while others have succumbed to pressure to withdraw from climate action. We explore three dynamics that generate this openness to various potential trajectories for climate action...

New article!

This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action.

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Ha! Perhaps! It came out of a fantastic workshop so we wanted to include all of the workshop members in the output!

It was my first time with more than two authors! Mat & I did the big stuff and the rest of our contributors helped in suggesting, revising, correcting, etc. It was actually a great experience.

Thanks, Kardelen!

. . . @paullangley.bsky.social, @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social, @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social, Stine Quorning, Adrienne Roberts, @jvtk.bsky.social, Robert Watt and Stanley Wilshire.

This paper is the collaborative product of a workshop held at @manchestersci.bsky.social two years ago. Co-authors are: @matpaterson.bsky.social, @iliasalami.bsky.social, @danbaileypoleco.bsky.social, Sarah Bracking, @jbrgreen.bsky.social, Eric Helleiner, @james7jackson.bsky.social. . . /7

As the political and economic leaders around the world come to terms with yet another crisis—the one driven by Donald Trump’s administration—the time is ripe to understand how crises are shaping central banks’ willingness and ability to tackle climate change. /6

We then argue that how this critical juncture is resolved depends critically on national variations in the institutional character of central banks and their political context. /5

We explore three dynamics that generate this openness to various potential trajectories for climate action: competing interpretations of inflation’s implications for climate policy; shifting forms of expertise within central banks; and attempts at global coordination of central bank activity. /4

We look at how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine have affected central banks’ actions. Some central banks have used these crises as opportunities to expand their role while others have succumbed to pressure to withdraw from climate action. /3

As central banks and investors have started to desert the global institutions, like the NGFS and GFANZ, that were designed to signal their commitment to tackling climate change, the future role of central banks in climate action is all the more indeterminate – and urgent. /2

Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...

What role can central banks play in addressing climate change today? In our just-published article, we argue that we are at a critical juncture in which the future is highly indeterminate. Written with @matpaterson.bsky.social + 14 other amazing scholars /1
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...

New open-access article with a great team of scholars, expertly led by @matpaterson.bsky.social and @jacquelinebest.bsky.social, on central bank action on climate change.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@campolis.bsky.social

Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...

New publication!
Collaborative work.
With thanks to @jacquelinebest.bsky.social and @matpatterson.bsky.social for their invitation and leadership.

Full article: Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants The school faces a deadline to yield to administration demands, with $400 million in federal funding at stake.

This is bad bad bad bad bad bad very bad no good. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

I think the academic community can help US academics, as well as academia in general, by providing safe haven for datasets that are being targeted by the Trump administration.

Fantastic to have an essay published in this awesome collection!
www.tni.org/en/article/t...

Next Thursday, we'll be joined by @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social, CIPS Postdoctoral Fellow, as he discusses "The Rise of Nature-Related Risks and the Climatization of Biodiversity"

Moderated by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social #IPEN

Learn more >>> bit.ly/3PJGlUh

Jeudi prochain, nous serons rejoints par @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social, chercheur postdoctoral au CÉPI, qui discutera de « La montée des risques liés à la nature et la climatisation de la biodiversité »

Modérée par @jacquelinebest.bsky.social #RÉPI

En savoir plus >>> bit.ly/4atkNEZc

An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.

DOGE is not a real government agency.
DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions.
DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law.
DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.

Thanks for the shout-out. I agree that the challenges to depoliticization as an effective political strategy in the context of significant instability are very real!

The Impact of 25% Tariffs on Canadian GDP The Bank of Canada vs Deepseek

Fascinating (and worrying) post by @stephaniekelton.bsky.social who put Deepseek to work to assess the impact of a 25% US tariffs on imports from Canada on Canadian GDP. It, er, took Deepseek 12 seconds...

stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/the-impact...

Happy to have this opinion piece out with CÉPI-CIPS uOttawa:

I look at a lasting legacy of Trump's second term: the broad-based repoliticization of the global economy and a move away from decades of attempts by policymakers to depoliticize policy.

The fragility of depoliticization: revisiting the history of Central bank inflation-management In recent years, it has sometimes seemed like the fate of economic depoliticization is up for grabs: the 2008 global financial crisis raised serious questions about the economic viability of techno...

Here's the right link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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