Jasper Blom

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

www.carbonbrief.org/...

Bank chairs backtracking on climate commitments could face shareholder revolts Exclusive: Campaign group calls on institutional shareholders to vote against re-election of bosses overseeing net zero row-back

👏👏👏 @shareaction.bsky.social is calling on institutional shareholders to vote against re-election of bank bosses overseeing climate row-backs.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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The deadline is nigh for our (voluntary) Board vacancy @hetactiefonds.bsky.social. Check it out and apply if you want to make a contribution to direct activism across the world from Amsterdam. With nice Board colleagues to boot www.oneworld.nl/job/het-acti...

Goed nieuws in de week waarin @ftm.nl weer eens blootlegde hoe pervers het huidige financieringsmodel van wetenschappelijke publicaties is. Blij dat de Nederlandse Kring voor Wetenschap der Politicologie hier achter is gaan staan!

it is a nice turning of the tables on those lawsuits targeting voluntary climate commitments on antitrust grounds by climate-denying Republicans

Michigan Sues Big Oil, Alleging A Conspiracy To Delay The Energy Transition The lawsuit, which comes after the Trump administration preemptively sued the state last year, brings claims under federal and state antitrust laws. Story co-published with One Earth Now Major o...

interesting, innovative new climate litigation using anti-trust law: 'Michigan sued BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the API (...) alleging an “illicit conspiracy” to delay the transition to renewable energy and maintain market dominance of fossil fuels' www.climateinthecourts.com/michigan-sue...

Green energy sector drove more than 90% of China’s investment growth last year, analysis finds Industry bigger than all but seven world economies, and accounts for more than third of China’s economic growth

while EU banks prance about with specific sustainable investments and tweak definitions to inflate their green financing, in China 'clean energy industries drove more than 90% of the country’s investment growth last year' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

"The #climate scientists we surveyed were unambiguous: current economic models can’t capture what matters most – the cascading failures & compounding shocks that define climate risk in a warmer world – & could undermine the foundations of economic growth” - Dr Jesse Abrams, @gsiexeter.bsky.social

Check out Royal Dutch Shell being royaly: 'in 2018 and 2019, Shell booked 7% of its total income in Bermuda and the Bahamas. In so doing, it avoided approximately $700 million in taxes that Shell would have had to pay if it had reported that income in its home country of the Netherlands'

Nice and punchy! (But I am nerd enough to look forward very much to reading the book-length version). The asset-focus also underscores the importance to tip the scales among corporations, such as through climate litigation against financials

“Carbon credits have become a comforting myth, not a catalyst for genuine corporate climate ambition. The unhelpful narrative that buying credits accelerates real decarbonisation runs counter to the evidence and distracts us from meaningful action,” author Benja Faecks explained

Credit where it is not due: No proven connection between the use of carbon credits and climate ambition - Carbon Market Watch A review of existing studies finds that there is insufficient evidence to support the hypothesis that corporate investments in the voluntary carbon market increase a company’s climate ambition.

I can't say I'm surprised... 'excessive purchase of carbon credits can actually hamper in-house emission reductions. It also finds that there is no link between carbon credit use and climate ambition' carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/11/25/c...

All-star line-up at the 'Future for Monetary and Financial Governance' seminar at DNB honoring prof. Underhill's contributions to the field. Looking forward to an awesome day of discussions and pushing said stars on the impacts of dangerous climate change on the field

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Interesting nugget from this @compchange.bsky.social paper from @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and vd Heide: not the largest NL bank ING, but 2nd and 3rd bank ABN AMRO and Rabobank have the most memberships of transnational sustainable finance initiatives (pdf): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

... 1.32 naar 1.35 van de rekenrente voor het kindgebonden woonkostenforfait in de WIK te gaan pingelen met de dame die ze met ridicule aantijgingen buitenspel zette tijdens de coalitie-onderhandelingen. Kiezers zijn geen rationele rekenmachines maar mensen die een koerswijziging willen zien

... blijkt B meestal al te weigeren als de verdeling slechter dan 70-30 wordt. Het bod van A wordt als te oneerlijk en oneervol ervaren en dan hebben mensen liever niets. Mss iets voor @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social om op te reflecteren nu ze voorsorteert om over een verhoging van...

Er is een bekend gedragseconomisch experiment waarin twee partijen 100 euro mogen verdelen. A stelt een verdeling voor aan B, als die weigert krijgen ze beiden niets. De rationele econoom leert ons dat B een verdeling van 99-1 moet accepteren, want 1 euro is meer dan geen euro. In de realiteit...

This seems a very relevant result for all the naysayers who complain that climate policies are either ineffective (symbolic) or too costly (quod non)

The Point, However, Is to Change It | Los Angeles Review of Books In advance of Andreas Malm and Wim Carton’s forthcoming book “The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late,” Genevieve Guenther revisits the authors’ 2024 title “Overshoot: How the World Surrend...

You should read Malm and Carton's Overshoot. Its account of the assets that would be stranded in the resolution of the climate crisis (and the reverberations of that stranding) explains so much about elite behavior in our current conjecture.

This is a TL/DR: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

It strikes me that 'science-based' and 'company-backed' are at odds with each other - to the detriment of us all

Mooie #KenUwPolitiekeKlassiekers van toen @groenlinks een houseparty organiseerde in een Tweede Kamer verkiezingscampagne

Interessante info over de rendementen op energieportfolio's en de mogelijkheden om goede overall ROI te halen en toch Paris-proof te zijn, lezenswaardig

Milieudefensie v. Shell slaat de brug tussen recht en wetenschap - Ars Aequi De klimaatcrisis wacht niet. Ingrijpende emissiereducties zijn noodzakelijk om de opwarming van de aarde tot 1,5°C te beperken. Overheden en bedrijven blijven in gebreke. Milieudefensie grijpt daarom ...

Leuk overzichtje van bluesky-loze collega's Zeilmaker & Dufraing van de relatie tussen de klimaatzaken van @milieudefensie.bsky.social, klimaatwetenschap, en rechtsbeginselen rond rechtvaardigheid zoals common-but-differentiated-responsibilites arsaequi.nl/product/mili...

Interesting that you would need a new bill for this

Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s ‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says

a bit of good news to start the day: 'The simultaneous fall in coal-powered electricity in the world’s biggest coal-consuming countries had not happened since 1973 and was driven by a record roll-out of clean energy projects' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A civil servant standing up for institutional independence and checks&balances. And yet, I can't help but think about the Fed's departure from the NGFS in the face of clear evidence of price pressures from climate change...

Nice factoid from Graeber's Debt, which I never realized when seeing the Rosetta Stone (always too crowded to read the plaque): it announces a debtors amnesty - a much more common occurrence in times past

My key issue with this upbeat take is that we don't just need growth in financing of green solutions but also active reduction of harmful fossil financing. The article doesn't provide evidence that is happening. Adding non-emitting investments to current dangerously high emissions doesn't cut it

Markets Already Pricing Fossil Fuel Phaseout After COP30 Financial markets are already pricing a fossil fuel phaseout, signaling capital shifts despite weak COP30 language.

'Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing surveyed more than 950 institutional investors (...). The headline result is simple: more than four out of five expect to increase allocations to sustainable investments over the next two years. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

De wederopbouw van een belasting­paradijs: hoe Nederland na de oorlog een fiscale vluchthaven werd Tot 1940 zette de financiële sector alles op alles om een belastingverdrag met Duitsland te voorkomen, want dat zou het einde betekenen van Nederland als financieel toevluchtsoord. Maar na de oorlog b...

"opvallend" #GenosseDerBosse 'In de jaren 90 was het opvallend genoeg een PvdA’er, Willem Vermeend, die Nederland verder in de richting van fiscale vrijplaats voor bedrijven duwde' www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ge...