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Absurd: industrie eist onzeker en onbetrouwbaar klimaatbeleid Energie-intensieve bedrijven willen af van de handel in CO₂-emissierechten. Voorspelbaarheid wordt opgegeven in ruil voor wat lagere kosten op korte termijn, schrijft FD-columnist Mathijs Bouman.

"Zo ongeveer de hele energie-intensieve industrie van Europa wil dat de afbouw van CO₂-emissierechten in het emissiehandelssysteem stopt. Dat zou de bodem onder het Europese klimaatbeleid wegslaan, en de pas aangescherpte doelen van de Green Deal onhaalbaar maken.."

fd.nl/politiek/158...

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

Still satisfied with your #gmail / #outlook / #hotmail or other US e-mail account? 🤡

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New in @finandsoc.bsky.social: ‘The non-death of Adam Neumann’, unpacking the return of WeWork’s disgraced founder. It’s about Silicon Valley’s ambivalence to failure & fraud, and how venture capital rewards already-powerful, ruthless and deceptive serial founders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Green euro rising: Positioning the euro as the world's green currency Geopolitical uncertainties and the recent US shifts on monetary and climate policy have created a rare opening for the euro. With the international monetary order shifting, the euro has the potential ...

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Breaking News!
Code Yikes!

January data from PIOMAS was just released, showing the average Arctic ice volume for January, 2026, was 2nd lowest on record since 1979, just slightly higher than the record January low volume set in 2017.

The Climate 8-ball says, "No BOE for you!"

For those familiar w/ "ARkStorm/ARk2.0" flood scenarios for California, a comparable event has been unfolding on the Iberian Peninsula. These ridiculous rainfall accumulations, caused by a long series of extremely moist atmospheric rivers, have brought widespread severe flooding to Spain & Portugal.

If you enjoy this you'll *love* the document that came out of the 2025 strategy assessment

Für Medienschaffende ist der Umgang mit der extremen Rechten zugegebenermaßen nicht immer einfach. Aber ein Lifestyle-Interview mit Chrupalla sprengt jeden journalistischen Rahmen. Hier wird nicht nur eine Plattform geboten, sondern extrem rechte Politik aktiv normalisiert. 🤯

Lucky Ken Rogoff, to be reviewed in @nybooks.com in such excellent company.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Bill Gates Says He's Fighting Climate Change While Cashing in on Oil The billionaire's investment portfolio includes millions of shares of companies contributing to the climate crisis.

Back in 2020 it wasn't a good career move in the climate space to shit talk Bill Gates' and point out his climate hypocrisy. I was the only person quoted in an article on that issue in a VICE piece.

And that was before we knew of the Epstein connections.

However, I was right.

Donald MacKenzie · AI’s Scale AI’s scale doesn’t matter just to specialists. The rest of us are being taken on a ride along the logarithmic curve...

‘The International Energy Agency reckons that if the current global expansion of data centres continues, the CO2 emissions for which they are responsible, currently around 200 million tonnes per year, will be about 60 per cent higher by 2030.’

Donald MacKenzie on AI.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This chart seems to suggest a striking pattern: Kevin Warsh's speeches are consistently hawkish, except when Trump is President and about to appoint a new Fed Chair.
www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Dat lost die repo toch op?

Is een commerciele transactie

Thanks Antoine!

Big step for the ECB, but also, no good reason why offering collateralised loans to other central banks had to involve so much drama - you can lend on these terms to the Sparkasse Saarbrücken, why not Banco Central do Brasil?

Exclusive: ECB to open up liquidity line to more countries in push for bigger euro role - sources The European Central Bank is working on opening up its liquidity facility to more countries, making it cheaper and easier to access in a bid to foster the international role of the euro, three sources...

Exclusive: The European Central Bank is working on opening up its liquidity facility to more countries, making it cheaper and easier to access in a bid to foster the international role of the euro, three sources told Reuters reut.rs/4r2973D

Interesting move from the #ECB, especially in light of the calls to strenghen the international role of the #euro : most of them consider the expansion of the swap lines as a mandatory first step to internationaliste the euro

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The Almighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley: 9780593138885 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations...

I did not plan it this way, but I have a book on the dollar coming out on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the whole theme of the book is that the dollar is not in fact 250 years old www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

What everyone missed about Warsh! His family business empire makes him uniquely vulnerable to Trump

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

French Response * @FrenchResponse X.com Investigating child sexual abuse material isn't controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn't fl in France. Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 3h This is a political attack

My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.

Hello Bjorn!
#EpsteinFiles #BjornLomborg
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Current ScholarshipWhy the Fed and ECB parted ways on climate change: The politics of divergence in the global central banking community Monica DiLeo, Glenn D Rudebusch, and Jens van ’t Klooster

📣 New scholarship on JM :despite a high degree of convergence within the global central banking community, climate change has generated sharply contrasting approaches. The piece explores the "politics of divergence" between the Fed and the ECB : justmoney.org/why-the-fed-...

More than 50 heat records were broken across Australia in the last week of January, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

This is climate change, and it can be lethal.

Europe’s five stages of grief for the transatlantic alliance From denial to bargaining to acceptance that the world has changed

"Perhaps most dispiriting for many Europeans was realising the French had been right all along."
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...