New paper inspired by the 2024 UK general election manifestos analyses decades of UK energy and climate policies, highlighting successes and failures that will shape the future. loom.ly/lZWigmg #netzero #greengrowth #climatepolicy David Reiner

✈️ Cleared for takeoff: our ambitious plan from Aviation Impact Accelerator puts global aviation on a flight path to net zero by 2050. All it takes is four actionable steps over five years 👇 Whittle Laboratory Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership @cambridgezero cam.ac.uk/stories/flight…

Zaluzhnyi says the U.S. is destroying the world order It’s not just Russia and its allies reshaping the world order - the U.S. is destroying it The U.S. refusing to call Russia’s actions aggression is a problem Zaluzhnyi is the most likely presidential opponent to Zelensky

Ouch! JP Morgan expects $TSLA to report its worst quarterly deliveries in three years: “We struggle to think of anything analogous in the history of the automotive industry, in which a brand has lost so much value so quickly."

How carbon capture became the latest victim of conservatives' climate culture war, from Emily Pontecorvo with insights from David Reiner: heatmap.news/politics/carbo…

Donald Trump is Liz Truss

Striking parallel between Trump and Liz Truss: The power of economics/markets to turn even your own side against you. Trump isn’t losing any support over his performative cruelty towards immigrants, but is rapidly losing Republicans over the economy, stock market, inflation etc

President Trump’s tariff plan is the biggest break in American trade policy in over a century. It’s also one of the most profound and harmful mistakes of the modern era. Our economics editor, Henry Curr, explains why it’s so utterly deluded econ.st/4jji9on

This is a moment of testing for Donald J. Trump's advisors. The intellectually honest ones know that this reflects the President’s 40-year fixation, not any kind of a proven economic theory. This is the economic equivalent of what creationism is to biology or what ending

The markets think companies are going be worth $5 trillion less than they thought before these tariffs started. If you add in the loss to consumers, a reasonable estimate would probably be something like $30 trillion. How big is all of this in comparison? The loss to the economy

A 3-way game of chicken is being played between Trump, Powell and Xi. The strike price for the Powell put is much lower than for Trump put. And Xi’s put strike live is even lower; thus Xi will let Trump bleed for now in this retaliation Nash game. This is a 3 dimensional chess

that's pretty good

And the absolute dumbest fucking part of this entire ordeal. The effective tariff rate we paid the rest of the world was 2% in January 2025. It will be 6% by tomorrow. We took a completely imaginary problem (that countries were unfairly tariffing us), and turned it into an

turns out going to war on allies, trade partners, foreign adversaries, and domestic political opponents simultaneously might not have been well thought through.

Starting to think that in order to unravel this mess, we might need some sort of general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. If we want to work closely with our neighbors, might I suggest some sort of north american free

I got animated. (For a reason.)