The World Bank is upset that Bhutan's old-growth forests are just standing there, doing nothing, when they could be turned into Ikea furniture.

🚨 new paper out in Regulation & Governance with R. Jaspert & @johannes_petry on #ESG Mind the ESG capital allocation gap: The role of index providers, standard-setting, and “green” indices for the creation of sustainability impact onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/re… A 🧵on the main arguments:

2023 analysis reveals that progress towards halting #deforestation is possible, but it needs to happen everywhere. 🌎 Take a look at some of our top takeaways from 2023 #TreeCoverLoss data.   More here: gfw.global/4cVViNF

#greencriminology theguardian.com/environment/ar…

#greencriminology x #offshore Two-thirds of bank’s fossil fuel financing made through tax havens specialising in secrecy

#GreenCriminology World Commission on Environmental Law IUCN-WCEL (World Commission on Environmental Law) Measuring the effectiveness of environmental law through legal indicators and quality analyses portals.iucn.org/library/sites/…

#GREENWASHING. As new EU deforestation law looms, researchers find many ‘green labels’ fall short of sustainability promises - icij.org/investigations…

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims thanks to ‘creative accounting’ #techcoup ↘️ theguardian.com/technology/202…

#recommendedread Klimaschutz durch Gesellschaftsrecht? beck-online.beck.de/Bcid/Y-300-Z-N…

#CumEx #CumCum #organizedcorporatecrimes Lucia Sommerer tagesschau.de/inland/innenpo…

Excited to see this much-needed book in print: @matthewarcher5 tackles the data and measurement obsession of current sustainability regulations that has become largely self-referential.

Time to get really nervous? Now. 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth. academic.oup.com/bioscience/art…

Here is our commentary on how the 2024 Economics Nobel integrates colonialism into economics, while leaving a colonial worldview intact (with Surbhi Kesar & Devika Dutt). To explain how & why they do this, we go back to the colonial origins of economics. epw.in/journal/2024/4…

Pinch me! newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Cum-Ex Legal Opinions: Where Does Aiding & Abetting Begin? Recent raid on a tax law professor raises question of when legal opinions in #CumEx scandal cross into criminal liability. I explore this grey area in my research (perma.cc/5PYN-6WXE). tagesschau.de/investigativ/n…

It's out! You can now access The Cambridge Handbook of the Law, Ethics and Policy of #AI: cambridge.org/core/books/the… 20 #openaccess chapters covering topics on AI, ethics, philosophy, legal domains & sectoral applications. Huge thanks to all the authors who made this possible!

📝REGISTRATION OPEN!: Register now to secure your online attendance in the upcoming 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗨𝗖𝗡 𝗪𝗖𝗘𝗟 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 (5–7 May 2025). [Deadline: April 30th 2025, at 11:45 PM (CET)] REGISTRATION LINK: bit.ly/3Y1G6sl

It includes 14 topics and more than 100 interactive graphs, drawing on recent research published by our team and others, including on unequal exchange, gender, climate, military power, financial flows... Freshly launched! Here's the link: globalinequality.org

Current AI “alignment” is just a mask Our findings in The Wall Street Journal explore the limitations of today’s alignment techniques and what’s needed to get AI right 🧵