Climate change.

The world’s biggest exporter of olive oil, Spain, has halved its production due to drought and extreme heat, increasing its price (at origin!) 112% since 2022.

It’s happening to other food crops too. Olive oil today, everything else soon.

„The ESG backlash does not feed into the metrics“ (Dimmelmeier et al.) Thank you for presenting and discussing exciting research on #sustainable finance&corporate #governance at the 4. DVPW 🦣 @[email protected] Thementagung on #Planetary Boundaries APB Tutzing!
Ruben Kremer Matthias Kranke Jens van 't Klooster 🟦🟦🟦

We need an inquiry into how the media failed to adequately warn the public of the time scale and magnitude of what is happening. I could count on one hand the number of friends and family that understand even the basics of this…
Not. For. Long.

Op 22 april is het jaarlijkste aandeelhoudersfeestje van ING. ING heeft de eisen van de Klimaatzaak van Milieudefensie naast zich neergelegd, dus ik ga even neuzen 🧐

👉 Benieuwd waarom we ING in de gaten moeten houden? Hier zijn vijf redenen:

milieudefensie.nl/actueel/5-rede…

The fall in electricity generation from fossil fuels in the EU is astonishing. Since 2019, fossil generation has fallen by a third.

Crucially, this is now happening despite demand stabilising. The reason? Clean electricity is displacing fossil fuels.

Our 2024 European Elections dossier is out!🇪🇺

How to avoid having to choose between fiscal and planetary exhaustion?

Discover our 6⃣ policy recommendations for a more sustainable Europe. 👇

3⃣ Promouvoir la coopération entre politiques budgétaire et monétaire pour mettre en œuvre une politique monétaire plus verte et plus démocratique.

Avec Sebastian Diessner

institutavantgarde.fr/renforcer-la-c…

Send your students to do a political theory MA in Amsterdam! We've got a great theory group: Lillian Cicerchia, Annette Freyberg-Inan, Jens van 't Klooster 🟦🟦🟦, Enzo Rossi Marcel Maussen, Johan Olsthoorn, Kevin Pham, Paul Raekstad And we're cheap--just over 2k for EEA
uva.nl/shared-content…

Notre dossier de propositions pour les européennes est disponible !

1⃣Nous devons investir 375 Md€ d'ici 2030
2⃣82 % d'endettement public moyen
3⃣Le rythme de réduction des émissions doit tripler

Comment éviter d'avoir à choisir entre épuisement budgétaire et planétaire ? 👇

🔴🇪🇺 European Central Bank is supporting fossil fuel developers via the current Eurosystem collateral framework, shows Reclaim Finance and @Urgewald's report⤵️
reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2024/0…
It must be reviewed to stop the European Central Bank's support to fossil fuel developers!

Cartoon is several decades old

🚨 Workshop on China's Financial System organized by Sasha Stojanović (Aleksandar Stojanovic) in Belgrade this summer

Register here: fs8.formsite.com/CNZLjX/trrjorm…

64 days until the first day of the EU Parliament election. #ep2024

The right-wing ID group has been declining in our projections due to losses in France (RN) + Germany (AfD), as well as the removal of Bulgarian Vŭzrazhdane party from ID's website after meetings with…

Macron says France needs “a green interest rate and a brown interest rate”

The central banks of Japan, China and Hungary are already providing targeted green loans. Will more countries follow suit?

via FT Moral Money: ft.com/content/558c81…

Social media addiction of teens:

Nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…

vs

FT: ft.com/content/0e2f6f…

🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Announce Sponsorship Deal with Gorilla Glue

💬 Speaking about the deal, Mark Mercurio, President of Gorilla Glue, said: “As an eco-conscious brand, we are extremely excited to announce this new partnership with Just Stop Oil. From glueing to roads or…

Crazy statistic I learned today, 94% of the railway network in India is now electrified, nearly all of it done in the last 10 years.

UK, only 38% rail network is electrified. EU 56%.

Great intervention by Sander Tordoir. Central banks worldwide share a common stance: to sustain disinflation, wage growth needs to normalise. While it hasn’t significantly driven inflation to date, there’s concern that a rapid catch-up could push inflation beyond target.