New article out in New Political Economy! My co-author, James Jackson, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New article out in Socio-Economic Review SASE: 'The pullback of Chinese overseas financing and its implications for a post-neoliberal global financial order.' doi.org/10.1093/ser/mw…

In my latest op-ed just out in EnvironmentalFinance, Calvin Quek Calvin Quek and I asses what policy tools are most central in how China finances green industries. Taxonomies, disclosure, and green bonds get most attention but these are not that impactful. environmental-finance.com/content/analys…

NEW ARTICLE out in Review of International Political Economy Review of International Political Economy: The archetype of a ‘big green state’? What China tells us about green macrofinancial regimes doi.org/10.1080/096922…

New article out in World Development World Development: 'Green industrial policy under financial constraints: Insights from India’s state-led decarbonization' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Nice to see this piece I wrote with Mathias Larsen on Green Finance and China featured in the latest July 2026 issue of the EU-China Energy Magazine: ececp.eu/en/eu-china-en….

New op-ed out in The Diplomat The Diplomat : 'China’s Political System Makes Consumption-led Growth Impossible: Beijing’s prioritization of political security necessitates a reliance on investment and exports – not consumption – to power the economy.' thediplomat.com/2025/08/chinas…

New article with James Jackson out in Competition & Change: The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

New policy report just published with groundbreaking data showing that China's new global role in the green transition is investing in manufacturing, not financing infrastructure: "China’s Green Leap Outward" netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-le…

Big new report Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab on China’s surge in outbound investment in clean tech manufacturing. China’s Green Leap Outward: The rapid scale- up of overseas Chinese clean-tech manufacturing investments netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-le…

New op-ed out in Carnegie Endowment china-blog, edited by Michael Pettis: “How China’s Growth Model Determines Its Climate Performance: Rather than climate ambitions, compatibility with investment and exports is why China supports both green and high-emission technologies.”

I’m excited to have started a job at the LSE LSE as a Senior Policy Fellow, leading the China work at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change & the Environment Grantham LSE

“Chinese overseas clean-tech manufacturing investment is nearly $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.” phenomenalworld.org/interviews/the…

New article out in Ecological Economics with Jacob Hasselbalch: 'Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth' sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New article out in LSE Business Review:

New paper out with James Jackson in the working paper series of Grantham LSE: 'Revisiting central bank independence for the climate era: insights from the People’s Bank of China' lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

New paper by Mathias Larsen and James Jackson explores the relation between central bank independence and climate action lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

Pleased to have my research featured in The New York Times reporting on China's role in a global green transition nytimes.com/2025/11/10/cli…

Great to see our data used by the International Energy Agency in their new World Energy Outlook. The outlook uses our data to show the massive increase in Chinese outward investments in clean tech manufacturing.

New op-ed out in LSE Business Review LSE Business Review