Eric Maugendre (@maugendre@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 1 image Xi is pushing climate, study shows Enabling climate acceleration are economic sectors such as land use, China coal, Saudi Aramco, Coal India, Gazprom (Russia), National Iranian Oil — in that order. Since 2021, China coal sends more carbon in the air than NATO equities and Arab states combined. The China coal sector is increasing capacity and is delivering 12.7 GtCOe in 2024. The #GreenhouseForcing results are published at: http://data.yt/projections/2024-results.html @climate@slrpnk.net #coal #oilAndGas #energy #carbon #CO2

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"Wielding the power of #credit, commercial banks get to determine the allocation of investment and therefore determine what gets produced."

Sovereign states can easily "impose rules that limit the quantity of finance that commercial banks can invest in problem sectors."

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2024/8/20/credit-guidance-how-we-achieve-degrowth

#climatePolicies #transition #ecologicalTransition #creditGuidance #money #moneyCreation #banks #banking #finance #footprint #GHG #CO2 #carbon #production #climateChange #politicalEconomy

Credit guidance: how we achieve degrowth — Jason Hickel

Degrowth scholarship calls for reducing less-necessary production in rich countries to enable faster decarbonization and reverse other ecological pressures.  But how can this be achieved?  What is the mechanism?  For many years ecological economists advocated setting “caps

Jason Hickel

Financial institutions should have stopped supporting #coal companies years ago. So far, only 88 top financial institutions – less than 23% – have adopted a coal policy including an explicit restriction for coal developers
Find more at https://coalpolicytool.org/ 🧵

#credit #money #moneyCreation #funds #climatePolicies #banks #finance #coal #footprint #GHG #CO2 #carbon #economy #production #industry #energy #emissions #globalHeating #climateBreakdown #climateChange #macroEconomy

Coal Policy Tracker

Analysing the quality of coal policies The good, the bad and the in-between of the coal policies adopted by 300 major financial institutions of major financial institutions have adopted a coal policy. major financial institutions have adopted commitments to stop financing coal developers. of

Coal Policy Tracker

@DrALJONES @AndiiB
I agree that our language should be plain.

• Nation-states do not reimburse debt. (They restructure it.)
• Nation-states can obtain funding by issuing they own money (or credit).
• Nation-states invest or spend as much as they want by issuing they own money (or credit).

#slogans #debt #deficit #sovereignty #money #centralBanks #currency #MMT #power #wealth #settlements #transactions #policy #government #politics #economy #policies #climatePolicies #economics #economy

Did you know that targeting inequalities is among the best climate policies?Let us explain!

https://tube.rebellion.global/w/dKZWfWdPRm6yRdtuYAZh8W

Did you know that targeting inequalities is among the best climate policies?Let us explain!

PeerTube
Mapped: Donald Trump’s Transatlantic Anti-Green Network

As Donald Trump takes his oath of office to become the 47th president of the United States, his second term comes at an ever-more critical time for climate change. Climate scientists have warned that 2024 was the hottest year on record, and without dramatic action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, global pledges to limit warming […]

DeSmog
The inscrutable ways of the writing proces resulted in a text on intermediate targets in municipal #climatepolicies instead of the announced text on data and monitoring in the public sector. The data piece will follow in a few weeks https://rzondervan.substack.com/p/notes-132024
Notes #13/2024

Intermediate targets in municipal energy transition policies

RZ Notes
How climate policies reduce air pollution saving lives and money

Early deaths from air pollution in US could be reduced by between 4,000 and 15,000 a year by 2035, study shows

The Guardian
Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global…

Meeting the Paris Agreement’s climate targets necessitates better knowledge about which climate policies work in reducing emissions at the necessary…

INET Oxford
The Core Significance of Taxation and Currency Sovereignty in a Nutshell | heteconomist