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This is astonishing but likely the reasoning of many in the financial sector.
"At a big bank like ours, what do people think the average loan length is? It is six years. What happens to the planet in year seven is actually irrelevant to our loan book."
https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/news/4050010/hsbc-global-head-responsible-investing-cares-miami-metres-water-100
The NGFS, @BIS_org, @ecb and People’s Bank of China #PBoC proudly announce the second #GreenSwanConference “Finance for the transition, a transition for finance”.
▶ Check out the full programme: https://www.bis.org/events/green_swan_2022/overview.htm
The @BIS_org just published what looks to be a very important book, showing that in unequal societies (like ours) accommodative monetary policy is a bad way to deal with recessions
@BlackRock is the biggest owner of Zambia's crippling debt. This debt prevents Zambia from protecting its people from the climate crisis.
Meanwhile, Blackrock profits from huge fossil fuel investments.
Debt justice is climate justice.
Read my piece: https://www.ft.com/content/51ecbfa3-c3c4-4a58-8372-980ff751f1fa
Posting this special issue on Ludwig von Mises and his intellectual world co-edited by Niklas Olsen and I just out from @JHIdeas, includes @IsabellaMWeber on China, @willcallison on Weber, Jacob Jensen on Rothbard, and Josh Rahtz on the ordos. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47840?fbclid=IwAR0zrl2f0fllRKtbgMC6D--BWUEhnBspa9vR8CjLHxA4jRliqZlFeCwrc7c
We Voted FOR Freedom of Association shareholder proposal @Amazon https://twitter.com/kthomas_share/status/1526641039515295745
"We believe that #Amazon's stated commitment to freedom of association & collective bargaining is hollow if words and actions are misaligned" - shareholders at $AMZN will vote on a proposal from @share_ca next week targeting reports of anti-union actions: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000121465922006346/o55224px14a6g.htm
A global energy transition means a massive expansion in the production of low-carbon products. But where will these industries be? In @Joule_CP I discuss the role of industrial policy based on recent solar & wind anti-dumping tariffs. 1/6 https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1exmf925JEJxN5
NEW: The dynamics between inflation & #climatechange are rising to the top of the financial agenda - and delighted to have this really timely paper from Lena Boneva & Gianluigi Ferrucci as the 1st in the @INSPIREgreenfin briefing series. Read it here: https://bit.ly/3xTHkK1
Environmental Economics and Policy with @NewYorkFed https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/events/regional_outreach/2022/0506-2022
🔥New T7 Policy Brief on "Addressing the Debt Crisis in the Global South: Debt Relief for Sustainable Recoveries"
Download here: https://www.think7.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Recovery_Addressing-the-Debt-Crisis-in-the-Global-South-Debt-Relief-for-Sustainable-Recoveries_Volz_Berensmann_Burke_Gallagher_Griffith-Jones_Kessler_Monasterolo.pdf
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