James Jackson

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 for those still on here, @DanBaileyPolEco @MatPaterson and I have a new article in @NPEjournal. In it we examine whether the Bank of England has been politicised by climate governance - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… pic.x.com/zSrDRJkwSP

This was specifically commisioned by Xi Jinping, known Man Utd fan, and has been very helpful for the last few years

JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇬🇧 Chinese President Xi Jinping tells UK Prime Minister Starmer he is a fan of Manchester United.

The world’s second-largest economy beat analyst expectations with accelerated growth in exports and imports last year despite US President Donald Trump’s trade war. ft.trib.al/85zVqgX

China is by far Venezuela’s largest oil customer (left chart: eia.gov/international/…). But Venezuela is a tiny fraction of China’s oil imports and doesn’t even make the top 10 for 2024 according to Chinese customs data (right chart: energypolicy.columbia.edu/publications/c…).

Completely normal that a party (private company) has such a close relationship with the media. Nothing to see here. Impartial reporting no doubt.

NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @MLundLarsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.

Given their history, it’s so odd these happened so close together -

if we had a 433 this is a goal

This view that China ‘should’ move towards a different economic model for seemingly no other reason that the West did it 40 years ago is odd - theguardian.com/business/2025/…

We're close to a huge moment in the UK car market: Chinese EV firm BYD is about to overtake Tesla

Late stage communism: China has abundant capacity but scarce profitability Late stage capitalism: America has abundant profitability but scarce capacity A rebalancing equation would find some optimal level between profitability and capacity

This is your regular reminder that there is no such thing as a free market. Markets are political constructs shaped by formal and informal institutions that embody certain rights and obligations.

The OG Oil Club

Hopefully of interest to @haugejostein @jasonhickel @NetZeroUK @NetZeroWatch @netzero_tc @climate @ClimateHome @CBankingEditor @kyleichan @UCLPolicyLab

🚨New Publication 🚨 in New Political Economy with the one and only Mathias Larsen. We propose the term 'Green Financial Planning' to demonstrate that green finance is much more than a few loans/bonds with green names - tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New Publication - with James Silverwood in which we detail how renewable energy markets were created by the environmental state in the UK - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture. For @phenomenalworld I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unban…

It appears I forgot to post the other article - Out in Energy Research and Social Science yesterday w/ @pritishbehuria and colleagues at @UoMPolitics we propose a new political economy framework to capture green energy transitions sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨 ANOTHER NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 2 in 2 days - The result of working with talented and clever people. In this, we argue that faced with growing climate-related financial risks, the role of central banks is currently indeterminate, with much still to be determined