Jasper Blom
Jasper Blom
@jasprblom.bsky.social
Lead researcher ING climate lawsuit @milieudefensie and lecturer @uva.nl. IPE of global financial governance by day, Anthropocene politics by night. Views are my own.
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The devil is in the detail, terechte oproep: 'ABP en andere financiële instellingen moeten niet alleen producenten uitsluiten, maar de uitsluitingscriteria voor de volledige fossiele keten aanscherpen' (en let wel: systeembank ING loopt nog mijlenver achter bij het ABP)
Opinie van o.a. onze Marjan over wat er met de pensioenen van de meesten van ons wordt gedaan. Opinie: ABP is nog lang niet fossielvrij genoeg www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
Good news for democracy, for the Amazon, for ordinary Brazilians, and for the world. Gives a fighting chance to avoid the tipping point
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pulled off a dramatic comeback that hands him a fourth term in office with a narrow victory over rightwing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro, dealing a blow to Donald Trump’s aim of greater US influence in Latin America. ft.trib.al/qJm00OD
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I warned 3 years ago that mink farms are a likely route to a new and horrific human pandemic, and once more I'm fervently praying it doesn't map out that way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Wild new story from @natlash.bsky.social Bird flu has been raging uncontrolled on a mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted, instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade. www.propublica.org/article/bird...
Nice contribution of CIEL's @nikkireisch.bsky.social '[a judgment against a financier] is in many ways the holy grail of climate litigation: to hold the money accountable for the financed emissions and harms' --> hence our @milieudefensie.bsky.social case against ING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Xi...
Gaat PRO de fossiele lock-in faciliteren? 'Het EP lijkt open te staan voor het afzwakken van de regels. Drie grote fracties koersen af op een deal die dat mogelijk maakt. Het gaat om de christendemocraten, liberalen en sociaaldemocraten (CDA, NSC, D66, VVD en PRO)' www.nu.nl/klimaat/6413...
Interesting debate @gef-europe.bsky.social. I agree Greens need to offer a vision of the good life, but materialist abundance is not it imho. Non-materialistic sources of wellbeing should be key (time to spend with family and friends, rich nature, etc.) www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/outgrowing-d...
(2) Current legislative or voluntary initiatives are not specific enough about the content of transition plans and leave too much for the market to interpret. More clarity is needed from judgements in climate litigation or a proper standard. Pdf of the study: itpn.global/wp-content/u...
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Flashback to just 15 months ago... Andy Burnham endorsing the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty www.carbonbrief.org/28-quotes-fr...
“The Fossil Fuel Treaty is not just a plan—it’s a lifeline,” said Mayor @mayorofgm.bsky.social Burnham, joining Massive Attack to endorse the call just before a sold-out show in Manchester on #WorldEnvironmentDay2025. This is the moment music, activism, and leadership united for climate justice.
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BREAKING: Go ahead for North Sea Jackdaw field Jackdaw's gas will cause an estimated £16.1 billion in global damage through climate change, and over 8,000 heat-related deaths. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Stel je voor dat deze man eindverantwoordelijk is voor de beoordeling van de wetenschappelijke kwaliteit van de beursaanvraag waar jouw academische carrière als klimaatwetenschapper van af hangt? De klassieke 'ik weet het niet, maar misschien...' #IkStelAlleenVragen
De baas van NWO is een volslagen idioot
'lobbyists are at times in the European Parliament without any clear reason. For example, almost two thirds of the visits made by fossil fuel industry lobbyists are unexplained. Just 37% of those visits correspond to a declared meeting' reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2026...
Frank Elderson @ecb.europa.eu stipt een belangrijke misvatting aan: 'In Europe, resilience, energy security, competitiveness and the green transition are still too often perceived as competing objectives. I believe that is the wrong way to think about it' www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/da...
I, for one, am not too thrilled to see studies into an insurance and a sovereign debt doom loop in the same week. #DoomAndGloom Yet, we can act and we know what to do technically. It is a matter of overcoming inertia and political opposition
"The findings suggest several mechanisms may activate a doom loop between #climate change and sovereign debt."
Kudos for the play on Chico Mendes 'Environmentalism without feminism is a patriarchy in the forest, but the women’s movement without environmentalism is a women’s centre on a dead planet' www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/dont-lean-in...
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Great work by @mightyearth.org describing how both the US administration and private US companies worked to delay and weaken EU rules against deforestation www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Interesting new research in the BIS Paper Series on the relation between AI and climate change. Speculative, of course, but some important warnings with respect to the possible contribution to worsening the climate crisis. The paper sketches two scenarios... www.bis.org/publications...
Interesting new research in the BIS Paper Series on the relation between AI and climate change. Speculative, of course, but some important warnings with respect to the possible contribution to worsening the climate crisis. The paper sketches two scenarios... www.bis.org/publications...
(i) AI as copilot; and (ii) Artificial General Intelligence. The former might have less climate impacts, but also less potential to mitigate climate change through innovative solutions. The latter has high uncertainty about radical innovations and energy consumption. I cant help but wonder, though..
Interesting discussion with @carolinelucas.bsky.social and @rupertread.bsky.social on their #Ecopopularism report. Some serious thinking on this green narrative. Whether it should be a Green Party platform or a deliberative practice is food for thought to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_0...
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New report: Banking on Biodiversity Collapse shows banks have poured USD 595 bi into high-risk mining and agribusiness across the tropics since 2020. The result: annual fires and toxic haze, ecosystems on the brink of collapse and widespread human rights abuses forestsandfinance.org/blog/launchb...
Biodiversity decline and the climate crisis are complex. But by not tackling them with the needed and feasible measures, we are making our lives so much poorer 'Swifts, whose arrival for many marks the beginning of summer, have declined by about 25% in five years' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
De kerkelijke beweging MICHA voert campagne om ING te overtuigen haar balans in te zetten voor het goede. Vorige maand hadden ze een gesprek met de bank. Deelnemer Rebecca Vis beschrijft haar ervaring: Waarom stopt ING niet radicaal met fossiele investeringen? michanederland.nl/rebecca-vis-...
Exciting (temporary) opportunity at @hetactiefonds.bsky.social, DL 21 October. Feel free to repost #vacancy www.oneworld.nl/job/interim-...
Sure sounds like something supervisors should look into (so that all that work in the NGFS is not in vain): 'In the face of ever more extreme and unpredictable climate risks, I am coming under pressure to cut my forecasts for the losses that disasters will cause' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Leuke jubileumvideo van @bontvoordieren.bsky.social bij hun 40-jarig bestaan. Superveel bereikt in Nederland en goed bezig in Europa. Steun die club, zegt iemand die me bekend voorkomt in de video www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwL...
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terrible news of Perry Mehrling passing. RIP to a wonderful scholar & teacher who demystified the global financial crisis that wrecked a generation. He has left an oeuvre with a powerful message: Money is a hierarchy of promises & payments, anchored by central bank money sites.bu.edu/perry/lectur...
Great opportunity for an aspiring CSO campaigner in the field of finance: the formidable @banktrack.bsky.social are recruiting a junior dodgy deals campaigner. DL October 25th. Vacancy (pdf): www.banktrack.org/download/job...
Let's hope the euro banknotes follow suit with the bird design and then I look forward to the deluge of sociology of money articles on what the shift to wildlife on banknotes means for finance's relation to biodiversity :) www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Rabobank’s argument negates its leverage as a finance provider (...) The OECD Guidelines do not expect creditors to order a rabbit farmer, livestock company, or other client to change its practices; they expect them to use the influence that comes with being a creditor' profundo.nl/projects/wor...
Update: de ledenadministratie vindt het jammer dat ik vertrek en dankt voor mijn bijdrage 'aan de verwezenlijking van de tijdloze idealen van de sociaaldemocratie'. De groene idealen waar ik aan meende bij te dragen met mijn GroenLinks lidmaatschap worden niet genoemd...
Met de keuze voor PES is duidelijk dat PRO niet mijn partij is en heb ik zojuist mijn lidmaatschap opgezegd. Groene waarden zijn te belangrijk om vooraf al water bij de wijn te doen in een Europese fractie die liever lonkt naar het pluche. Ecologistische politiek zullen we buiten PRO moeten zoeken
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Dus ik ga me elders inzetten om noodzakelijke systeemverandering te realiseren. Wil je weten waarom het zoveel uitmaakt dat PRO kiest om Sociaaldemocratische ipv Groene politiek te bedrijven? Zie www.wetenschappelijkbureaugroenlinks.nl/tijdschrift/... en www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/door-de-bome...