Climate Crisis
The Belt and Road 2.0 – Interview w/ Mathias Larsen
Tim Sahay speaks to Mathias Larsen about China’s staggering investment in clean tech manufacturing outside of China. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
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Energy
Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie – BRICS in 2025
“There are now two competing global models of energy and influence: one based on fossil fuels, one on green technologies and a new model of sustainable development.” In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Europe Enters Its Metal Era
Analysis of Europe’s defence and energy industrial base, which is not prepared for the arms race which Brussels now wants all European countries to engage in. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Marshall Plans
Both the US and China are trying to integrate the global south into their economic plans, but neither offer a truly compelling vision. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay – Great Green Wall
Insightful analysis of Biden’s new tariffs on China. In ‘Phenomenal World’. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Tim Sahay, Kate Mackenzie: Oil and Politics in the Mid-Transition
, A world with terminally declining oil demand has never been experienced before, but the growth era for fossil fuels is ending, as many producers, investors and forecasters are acknowledging. This does not put climate […]
Economics
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay: Trading Order
, Export Bans. Sanctions. Investment screens. The liberal trading order has been weaponized; security, not efficiency, is the new watchword. And yet, 2023 has seen an all-time high of goods traded across borders. Even bilateral […]
Economics
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay: Grievance and Reform
The precursor of 2022’s energy crisis was 2020–2021’s vaccine apartheid. These shortages were in no way natural but reflected financial and geopolitical hierarchies: those with more power and resources bid up prices and developing countries […]
Climate Crisis
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay: Global Boiling
This July has been the hottest in our recorded history and, most likely, over the last 120,000 years. Four “Heat Domes” across the northern hemisphere—over West Asia, North America, North Africa and Southern Europe—contributed to […]
Austerity
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay: Carbon Budget versus Fiscal Budget
Mark Blyth: “The continuing idiocy of the EU’s fiscal rules in an era of underinvestment and climate change. Madness on stilts”. Read HERE