Chris Hopkins
@chrishopkins.bsky.social
Interim Policy Director @GECoalition.bsky.social, @IIED.bsky.social 💚 Personal views & 🌭🐶 content only.
Econ, env. policy, geopolitics, football 🤓 stuff. He/Him. Occasionally ChrisHopkins99.
Econ, env. policy, geopolitics, football 🤓 stuff. He/Him. Occasionally ChrisHopkins99.
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Chris Hopkins
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· Nov 14
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We know what policies and laws are needed to build a green, fair future. But which countries are leading the way - and which are lagging behind?
greeneconomytracker.org
Will get around to a proper pinned post, but here's one interesting thing I do - the Green Economy Tracker.
greeneconomytracker.org
41 countries, 21 policies, crowd sourced assessment of green transitions. Evolution in progress... 🧬
greeneconomytracker.org
41 countries, 21 policies, crowd sourced assessment of green transitions. Evolution in progress... 🧬
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Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
This is like a D tier pub bore anecdote (amongst many).
You'd walk away from this relative after less than 5 minutes at the extended family event - why is this person taking up any space in our public culture, let alone the government? 🤷♂️
You'd walk away from this relative after less than 5 minutes at the extended family event - why is this person taking up any space in our public culture, let alone the government? 🤷♂️
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This is like a D tier pub bore anecdote (amongst many).
You'd walk away from this relative after less than 5 minutes at the extended family event - why is this person taking up any space in our public culture, let alone the government? 🤷♂️
You'd walk away from this relative after less than 5 minutes at the extended family event - why is this person taking up any space in our public culture, let alone the government? 🤷♂️
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COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.
MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.
MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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Incredible that the doyan of longtermism literally built a platform that just spouts out reductios of longtermism 24/7, with lashings of hard coded egotism on top.
These are not serious people.
These are not serious people.
Incredibly, it gets funnier
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Incredible that the doyan of longtermism literally built a platform that just spouts out reductios of longtermism 24/7, with lashings of hard coded egotism on top.
These are not serious people.
These are not serious people.
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cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents
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Think big picture story is big chunks of RoW asking 2 qs.
1) what can we do with America? And the answer is “deals”.
2) what can we do without America? And the answer is try to build an alternative institutional architecture that facilitates dealing.
1) what can we do with America? And the answer is “deals”.
2) what can we do without America? And the answer is try to build an alternative institutional architecture that facilitates dealing.
October 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Think big picture story is big chunks of RoW asking 2 qs.
1) what can we do with America? And the answer is “deals”.
2) what can we do without America? And the answer is try to build an alternative institutional architecture that facilitates dealing.
1) what can we do with America? And the answer is “deals”.
2) what can we do without America? And the answer is try to build an alternative institutional architecture that facilitates dealing.
That headline, plus that subheading, with SP's massive face in frame - is a legitimately excellent Onion post on a different day.
It's easy to forget, amidst the amusement at Seb's frantic and futile scrapping for a Tory seat, that he is a complete imbecile www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Meet the elite think tank responsible for Britain’s decline
The Resolution Foundation wants to make life better for the poorest in society but its noble aims result in policy that stifles growth and penalises the rich
www.thetimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
That headline, plus that subheading, with SP's massive face in frame - is a legitimately excellent Onion post on a different day.
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the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance
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I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
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It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.
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Lots of optimism today from the IEA on the future for oil and LNG growth. The US and Qatar are going to flood the global market with LNG in the next few years. We are told the market is thirsty for this energy.
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Qatar Agrees to Divert 24 LNG Cargoes; Pakistan to Pay Price Difference
Pakistan and Qatar have agreed to divert 24 liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargoes next year as domestic demand continues to weaken, particularly from the
propakistani.pk
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Lots of optimism today from the IEA on the future for oil and LNG growth. The US and Qatar are going to flood the global market with LNG in the next few years. We are told the market is thirsty for this energy.
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Meanwhile, back in the real world....
Interesting summary of proposals coming out for hitting $1.3tn climate finance goal in the Baku to Belém roadmap.
At one level - any version will feel speculative given the need + starting point, so it's a matter of duelling implausibilities...
At one level - any version will feel speculative given the need + starting point, so it's a matter of duelling implausibilities...
An influential team called the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance has laid out what it calls an "entirely feasible path" to mobilising $1.3tn by 2035.
This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP.
Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
This was the aspirational goal agreed at last year's COP.
Half of the finance in their pathway comes from the private sector.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Interesting summary of proposals coming out for hitting $1.3tn climate finance goal in the Baku to Belém roadmap.
At one level - any version will feel speculative given the need + starting point, so it's a matter of duelling implausibilities...
At one level - any version will feel speculative given the need + starting point, so it's a matter of duelling implausibilities...
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33% chance this comes back to bite his ass.
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
33% chance this comes back to bite his ass.
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Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context.
I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.
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This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
World Energy Outlook 2025
YouTube video by International Energy Agency
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
Screaming, crying, throwing up, etc.
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Screaming, crying, throwing up, etc.
I mean, just put this in the dictionary next to 'billionaire' tbqh.
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I mean, just put this in the dictionary next to 'billionaire' tbqh.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
The Heritage Foundation has found a new vein of shame to mine.
Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.
Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The Heritage Foundation has found a new vein of shame to mine.
Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.
Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.
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Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.
One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests.
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts.
It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw.
That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.
We need to do a World Cup of Nonsense Charts.
The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.
The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We need to do a World Cup of Nonsense Charts.
The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.
The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
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The #COP30 world leaders summit is about to start, and on this thread I'll be tracking how world leaders address energy transition (specifically fossil fuels) in their speeches. Let's go!
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The #COP30 world leaders summit is about to start, and on this thread I'll be tracking how world leaders address energy transition (specifically fossil fuels) in their speeches. Let's go!