April 10, 2024

Events

Profit and Power

On April 23, 2024, join us for a discussion on profits, prices, and the green energy transition, on the occasion of Brett Christophers’s new book The Price Is Wrong, featuring:

  • BRETT CHRISTOPHERS, professor at Uppsala University and author of The Price Is Wrong and Our Lives In Their Portfolios.
  • MELANIE BRUSSELER, senior researcher at Common Wealth
  • KYLE CHAN, postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University
  • Moderated by ROBINSON MEYER, founder and executive editor of Heatmap

Register here.

Filed Under

  • climate
  • economics
  • finance

    • Further Reading

    May 8, 2025

    Analysis

    Unbankable Transitions

    How investability determines climate financing

    Rosie Collington

    It is only by looking at the whole picture of climate financing flows—and the other sectors and material demands of the green transition—that we can begin to reckon with the…

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    May 8, 2025

    Analysis

    Green Indicative Planning

    Market economies need planning to survive climate breakdown

    Cornel Ban

    , Jacob Hasselbalch

    With derisking regimes falling short of meeting governments' pledges to reach net zero carbon emissions, what lessons can we learn from governance through indicative planning? Historically strong coordination between states…

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    May 8, 2025

    Analysis

    Nodes for Socialization

    The UK’s Contracts for Difference scheme and the future of derisking energy

    Melanie Brusseler

    , Chris Hayes

    While fully socializing the clean manufacturing and infrastructure apparatus is politically unfeasible, public development of renewable capacity can impose rationality on the clean power transition, helping to clear distributional conflicts.…

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