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Adam Tooze

The EU ETS pre-reform is called a 'sad joke' by Adam Tooze1. The 2008 rescue architecture was connected to the post-2015 climate-finance architecture2.

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The EU ETS pre-reform is called a 'sad joke' by Adam Tooze

The Net-Zero / Carbon-Credit / Climate-Finance Architecture:
“EU ETS pre-reform”
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The 2008 rescue architecture was connected to the post-2015 climate-finance architecture

The Net-Zero / Carbon-Credit / Climate-Finance Architecture:
“Adam Tooze's historical work explicitly connects the 2008 rescue architecture (Fed swap lines, QE, regulatory capture, shadow banking) to the post-2015 climate-finance architecture:”
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$4 trillion/year in additional sustainable-development investment is needed to meet 1.5 °C

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“$4 trillion/year”
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Adam Tooze has written extensively in real-time on Chartbook

the central bank independence paradigm was based on the idea that fiscal policy had an activist bias that needed to be restrained by central banks

The Carney Performance: Rules-Rhetoric as Credibility Techno
“the central bank independence paradigm was based on the idea that fiscal policy had an activist bias that needed to be restrained by central banks”
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"BlackRock's emergence from 2008"
Asserted by Adam Tooze · stance: neutral
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
Network Centrality Dossier: The Transnational Financial-Admi ↗
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"JPMorgan's structural centrality and financial dominance thesis"
Asserted by Adam Tooze · stance: neutral
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
Network Centrality Dossier: The Transnational Financial-Admi ↗
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"The climate-to-security transition is occurring."
Asserted by Adam Tooze · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
The Anglo-Atlantic Transition: A Phase 1 Investigative Dossi ↗
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"The post-COVID welfare-and-derisking architecture is a stabilization-of-elite-rule operation"
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
Phase 3 Dossier: WEF Young Global Leaders Network and COVID ↗
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"$4 trillion/year in additional sustainable-development investment is needed to meet 1.5 °C"
Asserted by Adam Tooze · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
The Net-Zero / Carbon-Credit / Climate-Finance Architecture: ↗
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"The same class that produced 2008 is involved in climate-finance architecture"
Asserted by Adam Tooze · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
The Net-Zero / Carbon-Credit / Climate-Finance Architecture: ↗
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"The pivot represents a conscious abandonment of the rules-based order."
Unattributed assertion · stance: critical
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
The Anglo-Atlantic Transition: A Phase 1 Investigative Dossi ↗
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"the existing carbon-pricing regime historically a "sad joke""
Asserted by Adam Tooze · stance: critical
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
The Net-Zero / Carbon-Credit / Climate-Finance Architecture: ↗
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COVID-19 pandemic
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publication of Debating Central Bank Mandates
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Tanner Lectures