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Here you can read the latest news and views from our Fellows and associates. Many articles are also reprinted in the ISRF Bulletin, the Foundation’s in-house periodical.

The Blog and Bulletin are edited by Baindu Kallon.

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Dirty Green Money: When Regulation Does the Greenwashing

by Thomas Raymen

The European Union has developed various regulatory institutions to circulate capital into "green" investment funds. Thomas Raymen finds that companies within these green funds are substantially more carbon-intensive than those in conventional investment funds. The problem lies within the regulations themselves, designed to enable systemic greenwashing.

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The Stories Inside the Models: Imagination, Scenarios and Deliberative Climate Governance

by Elisa Vecchione

Climate researchers use integrated assessment models to predict what the world may look like under climate change. While these tools seem neutral, Elisa Vecchione argues that they tell a particular narrative which shapes imaginations and possible futures. This contribution to Bulletin 34 explores what it would mean to consider alternative values in modelling practices.

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Freeports Exposed: Corruption, Harm and the Politics of Rule-Shifting

This report examines the realities beneath the language of “levelling up”, competitiveness and renewal. It argues that UK freeports must be understood not simply as experimental economic tools, but as an increasingly common spatial strategy in which legal, political and institutional norms are selectively reworked.

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