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The Logic of Credit: How and Why Credit Rating Agencies Exercise Power within Global Governance

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 10.01.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Vortragende: Zsófia Barta
  • University at Albany
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Although credit rating agencies are best known for their disastrous role in recent financial crises, the function they fulfil in “normal times” is just as important and arguably much more pernicious. Sovereign ratings place significant and tendentious constraints on the policy choices of democratically elected governments. [mehr]

Companies and Climate Activists in the Transformation toward Deep Decarbonization

MPIfG Lecture
  • Datum: 31.01.2024
  • Uhrzeit: 16:00 - 17:30
  • Vortragende: Anita Engels
  • Universität Hamburg
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There is a growing ecology of actors concerned with climate change and trying to promote a transformation toward the goal of a deep decarbonization of society. At the same time global emissions curves do not point downwards, the world is still tightly locked into a fossil fuel-based economy. [mehr]
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