Kate Mackenzie

I am a independent researcher, journalist, and strategist focused on climate change, political economy, and finance.

  • Recent writing on oil companies and global liquidity, and leaving wordpress.com

    Things have been a little quiet for me on the writing front lately, but I’ve kicked off again with a couple of new pieces. The first was for Heatmap, in which I explained why the outrage over oil companies cutting their spending on renewables is misplaced, but there is a more important story to be…

  • The Polycrisis

    For a while now, Tim Sahay and I have been curating a series at Phenomenal World, on the political economy of climate change, called “The Polycrisis”. You can sign up for the emails here; you’ll receive a fortnightly dispatch from us on somewhat timely topics, and occasional contributed essays.

    The Polycrisis

  • I’m on Mastodon

    Specifically I am now @kmac@econtwitter.net @Kmac@mastodon.green That’s my verification link, apparently*. It’s cool, I like it. On the topic of verification, I also learned this week (on Twitter) about “Proof of cat”. And here she is:

  • The newsletter is here!

    You can sign up here. I will expand some thoughts that I outline in my Bloomberg Green column and other stuff that doesn’t fit there, thoughts that are too long for Twitter threads – including this one about the incoherent ESG backlash + woke capitalism narrative. (A preview: it is in fact three different narratives;…

  • ‘Uneven Channels’ in Phenomenal World

    It’s a topic that has been on my mind for the past couple of years, as I’ve been collaborating a little with experts and veterans of the UNFCCC scene, and seen the way that private finance has been centred in planning for COP26.

  • Review of “The Carbon Club” for Foreign Policy

    I reviewed Marian Wilkinson’s history of climate (in)action in Australia, which is particularly illuminating about the role the country has played in international climate negotiations. It’s a bigger role than I had assumed; both positive and negative, depending upon who was in government. It would have been better with some attention to the role of…

  • Somewhat updated!

    You can read my stuff here:  My fortnightly columns over at Bloomberg Green. Read some of my other journalism and my research. COMING SOON! An email newsletter. Yes.  Contact me at kate  (AT)  katemackenzie.net or follow me on Twitter.