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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Brazil can be a leader in the race to decarbonize aviation. This new policy brief by @nzpolicylab.bsky.social and @emaisenergia.bsky.social lays out how Brazil needs policy to leverage its biofuel expertise to lead the global SAF transition. www.netzeropolicylab.com/pathways-saf-brazil

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Flight path(ways): the Brazilian moment on Sustainable Aviation Fuels — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab

Brazil’s path to lead the global SAF transition

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My first task at the @nzpolicylab.bsky.social was to contribute to a report on my home country. This is the final product. A recognition of the merits of Brazilian Industrial Policy with points of attention to make Brazil a leader in the energy transition.

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New industrial policy for a new world: Brazil’s Path to Becoming a Global Green Powerhouse — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab

Analysis shows Brazil's potential in the new geopolitics of the green transition.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Que texto! www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/flav...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The Brazilian "market actors" are shameless. Big rally with the news of Lula's new surgery.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Tá faltando brasileiro nesse site!

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Fully funded Phd in political economy at the CEU, Vienna, Austria Come study with me our my colleagues ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/studies/PHPC...

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Study Guide

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Looks great! Would love to read it!

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Raúl Prebisch (the feline) a little sleepy with my next class...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My students are not ready for the amount of Industrial Policy nerdiness and speculations on Brazilian Green Industrial Policy that I'm about to throw at them...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Excellent new paper by Juan Bogliaccini and Aldo Madariaga. One wonders whether 'opportunity hoarding' can also be applied to incumbent sectors' opposition to diversification strategies and industrial policies in Latin America. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The discreet charm of the oligarchy: conceptualizing material power and opportunity hoarding | Business and Politics | Cambridge Core

The discreet charm of the oligarchy: conceptualizing material power and opportunity hoarding

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A surpresa da imprensa (e do tal mercado) c/ os resultados positivos do Brasil e os negativos da Argentina resultam dos anos de crença cega em um aparato teórico que nunca foi grande coisa, mas hoje está ainda mais defasado. Torcer pra melhorar, mas sem grandes esperanças...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Just signed the contract for my next chapter! In January, I’ll join @bentleyallan.bsky.social , @70sbachchan.bsky.social , and the amazing team at JHU's Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab as Senior Research Associate for Latin America. Excited to help shape industrial policies in the region!

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So, let me see if I got this straight. The guy who fired people to the point of breaking Twitter (and tried to hire some back) is now in charge of firing people in the US government? Cool, cool...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

10/Brazil refused to join the 'New Silk Road' project, thus avoiding calls of 'automatic alignment', but the Foreign Service negotiated other deals with the Chinese that can really be helpful in the much-needed Brazilian green transition.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

9/Other documents are also interesting, but the overall direction of Industrial Policy and Green Transition cooperation is given on the ones mentioned above. A lot of vagueness (as always with diplomatic documents), but this shows the Brazilian pragmatism in Foreign Policy...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

8/Doc27 (MoU) activates the two Finance Ministries (important!) with the same research good intentions of Doc23. One important point of note is the emphasis on 'technological exchanges'. Technology transfer is usually a sore spot, so this is encouraging...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

7/Doc23 is a Letter of Intent dealing with decarbonization under the PAC infrastructure program. Another wink to the large investments on solar coming from the program, and also matters of transport infrastructure... Biofuels also important here and lots of good intentions on research cooperation.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

6/Doc14 is on nuclear technology basically focusing on radiopharmaceuticals and isotopes for agriculture (soil diagnosis). Nothing about energy directly and (of course) nothing military.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

5/Doc13 is a MoU on solar panels and is very vague. Judging from the current context, I can envision this being a cooperation mostly on import facilitation (from CN) and development of service jobs on the installation, maintenance & tech adaptation... Brazil is stickier on Wind than solar.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

4/Document 5 is a 'term facility agreement' between the behemoths BNDES and CDB (development banks) to the order of around 700 million USD. BNDES has been and still is the main executor of Brazilian industrial policies and this is an important sum especially in times of fiscal constraints.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

3/Focuses on 'synergies' in 5 main areas: financial cooperation, infrastructure development, high-tech production chains (AI, energy, health, aerospace), ecological transformation, and strategic technology transfer and innovation. This could be a sign that more BYD-style FDI is in the works?

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

2/Doc2 (MoU) is a cooperation plan based on the PAC, the NIB, and the Ecological Transformation Plan: basically, every industrial (and infrastructure) policy can be traced back to these three at some point. The document does not establish binding obligations, but...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

So, China and Brazil signed a bunch of MoUs (and other agreements) yesterday. I will follow the numbering done by the Brazilian government: www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/ca... I was taking a look at the 'most relevant' ones for development and industrial policy. Let's do a thread with the highlights...

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Atos adotados por ocasião da visita de estado ao Brasil do Presidente da China, Xi Jinping – 20 de novembro de 2024

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

www.gov.br/mre/pt-br/ca... Brazil's Industrial Policy Plan may get a leg up from Chinese investments... we'll see...

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Atos adotados por ocasião da visita de estado ao Brasil do Presidente da China, Xi Jinping – 20 de novembro de 2024

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

If green industrial policy doesn’t speak to people’s needs, it’s doomed to fail as a political project in a time of the rise of the far right. Great G20 side event in Rio @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @cebrapazbr.bsky.social @lauraabcarvalho @pedrolrossi.bsky.social

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sky Bridge and Starter Packs are helpful...

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Marina Zucker Marques @marinazucker.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

📢Glad to share my article "Currency Internationalization, payment infrastructures and central banks: An institutional analysis of renminbi internationalization" is out at Research in International Business and Finance🧵 Article www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Blog www.bu.edu/gdp/2024/11/...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tá faltando brasileiro nesse site pra comentar sobre os milicos.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Brazilian Finance Ministry, amidst mainstream media and 'market-actors' calls for austerity, has released the main beneficiaries of--let's say perennial--fiscal benefits. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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renuncia-por-regime-agregado .xlsx

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Great list of scholars of Latin America: go.bsky.app/5WzEcJ1

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Also, @dasilvapp.bsky.social does very good work on the Political Economy of the region.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This looks amazing! I would like to be added, if possible.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Boston, what have you done to me? Just caught myself literally rooting for the Patriots...

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I would love to be added to the list. Also, I think @bentleyallan.bsky.social and @fbulfone.bsky.social should be added.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I wanted to start a 'democratic industrial policy' starter pack (the list wouldn't be very long), but many important names are not in here yet.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Been meaning to watch that again and I don't think my cat is that impressionable.

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Yeah. I guess it might be happening this time.

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Stefano Ponte @stefanoponte.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Join us in the IPE & friends starter pack!

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Got a great piece of professional news today. Happy happy. SOLTA O TANTÃ! youtu.be/09_s_Kh8sls?...

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Grupo Revelação - Tá Escrito (Ao Vivo no Morro)

YouTube video by Deck

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

It’s been a while since I felt this anxious about checking my email inbox…

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Renato H. de Gaspi @rhdegaspi.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Every year, Brazilians wake up to a news piece saying that deforestation was the largest responsible for emissions. Messaging that growth model change--and some industrialization--is the only way for BR to grow sustainably could mobilize the public in favor of industrial policy.

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