Policy

This channel covers energy and climate policy, governance frameworks, and regulatory mechanisms. Content includes national climate targets, carbon pricing systems, renewable energy policies, international climate agreements, COP negotiations, cross-border carbon adjustments, energy security strategies, just transition frameworks, regulatory reform, technology standards, sustainability certification, critical mineral policies, and climate adaptation planning for policymakers and analysts.

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Policy

Modular CBAM: Epistemological Pluralism in Carbon Accounting

Executive Summary The European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism confronts a dilemma: carbon accounting standards diverge substantially across industrial contexts, yet CBAM assumes methodological convergence toward European ISO frameworks as the sole path to rigor. This paper challenges that assumption through empirical analysis of three non-ISO methodologies—China&

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44 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu

Recalibrating Carbon Borders: CBAM's Failure Cascade and the Case for Translation-Enhanced Reform

Executive Summary The European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), implemented in October 2023, represents a pivotal experiment in climate-trade policy integration. Yet its transitional phase has revealed structural deficiencies: 80% of declarants rely on default emission values, breakthrough technologies face insurmountable verification barriers, and WTO litigation probability

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26 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu

Mirror Images in Climate Governance: The CBAM-CDM Pattern and Translation as Enhancement

Executive Summary The European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) represent two paradigmatic approaches to carbon pricing across borders—yet both face governance challenges that threaten their long-term viability. Applying the Transformative Carbon Asset Facility (TCAF) evaluation framework,

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35 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu

A First Principles Framework for Climate Governance: Core Functions from Cybernetic Theory

Executive Summary Global climate governance suffers from what recent scholarship identifies as "theoretical fragmentation"—a proliferation of descriptive frameworks that fail to provide normative guidance for system design. We address this gap by developing the Theoretical Climate Action Framework (TCAF), which derives six necessary governance questions from cybernetic

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42 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu

The Houston Flywheel: How Six Dimensions of Industrial Advantage Create Self-Reinforcing Growth

Executive Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 7 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Houston is emerging as the only U.S. region capable of executing a full industrial reshoring flywheel—where six structural advantages combine into a self-reinforcing system of growth. Its low-cost, high-volatility

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17 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu, Caroline M. Whitaker
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The Sovereign Firm: How Energy Independence, Robotic Automation, Algorithm Control, and Time Mastery Define Corporate Power

Professional Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 5 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Twenty-first century corporate sovereignty is no longer about asset ownership—it's about permission-free operation. When ExxonMobil's Baytown refinery lost API access to GE Predix and AWS IoT,

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15 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu
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The Threshold Pact: How Robots and Soft Infrastructure Unlock Self-Sustaining Reshoring

Professional Tier | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 3 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary For over a decade, manufacturing reshoring has been stuck in a catch-22: no factories without supply chains, no supply chains without factories. Subsidies and slow, human-dependent scaling have failed to break

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30 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu
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True MAGA: The Second Constitutional Convention of the 2030s

Summery In 1989, Fukuyama declared history ended with liberal democracy's triumph. This essay argues it just rebooted at higher difficulty. Trump, Milei, Meloni each seemed locally explicable—regional populism, economic dysfunction. Then Mamdani, a democratic socialist, won in Queens. Same country as Trump, opposite ideology. This is the

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31 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu
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The Carbon Transfer: When Decarbonization Becomes Recentralization

Public Access (Free Member) | Series: THE ROBOT COVENANT (Part 2 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary This essay argues that automation is not just transforming production but reorganizing the geography of carbon. As human labor is replaced by machines, energy shifts from dispersed biological and

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18 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu, Caroline M. Whitaker
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The T² Decision Stack: A Field Guide to the New Compute Order

Executive Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 8 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Disclaimer: This article provides methodological frameworks and decision-making tools for energy infrastructure evaluation and project execution. Example calculations are based on reasonable assumptions and industry-typical parameters, designed to illustrate framework logic rather than

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92 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu
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The Fate of Nations Is Squared: Where capacity to generate, not capacity to compute, determines destiny

Professional Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 7 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary Across six nations, the AI race collides with a deeper constraint: chips scale ideas, but grids scale reality. The United States holds unmatched semiconductor power yet faces a paralyzed transmission network.

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18 Min
By: Alex Yang Liu, Ethan K. Marlow
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The Grid Quartet: Chaos, Scarcity, Divergence, and Adaptation

Professional Tier | Series: THE GREAT OVERLOAD (Part 4 of 8) ◀️ Previous Article | ▶️ Next Article | 📚 The Series Index Executive Summary The global power system is undergoing a structural repricing—not a marginal shift in electricity rates but a redefinition of value, scarcity, and access itself. Four forces drive this transformation: chaos,

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18 Min
By: Caroline M. Whitaker, Alex Yang Liu

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