The #CrossChannelRail report PDF, and the video from the launch today, are now online: crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/crosschannel... And the questions I couldn't answer at the event are answered in writing too! All the: Train types (8) Stations (63) Operators (7) assessed and evaluated!

From "Housing is shelter, but it is also an asset class" to "Housing should be about shelter first and foremost — not investors’ profits" in 850 breezy words, in the @financialtimes.com no less. Kudos @ranaforoohar.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/242f...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) got plenty of critique for bringing back the Current Policies Scenario (CPS). I think it was a good idea to bring back. Let me explain why... 1/

The first night with frost surprised Copenhagen Municipality🤨 … and thus a lot of cyclists 😨 www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

If you see the news that Denmark has set a new 'ambitious' 2035-goal of 82% emissions reduction vs. 1990 levels, then you should be aware that we will reach 80% just by existing policies. Read why and how CONCITO recommends 90% reduction (in Danish): concito.dk/udgivelser/v... #dkgreen #dkpol

Negotiators for 7 states say they’ve made progress in talks on how to share the shrinking Colorado River, but they’ve missed an initial federal deadline. “Conditions on the river continue to be problematic — more problematic over time as those reservoirs decline.” www.latimes.com/environment/...

I'm so tired of these arguments about small pots of money (or not) for night train operations YOU CANNOT FIX THIS UNTIL SOMEONE BUILDS MORE NIGHT TRAIN CARRIAGES Because then we can start to run night trains that aren't with knackered carriages saved from the scrap heap, and have solid operations!

NEW: Air traffic growth is not a guarantee of economic growth, despite industry claims. These claims, often echoed by governments to justify airport expansion, are undermined by new research. 🧵⤵️

The Danish population remains highly committed on climate and the green agenda 💚 (green = now; grey = last year). Fingers crossed that this also will show in tomorrow's local elections. 🤞 See more survey numbers here: www.commonagenda.dk/wp-content/u... #dkgreen #dkpol #KV25 #kompoldk

New pod is out! On the agenda for @davidzipper.bsky.social & @wesmars.bsky.social: 🔹 What Mamdani means for NYC transportation 🔹 Why flying cars are always just around the corner 🔹 Automatic enforcement vs street redesign: Which should be the priority? lookbothwayspod.podbean.com/e/episode-9-...

Join us today at 12:00 Sweden time for an online panel on #socialmedia for researchers: www.sam.lu.se/internt/even... #scicomm

Nordic Tipping Week on #AMOC: @nordenorg.bsky.social showing the kind of political leadership needed to start solving well-known, uncanny risks. As argued by Andreas Reckwicz ("Loss") instead of denying loss, societies must learn to integrate it into collective narratives to become more resilient.

Pedestrians can just walk around, or stay at home or whatever, who cares as long as i have somewhere to park.

Very disappointed none of you told me that Lewis Mumford made a 1963 film about car dependency, and it's available on YouTube. "The motor car inflates our private ego, proclaims our social status, and provides us with the illusion of freedom and power." www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIKZ...

Are Adolescents’ Decisions to Cycle to School Linked to Their Parents’ Cycling Behaviour?

For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing. *A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅

Final call for Monday's #CrossChannelRail report launch - in Brussels and online crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/projects/cro... If you're already signed up you'll get all the practical info by email before the event Monday morning!

Yesterday we had great news from the Premium flyer solidarity coalition, which has now grown to 13 countries. I hope more will join! Read our #COP30 press release www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-coalit...

How to Measure Climate Progress Yes, it's about CO₂, CH₄, W/m², and every ±0.1°C. But yes, moving off oil, coal, and gas is about improving economic competitiveness and human prosperity for decades to come. My latest for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/m...

At yesterday's @cop30brazil.bsky.social ministerial, which my colleague Dan Jørgensen addressed, work got underway to start shaping the Coalition's work. It will support more countries in building effective, compliant carbon markets, which are among the most powerful mechanisms to cut emissions.

1/2 Kæmpe tak til @esben.bsky.social for i ugens afsnit af #dkpol at trække et interview* med statsministeren fra TikTok-sfæren og ind i ‘mainstream’-medieverdenen, hvor det IMO burde være forsidestof. *: Interviewet er gengivet her (fra 06:15 og fremefter): podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/d...

At least we have a second little moon* for a little while: *not technically a moon because we can't have cool things.

I hope the local kids get to enjoy the fresh asphalt for roller skating or bike training in the weekend, before this residential street is again filled up with cars.

And then “employing a combination of methods to get the job done, from electric blowers to mulch mowing to “leaving leaves” to a healthy reacquaintance with the rake.” 👌🏻

Spain, once again, showing the way. Combining a democratic vision of energy access and an involved narrative of climate ambition + EU Next Gen fund and government’s Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE) money, 🇪🇸 is growing a heart-warming amount of clean energy communities.

I’ve worked on parking policies in a lot of cities, and every city should be looking at getting rid of minimum parking requirements, while considering maximum parking requirements downtown & around transit stations. At an absolute minimum though, REMOVE PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

What a day for sustainable transport! At COP30 in Belém, Ministers from Chile and ten other countries are set to unveil a landmark Declaration for a Global Transport Effort: Accelerating Climate Action by 2035. #COP30 #Belem #SustainableTransport #ClimateAction #Transport

Voting with their feet, still the most powerful vote

5% is not enough, no. 1.5C now would require 25% per year or similar.

Great to join likeminded in today’s climate march in Copenhagen. Before going into the streets, the organisers reminded the participants that #climateaction by civil society matters, and called @helenehagel.bsky.social onto the stage to tell about how @greenpeace.org are stopping new oil fields 👏🏻.

💥 Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal “This is a huge victory. Today’s children and future generations will reap the benefits of the courage the judges showed today. It proves that our struggle for climate justice has real force" PRESS RELEASE:

Yet another evidence review argues very strongly that simply providing alternatives to driving doesn't reduce driving This isn't surprising, if only thanks to habit. If I unthinkingly jump in my car for every trip (as many do), new buses won't change that www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The most common question I was asked by journalists: "was there anything that surprised you"? "Well, no, because I work on this everyday". Now I have found the surprise... Carbonation, the uptake of CO2 in cement, has turned a corner because cement production is dropping!

My fear is scientists will just sit by & be complicit. Saying you are for 1.5C or net zero is not ambition. If rich country GHG or CO2 emissions are not dropping at >5% per year, they are not remotely consistent with 1.5C, nor net zero in a reasonable time frame. Scientists need to point this out.

💥GOOD NEWS from Denmark💥 Oil and gas permit REVOKED. The Danish Energy Board ruled that consent for new fossil fuel production at Hejre field was unlawful, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic. The full climate impact of oil extraction and burning - on people and planet - cannot be ignored!

Repeating myself: China is now so large int terms of population, economy and emissions that it (should) makes sense for China to act unilaterally on climate change.

Thoughtful piece in which I learned that “dogs and cats are responsible for about 25 to 30% of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the US.” And yes, as the piece outlines, we all have pleasures - pets, cars, meat-based meals, travel,..- who’s to judge which is more acceptable?

It's the same political challenge climate policy has always faced--avoided harms are harder to sell than benefits, and avoided harms in the future even more so.

Shapiro, Yglesias, and other professed moderate liberals are turning against climate policy because they believe that it's necessary to adopt at least one right-wing position, and climate is an easy choice because the consequences are far in the future. Nothing more complex than that.

In relation to the intersection of ODA and transport, see also this analysis of how the current ODA reporting does (not) cater for promoting sustainable transport: concito.dk/udgivelser/o...

“As the planet warms, so much ice has been erased from around Mount Everest that the elevation at base camp in Nepal, which sits on a melting glacier, has dropped more than 220 feet since the 1980s.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Climate COPs evolving towards a global Governance mechanism to assess ongoing action, learn from each other, improve coherence and effective responses providing furgher orientation on how to achieve our goals. What if all parties commit to act consistently in all multilateral fora? #COP30

This is even below the cost of 20€ that I campaigned against for the local municipal election in 2017, suggesting a 10-fold increase … and lost. But now it costs 5 times more - as MLK said: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”.

This, in Berlin, is wild: "Residential parking permits have been capped at just over €10 per year since 2008 – far below the administrative costs incurred to issue them and less than the cost of a 24-hour metro ticket."

HISTORIC WIN IN DENMARK! 🚨 The permit to begin new oil extraction in the North Sea was unlawfully granted! The Danish Energy Complaint Board has just overturned the permission given in 2024 to open new fossil production in DK and the world is now safer with one less oil field 🥳 The victory is ...

If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom). Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The thing that amazes me most about this figure is not the progress that we made from the blue line "where we were going", but that everyone seems to be having heart failure that the IEA made a scenario where emissions are flat, instead of falling 20% in 25 years... www.axios.com/2025/11/13/c...

⏳🚦 It’s time to set a Global Goal for Transport. The way we plan and finance transport will decide whether economies can grow fairly while cutting emissions and cleaning the air. A quantified global goal would align countries and scale inclusive, resilient, low-carbon mobility worldwide.

With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels. 10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C 20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.

Not to let fossil fuel off the hook, but it would also be interesting to see how many biofuel lobbyists are around, particularly since the host country is pushing biofuel fuel as an alternative to fossil fuels, even though it may overall be worse: www.wri.org/news/stateme...