#Österreich: #Emissionen steigen 2025 um 2,5 Prozent! So sind die #Klimaziele bis 2030 nicht erreichbar. Doch die Folgen tragen nicht die #Klimaschutzbremser, wenn dann das Geld für #Strafzahlungen bei #Sozialausgaben oder #Anpassungsmaßnahmen fehlt.

I am disappointed that I was not reappointed for another term, but I understand that they could not have two white males from the same institute in the panel. Congratulations to the new members! I hope they will really put in the 1 day/week they have committed to!

House prices are exploding, making moving unaffordable and driving inflation. EE identifies the move by financial investors into the housing market, and rising wealth inequality as major causes. Limit billionaires' market access to support housing affordability and fight inflation.

Nazis were executed for killing survivors of a sunk vessel. www.executedtoday.com/2009/11/30/1...

A Ukrainian delegation is in Florida suing for peace, but maybe the US is the wrong address? Talk to the other superpower, which more and more openly supports the aggressor. When will we start boycotting businesses and individuals who enable and deliver that weapons hitting civilian targets?

How can we get empty-nesters to move to smaller flats and make their residences available to young families? This is what we need to do to address the housing shortage with paving over more green spaces.

Some jurisdictions have made a real effort and it shows in the numbers. This is a demonstration that mitigation is possible, countering the “we can’t do anything about it” narrative. Therefore it is so important.

New report from United Nations International Resource Panel suggests, circular economy strategies must be prioritized - otherwise we face the prospect of a $450 billion financing gap for critical minerals. Cc: @edgarhertwich.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/saleem...

Really glad to see this peak and decline of #GHG emissions from #cement production. Surprisingly, China is not yet declining, despite their huge inventory of empty buildings. Great work by @robbieandrew.bsky.social

4000 km2 of new homes empty in China, with dramatic environmental consequences. 2.2 billion tons of unneeded material extraction, 1.4 billion tons of CO2 could have been avoided. Important work by Shi Lei and team. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Norwegian Academy of Science report points ways towards climate- and nature-neutral settlement development options. The report has now been published. 1/ dnva.no/detskjer/202...

Crypto as the new CDO? A lightly regulated asset class, stablecoins have an unfair advantage compared to other assets. The lack of oversight is a systemic risk to the financial system. We are taken for another ride, as before the financial crisis of 2007/8? on.ft.com/4flWxag

A wide range of construction styles and circumstances shapes energy and materials use in North Africa and West Asia . In some countries, construction cause more GHG than energy use. We show how the rise in emissions can be mitigated. lhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1091250

How can we tell China we are not ok with their support of Russian imperialism? How about the EU start sanctions on some of these companies? How about consumer boycotts?

Trump claims climate change is a “hoax.” Now, his administration is silencing government research that proves him wrong. Climate-monitoring spacecraft will be shut down, thousands of scientists have been dismissed, invaluable data eliminated. The assault has just begun www.eenews.net/articles/how...

I started to substack - I’m my mother tongue, German. Not sure how to deal with multiple languages. My first entry is a review of a book that is an explanation of part of what is going wrong today. How we are being manipulated by businesses

In Zaporizhzhia, a Russian drone attack destroyed a warehouse with humanitarian aid. "Everything burned down. We recently received five trucks of aid, that's 100 tons," founder Oleksandr Beliuha said. The damage is estimated at $3 million.

Hopeful story.

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

Our new study explores how waste-to-energy can be modelled in building LCA in support of environmental policy. Check it out. @edgarhertwich.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Book recommendation. Nicklas Brendberg shows how industry is abusing our instincts, creating super-stimulants to which we succumb, such as 'painkillers', processed foods, cosmetics, and algorithm-based media content. Very well written. A pleasure to read in spite of the disturbing content.

The EU is scheduled to issue a regular update to its climate law. We have issued a scientific advice emphasizing three priorities going forward: 1. A 2040 target, 2. Continued effort on implementation of existing and ongoing laws, and 3. more effort on adaptation.

Are well finally waking up?

Schaut. Euch. Das. An.

It is beyond me how our leaders could let this happen. China still boycotts military use of rare earths, as well as export to the US. No new F35s, Donald! 1/ on.ft.com/3SG3sR5

Europe unprepared to take mantle of science leadership As thousands of US scientists see their projects canceled and their freedom curtailed, they are looking for greener pastures. Europe has a lot to recommend it, but generous science funding is not among it. 1/. www.linkedin.com/pulse/us-sci...

Youngsters are struggling to limit their social media use. Tinius (16) feels much happier now that he limits TikTok to 5min per day using a timer. Other youth report struggling with overuse and lack of control. www.nrk.no/vestfoldogte...

Thinking about the loss of the freedom to disobey, it’s astonishing how rich the English vocabulary is for obsequious behaviour, especially with lexical borrowings. We have flunkeys, minions, bootlickers, toadies, kowtowers, lackeys, lickspittles .. it’s endless. Do other languages do this?

🇦🇹 is well-off. Incomes of the university-educated are higher than in rich 🇳🇴 from where I have just migrated. Still, the plurality of the population is so miserable that they voted for the populist right that would demolish it all. It is not just the economy.

My god the cruelty: the Trump administration is even sending Christian Afghanis who sought asylum from persecution by the Taliban in the United States and are living here legally that they must leave the country immediately or be deported. www.wral.com/story/they-f...

Given shortcomings of the policy response to the Covid19 crisis, the World Health Organization member states have negotiated a new pandemic agreement. Great to see some positive developments in the global community! I would be keen to hear detailed assessments by experts of what has been agreed.

This seems like a big story. Droughts, wildfires, biofuels, accelerated deforestation, what could be the reasons?

#empathy #war #philosophy #poetry

If it was so simple. Where is the evidence that right wing voters care about inequality? That they want a redistribution that the parties they vote for fight against? Is the theory that these voters vote against their economic interest?

Her name was Olena. A Russian missile killed her today in 🇺🇦 Sumy. One of 34 dead (so far). #StandWithUkraine

Ballistische Raketen auf einen Kinderspielplatz in Krywyj Rih, ballistische Raketen ins friedliche Stadtzentrum von Sumy. Putins Kriegsverbrechen bleiben bisher ohne Konsequenzen, also macht er weiter. Sanktionen verschärfen, Schiffe blockieren, Taurus liefern, Russen ausweisen!

It is worse to commit an injustice than to suffer it. Socrates Think about it.

Der dreijährige Tymofij ist das jüngste Todesopfer des russischen Raketenangriffs auf Krywyj Rih. Drei Jahre – so alt wie der große russische Krieg gegen die Ukraine. Tymofij hat in seinem Leben keinen Frieden erlebt. Die genozidale Kriegsführung Russlands muss gestoppt werden.

It seems like a measured and well-formulated op-ed. One may agree or not agree with the expressed opinions. But only snowflakes will be offended. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

For those not tracking: Russia has been targeting **MORE** Ukrainian civilians during their escalating nightly attacks since the “peace process” was announced by the US Putin also gave an interview saying they have no intention of ending the war.

It is tragic to see faculty members at Harvard University not daring to speak their minds because they know that as foreigner, they enjoy no due process. I am sure they are not the only ones who suffer.

To limit global warming, we need to manage the remaining carbon budget. This means deeply reducing greenhouse gas emissions, removing CO₂ from the atmosphere, and addressing the risk of removal reversals. Read more about managing carbon dioxide removals in our latest report – link in comments.

Austria🇦🇹🇪🇺 is banning smartphones and smartwatches from schools up to grade 8. Well done @chriswiederkehr.bsky.social! The next steps should be introduce a minimum age of 16 for social media, and to treat social media as media, with responsibility for posted content. orf.at/stories/3387...

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Countless emails asking how Americans can directly aid Ukrainian soldiers. Here’s an easy answer: savelife.in.ua/en/

Planned obsolescence decreasing product lifetimes? Not really! Only some appliances experienced a significant decrease, possibly due to changing use habits. This calls for context-specific policy! #CircularEconomy #Ecodesign Read my full study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is really worrying. I don’t think this is what the lawmakers at the time intended.

I am really proud Europe is taking an appropriate position to the US president’s outrageous acts.

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

1/3. It should be astonishing, though it’s not, that the American negotiators want to begin from the premise that Russia was right and that Ukraine is not sovereign. Accepting the lies of the aggressor isn’t just unethical, it’s also unstrategic.