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David Leclere 🇵🇸 🇺🇦

@dleclere.bsky.social

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Researcher at @iiasa.ac.at || land use modeling | biodiversity | climate change || Views are my own

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Rafaela Schinegger @rschinegger.bsky.social · 1d

Save the Date! Am 13. November 2025 findet der 11. @bokuvienna.bsky.social Nachhaltigkeitstag statt, unter dem Motto „Renaturierung & Biodiversität“.
📍 Eintritt frei – keine Anmeldung erforderlich.
➡️ Alle Infos unter short.boku.ac.at/nht2025
#BOKUNachhaltigkeitstag #Renaturierung #Biodiversität

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David Leclere 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @dleclere.bsky.social · 2d

Bon courage !!

David Leclere 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @dleclere.bsky.social · 13d

🚂 A peine lancés et déjà supprimés ? Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne, un voyage bas-carbone largement plébiscité par ses utilisateurs
agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/sa...

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

agir.greenvoice.fr

Reposted by Karen R. Lips, David Leclère, UN Environment

IngerAndersen.bsky.social @ingerandersen.bsky.social · 20d

The BBNJ agreement comes into force!

A victory for our oceans, planet and environmental multilateralism.

Now the work begins. Quick, effective implementation is key.

Our ocean is the foundation of our very existence. Today we took an important step to save not only our ocean, but also our future.

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Reposted by David Leclère

Society for Conservation Biology - Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 First call! 🚨

European Congress for Conservation Biology (Leiden, the Netherlands in July 6th to 10th 2026) is open for proposals: symposia, panels, workshops & training on effective biodiversity conservation.

Deadline Oct 31st 2025 👉 eccb26Leiden.eu #ECCB2026

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 23d

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🔬💧 Over 600 scientists from across Europe have signed a joint statement calling on the EU to urgently update its water pollution rules.

📢 Freshwater ecosystems are collapsing - and outdated policies aren't keeping up.

Full statement ➡️ www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sc...

#HandsOffNature

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Andreas Sieber @andreassieber.bsky.social · Aug 22

#UN confirms: people in #Gaza suffer from a #famine.

A famine "openly promoted" by the government of #Israel as a weapon of war.

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David Leclere 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @dleclere.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Lumi @lumi-sco.bsky.social · Aug 22

Relire plusieurs fois le titre

Titre d'article de l'AFP du 22 août 2025, capture écran Médiapart, "L'ONU affirme qu'une famine est en cours à Gaza, Israël dément et menace de raser la ville"

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Lumi @lumi-sco.bsky.social · Aug 22

Relire plusieurs fois le titre

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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · Jul 19

On l’a fait ! 500 000 signatures avec 200 000 signatures en moins de 10h ce samedi 🔥
Il est désormais possible qu’il y ait un (vrai) débat à l’Assemblée nationale sur l’abrogation de la loi Duplomb.

Nouvel objectif 1 MILLION de signatures !!
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...

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Reposted by Andrea Teti, David Leclère

Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · Jul 14

Israel destroyed Gaza’s printing presses, publishing houses, and bookstores. These were homes to memory, knowledge, and cultural continuity. Ink and manuscripts turned to ash. Presses were silenced mid-sentence.

Report by Fatma Al Zahraa Sehwail:
www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Targeting Printing and Publishing Houses in Gaza: A Cultural Violation and a Memoricide

Palestine Square, فلسطين الميدان

www.palestine-studies.org

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Reposted by Jesse M. Shapiro, Felix Riede, David Leclère

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jan 15

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

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Reposted by Suzanne de Cheveigné, David Leclère, Clélia Sirami , and 1 more Suzanne de Cheveigné, David Leclère, Clélia Sirami, Johanna Siméant

Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Jul 4

revue21.fr/article/coll...

Pour 2 millions, le Collège de France perd le droit de critiquer Total

L’institution doit s’abstenir de tout propos susceptible de porter atteinte à l’image de la firme pétrolière, mécène de sa chaire Avenir Commun Durable.

revue21.fr

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Reposted by Neil Pederson, David Leclère, Carlos Carroll

Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · Jun 23

There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests

The USDA announced it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest system.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Reposted by Garry Peterson, David Leclère

Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · Jun 23

A couple years ago, I was approached by some scientists at The Nature Conservancy with a proposal: Would I help them create a better global restoration opportunity map? The resulting paper is now out, and I will explain my view of it in this thread. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation - Nature Communications

Reforestation is a key climate change mitigation strategy, but global maps of its potential are widely criticized. This study shows that addressing those critiques substantially refines estimates of t...

www.nature.com

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Reposted by Jonathan Lenoir, David Leclère

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Jun 20

A new global map of natural forest at 10-m resolution created by Neumann et al. create using Google DeepMind - preprint still in review but available here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v... 🌐 🌏 🧪

Global extent of natural forests in 2020 (according to Neumann et al. in review) based on a probability threshold of 0.52.

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Adrien Fabre @adrien-fabre.bsky.social · Jun 19

Nature Human Behaviour chose to highlight my article with Thomas Douenne and @linusmattauch.bsky.social by commissioning a Research Briefing.

You can find it under paywall: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And here in open access: github.com/bixiou/globa...

A timely contribution before #FfD4!

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Hugh Lander Official Antifa Bartender @quispme.bsky.social · Jun 17

PLEASE share this map with everyone you know who is an outdoors person especially if they live in the West

www.arcgis.com/apps/instant...

www.arcgis.com

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Scientists4Future Österreich @s4fat.bsky.social · Jun 13

📣 Call to Action for Biodiversity! 🌱
We urge the EU to boost biodiversity funding in the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028+).
📉 80% of EU habitats are in poor condition — we need action now!
All scientists please ✅ sign and 🔁 share in your networks
fundnature.scientists4future.at

Closing the biodiversity funding gap

fundnature.scientists4future.at

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NaturaConnect @naturaconnect.bsky.social · Jun 3

🌿Financing the Trans-European Nature Network: Costs, Opportunities, and the Road Ahead. Join our webinar on 18 June, 10:00–11:30 CEST to explore costs, funding options & the future MFF. Register now: buff.ly/GAZp7V6

#NaturaConnect #HorizonEU

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jun 10

Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

✅Explicitly recognize and address the #biodiversity crisis
✅Explore positive futures
✅Defend academic freedom
✅Go political
✅Inspire society
✅Address the colonial legacy of ecology

Free to read: rdcu.be/eqjlk

Screenshot of the title and author list from the Correspondence article "Six actions for ecologists in times of planetary crisis" from the Nature Ecology & Evolution homepage

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Oxford Future of Food @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social · Jun 9

We are looking forward to welcoming @rachgarr.bsky.social to @oxmartinschool.bsky.social next week Wednesday (18 June) to talk about equity challenges in the environmental governance of food supply chains. Open to all!

Bookings:
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/event/talk-b...

Addressing equity challenges in the environmental governance of food supply chains: the case of deforestation-risk commodities in the tropics

Future of Food seminar: Professor Rachael Garrett

www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk

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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is incredibly unfair: high-income nations with large dairy sectors are looking to adopt a "no additional warming" target, avoiding the methane cuts needed to meet international targets and pledges.

We have written an open letter to the NZ PM and I spoke to the FT👇🧵

www.ft.com/content/2ea6...

Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions

‘Accounting trick’ to support methane-emitting sectors undermines fight against climate change, say researchers

www.ft.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 26

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · May 20

Le ministère de l’agriculture supprime 15 millions d’euros de fonds alloués à l’Agence bio

L’agence chargée du développement et de la promotion des produits bio a appris, mardi, la suppression des 5 millions d’euros alloués à ses campagnes de communication ainsi que la réduction de 10 millions d’euros de la dotation du fonds Avenir bio, destiné à soutenir des projets de développement de filières biologiques.

www.lemonde.fr

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Reposted by Harald Winkler, George Holmes, David Leclère , and 2 more Harald Winkler, George Holmes, David Leclère, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Sango Mahanty

Esteve Corbera @estevecorbera.bsky.social · May 19

Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social

pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/

POLLEN Conference 2026 - POLLEN

To learn more about our rational and purposes, then please look at this page , or download this document. If would like to participate then the first step is to propose a panel, or some other contribu...

pollenpoliticalecology.network

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Agroecology-Transect @agtransect.bsky.social · May 15

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Find out about recent research looking at the potential to restore farmland areas back to natural landscapes, focussing on a case study from Brandenburg, Germany.

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doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

Published in Land Use Policy, Volume 154
@ufz.de @zalf.bsky.social

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Reposted by Robert Falkner, Nathalie Pettorelli, Kornelis Blok , and 4 more Robert Falkner, Nathalie Pettorelli, Kornelis Blok, Brett Christophers, Nepal, William F. Lamb, David Leclère

Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · May 14

NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU

Line chart – China's CO2 emissions are now 1% below their March 2024 peak: China’s emissions from fossil fuels and cement, million tonnes of CO2, rolling 12-month totals. Source: Emissions are estimated from National Bureau of Statistics data on production of different fuels and cement, China Customs data on imports and exports and WIND Information data on changes in inventories, applying emissions factors from China’s latest national greenhouse gas emissions inventory and annual emissions factors per tonne of cement production until 2024. Sector breakdown of coal consumption is estimated using coal consumption data from WIND Information and electricity data from the National Energy Administration.

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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · May 13

As many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take the lead. 🍃🇮🇩

The first in a series (!) of positive climate solution stories, only on @npr.org 📻🎧

This country is slowing climate action. Its capital city is stepping up

As many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take the lead.

www.npr.org

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