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Dominik Wiedenhofer
@dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social
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Sustainability, Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy, Climate Change Mitigation. Senior Scientist & Lecturer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Born at 344ppm. https://boku.ac.at/en/personen/person/EC2B15284DC69568 .. more

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Dominik Wiedenhofer @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social · Feb 25
Understanding #Transformation pathways complying with climate targets requires model-based insights. Herein, we review studies modeling industry in low energy & material demand futures and find large mitigation potentials, but also crucial limitations of existing models. doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Industry Transformations for High Service Provisioning with Lower Energy and Material Demand: A Review of Models and Scenarios | Annual Reviews
Developing transformative pathways for industry's compliance with international climate targets requires model-based insights into how supply- and demand-side measures affect industry, material c...
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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 6d
Ein verbindliches Plastik-Abkommen konnte im Rahmen der UNO nicht erzielt werden, weil es von mächtigen Akteuren wie den Ölländern verhindert wurde. Nun ist eine Koalition der Willigen nötig, um Fortschritte zu erzielen, argumentiert ein editorial in "Science"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty
Negotiators again failed to finalize the text for a global plastics treaty in Geneva in August 2025. The talks exposed two harsh truths. Consensus on the treaty text, where no state formally objects, ...
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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 6d
Profitinteressen mächtiger Akteure haben viel zu großen Einfluss auf die Ernährungsgewohnheiten der Menschen. Das schadet Umwelt, Gesundheit und Bauern.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Power and profit drive what we eat: here’s why the food system needs a revolution
Decades of corporate control have shaped diets, harmed farmers and strained the planet — transforming the system will take collective action.
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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 6d
Doughnut economics analysiert den ökologischen Overshoot und die mangelnde Bereitstellung der Grundlagen für ein gutes Leben, ein neues "nature" paper analysiert die letzten 20 Jahre, u.a. auf Basis eines Indikators (HANPP), der von der BOKU beigesteuert wurde.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature
A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 7d
Jane Goodall 😢
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Remembering legendary conservationist Jane Goodall
YouTube video by Good Morning America
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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 8d
Just seen the latest work from the Doughnut Economic Lab highlighting the huge inequalities between the richest and poorest nations and the accelerating planetary metacrisis we are in.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 8d
The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.
A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.
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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 9d
🌍 Out today in 'Nature Reviews Biodiversity': We explore landscape multifunctionality as a way to address biodiversity loss, climate change & food insecurity together. Instead of siloed fixes, multifunctional land-use integrates restoration, production & well-being.
🔗 rdcu.be/eIL2g
Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Multifunctional land-use systems supply multiple ecosystem services while contributing to biodiversity conservation. This Review summarizes the provision of ecosystem...
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 13d
📢 High-carbon ads and public opinion

UK citizens’ jury and polling show majority support for restricting advertising of high-carbon products. Labelling systems were favoured, outright bans least popular.

🔗 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction 🧪
Is there a public mandate for restricting advertising of high-carbon products and services?: Citizens’ jury and public polling evidence from the UK
Meeting internationally-agreed climate targets requires changes to patterns of consumption of goods and services which result in high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, such as petrol and diesel cars...
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Bundesministerium für Innovation, Mobilität & Infrastruktur @bmimi.gv.at · 14d
Das #FFG @vrvis.bsky.social Projekt #POPSICLE entwickelt ein vernetztes System digitaler Zwillinge, das Simulationen & Analysen zu Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf wichtige Infrastrukturbereiche erlaubt, um bessere Planungsgrundlagen für Infra, Mobilität & Versorgung in Österreich zu ermöglichen.
Eine Visualisierung von Personenströmen.
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John Knowles @ecohydrojfk.bsky.social · 14d
@biometlab.bsky.social Great stories and great science. Fluxers, treat yourself to this one agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Roads Traveled to Reach a Greenhouse Gas Flux Network
A global network of eddy covariance measurements sites is providing direct measurements of carbon dioxide, water vapor and energy fluxes This network evolved over time through technical advances ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Barbara Tóth @barbaratoth.bsky.social · 15d
Warum besuchte Peter Thiel im Geheimen im August die Uni Innsbruck und was geschah dort? Meine Recherche dazu: www.falter.at/maily/202509...
Tech & Religion: Peter Thiels geheimer Besuch an der Uni Innsbruck
Der Tech-Milliardär Peter Thiel ist fasziniert von der Idee eines "Anti-Christen". Im August hielt er dazu vier Vorträge im kleinsten Kreis an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät. Warum die Geheimni...
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 15d
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 16d
New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 18d
I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:
Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet
A small, carefully scaled geoengineering program could compensate for the loss of cooling as we eliminate sulfur pollution.
www.nytimes.com
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19d
David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:
It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.
www.nytimes.com
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Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 19d
Saw a patient in the ER that was struck by a car while riding their bicycle. They noted that they were not intending to make a police report because the driver had stopped and been nice. Mutual kindness is heartwarming, but there are reasons why making an official report is important.

1/ #bikeTO
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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 19d
People often use products for less time than they expect, but this can generate more waste — and increases spending on replacements.🛍️

#SystemsChangeLab explains how the transition to a circular economy can create a more sustainable, resilient and efficient economic system: bit.ly/4pjGfTS
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 19d
To blame the shift to renewables or the combustion engine ban for Germany’s economic malaise confuses cause and effect.
It is the costly and unnecessary over-reliance on fossil fuels and the insistence on combustion engines which no longer sell in China that deserve a closer look. #technologieoffen
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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 19d
This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two.

I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve
doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 19d
Heute rollte die #KidicalMass wieder durch Wien 😍

Wir klingeln für gute Laune und sichere Radwege für Jung & Alt!
☀️🤹🚲🛝🛴🍀💦🌻
www.kidicalmass.at
@radelnforfuture.at @radlobby.at @kidicalmass.bsky.social
#RadLiebeWien #WienLiebe
Foto von einer "Kidical Mass" Fahrraddemo für Kinder - viele Kinder und Erwachsene auf Rädern fahren auf einer mehrspurigen Straße, Wohngebäude und Bäume im Hintergrund Logo der Kidical Mass, Drache auf einem Fahrrad, unterstützt von der Radlobby
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Raimund Löw @raimundloew.bsky.social · 20d
Düsteres Szenario, das sich in den USA durch Instrumentalisierung des Charlie Kirk Mordes durch die Trump-Gang abzeichnet. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...
Opinion | The Retribution Has Begun
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Benedikt Narodoslawsky @dernaro.bsky.social · 20d
🇦🇹 Eine sehr österreichische Geschichte 🇦🇹

Wie hierzulande der Plan zur Rettung der heimischen Natur von Lobbys mitgeschrieben wird und warum ein Interessenskonflikt manchmal kein Interessenskonflikt ist.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Österreich verhalf EU-Renaturierung zum Durchbruch. Stolpert es nun beim ersten Anlauf?
In einem Jahr muss Österreichs Plan zur Renaturierung fertig sein. Kritiker klagen: Der Prozess sei intransparent, Geld fehle. Dafür gibt's eine umstrittene Personalie
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 20d
"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale."

It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.

Coincidence?

I think not.
Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.
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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 21d
Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers
Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).
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Daniel Huppmann @danielhuppmann.bsky.social · 22d
In Linz beginnt‘s…

…heute mit einem Vortrag über den Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 bei der #Nachhaltigkeitskonferenz der @wko.at.

#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz
Bahngleise und Wohngebäude, Sonnenaufgang und rot leuchtende Wolken im Hintergrund
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Eric ⛰️🌞 @ericmeleney.bsky.social · 24d
In the midst of the noise, there are moments that remind you that you don’t have to give in to the chaos. But instead choose what brings you back to the beauty of life.

#sunset #sky #photography #nature #colorado #inspiration #clouds #cloud #wellbeing #birds #reflection #photo #healing
A dramatic Colorado sunset where the clouds form the shape of a dragon. Dark and light billow together across the sky, with deep blues above and an orange-red glow in the dragon’s belly. At the horizon, soft yellow light spills outward, reflected in the still water below with mountain silhouettes framing the view. The scene evokes contrast and harmony—like a breath through chaos, a reminder of mindfulness, inspiration, and the way through toward wellness and renewal. sky, sunset, clouds, dragon shape, dramatic sky, light and dark, orange glow, yellow horizon, reflection, mountains, Colorado, photography, outdoors, landscape, nature, inspiration, mindfulness, meditation, breath, stress relief, wellness, well-being, self-care, insights, healing, resilience, inner peace, balance, energy, poetic, beautiful sky, sunset reflection, mountain view, spiritual photo by Eric Meleney @redcranehealth
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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 24d
🔥 The world’s top climate scientists have found that global warming is accelerating. Oceans are rising faster than ever, and the 1.5°C target is slipping away, but there’s still a narrow path forward. #ClimateAction
Climate change is accelerating, scientists find in ‘grim’ report » Yale Climate Connections
They warn that humanity is just three years from overshooting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C target, with seas rising faster than ever. But the report also contains a little bit of good news.
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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 24d
Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky

Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 24d
You know how Austria is 90% renewable, 10% gas -- and the latter had been Russian gas until very recently?

Well, turns out Austria's O&G company, OMV, signed a contract that basically paid Putin EU market prices.

Who benefited from 'cheap' Russian gas? Gazprom, not Austria.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 25d
🌍 Do Carbon offsets work?

An analysis of 89 multinationals finds buying carbon credits does little for real emission cuts. Offsets play only a minor role, with airlines most reliant.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪
The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies - Nature Communications
This study of 89 multinational firms finds no significant link between voluntarily offsetting emissions and decarbonization speed. Firms spend little funds on carbon credits, and emission offsetting i...
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