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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.

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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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Dr. Matt Schabath (he/him/his) @mattschabathphd.bsky.social · 4d
🧪 🧪 Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last? -- Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last?
Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Science Magazine @science.org · 6d
Devastating floods led to a 4.3% global reduction in annual rice yield from 1980 to 2015, new #ScienceAdvances research finds. https://scim.ag/4iiwfYd
Severe floods significantly reduce global rice yields
Rice-killing floods reduce global rice yield by 4.3%, with losses rising due to increasing extreme floods since 2000.
scim.ag

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Jussi T. Eronen

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7d
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP
US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...
www.france24.com

Reposted by Esther Turnhout, Dominik Wiedenhofer, John Hogan , and 2 more

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Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 7d
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?

Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7

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Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions
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Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · 9d
🐳 New study finds‼️7 kg‼️of #plastic items – chiefly polyethylene sheets- in a beaked whale in Rhodes, Mediterranean, which likely caused malnutrition, potentially contributing to the whale's death. PE sheets carried oil/tar increasing the risk for toxic effects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · 9d
Academia is plagued by not-fit-for-purpose metrics that are then used ranking individuals and institutions
Will we ever move away from these? - there is a lot of talk but not a great deal of action?
The comment ⬇️ is a refreshing look at the problem.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer, Dana R. Fisher

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10d
$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action

The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?

#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Simon L. Lewis, Peter Thorne, Dominik Wiedenhofer , and 1 more

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 11d
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.
rishpardikar.bsky.social Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 11d
Rich, historical polluter countries that had the highest legal responsibility to take climate action failed. And now some of these same countries are speaking about '1.5C ambition'. What a charade

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · 12d
Habe heute einem gut 70jährigen ehemaligen Spitzenpolitiker zugehört, der fordert: Die Leute müssen früher aufstehen und mehr arbeiten. Und im Alter länger im Job bleiben. Strengt euch an für mehr Wirtschaftswachstum!
Und ich kann diesen Zynismus nicht mehr hören. (Thread)

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 12d
Eine kleine Idee tanzt über die Flure der #COP30, ob sie ein ausgewachsenes Vorhaben werden kann, muss sich noch zeigen: Eine Roadmap zum Ausstieg aus Fossilen Energien.
Hä? Ja, keine Sorge, zurücklehnen, ich erklär das.

Thread

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BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social · 13d
Vier BOKU-Forschende zählen zu den weltweit meistzitierten Wissenschaftler*innen in der Analyse Highly Cited Researchers 2025 von Clarivate Analytics. Wir gratulieren @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social, @hehaberl.bsky.social, Karlheinz Erb & Erwin Schmid! short.boku.ac.at/p94g8p000000...

Reposted by Thomas Backhaus, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Stacy D. VanDeveer

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 13d
Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food.

A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.

Reposted by Du Toit, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Victor Galaz , and 1 more

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 14d
The IEA has brought back the Current Policies Scenario (CPS) in the World Energy Outlook (WEO).

I think this will be useful. Fossil CO2 emissions keep rising, when they should be falling. It is time to admit that. So I hope the CPS can help address this issue.

www.iea.org/reports/worl...

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Johann Rathke @johannrathke.bsky.social · 15d
Es gibt viele Medien, Journalist*innen und Delegierte, die von der #UNFCCC #COP30 aus #Belém berichten. Soweit, so gut!

Um möglichst nah an den Verhandlungen zu sein, empfiehlt sich aber vor allem ein Medium: das Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org! ⬇️
UN Climate Change Conference - Belém, November 2025
Climate change negotiators meeting in Brazil for COP 30 will face intense pressure to agree on indicators to measure adaptation and a roadmap to quadruple the new collective quantified goal on climate...
enb.iisd.org

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 15d
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Benedikt Narodoslawsky @dernaro.bsky.social · 16d
Im Oktober vermeldete die Weltwetterorganisation (WMO), dass die Emissionen im Vorjahr schneller stiegen als je zuvor.

Im brasilianischen Belem beginnt heute die 30. Weltklimakonferenz.

Was bringen die Verhandlungen eigentlich?

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
30 Jahre Weltklimagipfel: Was bringen diese Verhandlungen überhaupt?
Am Montag startet der zweiwöchige Klimagipfel in Brasilien. Angesichts der rückläufigen Klimabemühungen dürften die Gespräche zäh werden. Doch für das Gastgeberland hat das Ergebnis viel Gewicht
www.derstandard.at

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Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · 16d
Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Dirk Pilat, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 16d
Freely available here: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Co-authors include @michaelemann.bsky.social, Johan Rockström, and @petergleick.bsky.social
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
academic.oup.com

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Florian Klenk 👨🏻‍💻 @klenkflorian.bsky.social · 17d
Rosi Schwaiger, gewiss keine Kadersozialistin entlarvt in der Presse die Anti-Babler-Kampagne des Boulevards.

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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 17d
«I suspect many of us have had the experience of not using a skill long enough to completely un-learn it. LLMs enable this, but with every skill.»

This piece by @malwaretech.com a must read! In every possible way!

malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...
Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too
maybe it's anti-innovation, maybe it's just avoiding hype. But one thing is clear, I'm completely done with hearing about AI.
malwaretech.com

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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 17d
📣New publication! “The gendered costs of human-wildlife conflict: A global systematic review” in @ambio-journal.bsky.social. Led by Katie Adler, also w/Dr. Meredith Gore. We found that costs vary significantly by location & context, & deserve more study.

Check it out:
doi.org/10.1007/s132...
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Figure 1 from Adler et al. 2025 (The gendered costs of human-wildlife conflict: A global systematic review). A map showing the distribution of studies regarding the gendered costs of human-wildlife conflict, with pie charts showing the relative gendered cost type studied per country, and bar charts showing the # of studies covering each cost type per continent.

Reposted by Juan Cole, Dominik Wiedenhofer, John Hogan , and 3 more

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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 19d
Exclusive by me: How thousands fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then oil and gas companies kept drilling
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Tatiana Ilyina, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Anthony Burke

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19d
This study by my colleagues at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa shows that deep sea mining waste to be released near the ocean surface would disrupt marine food webs.

The same would be true of grinding and spreading rocks in the ocean for CO₂ removal. 🌊
Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications
Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...
www.nature.com

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Reinhard Steurer @steurer.bsky.social · 19d
Unter diesem provokanten Posting hat sich eine sehr gute Diskussion mit @klaurein.bsky.social ergeben. Er hat viele wichtige Fragen gestellt und mir so die Möglichkeit gegeben, einiges klarzustellenn. Mir geht es v.a. darum, das Tabu Verlust zu überwinden, denn es wird das Thema dieses Jhd sein.
Buchcover Verlust von Reckwitz

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19d
1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.

Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 19d
I am humbled beyond measure to be receiving the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication from Climate One this year.

drawdown.org/news/climate...
Climate One honors Jonathan Foley, Ph.D., with Schneider Award for climate communication
Award recognizes scientists who go above and beyond in their efforts to communicate climate change
drawdown.org

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Johanna Vogel @johannavogel.bsky.social · 19d
Crowd, share your wisdom please: does anyone know of an accessible summary of strategies to *counter* the popular "discourses of climate delay"? @wflamb.bsky.social himself maybe? Asking for a talk I'm preparing. lambwf.github.io/Discourses-o...
The popular illustration of the discourses of climate delay by Leo Linné.

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 20d
Die Resultate stammen aus einer neuen Studie, geleitet vom Institut für Soziale Ökologie der BOKU. Hier die Presseaussendung der BOKU.

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05.11.2025 - Moderate Aufstockung globaler Materialbestände in Gebäuden, Infrastruktur und Maschinen könnte weltweiten Lebensstandard sichern::Öffentlichkeitsarbeit::Stabsstellen::Rektorat::BOKU
Moderate Aufstockung globaler Materialbestände in Gebäuden, Infrastruktur und Maschinen könnte weltweiten Lebensstandard sichern
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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 20d
Eine Steigerung der globalen Materialbestände in Gebäuden und Infrastrukturen von 12% würde allen Menschen auf dem Planeten ein menschenwürdiges Leben ermöglichen - wenn nur das gebaut würde, was Ungleichheiten beseitigt. Sonst braucht es viel mehr und dauert länger.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Small increases in material stocks to achieve decent living standards globally - Nature Sustainability
Billions still lack decent living standards (DLS), yet it is not known how much growth in material stocks for buildings, infrastructure and machinery will be required to meet these needs. This study e...
www.nature.com

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Dominik Wiedenhofer @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social · 20d
Global inequalities in resource use leave billions below Decent Living Standards (DLS), a universal minimum required to provide for human needs. In our latest paper, we estimate what is needed to close global DLS gaps

@bokuvienna.bsky.social @bokusec.bsky.social
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Small increases in material stocks to achieve decent living standards globally - Nature Sustainability
Billions still lack decent living standards (DLS), yet it is not known how much growth in material stocks for buildings, infrastructure and machinery will be required to meet these needs. This study e...
doi.org