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Giacomo Falchetta
@giacfalk.bsky.social
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Scientist working on understanding climate impacts on society and on the role of infrastructure for sustainable development and adaptation. Based at CMCC (IT) and IIASA (AT). As always, into cooking and guitar jams. Venice (the old one)-based. .. more

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · 27d
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A consistent regional dataset of dissolved oxygen in the western Mediterranean Sea (2004–2023): CTD-O2WMED
Abstract. The Mediterranean Sea is experiencing rapid environmental changes, underscoring the urgent need for high-quality, long-term datasets to quantify trends and assess impacts on biogeochemical c...
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Mike Eckel @mikeeckel.bsky.social · Oct 10
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

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Claudia Zettel @claudiazettel.bsky.social · Oct 10
Nobel Peace Price goes to María Corina Machado

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Aug 18
Environmental injustice at its finest

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Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat - Carbon Brief
Neighbourhoods in England that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas
www.carbonbrief.org

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Aug 11
Cool as ice!

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lorenzo sileci @elchinosauro.bsky.social · Aug 9
quality research you can also show off at the dinner table in scorched-earth mediterranean summer 🔥

killer work by my mates @giacfalk.bsky.social and @fpavanello.bsky.social!!!

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The impact of air conditioning on residential electricity consumption across world countries
We provide a first globally-relevant assessment of the electricity consumption consequences of households’ adaptation to ambient heat through air cond…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Jul 2
Cooling shelters are finally becoming mainstream #heatwave #publicadaptation #climatechange #cities

www.ilpost.it/2025/07/02/r...
Cosa sono i “rifugi climatici” per proteggersi dal caldo - Il Post
Per la prima volta anche le città italiane stanno pubblicando liste di spazi pubblici gratuiti in cui andare a ripararsi
www.ilpost.it

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · Jun 27
'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid
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www.haaretz.com

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Yolanda Díaz @yolandadiaz.bsky.social · Jun 13
Del genocidio en Gaza al bombardeo de Irán: Netanyahu arrastra al mundo hacia una escalada bélica.

Llamamos a una desescalada urgente, al respeto del derecho internacional, sanciones inmediatas al régimen israelí y una vía multilateral hacia una paz justa y duradera para todos los pueblos.

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Jun 9
*NOW with open output yearly coordinate point-level data (2016-2023) for 358 world cities* at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · May 27
🌳 New study: we analyze 190 cities (2016–2023) using satellite data & machine learning to estimate the Green View Index (GVI)
– Global street greenery down 0.3–0.5%/yr
– Inequalities within cities are stark
– Open-source model for real-time tracking
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
@iiasa.ac.at

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · Apr 28
🇫🇷 Power has been restored in southwest France after blackout, - AFP

🇪🇸 Spanish electricity grid estimates that service restoration will take between 6 and 10 hours.

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Apr 28
Attending @egu.eu in Vienna this week? Interested in urban heat and sustainable adaptation strategy with urban greening? 🌡️ 🌳 Eager to discuss ongoing research trying to go beyond local case studies? 🌍 Then make sure to check the following presentations by Steffen Lohrey and myself! @iiasa.ac.at

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EarthArXiv Bot @eartharxivbot.bsky.social · Mar 20
locationallocation: solving Maximal Coverage Location-Allocation geospatial infrastructure assessment and planning problems
https://doi.org/10.31223/X5XQ69

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Feb 25
FYI, www.jpost.com/breaking-new...
Israel votes against Ukraine at UN General Assembly, alongside US, Russia
93 countries voted in favor of the resolution, while 18 countries, including Israel, opposed it.
www.jpost.com

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Internazionale @internazionale.it · Feb 5
Per anni un uomo ha truffato centinaia di editori e agenti letterari, mettendo le mani su migliaia di manoscritti inediti senza nessuna ragione apparente. E senza pubblicarne uno. Una domanda sorge spontanea: ma perché lo ha fatto? Il reportage di Vincenzo Latronico: intern.az/1LvY

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Jan 7
Please consider submitting an abstract to the @eurogeosciences.bsky.social EGU25 General Assembly 2025 session ERE2.3: Bridging the gap: climate science models and renewable energy research. | Vienna | Austria | 27 April - 2 May 2025 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
Session ERE2.3
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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 23
Likewise, I'd love to be part of this feed!

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 21
I just created a custom Google Earth Engine #GEE feed on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 17
www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/war-gaz...
War in Gaza: we cannot continue with business as usual
HR/VP Blog post - After a year of unheeded pleas by the Israeli authorities regarding respect for international law in the Gaza war, we cannot continue with business as usual. This is why I have propo...
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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 17
🔆🌾💧🌍 What is the role of agriculture for achieving renewable energy-centered sustainable development objectives in rural Africa? In LEAP-RE RE4AFAGRI we tried to answer this complex question with science, policy, and business analysis. Here are our answers: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The role of agriculture for achieving renewable energy-centered sustainable development objectives in rural Africa
Multi-dimensional and overlapping barriers to wellbeing severely affect many areas in rural sub-Saharan Africa. In the region, more than 90% of cropla…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 14
please @bsky.app, do all you can to avoid future "enshittification" (cfr. Doctorow) of this nice new space! 🙏

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 14
So refreshing to be here! The turquoise butterfly brings so much peace, as opposed to that gloomy black X

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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · Nov 14
The market for good social media didn't disappear. The market for good, useful internet didn't disappear. Enshittification isn't some natural ebb and flow of user interface. It is the manipulation or a buoyant market to extract as much as possible, as quickly as possible, leaving only bones behind.

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 18
The role of agriculture for achieving renewable energy- centered sustainable development objectives in rural Africa @leapRE_EU @IIASAVienna @UNZA_ZM @PoliTOnews @TFEdigital

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 18
📢 We are promoting a collection on "Big and Granular Data to Assess Infrastructure-related Impacts and Adaptation" in @IOPenvironment ERIS journal. Free open-access publishing for all articles submitted to the journal before 1 January 2025! . Details below

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 18
They died with the AC off: Why the government pays for heating but not cooling via @politico

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 18
🥵⚡️What's the future of air conditioning for heat adaptation around the world and why it raises important equity and equality concerns. Our new research published in @NatureComms : @CmccClimate @EIEEorg @bostonunivers

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 18
Our Mediterranean is the global hotspot of climate change-driven drying

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Giacomo Falchetta @giacfalk.bsky.social · Nov 18
I nostri recenti lavori Su @repubblica: una nuova forma di ingiustizia climatica: ecco che cos’è la cooling poverty - la Repubblica @CmccClimate