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Setu
@setupelz.bsky.social
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Equitable energy transitions, regions of the global South and vulnerable communities globally. Working at IIASA & Climate Resource.
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 15d
ICTP has issued a call for IPCC AR7 Chapter Scientists, with funding for developing country candidates from Wellcome. Kumaran Kadirgama and I will be serving as CLAs for the WGIII Industry chapter, and we would welcome good candidates. Deadline Oct 18 @ipcc.bsky.social www.ictp.it/opportunity/...
IPCC AR7 Chapter Scientists | ICTP
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of preparing its Seventh Assessment report (AR7). The IPCC Working Groups are seeking highly motivated early-career researchers f...
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · 17d
The status quo here in Australia. Sadly.
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · 25d
Going backwards down a slippery slope - "To attempt to win over sceptical countries, diplomats are discussing options including covering a bigger share of the target with carbon credits..."

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
EU countries delay deal on new climate goal, diplomats say
European Union countries have shelved plans to approve a new climate change target next week, after pushback from governments including France and Germany over plans to quickly land a deal, three EU diplomats told Reuters on Friday.
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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · Sep 8
Our finalised paper on flat10MIP is finally up in GMD! This is the experimental protocol which allows for a simple, emissions-driven evaluation of TCRE, ZEC and climate reversibility in CMIP7. Thanks so much to all who ran these simulations as a proof of concept! gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
flat10MIP: an emissions-driven experiment to diagnose the climate response to positive, zero and negative CO2 emissions
Abstract. The proportionality between global mean temperature and cumulative emissions of CO2 predicted in Earth system models (ESMs) is the foundation of carbon budgeting frameworks. Deviations from ...
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Matthew Gidden @gidden.bsky.social · Sep 4
Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A prudent planetary limit for geologic carbon storage - Nature
A risk-based, spatially explicit analysis of carbon storage in sedimentary basins establishes a prudent planetary limit of around 1,460 Gt of geological carbon storage, which requires making explicit ...
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Alaa Al Khourdajie @dralaaclimate.bsky.social · Jul 25
In a new piece for @granthamicl.bsky.social, @frediotto.bsky.social and I unpack the significance of the ICJ’s landmark advisory opinion.

We reflect on how it reshapes the legal framing of climate action and what it means for states’ obligations going forward.
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · Jul 25
🌍📜 Licensing and subsidising fossil fuels can now "constitute internationally wrongful acts,” write Dr @frediotto.bsky.social and ‪Dr Alaa Al Khourdajie.

Read their commentary on why The ICJ's new advisory marks a turning point for climate accountability: ow.ly/7aix50WvkuM
The ICJ’s climate ruling goes far beyond legal battles between small states and big polluters
Written by Professor Friederike Otto, Professor in Climate Science at the Centre for Environmental Policy and Dr Alaa Al Khourdajie, Research Fellow at Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London. O...
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · Jul 11
Heat kills, more than we think and we can see. Heat intensified by climate change kills even more. For the 1st time, we conducted a rapid impact attribution study looking at the additional deaths that occurred due to climate change across 12 cities in Europe, in close to real-time: shorturl.at/mv6ms
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Carl Schleussner @carlschleussner.bsky.social · Jul 11
*** Faktencheck***
In der Generaldebatte im Bundestag sprach Bundeskanzler Friedrich #Merz auch zum Klimaschutz. Er sagte:
"Selbst wenn wir alle morgen klimaneutral wären, würde keine einzige Naturkatastrophe weniger geschehen". Ein Faktencheck.
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Christoph Bautz @christophbautz.bsky.social · Jul 9
Was Merz heute zum Klimaschutz sagte, schießt den Vogel ab.

Deutschland rangiert historisch unter den größten CO2-Emittenten weltweit - auf Platz 3.

Wenn ausgerechnet der Kanzler eines der reichsten Länder der Welt sagt, das sollen mal andere machen, dann bedeutet das: Der Klimaschutz ist am Ende.
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Chris Smith @cjsmith.be · Jun 26
Including a climate module and climate damages within a process-based integrated assessment model: meet FRIDA.

egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
Introducing FRIDA v2.1: A feedback-based, fully coupled, global integrated assessment model of climate and humans
Abstract. The current crop of models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to produce their assessment reports lack endogenous process-based representations of climate-drive...
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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · Jun 9
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · Jun 9
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database
In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · Jun 3
Call for abstracts – now open! As the world edges closer to surpassing the 1.5°C global warming threshold, it's time to confront the risks of climate overshoot.
Join leading scientists at the first-ever Overshoot Conference, hosted by IIASA. iiasa.ac.at/events/sep-2... @carlschleussner.bsky.social
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 31
Institutional frameworks and electrification planning models will need to evolve beyond the rural-urban binary to keep pace with these urbanization dynamics. Check out the paper for more detail (open access) here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A geospatial perspective on electrification strategy in urbanizing Africa
Efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7, to ensure modern energy for all, have largely followed models of rural electrification premis…
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 31
Our analysis identifies critical regions where this ‘gap’ is most acute, notably coastal West Africa, Ethiopian highlands, and the Great Lakes region encompassing Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the DRC.
A figure describing unelectrified populations by Urban-Rural Catchment Area (URCA) categories. The x-axis is ordinal, describing the URCA categories from within the urban core to the hinterlands. The y-axis is the percent of total unelectrified. The points are coloured by focus countries, with all others left as grey. The size of the points reflect the absolute unelectrified population. We can see the majority of the unelectrified population is found in categories that reflect at most 1 hour travel time to medium- and large cities. Choropleth maps of the DRC and Ethiopia, describing the unelectrified population (people / square km) and highlighting major cities.
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 31
Institutional responsibilities and regulatory frameworks also often remain rigidly divided between rural electrification agencies and urban governance bodies. This rigidity creates jurisdictional gaps, potentially leaving large peri-urban and newly urbanizing areas underserved.
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 31
Least-cost electrification planning models typically rely on binary rural/urban delineation for demand estimation and sometimes for supply decisions. Such assumptions significantly influence technology choice, potentially misallocating resources by failing to capture emerging urbanization dynamics.
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 31
We find that 62% of the unelectrified population lives within or near expanding urban areas, especially in peri-urban zones surrounding smaller and medium-sized cities. This questions the notion of the majority ‘rural unelectrified’ and the binary urban-rural delineation in electrification efforts.
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 31
We combine the Urban Rural Catchment Area (URCA) framework with satellite derived spatial electrification datasets to highlight spatial patterns in electricity access gaps.
A figure describing the workflow from data preprocessing of various spatial datasets to their combination identifying the unelectrified by URCA category across all countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 31
Urbanization trends are reshaping human settlement patterns and energy needs. Our recent (open access) work, led by Jessica Kersey and Samuel Miles, explores these dynamics across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa 🧵
A map of Sub-Saharan Africa, visualising the unelectrified population using circles sized by population (1000 people / 20 km) and coloured by electrification rate. The inset plots show the Gulf of Guinea, the Ethiopian Highlands and the African Great Lakes region. A image of the title page.
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Wim Thiery @wimthiery.bsky.social · May 19
Our recent @nature.com study highlights disproportionate climate risk to children worldwide. This is the first outcome of the @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant "LAgrangian Climate Risk and IMpact Attribution" (LACRIMA). A big thanks to the ERC for the support. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Study highlights disproportionate climate risk to children worldwide
A new study has found that children born today are likely to experience significantly more exposure to extreme climate events over their lifetime than previous generations - unless global greenhouse g...
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Wim Thiery @wimthiery.bsky.social · May 12
Will you live an unprecedented life?

In our new paper in @nature.com and accompanying @savethechildren.org report, we detect who will face unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes (🧵) 1/n
Report: resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/document/bor...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Born into the Climate Crisis 2. An unprecedented life: Protecting children’s rights in a changing climate | Save the Children’s Resource Centre
The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it is a pressing reality that children are facing today. Despite having contributed the least to the climate crisis, the inherent intergenerational injustic...
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 8
"... [the] 1% and 0.1%, whose transboundary contributions to worsening local extremes arise primarily through investments, rather than consumption...

... [efforts] should also consider the shared responsibilities of governments to expedite systemic changes in financial and regulatory structures"
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change
While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...
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Setu @setupelz.bsky.social · May 7
Runaway inequalities are a fundamental challenge to meeting climate ambition. In a new study, we trace transboundary harms attributable to high wealth individuals worldwide - 🧵 by lead author @sarahschoengart.bsky.social 👇
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sarahschoengart.bsky.social @sarahschoengart.bsky.social · May 7
New study on linking wealth-based emissions to climate impacts: We find that 2/3 of global warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% and so are climate extremes.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · May 7
🌎 The wealthiest 10% of the global population have been responsible for two-thirds of global warming since 1990, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change.
Read more 🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/may-202...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · May 7
NEW – Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’

✍️ by @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org

💬 with comment from Sarah Schöngart @carlschleussner.bsky.social @zscheischlerjak.bsky.social @wimthiery.bsky.social

Read here ➡️ buff.ly/0Se78bM
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Carl Schleussner @carlschleussner.bsky.social · May 5
Very excited to announce that the call for abstracts for our @iiasa.ac.at overshoot conference is out.

Join us to explore the eightfold path to manage climate risks of an overshoot world:
overshootconference.org
Abstract deadline: June 27.
Overshoot |
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