1/ A thread why the focus of the decolonization movement on Israel is wrong and dangerous, even as it is right in general. 2/ Where it is right: a colonial mindset of a "war of extermination", both against people and nature, has never vanished and structures violence, e.g., against climate refugees.

Read Amitav Gosh on this.

1/5 Demand-side solution can cut GHG emissions in half by 2050 - and improve quality of life.

Main result of our new assessment paper in @NatureClimate

nature.com/articles/s4155… 2/5 Solutions structured in Avoid (e.g., reduce km travel by more accessible cities), Shift (e.g., to cycling, plant-based diets), Improve (e.g., adopt efficient end-use technologies, like heat pumps).

--> 40-80% reduction potential in different sectors

1/6 Schnelleinschätzung Klimaschutz und Verkehr im Koalitionsvertrag.

The Good, the Bad, and the Gini in the Bottle. 2/6 Sehr wichtig um städtischen Klimaschutz endlich zu ermöglichen: #StVO wird so angepasst, dass auch "die Ziele des Klima- und Umweltschutzes, der Gesundheit und der städtebaulichen Entwicklung berücksichtigt werden, um Ländern und Kommunen Entscheidungsspielräume zu eröffnen".

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New paper out in @NatureEnergyJnl, led be @kristiansn89, on the role of people with money and connections for reducing GHG emissions.

Free access: rdcu.be/cyG3o People with high SES not only have excessive carbon footprints through consumption, but they also have disproportionate power through their roles as investors, role models, participants in organizations, and citizens.

Finally out - the paper led to significant engagement, reviews were longer than the paper!

Limits to Liberalism: Considerations for the Anthropocene

Full paper link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1bM6t3Hb%7E0… Liberalism, and in particular its neoliberal variant, is a highly problematic ideology, axiomatically misleading - individuals are not autonomous, they are part of society. It is also empirically unjustified - rational choice hardly justified (acknowledging ist normative merits).

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1/8 Negative Emission Technologies & Energy System Strongly Entangled - new study with @ChristianOnRE, J. Hilaire & J. Minx @MCC_Berlin, @Peters_Glen and Rob Socolow, published in Energy & Env. Sciences.

@CarbonBrief @klimareport @IPCC_CH @drvox @pepcanadell @clequere 2/8 Scenarios suggest that DACCS could consume nearly 60% of all non-electric energy in 2100, and BECCS produce nearly 30%.