Helene Dyrhauge

Interesting-looking new study finding lower electric vehicle adoption in areas with higher vote for the far-right AfD in Germany, independently from other factors
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COP30 TEXT ANALYSIS: One way to read dense COP text is to focus on the verbs. These are helpfully italicised – and for good reason.

MOSTLY INACTIVE: Carbon Brief analysis of the “global mutirão” text finds 69 inactive verbs, requiring no action, against 32 active verbs.
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Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk!

A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
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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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🚨EU-landene er enige om et klimamål i 2040, detaljerne udestår. Landene har forhandlet i nat og er her til morges blevet enige (nok...)

Several EU countries want to continue to produce cars with combustion engines. Whilst consumers in Denmark are choosing electical car over combustion engines. So not everyone is stock in the past!

Papilio arcturus Westwood, 1842 - Blue Peacock.

'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society' 🌍

What is the role of the state in supporting transitions towards a more sustainable world?
A new Environment and Climate Politics Working Group article by Peter Newell 🌟

Read now! 👉https://ow.ly/OFk250XmhCN

Hello from the first ever #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to #Hamburg 🇩🇪 #DSB #EuroCity #Talgo service 🥳🎉.
The trainset is brand new, rather stylish and there’s, almost, level boarding throughout. No #DiningCar though, but I spotted a ☕️ vending machine. And I’m in seat 61 😉. @seatsixtyone.bsky.social @talgo.com

📣 Upcoming Virtual Event: CBAM and the Foreign Pollution Fee Act: Transatlantic Dialogue on Carbon Border Measures
🗓️ November 5, 2025
10:00 – 11:00 AM ET / 16:00 – 17:00 CET

More info: buff.ly/AFczuMe

Germany’s sheer determination to box its already-struggling car industry into a dying technology will never cease to amaze me.

The Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper has been saved. RDC will take over when SJ pulls out. May not run on some winter nights in future though: www.berliner-zeitung.de/mensch-metro...

SNCF's half hearted effort to support international night trains in danger of hitting the buffers - Jon Worth In December 2023 the Paris-Berlin night train re-started after a 9 year hiatus. Operated as a Nighjet service by ÖBB, SNCF provided motive power for the train from Mannheim to Paris. They even put SNC...

No more Paris-Wien/Berlin night trains

"Die ÖBB bedauern, dass nach dem Rückzug der französischen Partner, die beiden Nachtzugverbindungen ab 14. Dez 2025 nicht mehr angeboten werden können." - SNCF, this is you presse-oebb.at/news-oebb-be...

My analysis in English:
jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-h...

Russia loses bid for UN aviation authority council seat Moscow immediately called for “a repeat round of voting” after Russia fell short of the support needed to gain a seat on the International Civil Aviation Organization’s 36-member council.

Russia failed to win back its seat on the United Nations aviation agency's governing council today after staunch opposition from the EU over the invasion of Ukraine.

Perfect autumnal 🍂 weather 🌞 for a BBQ for all new students in social sciences at Roskilde University.
Although I spotted a few older students in the queue 😀

🚦 Join ICCT and partners TOMORROW at #ClimateWeekNYC for an interactive, discussion-driven event on how sustainable mobility and electrification strategies can improve air quality and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

📅 Sept 23 | 8:30 – 10:30 am
👉 Save your seat: cruxalliance.org/event/nycw20...

There's no trains between Aulum and Struer until Sunday because a busy beaver has built a dam under a bridge, which has affected the tracks 😳 🦫

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea …

#EMobility

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”

City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.

I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero

Did you know @carbonbrief.org has a starter pack allowing you to easily follow all of us who are active here on BlueSky?

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‘Freedom to pollute’

By Jens Galschiøt, 2025

YouTube video by SimonTog DSB’s nye Talgo-vogne på tur til Fredericia

Newly-approved Talgo trains now being test-run in Denmark, before being put into operation later this fall.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2s0... #dktrp #dkgreen

"What was once speculative fiction is now being materialized through vast capital and political influence – with troubling consequences for democracy. This phenomenon, a 'science fiction materialized', describes how tech billionaires operationalize speculative narratives as real-world policy."

RENFE announces plans to connect Spain to Paris, Milan, Berlin and Lisbon In a major announcement made a few days ago, Spain’s national carrier, RENFE, revealed it plans to connect major European cities with a night train network.

Stories about Renfe / Leo Express international expansions (day or night)...

Sorry...

Talgo Avril 106 hasn't been approved outside Spain and won't be. Night train plans with Leo are sketchy, the trains few

For now I don't believe it.

Example - this is 💩
www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-08...

Common Sense about Negotiations For Americans about Ukraine

As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember these ten principles of negotiation.
snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...

Joined-up journeys: achieving and measuring transport integration - Committees - UK Parliament The Transport Committee is looking at how Government can mould transport services, networks and options around the journeys that people need and want to make in their daily lives. We want to find out ...

The Transport Committee has a call for evidence on 'joined-up journeys: achieving and measuring transport integration'.

Spread the word.

The world's most liveable cities for 2025 - and what it's really like to live there Copenhagen has overtaken Vienna as the world's most liveable city in 2025. But what makes these places tick? Locals in five top-ranking cities share what life is really like there.

NEW: Copenhagen “dethrones” Vienna as the Economist’s “most livable city.” Vancouver is the only North American city in the Top 10, joining 3 Aussie cities. By all means discuss & debate, but the most important thing to still remember is to take such Economist rankings with a BIG grain of salt.

Protecting the environment has always made economic sense. Now we have proof | Nicki Hutley The failures of our environmental protection laws mean we are not only failing nature but also undermining productivity – at a huge cost

One of the worst problems of framing environmental and climate action as a way to make bank is that people actually hear the message....and you end up with disastrously financialised and profit-focused climate policies (eg: carbon markets, renewable energy certificates etc)

London-Berlin trains will be on the drawing board of UK-German rail taskforce Possibility of direct services is most eyecatching part of a commitment to collaborate on transport links and mobility

Anyone who’s paid this even *minimal* attention can tell you no, there won’t be Berlin-London direct trains

Köln, Frankfurt perhaps

It’s your JOB AS JOURNALISTS TO CHECK STUFF LIKE THIS

Especially if you’re the transport correspondent 😡

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...