Dominik Wiedenhofer

New Global Cement & Concrete Tracker from @globalenergymon.bsky.social covers over 90% of global capacity + connects with the Global Energy Ownership Tracker to provide insights into asset ownership across energy projects globalenergymonitor.org/projects/glo... #beneficialownership #openstandards

Green backlash and right-wing populism - Nature Climate Change This Review considers research on the politics of climate policies. Climate policies, through their economic and cultural repercussions, impact public climate attitudes and voting behaviour, which in ...

📢 New Publication 📢

📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change

It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries?

(with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto)

Short 🧵

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Prof. Sebastian Seiffert Von Maßstab und Menschlichkeit

Neues Update: Das Video ist wieder da. Ein Tag Pause war mal ganz gut, um die Algorithmen-Dynamik zu brechen. Ich werde es weiter eng im Auge behalten und bei Bedarf wieder nichtöffentlich stellen. Es erzeugt starke Resonanz — auf beiden Seiten. Und damit jetzt wirklich: Schönen Sommer euch allen. 👋

A propos of not very much, it would sure be great if scholars working on disinformation and industry lobbying were to investigate who is trying to derail plastic pollution treaty and who the heck is paying them.

US-Außenpolitik: Was dem Globalen Süden durch die Abkehr der USA droht Weniger Entwicklungshilfe, hohe Zölle: Die USA lassen ärmere Länder im Stich. Das Gesundheitssystem bricht zusammen, autoritäre Staaten nutzen die Chance – und Europa?

Weniger Entwicklungshilfe, hohe Zölle: Die USA lassen ärmere Länder im Stich. Das Gesundheitssystem bricht zusammen, autoritäre Staaten nutzen die Chance – und Europa?

Both Brimstone & Sublime just signed major deals jump-starting their clean cement production.

Listen to their CEOs Cody Finke & Leah Ellis tell their stories via this @yearsofliving.bsky.social × @columbiabusiness.bsky.social production: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Weniger Klimawandel, mehr Klausurwissen? Eine Sondervorlesung zur Physikalischen Chemie des Klimawandels änderte für mich vor einigen Jahren vieles. Das Thema lässt mir seither keine Ruhe; auch in meinen Vorlesungen. Doch aus dem anfängliche...

Dieser Tage ging ein Video aus einer meiner Vorlesungen ziemlich rund. Es hat jetzt eine Viertelmillion Aufrufe. Dazu kam der übliche Schimpf. Auch, dass sowas aus Unis zu entfernen sei. Ich nehme das zum Anlass, nochmal diesen Text zu posten. Es geht um Klimabildung. Und um meine Wahrnehmung davon.

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever.
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

Unbedingt lesen !

Starfish-killing bacteria revealed as cause of biggest undersea disease outbreak | Natural History Museum The cause of sea star wasting disease has been identified, offering hope that the epidemic might be overcome.

Billions of starfish have literally melted to death in a decade — victims of a disease fueled by warming waters. Every species has a biological breaking point. Humans just pretend we don’t… yet.

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Nature study on economic damages from climate change revised 06. 08. 2025 - In response to feedback from other scientists, the authors of the paper “The economic commitment of climate change” at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have revis...

In response to feedback from other scientists, the authors of the paper “The economic commitment of climate change” at PIK have revised their analysis and are making it open access for the wider scientific community to engage with.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Why the B.L.S. Regularly Revises Jobs Data

Much more in the story. Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

Manchester University Press - Electric wind Electric wind - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Electric wind by Marianna Dudley

If you would like to review my book for a publication, get in touch! The book is a history of wind energy and I’m trying to get it out to as wide an audience as possible.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations Despite the strong relationship between climate change, infrastructure, and health outcomes, the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and on he…

Excited to share my latest co-authored paper: Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations

Read open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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"Misleading U.S. Department of Energy climate report chooses bias over science, climate scientists say" | Article by the team at @sciencefeedback.bsky.social:

science.feedback.org/review/misle...

Biologin Bergmann: "Wir brauchen Obergrenzen für Plastikproduktion" Die Wissenschaftlerin vom Alfred-Wegener-Institut begleitet die Verhandlungen über ein UN-Plastikabkommen. Waste-Management löse das wachsende Plastikmüll-Problem nicht, sagt sie.

"Wir brauchen Obergrenzen für #Plastik Produktion"
für unser Klima, unsere Gesundheit und Ökosysteme, die uns am Leben halten. #PlasticsTreaty
www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

🧁 Happy birthday to Elinor Ostrom!
Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. The committee recognized her work on "economic governance, especially the commons." We are not doomed to overuse our shared resources - sustainability through collaborative governance is possible.

Frontiers | Not evolved to save the planet, yet capable to promote pro-environmental action leveraging human nature Anthropogenic environmental issues, from global warming to pollution, biodiversity loss, and natural resources depletion, require immediate action. Yet, inac...

I hope it does now www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Hiroshima A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.

Eine der besten Reportagen der Menschheitsgeschichte. Jeder sollte sie einmal gelesen haben.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...

Is decoupling enough to achieve the U.S. climate targets for agriculture and forestry? Historical greenhouse gas and biomass fluxes from AFOLU sector production in the United States, 1910–2022 The U.S. have committed to a 35 % decrease of non-CO2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (CH4, N2O) by 2030. Around half of these emissions stem from the …

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🌍 Is decoupling enough to meet U.S. climate targets in agriculture & forestry?

Our new study in Ecological Economics looks at >100 years of GHG emissions and carbon fluxes in the AFOLU sector (1910–2022).
📄 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Figure 1. Mechanisms of power and privilege operating in citational practice and their effects on six individuals with different intersecting identities.

“This paper unpacks the concept of citation politics and its role in sustaining epistemic hierarchies within scholarly communities.”

osf.io/qjecy_v2

Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration - Nature Geoscience The maximum carbon sequestration potential from global terrestrial ecosystem restoration efforts until 2100 is 96.9 Gt, which is equivalent to 3.7–12.0% of anthropogenic emissions until then, accordin...

We should come to terms with the fact that forest, shrubland, grassland, and wetland ecosystems cannot offset fossil fuel CO₂ emissions.

But we should still protect and restore them for biodiversity and other ecosystem benefits.

Google AI model mines trillions of images to create maps of Earth ‘at any place and time’ The system will save time spent on processing satellite data, researchers say — but they hope the tech firm will share more about how it works.

Google has released an AI model that acts as a ‘virtual satellite’ to weave together trillions of disparate observations to track changes in land and shallow waters across Earth

go.nature.com/44WZL0w

Social movements play an essential role pushing for action on climate and nature, and it’s now widely recognised that support from scientists can make them more effective

But not everyone can take to the streets or risk arrest

That’s ok – there’s lots we can do in other ways

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sounds very interesting! - sadly the link does not copy/work :(

"Backed by more than 30 policies across ministries, the plan puts coordinated public action and civil society engagement at the centre of its national commitment.

It was achieved not through techno-fixes or increases to yields, but people-first policies to guarantee food access."

#ZeroHunger #SDG2

Materialwelten I Ausstellung I Technisches Museum Wien Die neue Dauerausstellung "Materialwelten" beleuchtet die Vielfalt der Materialien von der Produktion bis zur Nutzung in 13 Themenbereichen.

📱 Neu im @tmwpress.bsky.social: „Materialwelten“
Von recyceltem PET bis essbaren Algenfolien und mittendrin: Forschung der BOKU zum Biorecycling von Plastik mit Enzymen.Jetzt entdecken: technischesmuseum.at/ausstellung/materialwelten

New paper: I've become increas. irritated that reductions in energy use seem to be equated with *demand-side* strategies a l o n e and that *supply-side strategies* are often framed as technical solutions o n l y. We provide a more compreh. typology and challenge the dichotomy more generally 👇.

Conceptualizing supply- and demand-side climate change mitigation: A typology and new research directions

How can we effectively reduce emissions?

We have a new paper out in Energy Research & Social Science, led by @melaniepichler.bsky.social‬, with @simonegingrich.bsky.social, @n-roux.bsky.social, ‪ @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social

@bokusec.bsky.social,‬ @envleeds.bsky.social
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tinyurl.com/ytm2zd9m

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

www.theguardian.com/environment/...