Dominik Wiedenhofer

YouTube video by Good Morning America Remembering legendary conservationist Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall 😢
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UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty Negotiators again failed to finalize the text for a global plastics treaty in Geneva in August 2025. The talks exposed two harsh truths. Consensus on the treaty text, where no state formally objects, ...

Ein verbindliches Plastik-Abkommen konnte im Rahmen der UNO nicht erzielt werden, weil es von mächtigen Akteuren wie den Ölländern verhindert wurde. Nun ist eine Koalition der Willigen nötig, um Fortschritte zu erzielen, argumentiert ein editorial in "Science"

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Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries monitors a world out of balance - Nature A revised ‘Doughnut’ providing a visual assessment of trends in social deprivation and planetary degradation over the past two decades shows more than doubling of global GDP accompanied by accelerating ecological overshoot but only a modest reduction in human deprivation.

Doughnut economics analysiert den ökologischen Overshoot und die mangelnde Bereitstellung der Grundlagen für ein gutes Leben, ein neues "nature" paper analysiert die letzten 20 Jahre, u.a. auf Basis eines Indikators (HANPP), der von der BOKU beigesteuert wurde.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Power and profit drive what we eat: here’s why the food system needs a revolution Decades of corporate control have shaped diets, harmed farmers and strained the planet — transforming the system will take collective action.

Profitinteressen mächtiger Akteure haben viel zu großen Einfluss auf die Ernährungsgewohnheiten der Menschen. Das schadet Umwelt, Gesundheit und Bauern.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A poster demomstrating an extension to the well-known climate stripes graphic.

A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

Just seen the latest work from the Doughnut Economic Lab highlighting the huge inequalities between the richest and poorest nations and the accelerating planetary metacrisis we are in.

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Addressing landscape multifunctionality in conservation and restoration Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Multifunctional land-use systems supply multiple ecosystem services while contributing to biodiversity conservation. This Review summarizes the provision of ecosystem...

🌍 Out today in 'Nature Reviews Biodiversity': We explore landscape multifunctionality as a way to address biodiversity loss, climate change & food insecurity together. Instead of siloed fixes, multifunctional land-use integrates restoration, production & well-being.
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Is there a public mandate for restricting advertising of high-carbon products and services?: Citizens’ jury and public polling evidence from the UK Meeting internationally-agreed climate targets requires changes to patterns of consumption of goods and services which result in high levels of greenhouse gas emissions, such as petrol and diesel cars...

📢 High-carbon ads and public opinion

UK citizens’ jury and polling show majority support for restricting advertising of high-carbon products. Labelling systems were favoured, outright bans least popular.

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#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction 🧪

The Roads Traveled to Reach a Greenhouse Gas Flux Network A global network of eddy covariance measurements sites is providing direct measurements of carbon dioxide, water vapor and energy fluxes This network evolved over time through technical advances ...

@biometlab.bsky.social Great stories and great science. Fluxers, treat yourself to this one agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

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Das #FFG @vrvis.bsky.social Projekt #POPSICLE entwickelt ein vernetztes System digitaler Zwillinge, das Simulationen & Analysen zu Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf wichtige Infrastrukturbereiche erlaubt, um bessere Planungsgrundlagen für Infra, Mobilität & Versorgung in Österreich zu ermöglichen.

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
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New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org

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Saw a patient in the ER that was struck by a car while riding their bicycle. They noted that they were not intending to make a police report because the driver had stopped and been nice. Mutual kindness is heartwarming, but there are reasons why making an official report is important.

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It Isn’t Just the U.S. The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics.

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet A small, carefully scaled geoengineering program could compensate for the loss of cooling as we eliminate sulfur pollution.

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

Foto von einer "Kidical Mass" Fahrraddemo für Kinder - viele Kinder und Erwachsene auf Rädern fahren auf einer mehrspurigen Straße, Wohngebäude und Bäume im Hintergrund

Logo der Kidical Mass, Drache auf einem Fahrrad, unterstützt von der Radlobby

Heute rollte die #KidicalMass wieder durch Wien 😍

Wir klingeln für gute Laune und sichere Radwege für Jung & Alt!
☀️🤹🚲🛝🛴🍀💦🌻
www.kidicalmass.at
@radelnforfuture.at @radlobby.at @kidicalmass.bsky.social
#RadLiebeWien #WienLiebe

People often use products for less time than they expect, but this can generate more waste — and increases spending on replacements.🛍️

#SystemsChangeLab explains how the transition to a circular economy can create a more sustainable, resilient and efficient economic system: bit.ly/4pjGfTS

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two.

I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve
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To blame the shift to renewables or the combustion engine ban for Germany’s economic malaise confuses cause and effect.
It is the costly and unnecessary over-reliance on fossil fuels and the insistence on combustion engines which no longer sell in China that deserve a closer look. #technologieoffen

Opinion | The Retribution Has Begun

Düsteres Szenario, das sich in den USA durch Instrumentalisierung des Charlie Kirk Mordes durch die Trump-Gang abzeichnet. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers

Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy. In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale."

It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability.

Coincidence?

I think not.

Österreich verhalf EU-Renaturierung zum Durchbruch. Stolpert es nun beim ersten Anlauf? In einem Jahr muss Österreichs Plan zur Renaturierung fertig sein. Kritiker klagen: Der Prozess sei intransparent, Geld fehle. Dafür gibt's eine umstrittene Personalie

🇦🇹 Eine sehr österreichische Geschichte 🇦🇹

Wie hierzulande der Plan zur Rettung der heimischen Natur von Lobbys mitgeschrieben wird und warum ein Interessenskonflikt manchmal kein Interessenskonflikt ist.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

In Linz beginnt‘s…

…heute mit einem Vortrag über den Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 bei der #Nachhaltigkeitskonferenz der @wko.at.

#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz

A dramatic Colorado sunset where the clouds form the shape of a dragon. Dark and light billow together across the sky, with deep blues above and an orange-red glow in the dragon’s belly. At the horizon, soft yellow light spills outward, reflected in the still water below with mountain silhouettes framing the view. The scene evokes contrast and harmony—like a breath through chaos, a reminder of mindfulness, inspiration, and the way through toward wellness and renewal. sky, sunset, clouds, dragon shape, dramatic sky, light and dark, orange glow, yellow horizon, reflection, mountains, Colorado, photography, outdoors, landscape, nature, inspiration, mindfulness, meditation, breath, stress relief, wellness, well-being, self-care, insights, healing, resilience, inner peace, balance, energy, poetic, beautiful sky, sunset reflection, mountain view, spiritual photo by Eric Meleney @redcranehealth

In the midst of the noise, there are moments that remind you that you don’t have to give in to the chaos. But instead choose what brings you back to the beauty of life.

#sunset #sky #photography #nature #colorado #inspiration #clouds #cloud #wellbeing #birds #reflection #photo #healing

You know how Austria is 90% renewable, 10% gas -- and the latter had been Russian gas until very recently?

Well, turns out Austria's O&G company, OMV, signed a contract that basically paid Putin EU market prices.

Who benefited from 'cheap' Russian gas? Gazprom, not Austria.

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The negligible role of carbon offsetting in corporate climate strategies - Nature Communications This study of 89 multinational firms finds no significant link between voluntarily offsetting emissions and decarbonization speed. Firms spend little funds on carbon credits, and emission offsetting i...

🌍 Do Carbon offsets work?

An analysis of 89 multinationals finds buying carbon credits does little for real emission cuts. Offsets play only a minor role, with airlines most reliant.

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#SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

We're halfway between the IPCC 6th and 7th Assessment Reports, and an international team of 61 scientists updated some of the key metrics used in the reports. As I wrote for @climateconnections.bsky.social, the findings were pretty bleak, but there are some glimmers of hope 🧵 (1/6)