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Eva-Maria McCormack

@emcberlin.bsky.social

CEO & Founder of https://www.talking-hope.org | socially inclusive #communications #climate #democracy #SocialJustice #health | Past: Executive Dir. Strategic Communications #EuropeanClimateFoundation; @dgap.org | Managing Editor @dpa-intl.com |@CamHistory

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„Die Bundesnetzagentur weist einen Zubau von Gaskraftwerken bis zum Jahr 2035 zwischen 22 und 36 Gigawatt aus“, sagte Katherina Reiche heute zum Versorgungssicherheitsbericht der @bnetza.bsky.social.

Aber das steht im Bericht gar nicht drin. (1/3)

03.09.2025 21:22 — 👍 648    🔁 251    💬 21    📌 18
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Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

30.08.2025 01:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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(S+) Donald Trump und die Klimakrise: Bloß weg mit den unbequemen Wahrheiten US-Präsident Trump versucht, den Klimawandel mit aller Macht zu ignorieren. Dafür lässt seine Regierung nun wohl sogar einen Nasa-Satelliten zerstören. Ein deutsches Projekt will wichtige Daten retten...

www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

08.08.2025 06:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fossiler Zoll-Deal: "Krone der Absurdität" Viermal so viel Kohle, Öl und Gas soll Europa künftig von den USA kaufen, mehr als es überhaupt braucht. Das sind schlechte Nachrichten für das EU-Klimaziel.

Viermal so viel Kohle, Öl und Gas soll Europa künftig von den USA kaufen. Das sind nicht nur schlechte Nachrichten für das EU-Klimaziel – so viele fossile Brennstoffe kann Europa gar nicht gebrauchen.

www.klimareporter.de/europaeische...

30.07.2025 13:33 — 👍 49    🔁 24    💬 2    📌 2
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SCHLUSS MIT DEN AUSREDEN, FRIEDRICH! Das Klimaschutz-Gutachten des Internationalen Gerichtshofs erteilt auch der deutschen Regierung eine klare Ansage. Friedrich Merz‘ Argument, dass Deutschland ja nur ein kleiner Player im Klimaschutz s...

Why the Goliaths should fear the Davids of this world ...
The ICJ has handed down a landmark opinion on climate. Besides its political impact, the ruling also offers a blast of hope for further change. Here my blog @talking-hope.bsky.social

talking-hope.org/en/icj-verdi...

24.07.2025 19:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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EU rollback on environmental policy is gaining momentum, warn campaigners Observes shocked at scale and speed of deregulation drive they say is watering down European Green Deal and laws

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

26.06.2025 08:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Yeah, but global warming will be great for the UK."

Ummmm...Just look at this map of marine heatwaves around the UK and Ireland right now.

Sea surface temperatures are up to 4C warmer than usual for this time of year, reaching about 17C off the Irish coast.

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www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

23.05.2025 09:02 — 👍 153    🔁 70    💬 11    📌 2
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From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort | Simon Jenkins Keir Starmer is not blameless when it comes to Brexit, but he is moving in the right direction. Even the Tories attacking him know that, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort
Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

23.05.2025 09:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed At the heart of all Trump administration policies is ‘soft eugenics’ thinking – the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive

Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

05.05.2025 03:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Open Event | 20.05.2025 | Berlin Open Event | 20.05.2025 | Berlin

INVITATION “What can we even do?” – Young Adults between Climate Crisis, Social Inequality and Shaping the Future talking-hope.org/de/open-even...

18.04.2025 06:31 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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UK banks put £75bn into firms building climate-wrecking ‘carbon bombs’, study finds Exclusive: Britain is key financial hub for destructive fossil fuel mega-projects, according to research

UK banks put £75bn into firms building climate-wrecking ‘carbon bombs’, study finds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

02.05.2025 07:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Public affairs firms in Europe enable pollution by lobbying for big oil, says analysis Exclusive: EU Transparency Register shows law firms also among lobbyists working for fossil fuel companies

Public affairs firms in Europe enable pollution by lobbying for big oil, says analysis

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

25.04.2025 08:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Pope Francis hailed as ‘unflinching global champion’ on climate crisis Officials and campaigners from around world pay tribute to pontiff who put environment at heart of his papacy

Pope Francis hailed as ‘unflinching global champion’ on climate crisis

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

22.04.2025 06:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Open Event | 20.05.2025 | Berlin Open Event | 20.05.2025 | Berlin

INVITATION “What can we even do?” – Young Adults between Climate Crisis, Social Inequality and Shaping the Future talking-hope.org/de/open-even...

18.04.2025 06:31 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump targets 'anti-American ideology' at Smithsonian museums The order says that "divisive narratives" must be purged from the US museums and research centres.

Nazi playbook: Burning Books, destroying art that doesn’t suit your ideology. What came after, was clear.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

28.03.2025 11:31 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Globale Austrocknung auf den Kontinenten Eine Studie zeigt, dass die Landmassen auf allen Kontinenten Wasser verlieren. Die Auswirkungen sind bereits spürbar, etwa in Südeuropa.

www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

27.03.2025 23:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

15.03.2025 16:59 — 👍 6775    🔁 3728    💬 237    📌 236

Russia and China have e
been waging a propaganda war against democracy. Trump just surrendered www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

15.03.2025 21:20 — 👍 2288    🔁 817    💬 78    📌 29
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Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, other agencies President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at gutting the parent of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America and six other federal agencies, his administration's latest step to shrink bureaucracy.

China spends billions on broadcasting around the world. Meanwhile, Trump and Musk have just begun to destroy US broadcasting around the world. www.reuters.com/business/med...

15.03.2025 21:12 — 👍 1412    🔁 462    💬 76    📌 36
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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

05.03.2025 06:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hier noch mal ein update der Grafik mit den Preisauswirkungen bei verschiedenen #ETS2 Preisen für 2027 im Vergleich zum heutigen CO2-Preis von 55 €:
1) Veränderung der Verbraucherpreise
2) Einnahmen für 🇩🇪
3) Höhe eines möglichen #Klimageldes
@klimasozial.bsky.social

03.03.2025 07:14 — 👍 24    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0
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Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

04.03.2025 15:16 — 👍 16706    🔁 4832    💬 1039    📌 471
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CDU und CSU: 1700 Wissenschaftler kritisieren Union wegen Anfrage zu Demokratieprojekten Die Unionsfraktion stellte 551 Fragen zu bestimmten Nichtregierungsorganisationen und stellte ihre Gemeinnützigkeit infrage. Nun zeigen sich auch zahlreiche Wissenschaftler alarmiert. Der offene Brief...

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

04.03.2025 07:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BP to slash renewables investment and ramp up gas and oil production. The energy giant will announce its strategy later after rivals also rowed back on green energy plans.

If you thought the world was on the edge of a precipice already, wrong. Now is when the real crap begins. And I say that in complete horror. When the greenwashing facade comes off, how can we hold these monsters accountable? They don’t care.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

26.02.2025 08:11 — 👍 84    🔁 35    💬 5    📌 1
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Julianne Moore’s freckles? How Republican bans on ‘woke’ books have reached new level Trump administration escalates movement forged by US states to censor literature in full-scale DEI crackdown

A #fascist specialty: US Republican #bookbans in the “land of the free” now include literary highlights Beloved and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

24.02.2025 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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AUFRUF ZUR BUNDESTAGSWAHL AM 23.02.2025 Die Demokratie hält erhebliche Meinungsunterschiede und große politische Differenzen aus. Das Einzige, wogegen sich die Demokratie wehren muss, sind jene, die das Grundversprechen der Demokratie selbs...

Unser Aufruf von @talking-hope.bsky.social
zur #Bundestagswahl:
Wählen Sie eine demokratische Zukunft! Lasst uns gemeinsam die #Demokratie schützen, damit die Demokratie jede/n Einzelne/n von uns schützen kann!
talking-hope.org/bundestagswa...

19.02.2025 21:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Ends Climate Work Inside Agency That Responds to Disasters A memo sent to leadership at the US Department of Homeland Security orders the elimination of climate-related activities.

SCOOP @bloomberg.com: Top officials at the US Department of Homeland Security received a memo from Sec. Kristi Noem on Friday ordering an immediate stop to work connected to climate change and the elimination of climate-related terms across the agency.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

16.02.2025 12:22 — 👍 536    🔁 421    💬 62    📌 144

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

18.02.2025 07:12 — 👍 10078    🔁 2765    💬 262    📌 139
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A ‘great shock’: Julianne Moore’s children’s book under review by Trump administration The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive order

Can't believe the Trump administration is afraid of a little girl called Freckleface.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

17.02.2025 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Energiewende: Mehrheit der Deutschen unterstützt Solar- und Windkraft Atomkraftwerke reaktivieren, Windkraftausbau stoppen, Solarpflicht für Firmendächer: Die Ziele der Parteien unterscheiden sich im Wahlkampf stark. Eine Umfrage zeigt, was die Menschen in Deutschland w...

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/e...

07.02.2025 06:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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