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Existing demand-side climate change mitigation policies neglect avoid options - Communications Earth & Environment In Austria, policy relies on measures that promote a shift to less emission-intensive services and improve efficiency, but neglects options that reduce resource consumption, according to an analysis t...

"Existing demand-side climate change mitigation policies neglect avoid options". Read our new paper led by @alinabrad.bsky.social and @etienneschneider.bsky.social on the abundant policy measures aiming to reduce household emissions in Austria and their limited effect: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.

Der eben veröffentlichte Report zu Global Tipping Points zeigt, dass manche Kipppunkte im Erdsystem bereits angestoßen wurden. Ein Beispiel ist die tropische Korallenbleiche. Die Risiken steigen mit der weiterhin ungebremst voranschreitenden Erderhitzung.

global-tipping-points.org

🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol

Are you following our Early-Career-Scholar network, ESEH NextGate? They organize events and support young scholars. Follow here: @esehnextgate.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum

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excited to share the call for the workshop

EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION

happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025,

made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social

deadline: 10 September!

full call below ⤵

#envhist #envhum

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...

The graphic shows cultivated lands bordering on a river/wetland and collections of trees (credit: AXIO-IMAGES from Getty Images) in the background of text bubbles. The text summarizes key details of the conference. Please read the description and the full call on the RCC website for this information.

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.

The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

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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Super Video Zusammenfassung des Kapitels zu Landnutzung & Ökosystemen im 🇦🇹 Klimabericht:

🌾 Landwirtschaft = 10 % der THG-Emissionen Österreichs
🌍 16% der Agrarimporte stammen aus klimaanfälligen Regionen

Lösungen:
🥩 Weniger Tierprodukte,
🌱 mehr Natur,
🔄 Konflikte fair lösen

#AAR2 #APCC

Zweiter Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel | AAR2 Der AAR2 ist ein umfassender, interdisziplinärer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel in Österreich.

The Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change #AAR2 by #APCC is now published.

aar2.ccca.ac.at

@ccca.ac.at

Here are eight key messages:

📸 Von links nach rechts: Keywan Riahi Riahi (IIASA), Margreth Keiler (Universität Innsbruck), Umwelt- und Klimaminister Norbert Totschnig, Harald Rieder (BOKU University) und Daniel Huppmann (IIASA) © BMLUK Hemerka

📘 Die BOKU-Autor*innen des Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsberichts zum Klimawandel rufen zu einer entschlossenen Klimapolitik auf:
short.boku.ac.at/92odzp001000...

Zweiter Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel | AAR2 Der AAR2 ist ein umfassender, interdisziplinärer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel in Österreich.

Heute wurde der Klimabericht #AAR2 - der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel - veröffentlicht!
In Kooperation & mit Begleitung des CCCA wurde der Bericht von rund 200 Wissenschaftler:innen erarbeitet.
Die Vollversion & die Zusammenfassungen findet ihr hier:
aar2.ccca.ac.at

Erstmals seit Mitte der 1960-er Jahre - also seit 60 Jahren - nimmt der Holzvorrat im Wald leicht ab. Damit hat der Wald - trotz nach wie vor leicht wachsender Waldfläche - in der letzten Periode wohl netto keinen Kohlenstoff mehr aus der Atmosphäre aufgenommen.

www.bfw.gv.at/pressemeldun...

🚨Ausschreibung: studentische Mitarbeit! Wir suchen jemanden, der*die bei der Recherche (quantitativer) Informationen zu Waldweide in Österreich im 19. Jh unterstützt🌳🌲🐂📖 . Diverse Studienrichtungen willkommen boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da... @zug-wien.bsky.social

Two more job vacancies! post doc position (full time, 6y) in the field of political ecology (e.g., new conflicts, changing geopolitical/North-South relations, more-than-human approaches). Please share widely and contact me for any queries 1/2
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Hmmm... Give me time to think! And to talk to the local organizing committee in Uppsala 😉

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Calling univ profs & lecturers! If you want to bring concepts from Doughnut Economics into your teaching, we've just launched a webpage bursting with resources for you: 7 slide decks, reading lists, videos & activities - all open access. Dive in & pls reshare! doughnuteconomics.org/university-c...

We are hiring! Post doc (full time, 6y) in the fields of social ecology, ecological/feminist economics or similar (e.g., provisioning systems, degrowth, environmental labor studies, socio-ecological practices). Please share and contact me for any queries. Deadline: 9th Dec
boku.ac.at/fileadmin/da...

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Call for Papers - ESEH CONFERENCE 2025 13th Biennial European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) Conference  Climate Histories The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) is pleased to invite proposals for sessions, individ...

Time to prepare an abstract: The deadline for the 13th biennial ESEH conference, in Uppsala, Sweden, is on 31 October. Alongside the conventional formats, this conference welcomes "Different World Sessions" like history cafes, poetry slams, debates, artistic interventions and more.
#envhist #envhum

Christian Kull also wrote a blog entry on the paper 👉 christiankull.net

Forest recovery can be beneficial for people and nature, but this is not necessarily so. Check out our new paper led by C Kull on nine pitfalls when equating forest transitions with shifts towards more sustainability! Open access now www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

APCC Special Report: Landnutzung und Klimawandel in Österreich Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch zur Landnutzung im Zusammenhang des Klimawandels in Österreich aus Sicht vieler wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen.

🚨 Endlich heraußen: der APCC Special Report: Landnutzung und Klimawandel in Österreich! Alles darüber, wie Landnutzung in 🇦🇹
- den Klimawandel beeinflusst
- vom Klimawandel betroffen ist
- das Klima schützen kann
Open access e-book hier 👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis The importance of international timber trade in The United States forest transition is poorly understood. Here, we synthesize a variety of historical sources to establish a consistent socio-metabol...

New paper with Léonore Darrobers, Andreas Magerl: "Timber trade in the United States of America 1870 to 2017. A socio-metabolic analysis" Using social metabolism indicators, we show how the United States imported more and more wood since 1870, while domestic forests recovered. Open access 👇#envhist

Pioneering project investigating crisis effects on social systems wins FWF Emerging Fields Funding The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has awarded the Resilience and Malleability of Social Metabolism (REMASS) project funding of over six million euros for the next five years. This is an important milest...

Very cool new project funded by the Austrian Science Funds. We will investigate the resilience and malleability of social metabolism - that is, how to cope with supply chain disruptions while trying to move towards sustainability & justice. Here IIASA's press release
iiasa.ac.at/news/mar-202...

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New paper out: "Livestock increasingly drove global agricultural emissions growth from 1910–2015" We quantify and analyze long-term emissions from global agricultural activities. Growing livestock production played a key role & overcompensated efficiency increases of agricultural industrialization👇

The Working Group Coupled Human Landscape System: Risk & Resilience at the Department of Geography is seeking candidates for a Research Scholar (f/m/d) (20 h/week), Start/Duration: March 2024 - July 2025

The Austrian 🇦🇹 climate-science community is writing a national Climate Assessment Report (#AAR2) following the process & structure of the IPCC - and at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social, we're hiring an earlycareer researcher to support the co-chairs & authors
geographie.uibk.ac.at/unicms/chls/...

Wie die Landnutzung helfen kann, das Klima zu schützen Auch ein anderer Umgang mit Wald und Nutztieren ist gefragt, um die Erwärmung des Planeten zu verhindern

Wie kann Landnutzung helfen das Klima zu schützen? Dazu habe ich im Online Standard mit Karlheinz Erb und Christian Lauk einen kurzen Beitrag geschrieben.

📢2 open PhD positions: Environmental history of Austrian forests 🌳🍃 🌲Funding for 3 years each, part of FWF-project INFEST "The industrialisation of Austrian Forests 1766-1914" at Social Ecology, BOKU Vienna with Martin Schmid and me. German language skills (reading) required. #envhist Please spread!