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Dominik Wiedenhofer
@dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social
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Sustainability, Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy, Climate Change Mitigation. Senior Scientist & Lecturer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Born at 344ppm.

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Dominik Wiedenhofer @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social · Feb 25
Understanding #Transformation pathways complying with climate targets requires model-based insights. Herein, we review studies modeling industry in low energy & material demand futures and find large mitigation potentials, but also crucial limitations of existing models. doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Industry Transformations for High Service Provisioning with Lower Energy and Material Demand: A Review of Models and Scenarios | Annual Reviews
Developing transformative pathways for industry's compliance with international climate targets requires model-based insights into how supply- and demand-side measures affect industry, material c...
doi.org

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 3d
1/ Yes the globally wealthy have outsized emissions, and yes that’s a massive problem

But it’s actually only a small part of their devastating influence on the conditions that support life
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d
Today on Volts: "closed-loop" geothermal energy digs deeper than conventional geothermal & does not require natural hotspots, so it can be done anywhere. I talk with Eavor, a cutting-edge Canadian startup that has just opened its first closed-loop facility in Germany, about the possibilities.
What's the deal with closed-loop geothermal?
I talk to Eavor’s Jeanine Vany and Mark Fitzgerald about the engineering breakthroughs that could finally make geothermal geography-agnostic.
www.volts.wtf

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BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social · 5d
Chinas Urbanisierung fordert Klima und Ressourcen.
Eine Studie mit Beteiligung der BOKU University zeigt, wie stark Chinas Gebäudebestand seit 2000 gewachsen ist.
@bokusec.bsky.social @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social
➡️: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com

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Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · 6d
🦠 New study along the coast of Central Java, Indonesia, finds more #microplastics (10–42 particles/L) than plankton (13–15 ind/L) at all sites! We urgently need better governance to combat #plastic pollution!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Abundance and characteristics of plankton and microplastics along the northern coastline of Central Java, Indonesia
This study aimed to characterize microplastics (MPs) and analyze the composition of plankton in the coastal waters of Central Java's North Coast. The …
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Reposted by Benjamin Braun, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Els Torreele , and 2 more

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 6d
With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 9d
"We show that the AI server industry is unlikely to meet its net-zero aspirations by 2030 without substantial reliance on highly uncertain carbon offset and water restoration mechanisms"

An annual additional 24-44 megatonnes of CO2 per year to 2030, from AI in the US alone ->
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
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Dominik Wiedenhofer @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social · 11d
China experienced unprecedented scale and speed of urbanization - here we map these dynamics at 30m resolution for the past 20 years to understand implications for reaching #climate targets and a more #CircularEconomy

@BOKUvienna @bokusec.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Building material stock drives embodied carbon emissions and risks future climate goals in China - Nature Climate Change
Reducing the embodied carbon emissions of building material stock is essential for mitigation. Using a high-resolution multiyear dataset in China, researchers show the historically massive contributio...
www.nature.com

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Peggy March @rebelgeo.bsky.social · 18d
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The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure
This IISS paper assesses Russia’s unconventional war on Europe, focusing on sabotage of critical infrastructure, from military sites and energy grids to communications and undersea cables, testing the resilience of European governments and societies and challenging NATO/EU deterrence.
www.iiss.org

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Science Magazine @science.org · 26d
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Reposted by Wolfgang Crämer, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · 28d
"Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from drained peatlands account for about 7% of the total anthropogenic GHG emissions in the European Union (EU). [...] Four main emission hotspots emerge: the North Sea region, eastern Germany, the Baltics together with eastern Poland, and north Ireland."
Identifying hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the European Union - Nature Communications
An EU-wide analysis shows that drained peatlands are major, underreported sources of greenhouse gases. By mapping emission hotspots, the study provides guidance for targeted rewetting and strengthens ...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28d
New research: The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression
This paper sets out a repertoire of repression operating to criminalise and repress recent climate and environmental protest globally. Deploying a novel mixed methods approach, involving a comparat...
www.tandfonline.com

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · Dec 12
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Dominik Wiedenhofer

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · Dec 8
The Google Gemini3 LLM is remarkably excellent at reading weather observations from handwritten logbooks.

Example of recovering hourly pressure observations taken in Oxford in December 1883 and January 1884, compared to human-keyed data from relatively nearby sites.

Climate data rescue solved?
Example daily page from Oxford weather logbooks Hourly pressure data from 3 sites - Oxford, Falmouth and Kew. Oxford transcribed with Gemini3, the others done by humans.

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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · Dec 8
In our Climate Report my coauthors and I say: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. Consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
doi.org

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · Dec 5
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
Seedling growing in the forest

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · Dec 5
“A downside to the use of metaphors is that it is easy to regard them as real aspects of nature. This occurs via a fallacy known as reification”

I’ve always liked this paper on the unacknowledged use of metaphors in ecology:

eg, niche, competition, tipping points, habitat
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Heather Shearer @heather-sea55.bsky.social · Nov 27
🧪“…destabilizes ecosystem function because relatively few additional extinctions lead to accelerated losses of functional diversity, particularly in trophic groups that deliver important ecological services such as seed dispersal and insect predation.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - Nature
Large-scale analyses of bird species traits reveal that land-use change reduces resilience of key ecological functions more than previously thought.
www.nature.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 26
Don't underestimate where China's science will be in a decade. However, for China to truly be a global leader, Chinese science needs to be less misogynistic and hierarchical, and early-career scientists need to be given the freedom to be creative and not work like robots.
Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership
The nation’s next generation of scientists and technologists will shape the coming decades.
go.nature.com

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Dr. Matt Schabath (he/him/his) @mattschabathphd.bsky.social · Nov 21
🧪 🧪 Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last? -- Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last?
Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.
www.nature.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · Nov 19
Devastating floods led to a 4.3% global reduction in annual rice yield from 1980 to 2015, new #ScienceAdvances research finds. https://scim.ag/4iiwfYd
Severe floods significantly reduce global rice yields
Rice-killing floods reduce global rice yield by 4.3%, with losses rising due to increasing extreme floods since 2000.
scim.ag

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 19
Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.
Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP
US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...
www.france24.com

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Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · Nov 19
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?

Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7

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Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions
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Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · Nov 17
🐳 New study finds‼️7 kg‼️of #plastic items – chiefly polyethylene sheets- in a beaked whale in Rhodes, Mediterranean, which likely caused malnutrition, potentially contributing to the whale's death. PE sheets carried oil/tar increasing the risk for toxic effects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · Nov 17
Academia is plagued by not-fit-for-purpose metrics that are then used ranking individuals and institutions
Will we ever move away from these? - there is a lot of talk but not a great deal of action?
The comment ⬇️ is a refreshing look at the problem.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
To reform universities, first tackle global rankings
Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.
www.nature.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Nov 16
$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action

The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?

#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
www.theguardian.com

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Nov 15
My fear is scientists will just sit by & be complicit. Saying you are for 1.5C or net zero is not ambition.

If rich country GHG or CO2 emissions are not dropping at >5% per year, they are not remotely consistent with 1.5C, nor net zero in a reasonable time frame.

Scientists need to point this out.
rishpardikar.bsky.social Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · Nov 15
Rich, historical polluter countries that had the highest legal responsibility to take climate action failed. And now some of these same countries are speaking about '1.5C ambition'. What a charade

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · Nov 13
Habe heute einem gut 70jährigen ehemaligen Spitzenpolitiker zugehört, der fordert: Die Leute müssen früher aufstehen und mehr arbeiten. Und im Alter länger im Job bleiben. Strengt euch an für mehr Wirtschaftswachstum!
Und ich kann diesen Zynismus nicht mehr hören. (Thread)

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Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · Nov 13
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...
We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist
We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)
www.uni-regensburg.de

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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · Nov 13
Eine kleine Idee tanzt über die Flure der #COP30, ob sie ein ausgewachsenes Vorhaben werden kann, muss sich noch zeigen: Eine Roadmap zum Ausstieg aus Fossilen Energien.
Hä? Ja, keine Sorge, zurücklehnen, ich erklär das.

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BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social · Nov 13
Vier BOKU-Forschende zählen zu den weltweit meistzitierten Wissenschaftler*innen in der Analyse Highly Cited Researchers 2025 von Clarivate Analytics. Wir gratulieren @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social, @hehaberl.bsky.social, Karlheinz Erb & Erwin Schmid! short.boku.ac.at/p94g8p000000...