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Dominik Wiedenhofer

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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. https://boku.ac.at/en/personen/person/EC2B15284DC69568 .. more

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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...

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 7h

Linking existing models to extend energy system & integrated assessment analysis is increasingly common practice, but little attention has been paid to the details, the trade-offs, & the interpretation of the interlinked model system.

Look, no figures!

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Model linking for low-carbon transitions: Technical and conceptual challenges and best practices

Linking existing models to extend energy system and integrated assessment analysis is an increasingly common practice. Despite this, and unlike in the…

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 9h

New review paper co-authored by scientists at the Institute of Social Ecology summarizes what we know about potentials of the Circular Economy to help reducing GHG emissions.

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New Review: Circular Economy and Climate Mitigation | CircEUlar

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 9h

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.

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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.

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 22h

Modeling Monday: How clean are EVs, really?
Short answer: it depends on the question. Attributional vs. consequential LCA, average vs. marginal, short- vs. long-run... the metric can flip the answer. 1/🧵

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Giulio Mattioli @giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting-looking study into the drivers of global transport CO2 emissions from 1850 to 2020 finding that efficiency gains were insufficient to counter rising demand driven by GDP per capita, service intensity, and population doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Marcus Wadsak @marcuswadsak.bsky.social · 1d

Mit seiner starken Erwärmung nähert sich unser Planet rasant katastrophalen und unumkehrbaren Kipppunkten, warnten heute 160 Klimaforscher und -forscherinnen aus 23 Ländern.

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Forscher warnen: Kipppunkte der Erde rücken bedrohlich näher

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 1d

Wind turbine base install

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 2d

Most people think the world consists of various distinctions ranging from fire and water to protons and electrons. But Heinrich Päs disagrees. | https://bit.ly/46ls4X9

Quantum physics revives the idea of universal oneness that Christianity unjustly excluded from our culture.

#philsci ⚛️ 🧪

Quantum physics reveals the unity of the universe | Heinrich Päs

Most people think the world consists of various elements ranging from fire and water to protons and electrons. Heinrich Päs challenges this idea, arguing that quantum physics revives the ancient idea ...

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Nana Siebert @nanasiebert.bsky.social · 3d

Spekulationskäufe sorgen dafür, dass die Preise für Grünflächen am Stadtrand Wiens explodieren. Projekte wie die "Neue Gärtnersiedlung Aspern" sprießen im Dunkeln. @davidkrutzler.bsky.social und @mputschoegl.bsky.social haben nachgeforscht:

Die Geheimpläne um die Millionenäcker von Essling

Spekulationskäufe sorgen dafür, dass die Preise für Grünflächen am Stadtrand Wiens explodieren. Projekte wie die "Neue Gärtnersiedlung Aspern" sprießen im Dunkeln. Das Straßenvorhaben S1 befeuert die ...

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Wolfgang Cramer @wolfgangcramer.net · 3d

I believe that scholars and practitioners in the biodiversity / ecosystem service community need to read this very well-researched and inspiring paper - The Nature of Planetary Habitability.

Julia Nordblad @julianordblad.bsky.social · Mar 13

My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.

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The Nature of Planetary Habitability: A Conceptual History of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | Environmental History

Abstract This essay traces the conceptual history of biodiversity and ecosystem services from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. In contrast to recent historical studies that have interpreted biodiver...

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Annual Reviews @annualreviews.bsky.social · 3d

📣 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Environment and Science is online! Most read article is "Overshoot: A Conceptual Review of Exceeding and Returning to Global Warming of 1.5°C" arevie.ws/3IF0OKf @andyreisinger.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social @chrisd-jones.bsky.social

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 3d

We have launched the Drawdown Explorer — the most comprehensive climate solutions platform ever created! It gives decision-makers the tools they need to act faster & more effectively than ever — & your support today can make this revolutionary tool even more powerful. https://drawdown.org/donate

Ways to Give

Your donation to Project Drawdown supports our core climate solutions work, allowing our team to be responsive to the rapidly changing climate landscape.

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 11d

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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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, ...

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 11d

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

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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.

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Helmut Haberl a.k.a. Doc Dooley @hehaberl.bsky.social · 11d

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.

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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.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 11d

Jane Goodall 😢
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Remembering legendary conservationist Jane Goodall

YouTube video by Good Morning America

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Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 12d

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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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12d

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.

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.

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Tobias Plieninger @plieningerlab.bsky.social · 14d

🌍 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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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...

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18d

📢 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 🧪

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...

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Bundesministerium für Innovation, Mobilität & Infrastruktur @bmimi.gv.at · 19d

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.

Eine Visualisierung von Personenströmen.

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John Knowles @ecohydrojfk.bsky.social · 19d

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

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 ...

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Barbara Tóth @barbaratoth.bsky.social · 19d

Warum besuchte Peter Thiel im Geheimen im August die Uni Innsbruck und was geschah dort? Meine Recherche dazu: www.falter.at/maily/202509...

Tech & Religion: Peter Thiels geheimer Besuch an der Uni Innsbruck

Der Tech-Milliardär Peter Thiel ist fasziniert von der Idee eines "Anti-Christen". Im August hielt er dazu vier Vorträge im kleinsten Kreis an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät. Warum die Geheimni...

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 20d

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
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 21d

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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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 23d

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:

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.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23d

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:

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

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Edward Xie @edwardxie.bsky.social · 23d

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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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 23d

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

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 24d

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

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