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👨💻🌆 Scientist-Architect-Dad 🌾🤝 Regenerative Spaces, Resilient Communities 🇦🇹 🇪🇺 Director @riselabs.at Lead Scientist @gbdi.io 🌍👉 http://www.martinroeck.com #Climate #Policy #Buildings #Materials #LCA
The current best practice, ... say DGNB gold, platin, think of the e.g. best EU practice Holzbau school, is not even inside todays limits. It's only getting worse in the future, the budget shrinks. We need to step up significantly (retrofit + renewable materials + sufficiency) or -stop- building.
You can play around with our Greenhouse Gas Budget here @martinroeck.com :
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BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has been enlisted to help build Ukraine’s recovery plan. In Kyiv and other European capitals, its role has generated more questions than answers, as the Trump administration steers rebuilding plans toward U.S. business interests.
The headline is the important part here but look at this:
"In 2000, China produced only one-third of the amount of electrical power that the United States did; by 2024, it produced nearly two and a half times U.S. levels."
Remember, we’ve had a US military base on Greenland since 1951. Trump is doing Putin’s bidding by destroying the strongest Western alliance of the past 75 years. From @timothysnyder.bsky.social
The Danish military gears up to defend Greenland
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my 2026 resolution is to stop talking about climate in terms of global mean temperature (will rise a couple degrees, sounds manageable, nobody cares) and start talking in terms of H bomb equivalents (holy shit, seems bad, WTF)
So many horrible things going on, and I wish I had better news, but the US is drying out, making water scarcer and farming harder and possibly making heating worse than models show
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
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By me: US Invasion of Venezuela Violates International Climate Law Too: 'A historically high-emitting state is violating international law in order to undertake yet another internationally wrongful activity — harming the climate system.'
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The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
Illustration of a dart missing the bullseye on a colorful target, symbolizing global temperature goals at risk due to inaction.
New national climate plans have barely moved the needle on limiting global warming. Yet there is hope.
According to UNEP's latest #EmissionsGap Report, accelerated adoption of renewable energy and falling costs mean we have the tools to cut emissions now: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
Was die EU nicht schafft, schaffen Brasilien, Chile, Kolumbien, Mexico, Spanien und Uruguay. Heute Abend haben sie eine Erklärung veröffentlicht, in der sie die Aggression gegen Venezuela als völkerrechtswidrig verurteilen & davor warnen das Land zu "führen", um seine Ressourcen auszubeuten.
I think this feels particularly shocking because no matter how much you stretch the law this has absolutely no basis of legality whatsoever. No terrorists, no "threat" requiring anticipatory self defence. Nothing.
Lest anyone for a single moment thinks this latest coup is a somehow a dramatic breach of long-term US foreign policy.
Israel is banning the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders from operating in Gaza starting on New Year’s Day. www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...
Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.
"This fucking sucks" and "all is lost" are two different sentences.
Don't say the second when you mean the first.
I might have failed at my assignment from @fisherdanar.bsky.social to say what makes me hopeful about climate, but I think @frediotto.bsky.social and her team's work that would enable us to hold polluters responsible should be a source of hope.
Tune in to Episode 4 of the #COPOut Podcast tomorrow!
Seit 1900 hat sich Österreich um 3,1 °C erwärmt – mehr als doppelt so stark wie global. 🌍
Das bedeutet: mehr Hitzetage, Dürren & Starkregen.
👉 Klimaschutz & Anpassung sind möglich – und langfristig günstiger als die Folgen.
Mehr dazu findet ihr im Klimabericht #AAR2📖 aar2.ccca.ac.at
OpenAl's CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years' time college graduates will be working 'some completely new, exciting, super well-paid' job in space
Altman is bullshitting at Musk's level now.
“France condemns the visa restriction measures taken by the United States against Thierry Breton and four other European figures. These measures amount to intimidation and coercion aimed at undermining European digital sovereignty”
Emmanuel Macron
Targeting a climate resilient, sustainable world involves fundamental changes to how society functions, including changes to underlying values, worldviews, ideologies, social structures, political and economic systems, and power relationships. This may feel overwhelming at first, but the world is changing anyway and will continue to change so Climate Resilient Development offers us ways to drive change to improve well-being for all – by reducing climate risk, tackling the many inequities and injustices experienced today, and rebuilding our relationship with nature.
"Targeting a #climate resilient, sustainable world involves fundamental changes to how society functions, including changes to underlying values, worldviews, ideologies, social structures, political and economic systems, and power relationships" - @ipcc.bsky.social
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
The US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.
The movie Cycling Cities showcases Europe’s top cycling capitals. @ingwarpero.bsky.social rode to Freiburg, Paris, Ghent, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Groningen, Hamburg & Copenhagen to see what makes cities bike-friendly and drives sustainable urban mobility. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5jQ...
“If we want to use [Direct Air Capture] to limit overall warming to 1.5C, while emitting enough to reach 2.5C, DAC would need to use something like 30% of all electricity consumed over the next 80 years.”
You can access the carbon bombs data set here...
carbonbombs.org/download-dat...
"We list these “carbon bombs” by name, show in which countries they are located and calculate their potential emissions which combined exceed the global 1.5 °C carbon budget by a factor of two... 40% of carbon bombs have not yet started extraction"
Best story I've seen on the claim against Shell, filed by survivors of the devastating 2021 #Odette
“The poor are getting even more poor because we are recovering fr the typhoon & then there is another typhoon all over again, & then recovering again”
@roycerk2.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
