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Pie chart showing Germany power generation for 2025-08-10: Biomass 9%, Hydro 5%, Wind offshore 4%, Wind onshore 19%, Solar 39%, Other renewable 0%, Lignite 11%, Hard coal 1%, Gas 7%, Other conventional 3%, Net imports 2%

🇩🇪 Yesterday all wind power accounted for ~22% of Germany electrical power generation (217GWh). Solar power was ~39% (383GWh). Hydro power net of pumped was ~5% (45GWh).

Source: SMARD

#Germany #windenergy #solarenergy #hydroenergy

Stoat in dense vegetation

Saw my first ever stoat this weekend… even got the photo to go with it so that iNaturalist believes me🤪

Solving climate change requires changing our food systems Abstract. Humanity is facing an important existential threat—irreversible climate change caused by human activity. Until recently, most of the proposals to

Solving #climatechange requires changing our food systems

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sunrise in sheffield the other morning 🌅

Abstract reads: This analysis contributes to our understanding of climate policymaking and regime resistance in an authoritarian state, focusing on Russia, as one of the world’s largest fossil fuel producers. The analysis uses the multiple streams framework to examine the agenda and decision-making processes surrounding the 2021 Law on GHG Emissions. The case demonstrates how policy entrepreneurs within government were able to leverage international developments related to the Paris Agreement and get an ambitious policy proposal on the agenda. However, these efforts were met with strong resistance from fossil fuel incumbents during decision-making, who were able to undermine reform. This case provides a valuable window into the dynamic and contested nature of climate policymaking in an authoritarian regime, highlighting the importance of the international context in driving policy innovation in an authoritarian state...

New article from Ellie Martus.

Climate policymaking in an autocracy: the case of Russia’s law on GHG emissions.

How is climate policy made in authoritarian states?

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This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge C... This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper: Estimating the number and ongoing rate of extinctions of Australian non-marine invertebrates - Volume 2

📣New paper📣

We estimate the number of extinctions of Australian #invertebrates, plus the ongoing #extinction rate … Both figures are far higher than those currently recognised, pointing to alarming gaps in #conservation of an important area of #biodiversity
🪳🕷️🐌🪰🪲🪱
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And said skate is just the beginning of it

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Copenhagen has taken bicycle commuting to a whole new level Cycling has been a part of that good life in Copenhagen for decades. In recent years, it has enjoyed yet another unfathomable surge in popularity — taken to the next level thanks to constantly improvi...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.”

#Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

This looks worth reading!

"The #renewables future is here" https://buff.ly/4g5Q56Y #EnergyTransition

The Planting of the First National Forests in Brazil: Forest Policy and the Emergence of Tropical Forestry in the Nineteenth Century In the nineteenth century, a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry.

In our next 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article, Gabriel Paes da Silva Sales and Rejan Guedes-Bruni describe how a water crisis in Rio de Janeiro resulted in the planting of forests, influencing the development of Brazil’s forestry policy and the emergence of tropical forestry. #envhist #brasil

Cost and attainability of meeting stringent climate targets without overshoot - Nature Climate Change Current emissions scenarios include pathways that overshoot the temperature goals set out in the Paris Agreement and rely on future net negative emissions. Limiting overshoot would require near-term i...

This one? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nichts Neues. War alles vorhergesagt worden.

Klimakatastrophe verläuft weiter nach Plan.

A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.

"The case for tackling [climate] inequalities is often made in moral terms. But there is also another rationale. The failure to protect vulnerable communities ... may push them into the arms of nativist parties and other political forces that often seek to block climate action."

Industry-Backed Emissions Metric Could ‘Completely Derail’ Climate Action, Campaigners Warn Governments have been cautioned against adopting a new methane metric that is “incompatible” with climate science and “penalises” low-income countries. A statement issued by more than 60 civil society...

NEW: An industry-backed emissions metric could ‘completely derail’ climate action if adopted by governments, campaigners warn

It comes the New Zealand government considers whether to adopt new climate goals based on the GWP* measure

My latest for @desmog.bsky.social

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Feeding Grazing Cattle Seaweed Cuts Methane Emissions by Almost 40% Scientists find making a seaweed additive more accessible to grazing cattle would make cattle farming more sustainable while meeting global demand for meat.

University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a seaweed supplement in pellet form reduced their methane emissions by almost 40% without affecting their health or weight.
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U.S. mainstream media downplays Amnesty International’s finding that Israel is committing genocide Pressure is mounting on the international community over Israel’s genocide in Gaza. With the latest report from Amnesty International, the mainstream U.S. media faced an excruciating dilemma. How coul...

Amnesty drops a 296-page report accusing Israel of genocide, and U.S. media’s response? Pretend it’s not happening. Read how they’re downplaying the story:

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Video UNICEF: Five million children displaced in Sudan amid civil war UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram joined ABC News Live to talk about the "world's largest child displacement crisis" currently unfolding in Sudan amid the nation's civil war.

"There are more children on the run here from conflict than anywhere else in the world — 5 million children fleeing their homes [across #Sudan]."

@unicef.org's Tess Ingram talks with ABC News about humanitarian access in the country and what she's heard from girls affected by the crisis:

On @antonygreenelec.bsky.social's numbers, the LNP needs about 51.5% 2PP to get to 'most seats'. On trend, it may get near to that, below. (YIK, rough-as-guts, and 2PP may now be a poor guide ... but so is small-sample seat polling.)

Removing carbon from the air: A climate cure or waste of money? • Louisiana Illuminator President-elect Trump has vowed to slash climate spending under the Inflation Reduction Act, but direct air capture hubs are part of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

“Direct Air Capture is an opportunity cost that increases CO2, air pollution, fossil mining, fossil infrastructure and social cost (energy+health+climate costs) by a factor of 10 vs using the same money to replace fossil sources with clean, renewable energy.”

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Brazil Fails to Launch Long-Awaited Pesticide Reduction Plan The Brazilian government failed to follow through on its commitment to enact a National Pesticide Reduction Program on International Pesticide Free Day today. Brazil is among the top consumers of pest...

Brazil is among the top consumers of pesticides in the world, many of which are highly hazardous. Pesticide drift poisons rural communities.

The government promised to enact a National Pesticide Reduction Program. Although it’s been 10 yrs since the plan was first drafted, it’s still not adopted.

Recently gave this another listen. It’s very good.

Plan to protect endangered ACT grasslands a casualty of tanked environment deal 'These are two of the most ecologically significant bits of bush in Canberra.'

Nature conservation is chronically underfunded in the ACT and across the county.

It has to increase if we are to better protect & manage the incredible landscapes that make Australia so special.
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#Climate change exacerbates inequality & disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable.

"The world is getting ever hotter and we must reduce the temperature to protect our health...we must phase out fossil fuels" - Dr Kate Wylie
@docsenvaus.bsky.social

#auspol

If anger propels you, use this COP outcome to continue pushing for more action at home and through direct foreign policy.

If hope is what feeds you, recall that Mexico this week has set 2050 net zero target (last G20 member to have one), and Indonesia pledged to close all fossil fuel plants by 2040