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Professor, Central European University @CEU Vice Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change @IPCC_ch Tweets my views. Retweet/like not endorsement!

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@DianaUrge

Diana Urge-Vorsatz

10 months

It is an incredible honor that over 90 countries gave me the trust and voted for me as one of the three new Vice Chairs of the @IPCC_CH I promise to do my best and work hard to earn their and everyone's trust

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#IPCC is in Nairobi electing new IPCC & Task Force Bureaus to oversee its seventh cycle. Today, the Panel elected its new Chair, @JimSkeaIPCC & three Vice-Chairs: @DianaUrge , Ladislaus Chang’a & Ramón Pichs-Madruga. The meeting runs till 28 July. ➡️

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1 year

Our newest @Nature commentary on how "Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help" with @jasonhickel @g_kallis @JKSteinberger Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials &energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective

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Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help

Nature - Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective.

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"Our analysis of nearly 100 million carbon credits found that only a fraction of them resulted in real emissions reductions." #verra @DIEZEIT @carbonsource

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The Carbon Con – How offsetting claims are vastly inflated

The world’s biggest companies are pouring billions into an offsetting industry whose climate claims appear increasingly at odds with reality.

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This is just not turning back... Sea surface temperatures are still off the map, not even close to anything we have seen before...

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We had been warning about this ( #Mediterranean as a climate change hotspot), but the "i told you so" will not help. And perhaps we had not thought it would come this fast...

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Heat-struck Mediterranean is climate change 'hot spot'

Struck by near-record temperatures and wildfires during this week's heatwave, the Mediterranean region is ranked as a climate-change "hot spot" by scientists.

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You cannot imagine the euphoria that the ipcc synthesis report is pre-approved in the longest plenary ever! After 46 hours with a total of 3 hours of sleep...

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"Antarctic ice sheld shrinking without sign of recovery"

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Antarctica: Ice shelves shrinking 'with no sign of recovery'

A new study has found that almost half of Antarctica's ice shelves are shrinking. This could increase ice loss from glaciers and affect the ocean's ability to absorb carbon.

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Sweden's chief epid: “W calculated on more people being sick, but the death toll really came as a surprise to us.” Curious. How many of us, laypeople&experts, have been warning about the hi death toll to come...? @DrEricDing @tomaspueyo @WolfgangFeist

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3 years

'It is not possible to offset your way out of the climate problem. Deep emission reductions are essential for mitigation.'

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Glen Peters

3 years

Even in a 1.5°C scenario with the most extreme levels of CO₂ removal (green), CO₂ emissions decline ~90% at the time of net-zero CO₂ emissions. It is not possible to offset your way out of the climate problem: deep emission reductions are essential.

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The top 1% emits more than 2/3rd of the global population, or 5 BILLION ppl. If they just halve their emissions - for which who else if not them - global emissions would plummet, without touching the poorer 2/3rd. Why do we never talk about this?

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1 year

Finally caught up on some sleep on my way home from the @IPCC_CH approval plenary of the synthesis report. 3 hours of sleep in the last 60 hours - but was worth it!! Very proud of the outcome, esp figure 7!

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#B117 is a catastrophe. #Hungary vaccinated close to 20% of its population, at least another 20% already had #COVID19 , still, we have over 1000 new cases/mln for weeks, WORST in the WORLD, despite an extensive #lockdown , schools closed. What can we be doing wrong?? @DrEricDing

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3 years

CONGRATULATIONS!!! the IPCC's Working Group 1 report has been approved, made history in a fully online plenary! Hundreds of delegates from 140+ countries worked online in impossible hours, and we have an Assessment Report that is much improved as a result of their work!!

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#september in several European countries was 3-4 C warmer than recent normal. These are very high values for monthly averages

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European countries smash September temperature records

Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland announced their hottest Septembers on record on Friday, in a year expected to be the warmest in human history as climate change accelerates.

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Looking at this curve, I do not see any evidence that we have already avoided the worst pathways (4 or 5C by 2100). Am i missing sg? @GlobalEcoGuy @Peters_Glen

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"Announcing new oil and gas licences along with carbon capture projects is like giving cigarettes to someone trying to quit smoking" Why carbon capture and storage will not solve the climate crisis any time soon

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Why carbon capture and storage will not solve the climate crisis any time soon

Announcing new oil and gas licences along with carbon capture projects is like giving cigarettes to someone trying to quit smoking

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For #COP27 participants: warm water #coralreef ecosystems will be among the first major victims of #climatechange (see bar in 4th panel). By 2C warming most of them will b gone. @IPCC_CH #AR6 Make sure you spectate these marvels while in Sharm-El-Sheik before they disappear

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2 years

Very worrying. 60% decline in flying insect populations, just in two decades. Incidentally, in the same period the amount of man-made materials have TRIPLED on Earth, outbeating all living biomass.

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

3 years

Does anyone know of the source of this brilliant figure, all over the web? I want to use in one of my publications #biodiversity #agriculture @IPBES @FAO

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

2 years

Please help me what I am missing: If we all need to go to #netzero , how is exactly #EmissionTrading helping us? Isn't it a good idea if everyone is working on cutting their own emissions down to zero rather than paying someone else to go on a diet for them?

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Towards #cop27 to save our climate. This was NOT taken in Alaska, but Cairo. Outside pleasant 25C, indoors jackets, hoods&hats needed not to freeze. How can we dramatically reduce emissions while providing power for billions more if the richest cannot even give up excessive AC?

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"the warming rate of 0.18C/decade since 1970 has almost doubled to roughly 0.3C/decade over the past 15 years. " Is this within the range of climate variability or signal of accelerated warming? My concern is it might be too late if we just wait to see

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Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what scientists expect - Carbon Brief

Over the past year, there has been a vigorous debate among scientists – and more broadly – about whether global warming is “accelerating”.

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"If we ultimately fail to keep global climate to below 1.5C, then we fight for 1.6C and then 1.7C and then 1.8C – because as scientists we know that every 10th of degree of warming will make a huge difference to the impacts of climate change."

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El Niño may push heating past 1.5C but urgent action could avert catastrophe

Without emissions reductions, in next 10 years 1.5C target may be permanently exceeded

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>9,000 cities committed to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, but more than a third haven’t built an inventory of emissions as it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. The new tool can help them calculate much of those emissions at no cost.

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sooo excited. in just a few minutes we are starting to negotiate the Summary for Policy Makers of the Mitigation WOrking Group of @IPCC_CH volume of the 6th Assessment Report. I know there is a #climatereport fatigue, but we have been working on this for about 6 years!

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Why is growth so sacred in the rich world when we have only been able to achieve it in the past decades through planned obsolescence, unreparability by design, frequently changing fashion, billions of marketing rewiring our brains on our "needs", and tricking us into addictions?

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

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Low-cost airlines created crazy new demand for flying. In Budapest many dental centres thrive from e.g. Irish flying here just to have their root treatments done. You can fly to Israel (3.5h) for EUR10. Who is paying the real (full) costs of these trips...?

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Giulio Mattioli

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#climatechange emissions from international #aviation in 🇪🇺have increased *+117%* since 1990 (data from ) Last time I wrote a research proposal on this figures available were for 2012 (still 'just' +93%). This is exploding in front of our very eyes.

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My first offline work trip after 18 months of online existence. BY overnight TRAIN. So much more fun than flying. You get to see so much of your continent. I wish there were direct train services to much more European destinations!

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Why do we so insist on growth when we more and more can only achieve it through forcing ppl to consume what they did not want to: eg thru planned obsolescence, fast changing fashion, agressive marketing, or rewiring their brains thru psychologists to become addict even to death?

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"Taxing aircraft fuel at the level of the UK’s current road fuel tax would b a useful 1st step: I estimate it would make flights up to FOUR times more expensive." Why do w allow aviation to be ~4 times more privileged over land trp? via @financialtimes

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There is no vaccine for climate.change. #FFF #FridaysForFuture strike in pandemic hit Budapest (thus crowds r not allowed)

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"Prudent risk management requires consideration of worst-case scenarios. Such futures r poorly understood for #climateChange . Could anthropogenic CC result in worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction? This is a dangerously underexplored topic." @pnas 🧵 1/4

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@pnas paper "Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios." This figure does not even have energy system failures that are also triggered by extreme events and have cascading effects...

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I have never seen a #trafficJam in #Tokyo . Why? Efficient, clean, reliable, affordable public transport system. The best proof of: "a country is not rich where the poor drive cars. A country is rich if its richest take public transport" #rushHour pictures , Tokyo

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@PGDynes The problem is that even at the most optimistic economic growth scenarios, many of them will still lack access to AC even in 2050. That means, many of these are sentenced to death because with many days beyond wet bulb temperatures, we exceed limits of adaptation

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The poorest 50% of EU citizens reduced their consumption based GHG emissions by 32% 1990 - 2015, the richest 10% by just 10%, while the emissions of the richest 1% INCREASED by 7% It is us. Our turn to change finally, and not the average citizen. @Oxfam

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Thank you, @BBC World News for trusting me to comment on the shocking news on the extremely extreme global September temperature that broke even the records of records. I hope this is sufficient to sound the alarm that we can no longer go on as business as usual.

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3 years

"Most climate scenarios rely on non-existing te hnologies on a planetary scale" Very important interview witb @KevinClimate

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Dear @UNFCCC , pls mske sure that at #COP29 we have searchable, accessible information on ALL side events also in pavillions. Enormous waste of resources to see that all the amazing wealth of events by hundreds of pavillions that remain underutilised without information. 1/2

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

9 months

According to the @imf (international monetary foundation), fossil fuel subsidies have never been so high as in 2022. Direct subsidies roughly doubled in a year. Instead of carbon taxing them, the world still subsidises the fuels whose burning already warmed our climate by 1.2C

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Internet use "account for 40% of 1.5C carbon budget, 55% of carrying capacity for mineral &metal resources. Rapid decarbonisation and reducing the use of fresh raw materials in devices (lifetime extension) is paramount"

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The environmental sustainability of digital content consumption

Nature Communications - The average Internet user spends over 40% of their waking hours online, yet the environmental footprint remains poorly understood. This study suggests that digital content...

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@GlobalEcoGuy This is not true. 4-5C scenarios (just by the end of century, let alone afterwards, are fully realistic in IPCC assessment report 6. Remember, climate will stabilise only when we reach net zero CO2, and that is still very remote

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Should this not be banned? The world is on fire; our relationship with nature is resulting in deadly and (economically) devastating pandemics; and we allow people to roast our children this intensively just for fun? Airlines start'flights to nowhere'

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

3 years

My former classmate just passed away from COVID19. He got one #AstraZeneca #vaccine 3 weeks before he fell ill with it. He was 55, healthy, and leaves 3 children and a wife behind, and an unhealable void in the fabric of Hungarian science. There are no words.

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

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Finally: @KevinClimate and amazing co-authors' paper on "Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?" is out!! will be open access from October when the whole volume is published.

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

4 years

No single approach alone is sufficient to reach climate goals. @rahmstorf @Peters_Glen @CarbonBubble &other key influencer climate scientists, can we please stop spreading this message that #behaviouralchange &indiv action r worthless? 1/3

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣

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The latest emissions data highlight that individual action alone is not sufficient to achieve climate mitigation goals. Large-scale shifts in energy production are required.

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What is the source of this shocking figure, @KevinClimate ? Anyone any suggestions on what policies might be best to target these top 10% towards the goal mentioned in ? Will b discussing with high level OECD ad EU policy influencers soon THANKS!

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Very surprising and brave to say the unpopular: the director of the US's leading energy technology Lab @BerkeleyLab {where I wrote my PhD dissertation) sees the need to question our growth paradigm, despite his faith in and life centered around technologies

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Julia Steinberger

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Prof. Steve Chu, Nobel Prize in physics, former US secretary of Energy, is a degrowther! Woot! "You have to design an economy based on no growth or even shrinking growth," he said, arguing "prosperity" could be maintained even if that approach was adopted.

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"By now there would usually be about 16.4m square kilometres of Antarctic sea ice. But this week, there was just 14.1m sq km. An area bigger than Mexico has failed to freeze."

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‘Something weird is going on’: search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows

Some scientists fear the ‘shocking’ shift is the beginning of a global heating-linked collapse of the ice that could have alarming knock-on effects

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

1 year

Climate communicators, teachers, lecturerers - check this out - a super new resource from the @IPCC_CH for communicating climate science in a very clear, simple and logical way. I love it!

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Climate Change in Data: The Physical Science Basis

A visual resource to understand the key findings of the IPCC Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report.

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

2 years

Is this really the best use of our beautiful land...? We showed in our latest paper (see my pinned tweet) that we could produce more than the total global power demand using only available roofs for PV. No need to waste our valuable, beautiful land!

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"Food systems are responsible for 80% of biodiversity loss, and 80% of all agricultural land is for livestock and its feed, while providing only 20% of calories."

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UN Environment Programme

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The science is clear & time is running out—we must go from harming our planet to healing it. We need to rethink the way we live and the way we consume. There is #OnlyOneEarth . We must take care of it. Facts & figures: #YearInReview

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Benefits of a book

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There is now more man-made stuff on the planet by weight than all living organisms, from plankton to whales, estimated to be 1.1tn tonnes. The weight of things as infrastructure phones & plastics will be 3x the biomass on earth by 2040.

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Deaths are also soaring. Over 20 deaths/mln/day. More and more young people, without preconditions. Why are we now worse than almost everyone else in the world? I really do not see what we have done soo wrong. We are vaccinating 2nd most in Europe.

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When shall we finally start seriously converting our building sector to #netzero #passivehouse levels? With a hi-efficiency bldg stock Europe would b significantly less exposed to the present Russia-Ukraine conflict. Not mentioning lower vulnerability to gas price volatilities.

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2 years

The right humility in architectural design. This school was planned AROUND these three beautiful chestnut trees in the middle of the plot rather than, as normal, into the center of the plot replacing the trees. In turn they now provide a lot of coolth and joy to the pupils

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Dear @XRebellionUK @JKSteinberger Pls help. I will be in national TV debate on XR's recent actions eg re paintings. Can you pls point me to threads or key arguments on why you find these justifiable or why they were actually not as damaging as the media portrayed them? @XRLondon

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I finally received my #COVID19 #vaccine . What a relief!! A colleague, 38, just passed away, leaving a 2-yr-old orphan. And he might also have been also just weeks/days away from his jab. How could we have allowed our economy addiction (falsely) take priority over lives?

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Why is more equality better? "amount spent on advertising as a % of GDP is higher in countries w greater inequality. The well-publicized lifestyles of the rich promote standards and ways of living that others seek to emulate, triggering cascades of luxury expenditures." @Nature

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

4 years

Airlines and oil giants are on the brink. This crisis is a chance to rebuild our economy for the good of humanity. Let’s bail out the living world, not its destroyers

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5 years

This resonates well with the a research priority we identified in our @nature paper last year led by @xuemeibai_aus . A quarter to half of our remaining carbon budget will be eaten up just to build cities by 2050. See my next tweet.

@TheEconomist

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Cement-making alone accounts for 6% of the world's carbon emissions. Steel accounts for another 8%

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

2 years

Finally got a real shower and looking forward to the first decent sleep in 16 days...! honored to have been able the chair the last huddle in the finishing line. thank you all for the amazing team work! cant believe there is life other than staring at the screen!

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Dr. Stephanie Roe

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The #IPCC #ClimateReport has just been approved!! 🙌 16 days, capped off with a final ~40hrs straight of line-by-line negotiation & approval. As one of the authors of the report, this moment culminates years of work. Congratulations to all the authors, Chairs and delegates 🎉

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Amazing! App 650 delegates, from over 130 countries, with over 120 observing organisations represented at the opening of the @IPCC_CH 58th session to approve the synthesis report. Many records broken by these numbers! The world's eye is on us. What a responsibility

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

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what about the arguments that high shares of #intermittent #renewable electricity are not possible for systems stability reasons? what if a whole country has been proving this wrong for the whole 1st half of 2023? 80% of Denmark's power came from RES, mostly from intermittent.

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Congratulations, Johan Rockstrom! @jrockstrom For being listed by @TimeMagazineRP Among the 100 most influential people of the world in 2023! Hopefully this signals that we understand globally how fast we are rushing towards our planetary boundaries

Johan Rockstrom: The 100 Most Influential People of 2023

Find out why Johan Rockstrom is on this year’s list

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

3 years

So here is the long awaited @NatureEnergyJnl paper released on "Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios" by @jasonhickel @JKSteinberger , myself and others! See thread for content!!

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Jason Hickel

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I'm excited to announce that we have a new article in Nature Energy today. This is an important piece, and we agonized over every sentence. It's behind a paywall, but you can get a free PDF here, and a short thread follows:

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Cannot believe this! I had to ask for a HEATER in #Dubai because 2 engineers & the maintenance together could not figure out a way to lower the #airconditioning in my room - whatever they do, it is always overcooled. So now we over-cool&then heat it to make it bearable! 👹🤬👿

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

2 years

Here is our newest paper in @natureClimate with further proof that demand-side mitigation not only halves GHG emissions by 2050, but also improves our well-being, health, quality of life. @efesce @LeilaNiamir @lamb_wf @LinusMattauch @ysaheb @JKSteinberger

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Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being

Nature Climate Change - Evaluation of mitigation actions often focuses on cost and overlooks the direct effects on well-being. This work shows demand-side measures have large mitigation potential...

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Felix Creutzig

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1/5 Demand-side solution can cut GHG emissions in half by 2050 - and improve quality of life. Main result of our new assessment paper in @NatureClimate

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4 years

Yes, we CAN reduce emissions! German domestic flying dropped 12% in a year, despite economic trends. Same trend in the UK, Sweden.

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Sir David Attenborough says the excesses of western countries should "be curbed" to restore the natural world and we'll all be happier for it. BBC News - Attenborough: 'Curb excess capitalism' to save nature

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4 years

which #populationgrowth ? The richest 0,1% (one-thousandth) emits almost as much CO2 as the poorest HALF of the world! Almost no matter how many people they grow by, emissions are much more determined by the consumption of the richest few % (us!! we!!)

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"We witnessed Earth's highest global daily average surface temperature ever measured, possibly the warmest temperature on Earth over the past 100,000 years"

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The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory

Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by e

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1 year

Amazing! App 650 delegates, from over 130 countries, with over 120 observing organisations represented at the opening of the @IPCC_CH 58th session to approve the synthesis report. Many records broken by these numbers! The world's eye is on us. What a responsibility

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5 years

OK comparison of travel option emisisons, but misses the key point: flying accelerates emissions by its very high emission intensity/time. U could never do 4 intercontinental car trips a year. "Flying is the fastest way to cook your children" @BBCNews

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3 years

"It is notable that the per capita C footprint of the richest 10% in the EU declined by a significantly smaller amount than that of the 'middle 40%' &the poorest 50% - while the richest 1% even increased their per capita footprint" EU needs more policies targeting the richest.

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4 years

The IEA forecasts that if conventional SUV purchases continue at the same pace, by 2040 they will have offset the emissions savings of close to 150 million electric cars.

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1 year

Another great night yrain experience: Budapest-Bucharest. There is even private shower, toilet! And stunning scenery (sorry, no photo of that, I was working). Wagons r many decades old, but well maintained -> sustainable!! Price fully competitive w flights!

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Diana Urge-Vorsatz

4 years

Our 20yr-old dishwasher's engine broke. A few years ago a #Bosch replacement engine was under €50, now over €350 so that everyone buys a new, with giant unnecessary embodied emissions &waste. How can we regulate companies to not disincentivise repair? #circulareconomy

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#cities are key to addressing the climate challenge

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🌆 Cities are responsible for around ¾ of the world’s emissions #IPCC 's @DianaUrge talks about three key strategies for cities to reduce emissions. 1️⃣ Reduce energy & material demand 2️⃣ Supply low-carbon solutions 3️⃣ Storing carbon in cities ➡️

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The pandemic could have been the decisive moment in the fight against climate change. Instead, some of the biggest fossil fuel-producing countries are injecting taxpayer money into propping up polluting industries.

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9 months

I cried out a few times for help from other climate scientists - then silence. Now i see @KHayhoe is also suffering from the same troll/bot attacks. Any other climate scientists...? What can we do? Blocking not an option due to their numbers...

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As a female climate scientist, blocking is the only thing that makes my engagement here on Twitter/X possible. Daily, I receive comments that range from disparaging to downright vile. Since Oct, my tweets can attract thousands of trolls (real people) and bots (not real). 🧵

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@ResistorVlad ...and will all of our infrastructure, food systems, national borders, coastlines, etc all play pretend with us.....?

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2 years

In the era of #HeatWaves , #droughts , keeping the little precipitation we get &turn it into soil moisture to help trees cool cities & to refill groundwater reservoirs, we need to minimise #concrete urban surfaces &replace them by those allowing for natural soils

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Solutions are in the hands of women 🙃😉😉 The figure 7 team, the figure on the solution space feom @IPCC_CH syr spm. Will post the fig soon, too

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@DianaUrge @schipper_lisa @minalpathak1 Proud #IPCC Figure SPM 7 team ;) Thanks @JimSkeaIPCC for capturing it!

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We are working together with the IPCC Secretariat on preparing the Cities Special report as well as the inclusivity, diversity and gender expert meeting. @IPCC_CH

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Honored to have been selected by EU Commissioner for #Innovation #Research #culture #education and #Youth @GabrielMariya as one of the #EUwomen4Future .

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She has worked on #research projects for @EU_Commission @Europarl_EN @theGEF @UNEP @WECouncil @OECDinnovation @WorldBank @DianaUrge is an #environmentalscience & policy professor at @ceu & @IPCC_CH Mitigation Working Group Vice Chair🌍 👉 #EUwomen4Future

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'There is lots of rhetoric. But physics [of the climate system] does not respond to rhetoric. It responds to action. It does not respond to eloquent speeches, accounting scams, or legal niceties.' #COP26

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2 years

@lukasjschreiber @GlobalEcoGuy But these values are just based on PROMISES, and implementation towards these promises is nowhere. We are just reopening tons of coal mines and power plans in Europe... Not sure what this optimism is based on

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" In Bangladesh, just two days of hot air in April this year destroyed 68,000 hectares of rice, affecting over 300,000 farmers with losses of US$39m"

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It is really impressive that more&more @IPCC_CH delegations are walking the talk and either joining remote meetings only online, or taking the train. For the 60th sessioj of IPCC, for instance the Belgian delegation took the train, even if it lasted 2.5 days! @JPvanYpersele

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The pandemic is affording us many opportunities to fast-forward sustainable transformations that would have been very hard in its absence. Rethinking aviation is surely one of those. "French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights (<2.5 hrs)"

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3 years

Climate crisis: 50 photos of extreme weather around the world – in pictures

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1 year

"Companies are making false claims and convincing customers they can fly guilt-free”

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1 year

Good morning, Switzerland! On my way to the @IPCC_CH #AR6SYR synthesis report approval plenary, by night train. Was another really restful experience, like on vacation!

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It is great to see young, brave, bold female icons who attack our inexcusable inertia &irresponsibility, without getting scared of the hatred and powers trying to denying or stopping them. I hope they replace commercially pushed consumption idols for many girls and inspire them.

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Gerald Kutney - 🌏🔥#ClimateBrawl🔥🌍

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New leaders are fighting climate change - such as @AOC and @GretaThunberg - their influence is attested by the hate-filled attacks of the alt-right and climate deniers - Challenge the attacks & give support 2 AOC & GT; use #climatebrawl for help - be Active, Civil & Factual

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Newly elected IPCC Vice-Chair Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, - IPCC - 27Jul2023 - Photo via @iisd_news

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3 years

I am delighted to share with you that our mnscr on "Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios", led by @jasonhickel has been accepted in @NatureEnergyJnl . I hope it will further broaden the spectrum of scenarios produced &considered by govts& @IPCC_CH assessments.

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Is there a nicer awakening? Why would one ever want to fly again? #flyless Too bad overnight #trains are still ridiculously rare and infrequent in Europe!

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@rahmstorf @TerliWetter And still, in 2020, we are giving the lion's share of stimulus money to fossil fuels,.much.of.it unconditional

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