Giulio Mattioli @giulio_mattioli Twitter profile

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Giulio Mattioli

8 months

Every time car fuel prices go up - whether for taxes or wars - everyone seems to know exactly who suffers the most. But which areas of Germany are most vulnerable to fuel price increases? THREAD on my contribution to the Agora Verkehrswende & DLR report on transport poverty

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

Can't be said enough

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Giulio Mattioli

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1 year

Maps showing Germany (or German-speaking countries) being exceptional in Europe: an ongoing THREAD 1. The lowest share of homeowners

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 months

Imagine climate protesters doing this. There'd be calls for introducing martial law. 😳

James Kanter

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2 months

Here is where #farmers storm the EU area at Maalbeek near EU HQ. "It looks like civil war" say EU officials as tractors overwhelm police. #FarmerProtest2024 #FarmersProtest2024

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Giulio Mattioli

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7 months

We are a nation of drinkers. But too often, drinkers feel under attack. That changes today with a long-term plan to phase out restrictions on drunk driving.

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

14 days

Occasional reminder that you should not present log-log graphs to a non-academic public without at least a brief explanation of what you've done there

Alec Stapp

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Occasional reminder that there are no low energy, rich countries

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

9 months

The German car debate is the equivalent of the US gun debate. Exhibit 1:

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

3 years

Leading EU daily Bild's homepage right now. Above: "OMG our cities are being flooded, that sucks" Below: "OMG the EU has new climate mitigation plans, that sucks"

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 months

Horrifying what these climate protesters do to our cities and to regular folks going about their lives! How can't they see this will turn society against their cause!? Oh wait sorry it's the farmers, forget what I said

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Brussel

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Giulio Mattioli

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3 years

This is just... wow. 70% of Italians believes that Germany has met its renewable energy targets - although it *hasn't*. 70-80% of both Italians and Germans believe that Italy has missed its renewable energy targets - although it *has*.

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

9 days

Brilliant. Italian TV satirical programme organises an all-female roundtable to discuss "SUVs and male impotence", in response to the (non-satirical) programme that featured an all-male panel to discuss abortion

Il Grande Flagello

@grande_flagello

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Geppi Cucciari crea un tavolo di sole donne per parlare di "suv e impotenza maschile" in risposta a quello tutto maschile sull'aborto #splendidacornice

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

4 months

What German term or phrase causes the most confusion among foreigners? I'll start:

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

4 months

If climate protesters had tried to do this, Germany would be talking about terrorism and preventive arrests. If a group of foreigners had tried to do this, Germany would be talking about large-scale deportations. But German farmers did this so...

Christian Odendahl

@COdendahl

4 months

German farmers trying to storm the ferry on which the vice chancellor, Robert Habeck, was returning from his holidays. Hard to overstate how Germany’s political discourse is going off the rails.

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

1 year

One of the strangest things of moving from country to country is finding people who think that things that are actually super-common are unique to their country

No Context Brits

@NoContextBrits

1 year

Only in Britain would a road look like this.

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

25 days

Are these the same farmers who protest against climate policy?

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

25 days

🔴 Unprecedented flooding and wettest 18 months on record mean crop yields will be significantly down, with risk of food shortages Find out more ⬇️

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

I made something

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

I am old enough to remember when pictures like this were 'alarmist' renderings and not actual photos

Desomag

@Desomag

2 years

The River Loire today, Loireauxence, Loire-Atlantique, France 🇫🇷

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

I am not saying this is peak Germany but... here you've got the Bavarian Transport Ministry celebrating the approval of a motorway widening to 6 lanes by posting a picture of 4 older white men in suits proudly holding... several folders of bureaucratic paperwork 😳😂

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Re: #DontLookUp - I am re-upping this

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Interesting-looking study finding that if people get rid of their cars (and it's *not* because they can't afford it), their happiness levels increase

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Giulio Mattioli

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1 year

German opinion polls be like:

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Giulio Mattioli

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6 months

Hello Germany we have a problem! "76% of the people of African descent said they had felt discriminated against in the last five years, up from 52% when the same question was asked in 2016"

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Giulio Mattioli

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1 year

The Swiss press is reporting about a (I assume non-peer-reviewed) study that claims to prove that cycling is more carbon-intensive than car driving 🤦‍♂️ Quick debunking THREAD time!

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

11 months

Bologna (Italy) is starting to transition to a situation where 70% of streets are limited to 30km/h

Bologna da luglio è la prima grande Città 30kmh d'Italia - Notizie - Ansa.it

'Obiettivo morti zero'. Le sanzioni scatteranno da gennaio (ANSA)

www.ansa.it

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

This is brilliant from German daily Zeit "Things you get tax rebates for in Germany: 🟪 driving a company car 🟦 driving a Diesel vehicle 🟩 driving an Electric Vehicle 🟨 driving a Hybrid vehicle 🟧 not driving "

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

1 year

Wow: 47% of all CO2 emissions from aviation ever were emitted after 2000

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Giulio Mattioli

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1 year

8. This I just found out about: the only country that has banned gay/lesbian conversion therapy 👏👏

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

8 months

Left: German Conservatives advocating for "cooperation between generations" with a picture of a lot of elderly people. Right: German Conservatives advocating for "mobility for all" with a picture where you can barely see anything else as cars.

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

11 months

This is brilliant 😆 "Inspiration for German Transport Policy" Copenhagen 2023 Paris 2023 London 2023 *Dortmund 1982*

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

4 months

One could write an entire PhD thesis at the intersection of urban planning, transport policy and social psychology based on this tweet only

David N Harvey

@DavidNHarvey

4 months

Hey @limebike , yet again a bike left blocking a pavement and a driveway. Sunnyhill Road SW16 2UG #Streatham #flytip @lambeth_council

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

4 months

Last Generation in Germany blocking crossroads with toy tractors and sign saying "We are allowed to do this because we have a tractor" 😆

FaggotsForFuture ✊🌈✊

@RealTadzioM

4 months

Die offizielle Reaktion der #LetzteGeneration auf die #Bauernproteste 😍

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Who's got the most cars per head in the EU? The answer might surprise you

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

4 months

Scary how many tweets can basically be summarised as: "I hate to see non-white people happy" 😐

Julian Reichelt

@jreichelt

4 months

Unsere Reporter am Berliner Alexanderplatz berichten: 99 Prozent Nicht-Deutsche, die dort feiern. #Deutschland2024 #Silvester #B3112 #NIUS

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

From today Milan (Italy) is banning 25% of the most polluting cars in the metropolitan area from driving within the municipality. It will be enforced with automatic number plate recognition cameras and vehicle tracking devices. Fines between 150-650€.

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Giulio Mattioli

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1 year

The German Liberal Party is now tweeting that E-Fuels are the "fastest way to reduce CO2 in the transport sector" This is *demonstrably false*, ask any expert in the field.

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

Of all the absurdities in the German motorway speed limit debate (and lord are there many), this is one to make your blood boil German Liberal MP claiming that a 130km/h limit would be like forcing people to live with 14C at home #TempolimitJetzt

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

10 months

Fascinating. The left-green government in Berlin was accused of "dividing society" with its transport policy (though I don't remember street protests?) The new Conservative+SPD government aimed to pacify things. But their transport policy is now leading to street protests

Ciarán Fahey

@ciar_nfahey

10 months

Demo on Schönhauser Allee this morn to protest the CDU-led city government’s decision to halt all cycling infrastructure projects lest they upset motorists. Traffic backed up for miles behind this. 🚲

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

Oh Italy where *Professors of economics* tweet *line graphs* with a *nominal variable* on the x-axis to demonstrate a *correlation* between the *absolute number* of voters of a party and the *absolute number* of recipients of minimum guaranteed income 🫣🤦‍♂️🫣🤦‍♂️

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Giulio Mattioli

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1 year

Your periodic reminder that the German Transport Ministry is stopping more than 600+ (!) municipalities from introducing 30km/h as standard speed limit. In many other countries, the national government does not have such a veto power & for good reason

Verkehrsminister Volker Wissing lehnt flächendeckendes Tempo 30 für Städte ab

Viele Städte und Gemeinden fordern zum Schutz der Anwohner mehr Tempo-30-Zonen. Wissing sagt jetzt: Es zählen aber nicht nur ihre Interessen.

www.berliner-zeitung.de

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Believe it or not, there's a controversy in Berlin because pedestrianising a central street will cost 200,000 Euro. As a reference that's about as much as a *single meter* of the a100 motorway that is currently being built in Berlin.

Umstrittenes Modellprojekt in Berlin-Mitte: Autofreie Friedrichstraße kostet dieses Jahr mehr als...

Mindestens 213.000 Euro kostet das Modellprojekt zur autofreien Friedrichsstraße 2022. Kritiker werfen einen verantwortungslosen Umgang mit dem Geld vor.

www.tagesspiegel.de

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

Anyone who thinks that that's what you do with 43C has never experienced 43C. And I say that as someone who's never experienced anything beyond 39C.

Climate Dad

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2 years

Don’t Look Up!

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3 years

In a world with a #ClimateEmergency , where only 2%-4% of global population fly in a given year, and 1% emit 50% of aviation CO2, the media needs to call this out for the absurdity that it is. Rather than repeat it as some sort of prescient vision.

CBS News

@CBSNews

3 years

Richard Branson says he and Virgin Galactic are opening space for everyone: “Imagine a world where people of all ages, all backgrounds from anywhere, of any gender, or any ethnicity have equal access to space. And they will in turn , I think inspire us back here on Earth."

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Giulio Mattioli

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Paris (left): "We will remove 72% of on-street parking spaces to create room for cyclists" Berlin (right): "We will not build bike lanes if that means taking away even a single on-street parking space"

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Giulio Mattioli

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3 years

Germany is discussing possible bans & taxes on (short) flights & so conservative daily Welt is claiming that "for the poor, the costs of climate change mitigation are more threatening than climate change". Which means it's *debunking thread time again*

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6 months

1️⃣ German politicians demand harsh new measures vs. "migrants" or "foreigners" 2️⃣ Me, a foreign migrant: "I complain. This is threatening" 3️⃣ Reply guys: "Why are you misrepresenting this, why do you hate Germany, can't you see they mean ARABS!?" 4️⃣ 🤯

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4 years

You know when someone accepts man-made climate change, but then explains why we should do nothing about it? We call these "Discourses of #ClimateDelay " & there are 12 of them. We've written a paper about it THREAD with examples from the transport sector

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Giulio Mattioli

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1 year

Poster by German Conservatives saying "For a cooperation between generations" Find the mistake🤦‍♂️😆😂😂

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

Seriously madenning Bild article on how cargo bikes take too much space in cities where the infrastructure is not fit for them... ...illustrated by a picture where most of the carriage AND footpath space is taken up by cars 🤦‍♂️

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Giulio Mattioli

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3 years

How the price of public transport monthly cards (green line) and single tickets (light blue) changed in Germany since 2004, as compared parking fees (dark blue) #sozialeVerkehrswende

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Giulio Mattioli

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1 year

We've just gone from "pictures of rivers in Northern Italy without water" to "pictures of rivers in Northern Italy with too much water" and yes, that sound you hear is climate deniers going "See? There is no climate change. Average precipitation levels are stable!"

Local Team

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Crolla il Ponte della Motta nel bolognese: le immagini dal drone #pontedellamotta #emiliaromagna #alluvione #localteam

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5. The only country in Europe (perhaps in the world) with no generalised motorway speed limit

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2 years

"OMG fossil-fuel induced climate change makes it harder to transport the fossil fuels that we burn!" 😱

Telegraph World News

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2 years

🇩🇪The Rhine is close to running dry in a German energy nightmare. Rhine water levels at Kaub will soon make it impassable for barges carrying coal and gas imports #Thread 👇

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1 year

Great to see that the cooperation between German Liberals and Italian far-righters is finally mentioned explicitly

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7. The lowest *median* (careful, not mean!) household *wealth* (careful, not income!). Why? Because of low home ownership (see 1)

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Giulio Mattioli

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6 months

The astonishingly rapid rightward & xenophobic lurch of the German political debate over the last few weeks A THREAD to which I am afraid I will keep adding 1) 20.10.23

Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

7 months

The saddest thing about this is that we know how this ends for German social democrats

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Motorists when pedestrians sit on a car lane: "They should be beaten up and arrested, they're lucky we don't run them over" Motorists when parked cars occupy the entire footpath:

butnaru

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@giulio_mattioli are you so wide you cannot walk past by that car? then again, it's so funny commies like you always have something to say along the line of "there are not enough restrictions in the Western countries", but fail to say anything against other places. balls not big enough?

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 years

@Anno0770 If you take it literally, yes

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Giulio Mattioli

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3 years

For my fellow transport tweeps. 🤪

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3 months

This is one of those fascinating counterintuitive associations: the colder it is, the more people walk & cycle

Xavi Ruiz

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3 months

What % of European adults walk or cycle at least 30 minutes per day? 🇳🇱 With 44.0% of Dutch adults walking or cycling at least 30 minutes every day, it has by far the highest percentage of any country in Europe.

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 months

The scenes that we don't see when farmers do their thing

Tim Wechselmann-Cassim

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2 months

This is how the 🇩🇪 @polizeiberlin reacts to 15 year old kids drawing “HELP” onto the office of @Bundeskanzler Scholz as they know that his policies are irreversibly destroying their prospects for a liveable future @amnesty @ForstMichel #LetzteGeneration

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There are 55 countries in the world whose *total annual fossil CO2 emissions* are *less* than those caused *just* by the lack of generalised speed limit on German motorways (1.9Mt), including: 🇲🇱 Mali (20 million inhabitants) 🇲🇼 Malawi (16m) 🇸🇴 Somalia (15m) 🇷🇼 Rwanda (12m) ..

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For the #ClimateCrisis , we need to reduce car ownership & use. And yet it’s so hard to do. Why? We believe it has to do with the political economy of car dependence Thread on my new @liliproj paper with @JKSteinberger @bikeademic & Andrew Brown

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Giulio Mattioli

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Interesting exchange. It is illegal for children to cycle on the pavement (sidewalk) in the UK. But if they ride on the street, it's stigmatized as irresponsible parenting. So basically children cannot cycle anywhere.

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How the best-selling newspaper in Germany (and Europe) reports when farmer protests result in injuries to people (left) vs. how it reports when climate protests result in damage to things (right)

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2 years

So basically the "car dream" is based on storing them on public space for free? And without it, it crumbles?

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9 months

This is why climate denial made so much damage. We wasted those precious years debating whether it was really happening when it was already clear that it was

Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD

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9 months

Man… if we had started reducing emissions in the early 2000s we could have feasibly punted our Net Zero target to the next Century (to remain within 1.5°C of warming).

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4. Among the few places in Europe where Google Street View is resisted (the other one is Belarus)

Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600

1 year

The world map according to Google Street View in 2023. Germans are still super reluctant to open up to Street View. Not sure how much that ends up protecting their privacy and how much it points to Germany falling behind in technology. Source:

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3 years

Likely next German Chancellor Laschet claims that introducing a generalised motorway speed limit (still not a thing in Germany!) would be "symbolic policy" as there is no proof that it would reduce emissions. This is post-truth politics.

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2 years

Banning super-short haul flights is getting a lot of attention as a way to reduce aviation emissions. But how effective it would be in reducing emissions? In our new paper with Frédéric Dobruszkes & Laurette Mathieu we find: *very little*. (THREAD)

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1 year

You know that tower covered in trees that is used on the cover of every report on sustainability nowadays? Here's a picture giving you the broader context in #Milano

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2. Among the very few places in Europe where men attend university more than women (but careful! It might actually be due to their exceptional, two-track higher education system)

François Valentin

@Valen10Francois

1 year

Another stark case of a "phantom border" in Germany on higher education and women. Also an indirect way to see that men are academically being outperformed basically all across Europe. Can only recommend @RichardvReeves 's excellent "Of Boys and Men" on this.

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"Burning fossil fuels gives us climate disasters, but also increased GDP & technology to protect ourselves from them so we're actually better off", oil on canvas, 2021

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2 years

Conservative Germany having a normal one about the EU fossil fuel vehicle phase out these days 🙄🤷‍♂️

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Farmers in Germany have announced plans to block all motorway exits in an entire region for 3 hours on 8th January. Something tells me that won't cause even a tenth of the outrage of 3 pink-haired students blocking a crossroad for 30 minutes

Protest: Bauern wollen Autobahnen in MV lahmlegen

www.sueddeutsche.de

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2 years

Europe's leading newspaper Bild here with the worst possible take on the energy & climate crisis 🤦‍♂️

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9. Some of the highest trust in parliament (no "Spaltung der Gesellschaft" here!)

Anders Sundell

@sundellviz

3 years

EU citizens' answers to a question of whether they trust their country's parliament to "do the right thing". Highest in Finland, lowest in Bulgaria. Sweden the only country where average trust in parliament is higher than trust in other people.

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2 years

@bmetz131 How many years are you expecting to live mate!? 😲

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6 months

If the Mafia killed people in Germany tomorrow and Steinmeier asked people of Italian origin to clearly distance themselves from it, I would find that deeply offensive

DW News

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6 months

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on people of Arab origin in Germany to clearly distance themselves from antisemitism and the militant group Hamas that runs the Gaza Strip.

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Giulio Mattioli

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German city is banning e-scooters because they can be parked improperly, hindering other road users & inducing crashes. Imagine if we applied the same standards to cars...

WDR Aktuelle Stunde

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Als erste Stadt in Deutschland verbietet Gelsenkirchen E-Scooter wieder. Es sei schon jemand zu Tode gekommen, sagt Thomas Nowaczyk von der @polizei_nrw_ge .

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Giulio Mattioli

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3 years

It's not just *academic* articles... 🤪

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Giulio Mattioli

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2 months

This deadly crash is causing so much outrage because it happened: - in a city that is rolling back bike lane projects & turning some 30km/h streets back to 50km/h - in a country that is not allowing cities to introduce generalised 30km/h & vetoes EU driving licence test reform

Berlin news in English

@20PercentBerlin

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83-year-old driver Saturday tried to circumvent traffic jam on Leipziger Straße by the Mall of Berlin by illegally moving onto the bike path. He struck a mother and her 4-year-old crossing the street, killing both. The driver then collided with another car. From @morgenpost

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Everyday on Twitter, the fight is on 🤪😬

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@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Overcrowded trains in Germany are now being reported as a direct effect of the discount public transport ticket #9EuroTicket . Curious as to whether road congestion is also going to be reported as a direct effect of the fuel tax cut #Tankrabatt

Arndt Breitfeld

@ArndtBreitfeld

2 years

Chaos am Hauptbahnhof Berlin: #regio nach #Rostock steht wegen Überfüllung, manche müssen aussteigen. Verspätung: bisher 40 min. @rbbabendschau @rbb24 #9EuroTicket

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

3 years

German Conservative leader, last week: "we cannot introduce a 130km/h motorway speed limit, that's too polarizing and it would just cut CO2 by 2Mt per year!" German Conservative leader this week: "our towns are flooded, we need to speed up climate action!" #Hochwasser

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

7 months

Remember that German party that held the entire EU hostage vetoing the internal combustion engine phaseout at the very last minute, for weeks? They got just 3% of votes in Bavaria yesterday...

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@giulio_mattioli

1 year

3. Among the few places in Europe where school grades are *in reverse* (lower value=better) (but careful! This is not the case in every grade or subject, which only makes the confusion worse of course)

Al Buhashee  ✘

@buhashee

1 year

Can we agree that it’s different all over the continent?

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@giulio_mattioli

1 year

6. Smart metering deployment

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@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Italy just went from drought season to flashflood season but it's always "let's not mention climate change" season

Local Team

@localteamit

2 years

Alluvione nelle Marche, le immagini aeree dal drone in volo su Pianello di Ostra: le auto trascinate via #maltempo #alluvione #localteam

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@giulio_mattioli

2 years

To meet climate targets, we need to tax air travel more. But some argue that this would be unfair towards the poor. Others argue that a 'frequent flyer levy' would avoid that. @mmbuchs & I looked into it in our new paper (THREAD)

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

4 years

I often complain about being on the receiving end of annoying narratives about Italy. But let's spare a thought for the Germans, who see their country depicted as a cunning evil mastermind, almost regardless of what it does

Holger Hestermeyer

@hhesterm

4 years

Just when I wrote about established narratives there’s another one here. So a short thread.

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@giulio_mattioli

1 year

Very interesting what's happening in Berlin: - German road law already allows bikes to park on "car" parking spaces (although in practice no one knows it / does it) - the Berlin municipality reiterates that this is the case and... (thread)

Berlin: Fahrräder auf Autoparkplätzen?

Ab 1. Januar müssen Autofahrer in Berlin mehr für Stellplätze bezahlen. Fahrräder dagegen können dort auch parken – und zwar kostenlos.

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

In unrelated news, the Italian government is preparing to lobby against the EU fossil fuel vehicle ban in 2035

Giulio Betti

@Giulio_Firenze

2 years

After the highest temperature ever observed in May, Florence (Italy) just broke its temperature record for June. 40 °C (39 °C in 2019). Current observed temperature may increase further in the next 2-3 hours.

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@giulio_mattioli

8 months

Cyclists protest in Milan as they keep dying in collisions with trucks

Local Team

@localteamit

8 months

Milano, la protesta in bici dei ciclisti nel luogo dell'ennesimo incidente mortale in cui è morta una 28enne in bicicletta travolta da un tir. Poi un corteo spontaneo verso Palazzo Marino, sede del Comune

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@giulio_mattioli

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Best-selling German newspaper Bild is worried about the heat drying up Germany's rivers, and wonders whether it will be the hottest summer since 1881. But it cannot bring itself to write the words "climate change"

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@giulio_mattioli

1 year

Berlin: "The Friedrichstraße is too central, too iconic, too much of a commercial street to be pedestrianised, it just doesn't feel the same without cars. They should do it somewhere else" Meanwhile, Paris:

Emmanuel

@EmmanuelSPV

1 year

Les Champs-Élysées piétons aujourd’hui, comme chaque premier dimanche du mois.

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@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Left: how Bild talks about electric vehicles, based on a single, non-peer reviewed study by an economist in Kiel Right: how the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change talks about EVs, based on a review of the peer-reviewed literature

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

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The fascinating thing about these debates is that, from a global perspective, Europe is not dirt poor, does not have particularly dense cities, particularly sustainable transport or low emissions. But seen from the US, it becomes all these things. Which says a lot about the US.

Flo Crivello

@Altimor

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Americans severely underestimate how dirt poor most Europeans are. They go spend their American wages there and are amazed at the “quality of life,” not realizing that they’re taking the equivalent of a trip to Disneyland, and everyone around them is the staff.

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@giulio_mattioli

2 years

1 thing I find good, 1 thing I find interesting and 1 thing I find dangerous about the #banprivatejets debate (THREAD)

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

2 years

Just watched #DontLookUp and it's brilliant but the thing that is *really* close to the bone is the role of the tech billionaire

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

8 months

“What we have learned is that it’s not enough just to incentivise electric vehicle purchase and ownership. You also have to disincentivise the purchase of conventional cars at the same time.”

Europe hits roadblocks in the race to switch to electric cars

Despite progress towards a 2045 zero-emission goal, the high price of EVs has created a headache for governments

www.theguardian.com

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Giulio Mattioli

@giulio_mattioli

3 years

If you know Germany you know that it's pretty common, almost 'common sense', to claim that Germany is doing better than other countries re: climate & environment. Journalist here calls it an "undisputed climate leader" But how much truth there is to it? THREAD with figures

Luisa Neubauer

@Luisamneubauer

3 years

Niemand schlägt ernsthaft vor Deutschland solle ~alleine~ die Welt retten. Es geht schlicht darum, dass alle ihren Teil dazu beitragen. Und wer weiterhin so tut, als sei das zu viel verlangt, versteht das Pariser Abkommen nicht - oder will mehr Klimakrise. #IPCC

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