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  1. Feb 2024
    1. for - 2nd Trump term - 2nd Trump presidency - 2024 U.S. election - existential threat for climate crisis - Title:Trump 2.0: The climate cannot survive another Trump term - Author: Michael Mann - Date: Nov 5, 2023

      Summary - Michael Mann repeats a similiar warning he made before the 2020 U.S. elections. Now the urgency is even greater. - Trump's "Project 2025" fossil-fuel -friendly plan would be a victory for the fossil fuel industry. It would - defund renewable energy research and rollout - decimate the EPA, - encourage drilling and - defund the Loss and Damage Fund, so vital for bringing the rest of the world onboard for rapid decarbonization. - Whoever wins the next U.S. election will be leading the U.S. in the most critical period of the human history because our remaining carbon budget stands at 5 years and 172 days at the current rate we are burning fossil fuels. Most of this time window overlaps with the next term of the U.S. presidency. - While Mann points out that the Inflation Reduction Act only takes us to 40% rather than Paris Climate Agreement 60% less emissions by 2030, it is still a big step in the right direction. - Trump would most definitely take a giant step in the wrong direction. - So Trump could singlehandedly set human civilization on a course of irreversible global devastation.

    2. The GOP has threatened to weaponize a potential second Trump term

      for - 2nd Trump term - regressive climate policy

    3. other nations are wary of what a second Trump presidency could portend,

      for - 2nd Trump presidency - elimination of loss and damage fund - impact on global decarbonization effort

      • While we have seen renewed leadership on climate by the Biden administration,
      • other nations are wary of what a second Trump presidency could portend,
      • particularly on climate
        • where they fear he will refuse to honor our commitments to the rest of the world
      • and derail four years of progress on climate.
  2. Jan 2024
  3. Dec 2023
    1. Sweden they decided oh we need to have 100% carbon free electricity they decided on a design they built 10 nuclear power plants and 01:21:11 they went in a decade to carbon free energy well Germany's been working for decades and they're not anywhere near
      • for: example - nuclear decarbonization - Denmakr
  4. Oct 2023
  5. Sep 2023
    1. Europa droht in eine Abhängigkeit von China zu geraten, das im Augenblick bei Produkten und Rohstoffen, die für erneuerbare Energien gebraucht werden, mit großem Abstand der wichtigste Lieferant ist. Wie Reuters berichtet, hat die spanische EU-Präsidentschaft dazu ein Dokument vorbereitet, das bei der nächsten Sitzung des europäischen Rates diskutiert werden soll. https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2023/09/18/news/europa_dipendenza_batterie_cinesi-414906186/?ref=RHLF-BG-I414871700-P5-S2-T1

  6. Aug 2023
  7. Jul 2023
    1. Vom nächsten Jahr an müssen in der EU börsennotierte Unternehmen und Unternehmen ab einer bestimmten Größe ausgehend von Key Performance Indicators über ihren Dekarbonisierungspfad und die Nachhaltigkeit der eigenen Tätigkeit berichten. Die Kennzahlen haben Folgen für die Finanzierung der Unternehmen durch Kreditgeber. Interview mit der Beraterin Katharina Schönauer von der KPMG. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000177713/kpmg-beraterin-schoenauer-wir-hoffen-dass-durch-transparenz-ein-sog-entsteht

  8. Jun 2023
    1. Bericht zu dem Projekt nefi, bei dem es um die Dekarbonisierung der österreichischen Industrie geht. Sie ist schon deutlich vor 2050 möglich, wenn die entsprechenden Rahmenbedingungen geschaffen werden. Dabei geht Thomas Kienberger, der für diesen Artikel befragt wurde, davon aus dass Energie aus südlichen Ländern importiert werden muss, und dass CO<sub>2</sub> durch CCS gespeichert und dann auch außerhalb von Österreich gelagert werden muss. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000175530/schaffen-wir-die-klimaneutrale-industrie-bis-2040

    1. Jean Pisani-Ferry, früher eine der wichtigsten Wirtschaftsberater des französischen Präsidenten Macron, hat beziffert, was die Dekarbonisierung Frankreichs entsprechend den Regierungsvorgaben kosten würden Punkt danach sind pro Jahr zusätzliche 66 Milliarden Euro an privaten und öffentlichen Investitionen notwendig. Ob die Regierung, in der die Wirtschafsliberalen inzwischen noch stärker sind, auf die Vorsc.hläge Ferrys eingeht, ist noch unklar. Regierungsvertreter widersprechen vor allem dem Vorschlag einer neuen Vermögenssteuer deutlich. https://www.liberation.fr/politique/financement-de-la-transition-ecologique-lexecutif-fait-la-sourde-oseille-20230604_RA5ABPVWN5C6HEOPPBQF3YF6KA/

  9. May 2023
    1. Österreichische Institutionen und Firmen, darunter die voest, beteiligen sich an einem europäischen Forschungsprojekt für die Nutzung von Wasserstoff in der Industrie. Der Artikel im Standard enthält einige Grundinformationen zur dekarbonisierung der Industrie. Deutlich ist, dass für eine vollständig CO2 freie Stahlproduktion wesentlich mehr elektrische Energie benötigt wird, als in absehbarer Zeit zur Verfügung steht. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000129877/wie-wasserstoff-die-industrie-klimaneutral-machen-koennte

    1. Österreich hat damit begonnen, die dekarbonisierung der Industrie durch ein massives subventionsprogramm zu unterstützen Punkt davon profitieren wird unter anderem die voestalpine die vier Hochöfen durch Elektrolichtbogenöfen ersetzen will. Die Voest ist vor der OMV und der Wien Energie der größte Emittent Österreichs. https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000146544044/regierung-vergibt-ab-freitag-erste-millionen-fuer-klimafreundliche-industrie

  10. Apr 2023
  11. Feb 2023
    1. = Open Source Decarbonization - Professor = Joshua Pearce - presents the case that = open source hardware - can play a major role to rapidly decarbonize human civilization - This is because = open source hardware - innovation happens a lot more rapidly and the designs are scalable to the most marginalized people on the planet - = HardwareX - is a new journal dedicated to rapidly disseminating open hardware designs - A template is provided that if followed, essentially allows you to publish in the journal - All normal fees are waived to incentify the spread of Open Source Decarbonization hardware designs

    2. Abstract

      = ABSTRACT: - The world is facing a = climate emergency. - We must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and their export and, instead, develop renewable and efficient energy. - electrification of heating with : heat pumps - can radically reduce natural gas use, - electrical vehicles cut the need for oil, - energy efficiency and renewable energy can help meet the greater demand this electrification causes, - while cutting coal and natural gas use, carbon emissions and resultant climate destabilization.

    3. Open source decarbonization for a sustainable world

      = TITLE: = Open source decarbonization - for a sustainable world

  12. Dec 2022
    1. f you started in January 2022 the numbers in Brackets if you started January 2023 so look how much difference one year makes particularly under the 1.5 budget it's 00:25:55 just enormous you realize how rapidly each year we choose to fail how much that changes the following year and I think that's a really key message here that because we've left it so late every day of failure makes makes 00:26:09 tomorrow much much harder whichever way you look at this whether it's 1.5 or 2 degrees Centigrade whether it's Sweden the UK the US Australia Japan whatever this is profound 00:26:22 an immediate change in our system in so many respects in way above what governments are ever prepared to talk about and I say I don't particularly like these conclusions but that's what's what comes out of the arithmetic

      !- difference in annual emissions reduction required in just one year is enormous - comparing the actual, required emissions of a climate progressive country (Sweden) - emissions reduction just one year later (in brackets) is enormous

  13. Sep 2022
  14. Oct 2021
    1. When we practice active hope, when we look at what people are doing, and we share those stories with others and talk about what we can do together, then we realize that the boulder is already at the top of the hill and is rolling down in the right direction, and has millions of hands on it. It’s just not going fast enough.

      This statement is right on. It has now become a question about the RATE of system change we can achieve to avoid a degraded future. The faster we act, the less degraded it will become.

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    1. 10% per annum

      Anderson has contextualized the scale of such an impact in his other presentations but not here. A recent example is the temporary emission decreases due to covid 19. A 6.6% global decrease was determined from this study: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00090-3#:~:text=After%20rising%20steadily%20for%20decades,on%20daily%20fossil%20fuel%20emissions. with the US contributing 13% due to lockdown impacts on vehicular travel (both air and ground). After the pandemic ends, experts expect a strong rebound effect.

  16. Jun 2021
  17. Jan 2021