Es handelt sich um Firmen wie das internationale Spionageunternehmen “Welund”. Welund wird OMV-intern als “targeted activism intelligence provider”, also als Spezialist für die Überwachung von Aktivist*innen angepriesen, der die Mitarbeiter*innen des Konzerns mit täglichen Informationen zu globalen aktivistischen Ereignissen versorgt und darüber hinaus auch nicht näher definierte “OMV-spezifische” Informationen zusammenstellt.

Auch Klimaministerin Leonore Gewessler fordert eine „umfangreiche und rasche Aufklärung“ seitens der OMV. „Die im Raum stehenden Vorwürfe sind weitreichend und müssen ernst genommen werden“, sagte die Ministerin in einer schriftlichen Stellungnahme. „Ich erwarte mir in dieser Hinsicht gerade von OMV-Vorstand Seele rasche und vollständige Aufklärung, statt sich mit Klagen gegen Medien zu beschäftigen.

It says the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN.

The majority of countries for which adequate data exist have seen rising inequality in income and wealth over the past several decades

Clearly, the economic contributions of biodiversity are highly significant as reflected in the many efforts to expose and capture economic values of biodiversity and ecosystem services

Wurde der US-Klimagipfel also zum "Gamechanger"? Die Zusage der USA bedeute beinahe eine Verdopplung des vorherigen Ziels, erklärt die Politikwissenschafterin Alina Brad von der Uni Wien. "Dazu gibt es auch ernst zu nehmende Anzeichen, wie das zwei Billionen Dollar schwere Infrastrukturpaket." Ähnlich fasst es Klimaökonom Karl Steininger zusammen: "Biden ist es ernst, seiner Partei auch." Die Rufe nach mehr Klimaschutz könnten global weitere Initiativen anstoßen, sagt der Ökonom, betont aber das Wort "könnten".

It’s big enough, and a hard enough target, that meeting it would likely occupy the attention of his entire Presidency.

To get a handle on how the president’s international climate commitments will need to jibe with his domestic policy agenda, we called Nathaniel Keohane, an economist, former Obama adviser and climate expert.

As designers, we are often burdened by the responsibility of producing and managing website content. It’s not our job to write it, but it’s not the client’s either. In many cases a vacuum emerges which ultimately gets filled with poor content. We can avert disaster by including content production in the design process.

You mock up content layout using wireframe models of key pages. You can go deep into this or keep it surface-level. There are dedicated apps like UXPin and Mockflow, but I find that Adobe Illustrator works well with the right wireframe UI kit.

Reclaim Finance and Urgewald, two non-profit environmental campaigning groups, analysed a sample of 29 leading asset managers between February and March this year, which together oversee $41tn (€34tn) in both passive and active investments globally, and found just a quarter of these were covered by coal exclusion policies.The failure to tackle coal investments was even more stark for the largest passive managers for which data was readily available: BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, Invesco, JPMorgan, UBS, Legal & General Investment Management, Amundi and DWS.

Much of India’s success in executing a tricky energy transition can be attributed to entrepreneurs such as Sumant Sinha. The 56-year-old is the chairman and managing director of ReNew Power Pvt Ltd., the country’s largest renewable energy developer.

The so-called “whole trees” clause was designed to protect forests, ensuring that only things such as branches and waste wood are burned in Europe’s biomass incinerators.  In December last year, in response to a draft of the European Commission’s sustainable taxonomy, Copa Cogeca insisted: “the economic utilization of ‘whole trees’ for the production of bioenergy proves to be necessary.”  A leaked version of the final text, released last week, shows that the “whole trees” clause has been dropped.  In the same document – obtained by Unearthed using EU transparency rules – the farming lobby also asked the Commission to remove a line that described biofuels as “transitional” — meaning that they would be viewed as playing a role in the move away from fossil fuels and towards fully renewable energy sources, but would not be seen as a long-term solution.

Liegt das auch an externen Faktoren? Ein Bericht des Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) hat nun untersucht, welche Rolle der Klimawandel bei diesem Konflikt spielt und welche Auswirkungen er auf die Friedensbemühungen der Uno in Mali hat.

New research shows that lake "stratification periods" – a seasonal separation of water into layers – will last longer in a warmer climate. These longer periods of stratification could have "far-reaching implications" for lake ecosystems, the paper says, and can drive toxic algal blooms, fish die-offs and increased methane emissions.

There was a “relentless” intensification of the climate crisis in 2020, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization.

Auf der Erde ist es 1,2 Grad wärmer als noch im vorindustriellen Zeitalter. Vor allem die Konzentration der Klimakiller Lachgas und Methan hat dramatisch zugenommen.

Katherine Tai, the United States trade representative, made a case on Thursday for using trade policies to fight climate change, devoting her first speech in her new position to addressing one of President Biden’s top priorities.

The Climate Council’s new report, released today, shows the immense cost of this inaction. It is now virtually certain Earth will pass the critical 1.5℃ temperature rise this century – most likely in the 2030s.

Given the circumstances, Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term “climate emergency” in its coverage of climate change

What we were doing, and what anthropology was doing, essentially, since the late 19th century, was sort of salvaging work, salvaging the cultures that were disappearing.

"Weltweit steigt mit dem Klimawandel das Risiko von extremen Regenfällen und Überschwemmungen", fasst Will Steffen von der australischen Nationaluniversität zusammen. Der Professor ist einer der führenden Klimatologen Australiens. "Die globale Durchschnittstemperatur ist bereits um etwa 1,1 Grad Celsius gestiegen. Für jeden Temperaturanstieg von einem Grad kann die Atmosphäre etwa sieben Prozent mehr Wasser aufnehmen", so Steffen

Affinity groups, as they’re often called within the study of social movements, have been a common feature of grassroots political organising in recent years. “We have seen this developing over time, in many contemporary movements – where people are valued for their expertise and what they can bring within the larger movement,” says Bart Cammaerts, a professor of politics and communication at the London School of Economics.

For XR itself, the model seems to have worked, if anything from a numerical standpoint. As academics Douglas McAdams and Ronnelle Paulsenfound in 1993, knowing someone who is involved in social movements is one of the strongest predictors of recruitment into that same movement.

The ocean contains unique biodiversity, provides valuable food resources and is a major sink for anthropogenic carbon. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an effective tool for restoring ocean biodiversity and ecosystem services1,2, but at present only 2.7% of the ocean is highly protected3. This low level of ocean protection is due largely to conflicts with fisheries and other extractive uses.

The rate at which the world’s forests are being destroyed increased sharply last year, with at least 42,000 sq km of tree cover lost in key tropical regions.According to data from the University of Maryland and the online monitoring platform Global Forest Watch, the loss was well above the average for the last 20 years, with 2020 the third worst year for forest destruction since 2002 when comparable monitoring began.

Currently, Pine Island Glacier together with its neighbouring Thwaites glacier are responsible for about 10% of the ongoing increase in global sea level.

Researchers have confirmed for the first time that Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica could cross tipping points, leading to a rapid and irreversible retreat which would have significant consequences for global sea level.

Despite important agricultural advancements to feed the world in the last 60 years, a Cornell-led study shows that global farming productivity is 21% lower than it could have been without climate change. This is the equivalent of losing about seven years of farm productivity increases since the 1960s.

In der 30-jährigen Geschichte der Klimapolitik gab es bislang zwei Phasen, in denen das Thema dominiert hat. Beide wurden von einer noch akuteren Krise jäh beendet.

Earth's ice imbalance

ice mass change between 1994 and 2017 part

Since 2012, the rate of ice loss from Antarctica has tripled when compared to the previous two decades, owing to widespread glacier speed-up (Mouginot et al., 2014) and thinning (Shepherd et al., 2019) in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Sea sectors in response to the circulation of warm water under the region's ice shelves (Jacobs et al., 2011).

Yet after the $1.9tn coronavirus relief package, deficit angst is back in some circles, and the upcoming infrastructure and climate bill could cost another $2tn. President Joe Biden proposed a raft of new tax increases during his campaign that will be fiercely opposed by Republicans and business groups. In this showdown, climate investments should be prioritised — even if they are deficit financed.

It’s the first time in the award’s 46-year history that retrofitting, the practice of upgrading buildings rather than knocking them down to start again, has triumphed. Lacaton & Vassal’s victory has shaken up the architectural profession and signals a remarkable shift in priorities among the world’s best city-makers. If embraced more widely, this could transform how buildings everywhere are regenerated.

The study, published in Nature Food, presents EDGAR-FOOD – the first database to break down emissions from each stage of the food chain for every year from 1990 to 2015. The database also unpacks emissions by sector, greenhouse gas and country. 

Or il y a forcément des gens qui vont s’opposer aux réformes nécessaires pour faire la transition écolo. Beaucoup de jeunes des mouvements climat, que j’admire, pensent que c’est une question de bon sens. Malheureusement non, c’est un combat dans lequel il y a un adversaire.

17,6% des espèces évaluées sont menacées en France, d’après la liste rouge élaborée par l’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN),

„Die Meinung einer Minderheit kann in der Öffentlichkeit als Mehrheit erscheinen, wenn ihre Anhänger nur selbstbewusst genug auftreten und ihre Meinung öffentlich mit Nachdruck vertreten.“

In this pivotal year for climate action, much will depend on the updated 2030 emissions-reduction target that the US sets for itself. To meet the challenge at hand, the new target will need to be even more ambitious than the 50% reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions (from 2005 levels) that is currently being floated in Washington.

Wien/Schwechat – Die Lufthansa-Tochter AUA legt Pressearbeit und Lobbying zusammen. Leiten wird diesen neuen Bereich namens "Corporate Communications, Public Affairs & Corporate Responsibility" ab April die bisherige Leiterin der ÖAMTC-Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Sophie Matkovits, wie die Fluggesellschaft am Mittwoch mitteilte.

More recently, from 2009 to 2014, Hastrup ran Waterworlds, a major European research project analysing social responses to climate change,[5] followed by fieldwork in Greenland, where she researched the effects of the modern world on a small community of hunters.[6]

Die Dokumentation erhielt die Auszeichnung als „Bester Wissenschaftsfilm“ beim Internationalen Green Screen Naturfilmfestival in Eckernförde 2020. Die Einschätzung der internationalen Jury des Green Screen Festivals in der Laudatio zum Film: „Er zeigt anhand anschaulicher Einzelschicksale und verstörender Bilder die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf Rentierhirten und die Natur Sibiriens, ohne den globalen Bezug aus den Augen zu verlieren." Außerdem gewann der Film 2020 beim „Jackson Wild Festival“ in der Kategorie „Best Changing Planet Film - Long Form“.

published Wednesday in Science Advance

Il s’agit en fait plu­tôt d’une inca­pa­ci­té de pen­ser vrai­ment avec cette pos­si­bi­li­té que quelque chose vienne enrayer la nor­ma­li­té des choses, la rou­tine de la crois­sance…

The purpose of this blog is to exegete and test the political theology of Bruno Latour, including his concept of ‘religion as a mode of existence’ as developed in his Inquiry into Modes of Existence and elsewhere. As well as his own texts, the blog will attempt to bring to bear interlocutors to Latour’s political theology, both acknowledged and unacknowledged, including Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Jan Assmann, Carl Schmitt, Rowan Williams and Michael Northcott.

For Latour, the ideology of neoliberalism has caused the operation of global capital to be elevated to the same order as that of inert matter: both are taken as fixed and obligatory realities that are entirely independent of the contingent behaviour of human beings in the world down-below.

best-available evidence—ie, in formal evidence synthesis.

The courses span a suite of synthesis methods, including systematic review and systematic mapping, stakeholder engagement in evidence synthesis, and evidence synthesis technology.

Because there is no time left for trial and error and since resources for organising a transformation into a carbon‐neutral world are inherently limited, decision‐making on climate solutions needs to be based on the best available evidence.

Evidence synthesis, which collates, appraises, and summarises results from individual studies across an evidence base and makes them available for policy advice, is particularly well organised in the health sciences; a key role is played here by the global knowledge network Cochrane, founded in 1993 and seated in London. T

The evolution of Holocene temperature reconstructed by the five methods are generally similar, although the amplitude of change is higher for CPS. The multi-method median reconstruction is very similar to the only other available multi-proxy, Holocene GMST reconstruction2 (Fig. 6). Our reconstruction, which is based on much more proxy data and multiple statistical methods, reinforces the mismatch between higher-than-pre-industrial GMST as represented by the proxy data versus the lower-than-pre-industrial GMST as simulated by climate models3. Understanding what caused this mismatch will undoubtedly be the focus of subsequent studies.

An extensive new multi-proxy database of paleo-temperature time series (Temperature 12k) enables a more robust analysis of global mean surface temperature (GMST) and associated uncertainties than was previously available. We applied five different statistical methods to reconstruct the GMST of the past 12,000 years (Holocene).

Ich halte es aus drei Gründen für praktisch sicher, dass es eine so rasche Erwärmung noch nicht gab:

Eine Forschergruppe von den Harvard und Oregon State Universitäten hat in Science die erste globale Temperaturrekonstruktion für die vergangenen 11,000 Jahre publiziert – das ganze Holozän. Die Ergebnisse besprechen wir hier in Teil 3 unserer kleinen Paläoklima-Serie.

Der bekannte Übergang vom relativ warmen Mittelalter in die „kleine Eiszeit“ erweist sich als Teil einer viel langfristigeren Abkühlung, die mit der rasanten Erwärmung im 20. Jahrhundert ein jähes Ende gefunden hat.

Mr. Biden also on Wednesday issued a sweeping presidential memorandum instructing agencies to make what the White House called “evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data.” Every agency, not just those that do scientific research, must appoint “scientific integrity” officials.

Die Arbeit von zwei US-Mikrobiologen könnte helfen, Antibiotika zu vermeiden. Denn sie haben entdeckt, wie Bakterien miteinander kommunizieren. Dafür erhalten sie den Paul-Ehrlich- und Ludwig-Darmstaedter-Preis.

But if the breakdown of our civilization was timed by the failure of world economy, it was certainly not caused by it. Its origins lay more than a hundred years back in that social and technological up- heaval from which the idea of a self-regulating market sprang in Western Europe. The end of this venture has come in our time ; it closes a distinct stage in the history of industrial civilization.

Hulme and colleagues set out to reveal patterns of attention and, in particular, patterns of framing6 with regards to how climate change is portrayed in these editorials, and how these patterns are related to wider political and scientific events. The authors identified frames by reading and discussing nearly 500 editorials on climate change (333 in Nature, 160 in Science) published in the two journals between 1966 and 2016, extracted using search terms such as ‘climate’, ‘greenhouse’, ‘carbon’, ‘warming’, ‘weather’, ‘atmosphere’ and ‘pollution’.