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@climateaction.bsky.social
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I'm interested in climate research, systemic change in our food system and the transition to a sustainable world. Focused on monetary policy and central banking in a previous life.

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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Another example: Greenpeace states (see picture). But 55 doesn't state an obligation? And then art. 56: "Nothing under this section shall be understood or interpreted as a derogation, modification or incorporation of new definitions regarding the protection of wooded ecosystems under a Party's law."
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"Global warming will soon exceed 1.5°C. This puts humanity in the danger zone where multiple climate tipping points pose catastrophic risks to billions of people." global-tipping-points.org
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Predicted extinction levels vs temperature rise and IPCC scenario’s.
Predicted extinction levels vs temperature rise and IPCC scenario’s.
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Another new AMOC study: "Overall, our findings provide critical perspectives on past, present, and future climate changes related to AMOC variations." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In the paper there is more information on which type of projects are generally more (or less) effective. See also this figure:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
Dutch PBL (which monitors progress towards climate targets set by law) concludes that under the new radical right government the probability of reaching the targets is less than 5%. www.pbl.nl/publicaties/...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 26/01/2024
State of nature in 70 Dutch nature areas : 65 of 70 in bad condition, mainly caused by nitrogen deposition, dry soils, poor water quality and (over)recreation. www.nu.nl/binnenland/6...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Evidence and attribution of the enhanced land carbon sink www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Global Tipping Points Report: "There is also palaeoclimate evidence for a collapse of WAIS and around 20m higher sea level (implying substantial Antarctic Ice Sheet loss) during ~2-3oC warmer periods of the Pliocene." The Netherlands during the Pliocene:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Amazing paper, very much worth reading (via @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social): "The cumulative potential of CO2 removal on land currently occupied by animal agriculture is comparable in order of magnitude to the past decade of global fossil fuel emissions." drive.google.com/file/d/1PXiJ... ·
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
From UN Emissions Gap Report 2023: Global historic and current emissions and population size
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Governments plan to produce double the fossil fuels in 2030 than the 1.5°C warming limit allows productiongap.org/wp-content/u...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
This graphs give better insight in the expected temperature trends in the different scenarios:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
7) And an overview of major electricity supply policies for selected regions and their combined impact:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
6) This graph provides an overview of global electricity demand and generation mix in the different scenario's:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
5) All of this will require significant amounts in clean energy investments:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
4) Also in developing economies, there is a large opportunity (and necessity!) to replace especially coal and natural gas use by solar power generation. See the needed change in this graph, which compares the NZS-solar with STEPS:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
3) The following picture provides a nice overview of current and future energy use per capita and energy intensity in different regions under different scenario's (STEPS = Stated Policy Scenario, based on latest policy settings; APS = Announced Pledges Scenario):
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
2) This table, in the same chapter, gives a nice overview of what sort of changes are needed in the NZS and what the impact is:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Very interesting graphics from the WEO 2023 🧵: 1) The energy savings from behavioral changes assumed in the "Net Zero Scenario" (NSZ) compared to a scenario based on what is pledged so far (the "Anounced Pledges Scenario's" (APS)) is enormous. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/26ca5...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Dit plaatje geeft een mooie samenvatting:
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Antarctica ice loss from 1997 to 2021: "Out of 162 ice shelves, 71 lost mass, 29 gained mass, and 62 did not change mass significantly." They found that almost all the ice shelves on the western side of Antarctica experienced ice loss. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Almost everyone in Europe is breathing toxic air - www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
The temperature in the Netherlands is rising almost twice as fast compared to the global average (2,3 degrees vs 1,2 degrees compared to pre-industrial period (1850-1900)).
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
But more extreme weather events will also play an important role, with drier summers and wetter winters.
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
The biggest risk seems to be sea level rise, which has been accelerating, and for which there is a large uncertainty, mainly due to sooner than expected instability of the Antarctic ice caps.
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Very interesting article about food waste (via @drsimevans.bsky.social). Around 1/3 of all food goes to waste during different steps of the production process. The majority of this food waste goes into landfills, generating vast amounts of primarily methane - www.carbonbrief.org/in-depth-qa-...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
“Coal remains a dominant energy source not only in baselines also in many mitigation scenarios (Fig. 2). For example, in the scenarios underlying the SR1.5, 34 % of all scenarios display rapid coal phase out, 3 % delayed phase out, 41 % coal persistence, and 22 % coal resurgence.”
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Two options for rapid decarbonization remain under sampled in the standard models: “A) strong growth in intermittent renewables, together with electrification of sectors; and B) widespread adoption of efficient end use technologies enabling high service provision at low levels of energy demand.”
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
A reason for hope: A study compared findings from recent innovation reports with standard models (used in IPCC scenario’s) and found that standard models are generally too conservative with respect to the adoption of granular technologies such as solar PV. 🧵- www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
It also suggests that for the EU to reach the goals outlined in the Green Deal and its Farm to Fork strategy, a radical change in energy use in the agricultural sector is required.
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Climate Action @climateaction.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
If you want to know how big an impact a change of diet can have on our transition to a sustainable planet? The good news: it is very significant! - www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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