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Emily Theokritoff

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Postdoc in Climate Damage Attribution at the Grantham Institute of Imperial College London | IPCC AR7 Lead Author 🔹 Loss and damage 🔹 Climate change adaptation 🔹 Extreme weather event impact attribution

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International Science Council (ISC) @sciencecouncil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join the launch of the 10 new insights in climate science 2026-27 report launch on 6 October 2026. council.science/events/10-new-insig…
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Merci de donner à voir ces personnes, leur humanité, leurs parcours et conditions de vie, et ne plus invisibiliser les personnes qui décèdent du fait de la chaleur. www.lemonde.fr/planete/visu...
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Qui sont les morts de la canicule ? « Le Monde » raconte des vies derrière les chiffres
Selon les données publiées mercredi par Santé publique France, 8 124 personnes sont mortes à cause de la chaleur pendant les canicules entre fin mai et fin août. Personnes âgées, travailleurs... « Le ...
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Peter Pfleiderer @klimapeter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What is changing with extreme European summers? 🥵 We look at many simulated 100-year summers in western Europe to find out how current day extreme summers differ from similarly rare pre-industrial summers. @robinnoyelle.bsky.social and @sebastian-sippel.bsky.social doi.org/10.1029/2026...
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Heat Extremes Within Hot Summer Seasons Intensify More Than in Average Summers Under Global Warming
Rare heat summers today (with ≈ 100-year return period) show a different evolution of sub-seasonal temperatures than similarly rare summers in pre-industrial climate. Faster drying of soils in cu...
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Priestley Centre for Climate Futures @priestleycentre.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📢The latest Indicators of Global Climate Change report has been published today: doi.org/10.5194/essd... Created by over 70 leading international scientists, this annual update provides key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence. Read the thread to see key findings 👇 [1/9]
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Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence
Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. We track twelve key sets of indicators of the state of the climate system, clos...
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Constructing the causal chain: attribution science in polluter pays climate litigation The third guide in our series on climate litigation, alongside the @granthamlse.bsky.social, examines how evidence from attribution science is used in courts to seek compensation from greenhouse gas emitters 🧵
Front cover of paper on attribution science and climate litigation
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
How are impacts from extreme weather events linked to climate change? How much responsibility do large emitters such as companies or countries carry? How do scientists go about calculating these things & how is it then interpreted by lawyers in climate litigation cases? 🌪️ ⚖️
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New @unep.org practical guide on strengthening national responses to #LossandDamage 📚 🔗 unepccc.org/publications...
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The climate #litigation pico session and splinter meeting are back at #EGU26! ⚖️ We’re looking forward to another round of enriching, highly interdisciplinary talks and discussions. Based on this year’s impressive line-up of abstracts and speakers, it’s set to be a great one.
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Nature @nature.com · 16/03/2026
National meteorological services around the world face a dilemma go.nature.com/4727xqq
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Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events?
More-rigorous testing is required before artificial-intelligence approaches are widely adopted by public forecasting agencies.
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
📢 Come work with us: 3-year postdoc position based at the @granthamicl.bsky.social of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Research Associate in Heat Health Impact Attribution: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Climate Policy Journal @climate-policy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
🚨 NEW ISSUE: Issue 2 is out now, with the latest on #climateprojections & #adaptation planning, #lossanddamage, the UK #ClimateChange Committee, #carbonoffsetting in cities & much more 💡 ✒️ Insights from @etheokritoff.bsky.social @rachel-james.bsky.social @ailishcraig.bsky.social & more ⬇️
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Climate Policy, Volume 26, Issue 2 (2026)
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World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
NEW STUDY: Winter downpours are getting heavier in parts of Spain, Portugal and Morocco as the region recovers from a month of relentless storms. Between mid-January and mid-February nine named storms brought torrential rain hurricane force winds causing major damage and disruption. 1/5
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Annika Högner @hoegner.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Submissions for abstracts to EGU26 are open until next week. @imenke.bsky.social , @etheokritoff.bsky.social , Noah Walker-Crawford, @rosapietroiusti.bsky.social , and I are looking forward to your contributions to our climate science and litigation-themed outreach session.
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🔔 9 days left before the deadline, we are looking forward to your submissions!
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
#COP30: Imperial researchers react to ‘deeply disappointing’ climate talks In the aftermath of the agreement, Imperial experts Dr Nathan Johnson, Dr Robin Lamboll, Prof Joeri Rogelj, Dr Alaa Al Khourdajie, Dr Emily Theokritoff and Dr Caterina Brandmayr have weighed in 🧵 ow.ly/9CSZ50XwZzs
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Amid escalating climate disasters like #HurricaneMelissa, which was made four times more likely by climate change, finance for #LossAndDamage must be drastically scaled up, say climate experts. ▶️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/271133/...
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Vulnerable nations need more funding for spiralling climate damage, say experts | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Amid escalating climate impacts, finance for loss and damage must be drastically scaled up to protect communities on the frontline.
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
💡Already planning your abstract(s) for #EGU26? We look forward to receiving your submissions relevant to climate litigation!
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
The wettest 5-day period in each location between 19-29 October 2025, which is related to the passage of Melissa. The track of Hurricane Melissa at 12 hour intervals is shown as a series of pink points. Data from MSWX
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🎬 With #COP30 just days away, we’re delighted to share our new film, Inside COP: Science, Politics and the Fight for Loss & Damage. Told through the eyes of negotiators and scientists, it reveals the story behind the historic agreement to establish Loss and Damage Fund. 👇 youtu.be/IeA6ggnq6yk?...
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Inside COP: Science, Politics and the Fight for Loss and Damage
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
One of the most powerful Atlantic storms on record, Hurricane Melissa has killed dozens of people and inflicted billions of dollars in damage. Warming made the deadly hurricane four times more likely, a new analysis finds.
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Warming Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely
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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely: @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social study via @en.afp.com "Adaptation to climate change is vital but it is not a sufficient response to global warming. The emission of greenhouse gases also has to stop." www.barrons.com/news/climate...
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Climate Change Made Hurricane Melissa Four Times More Likely: Study
Hurricane Melissa, which struck Jamaica as one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, was made four times more likely because of human-caused climate change, a rapid analysis said Wednesday.
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This is how climate injustice unfolds. There is both an economic logic to cutting emissions now & a moral imperative to rapidly scale up international finance for loss and damage and adaptation in the most vulnerable countries.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
#HurricaneMelissa was made about four times more likely by the #climatecrisis It's real, it's us, and it's here www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/res...
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Hurricane Melissa
Published October 2025.
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Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 22/10/2025
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org! Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2 www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Map of US with purple and blue icons over central US indicating severe weather billion dollar disaster events in 2025 and one fire in LA.
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
⚠️Climate change was behind 36% of damage inflicted by Typhoon Ragasa in China, a rapid impact attribution study from Imperial College London estimates. The study also found that climate change boosted Typhoon Ragasa’s winds by 7% and rainfall by 12% at landfall🧵
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
@eea.europa.eu report finds that the costs of extreme weather events in Europe have more than doubled this decade, averaging €44.5 billion annually between 2020-2023. It also records over 240,000 fatalities from climate-related disasters between 1980-2023. More info ⬇️
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📈Climate change-driven summer heat led to an additional 16,500 deaths in 854 European cities, a new study led by the Grantham Institute and the @lshtm.bsky.social estimates 🧵 Watch Dr @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @gkonstantinoudis.bsky.social explain the findings.
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Yann Quilcaille @yannquilcaille.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors". www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho... For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack! @dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 25/08/2025
Valérie Masson-Delmotte : « La situation climatique va encore empirer, mais le danger vient aussi d’un déni collectif »
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte : « La situation climatique va encore empirer, mais le danger vient aussi d’un déni collectif »
Après un été marqué les incendies et la canicule, la climatologue, membre du Haut Conseil pour le climat, redoute un oubli rapide par la population, et regrette le manque de responsabilité du personnel politique.
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Climate Analytics @climateanalytics.org · 18/08/2025
Our Senior Scientist @fahadiii.bsky.social speaks to BBC News about how the fatal floods in Pakistan were made 15% more intense due to climate change. "If you consider that Pakistan's role in total emissions is less than 1%, it's a big case of climate injustice," he says @wwattribution.bsky.social
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Flash floods kill more than 300 in Pakistan
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🙌Imperial has more authors contributing to a crucial climate report than any other organisation in the world. Once finished, the IPCC Assessment Report 7 (AR7) report will help shape policies to tackle climate change throughout the 2030s 🧵 📰 ow.ly/BlYz50WIMpk
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Imperial researchers take leading role in major IPCC climate report | Imperial News | Imperial College London
Imperial has more authors contributing to a crucial report on climate change than any other organisation in the world.
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Robbie M. Parks @robbieparks.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
A small team of us at Columbia (Sen Pei, Qing Yao, and me) collaborated with @washingtonpost.com to create a data-driven story about Hurricane Helene flooding and lack of evacuation added to the severe impacts: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
⚖️Climate litigation is entering a new era 🌏 Thanks to attribution science, courts now have the tools to link climate impacts, such as floods, wildfires and extreme heat to major polluters — and assign legal responsibility. 🧵 📒 imperial.ac.uk/stories/polluters-on-trial
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
First analysis to estimate number of #heatwave deaths linked to #ClimateChange Analysis by LSHTM's Pierre Masselot & Malcolm Mistry with @granthamicl.bsky.social warns #ExtremeHeat can be 'silent killer' if not prepared for. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Heat kills, more than we think and we can see. Heat intensified by climate change kills even more. For the 1st time, we conducted a rapid impact attribution study looking at the additional deaths that occurred due to climate change across 12 cities in Europe, in close to real-time: shorturl.at/mv6ms
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...
bar chart showing deaths associate with extreme heat with and without climate change in 12 European cities
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
⚠️Climate change tripled death toll in 12 European cities during last week's heatwave rapid analysis by @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social & @lshtm.bsky.social estimates. 🌡️ The study also found that climate change increased heatwave temperatures up to 4°C across the cities 🧵
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Just found this map for #London Cool Spaces for summer 2025: apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/
London Cool Spaces Summer 2025
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Chloé Farand @chloefarand.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A team of scientists at @granthamicl.bsky.social is developing new methods to pinpoint how much of the impacts of extreme weather events on lives and societies can be attributed to climate change. The answer is laying bare the costs of climate action. Story 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/Stories/true...
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The true costs of climate disasters
Scientists have linked extreme weather to climate change. Now they can quantify its impact on the damage, writes Chloé Farand.
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Clair Barnes @clairbarnes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
New @wwattribution.bsky.social rapid analysis shows that the current heatwave probably wouldn't have qualified as a heatwave without a boost from all that fossil fuel pollution - www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
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Climate change turns warm summer days in England into health threat – World Weather Attribution
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Without our continued burning of fossil fuels, the current heat in London & most of the UK would not have been a heatwave: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan... Heatwaves are dangerous. Drink water, lots of it, stay cool, even if you feel invincible, you're probably not.
Two foxes in dry grass in early morning sun in London's Burgess Park
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World Weather Attribution @wwattribution.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A new initiative working to publish rapid damage attribution studies by our colleagues at the @granthamicl.bsky.social, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social 👇
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Emily Theokritoff @etheokritoff.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🗞️ Read this hot off-the-press feature by journalist @chloefarand.bsky.social to learn more about our ongoing climate damage tracking efforts at the @granthamicl.bsky.social of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social!
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Robin Lamboll @robinlamboll.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
In case anyone is confused by the different headlines on carbon budgets today, the Guardian's 2 years value is based on a 66% chance, the 3 years comes from a 50% chance.
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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
⚠️Global warming caused by humans is advancing at 0.27°C per decade – the highest rate since records began. This is one of the indicators updated every year by over 60 international scientists in the annual Indicators of Global Climate Change report – published today. doi.org/10.5194/essd... /1
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Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment @granthamicl.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Following @ipcc.bsky.social approval of the outlines for its three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment cycle, we hosted a day-long event to explore the Working Group outlines & research priorities to support the IPCC assessment: ow.ly/QUQA50W0Ijb Here's what we covered 🧵
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Exploring Research Priorities for the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report (invite only)
The IPCC has recently approved the outlines to its Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). These outlines must now be translated into robust and impactful assessments. Exploring Research Priorities for the I...
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Climate Policy Journal @climate-policy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
🔓 : Current #adaptation planning must be extensively evaluated against a wider set of future global #climate outcomes, incorporating risks of transgressing local limits to adaptation and #overshoot, find @etheokritoff.bsky.social‬ @carlschleussner.bsky.social @adellethomas.bsky.social et al. ⬇️
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Climate overshoot implications for local adaptation planning
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
⚡️ ⚖️ Precedent-setting #climatelitigation victory this morning in #SaulvsRWE 🙌 🎉 A victory for #climatejustice and corporate accountability 🧵🧑‍⚖️ A short thread to unpack the key legal principles reaffirmed by the judges of the Higher Court of Hamm 🇩🇪 ⬇️ 1/8
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