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Wolfgang Blau

@wblau.bsky.social
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Global Managing Partner Sustainable Business Practice, Brunswick Group / Advisor UNFCCC / Prior: Global COO Condé Nast / Guardian / Die Zeit www.linkedin.com/in/wolfgang-blau-6…

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 8h
The daily “Due to a signal failure” on the London tube is code for “we underinvest, we already charge high fares, and this country is edging on being broke, but let’s all continue to pretend Brexit has nothing to do with any of it. We apologise for the inconvenience.” Farage broke this country.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 22h
Strong quote today at The Economist’s inaugural conference on power grids: “We should be careful applauding gas power plants for their stability and reliability. They have the effect of exporting instability and an unreliable climate to the world’s most vulnerable regions.”
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 07/10/2026
20 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for speaking truth to power in Putin’s Russia. She exposed the brutality of war. She gave a voice to its victims. And she refused to be intimidated into silence. This cost her life. But her memory is carried by so many to this day.
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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 07/10/2026
We're proud to share this story from one of our favorite peers in nonprofit news, @grist.org. New fleets of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can ditch diesel without installing miles of overhead wires: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/10/07/b...
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Boston's Big Bet On Battery-Powered Trains - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A new fleet of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can ditch diesel without installing miles of overhead wires.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
maybe up to the point of their President shutting down the Strait of Hormuz? As the joke goes, no one has done more -and against his will - for Asia’s shift to renewables than Donald Trump has :-)
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For a while, we used to joke ‘don’t look up!’ when faced with blatant climate denial. Considering how insanely warm our oceans are becoming and how most of journalism ignores it, we may just as well add a ‘and don’t look down either!’
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Such a dereliction of duty to your country.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights Calling wood “renewable” doesn’t make the CO2 released when it’s burned disappear. If forests take decades or more to recover that carbon, how should we count those emissions? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
EU in action. www.reuters.com/world/uk/bri...
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Britain set to levy tariffs on Chinese electric cars, The Times reports
Britain is considering imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports amid concerns that ​Beijing is flooding the market with state-subsidised cars, the Times ‌newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ja. “Bodensee technologieoffen vertiefen.”
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Vermutlich empfiehlt die Bundesregierung auch für dieses Problem eine “pragmatische Lösung”, also einen Tankrabatt. www.br.de/nachrichten/...
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Bodensee-Pegelstand sinkt unter 2,50 Meter
Der Bodensee ist am Pegel Konstanz unter 2,50 Meter gefallen und könnte weiter sinken. Bundesumweltminister Schneider fordert angesichts der Trockenheit in diesem Jahr einen anderen Umgang mit Wasser.
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Electric Nick @electric-nick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Germany 🇩🇪, fully electric vehicles (BEVs) have now become the most popular choice among new-car buyers in Q3 2026, overtaking both PHEVs and HEVs individually and all pure combustion cars combined ⚡📈 Q3 2026 market shares: BEV: 32% Non-electrified: 28.8% HEV: 27.8% PHEV: 11.4%
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jochen Flasbarth leaving the German government to lead the European Climate Foundation is a big loss for Germany and its influence in UN climate negotiations - while it is a major win for the ECF.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So much of the coverage of the current diesel shortage and its effect on food prices completely ignores that there are market-ready, cost-saving alternatives to diesel trucks. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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China sets sights on heavy truck electrification in blow to diesel demand
China rolled out a push to electrify heavy trucks, a policy that is ‌likely to accelerate a shift away from diesel that is cutting into fuel demand even as it creates new opportunities for domestic tr...
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My question: even with the most decisive permitting reform, the need for good community engagement won’t subside. Too often, the first time a village hears about planned projects nearby is when surveyors show up on their fields. What do good community engagement and benefits look like? Thx, David!
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cynicism is obedience.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
or this one for the ‘climate pragmatist’ that doesn’t know the difference between 1.5 and 2.0C?
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
or how about this little chart for the ‘climate realists’:
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
next time someone suggests ‘climate realism’ or ‘climate pragmatism’: sure thing, how about being ‘realistic’? Wouldn’t that be nice, your ‘pragmatism’?
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Das stimmt nicht wirklich.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt... Das Problem: Marktmechanismen alleine würden kein Gaskraftwerk vor Erreichen seiner Amortisation abschalten. Unternehmerisch wäre dies unsinnig, volkswirtschaftlich - unter Einbeziehung der Klimafolgeschäden - aber nicht. Der Klimawandel ist ein Marktversagen.
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Nachhaltigkeit: Merz will Klimawandel mit Marktwirtschaft lösen
Der Bundeskanzler spricht häufiger von Risiken der jüngeren Generation durch ökologische Schäden. In einer Grundsatzrede hat er nun den Handlungsspielraum der Politik skizziert.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very good of the @financialtimes.com to raise this question that much of UK media doesn’t want to raise: would the EU really want us back? In the UK, “cake-ism”, or the idea of “membership à la carte” is far from over - and unrealistic. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Does the EU want Britain back?
Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I spoke with the New York times about the use of the word “climate” in the US public discourse. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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A Climate Change Rebrand
More politicians have stopped talking about the climate, but the green transition is still moving forward.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rule of thumb: when someone still argues for conventional nuclear, they are either working in that industry or get paid for making the case - against all financial logic and evidence.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I spoke with the New York times about the use of the word “climate” in the US public discourse. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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A Climate Change Rebrand
More politicians have stopped talking about the climate, but the green transition is still moving forward.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Germany’s AfD mourns the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline as an attack on ‘Germany’s energy sovereignty’ - with Russian gas. All you need to know about AfD.
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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 01/10/2026
France appears unstoppable when it comes to electrification: in September, electric cars already accounted for 42 per cent of new car sales. Since the start of the summer, this share has been rising by several percentage points every month. Is the oil price crisis one of the factors behind this?
The graph shows the market share of electric cars and PHEVs in the French market, with strong growth from June 2026 onwards in particular
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don’t you wish the climate debate was nearly as passionate as the AI debate? www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6s503...
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Ezra Klein on Instagram: "Can we leave A.I. safety to the existing laws and legal system, assuming criminal liability and reputational risk will keep companies from releasing anything unsafe? That’s t...
13K likes, 501 comments - ezraklein on September 30, 2026: "Can we leave A.I. safety to the existing laws and legal system, assuming criminal liability and reputational risk will keep companies from r...
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nationalmannschaft spielt schlecht? Tankrabatt! Pisa-Studie enttäuscht? Tankrabatt! Wohnungsnot? Tankrabatt! Easy!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good review of Tom Cruise’s new film ‘The Digger’. grist.org/culture/digg...
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‘Digger’ is the year’s big climate movie. This climate reporter hated it.
Tom Cruise’s latest film is a crude parable about an unrepentant oil executive.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is not ruling out a Labour general election pledge to rejoin the EU, Bloomberg reports.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“due to a signal failure” is code for “we have run out of money”. #tube
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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Germany could curb power price swings, reduce renewable subsidies with batteries – report Doubling Germany’s battery storage capacity could significantly reduce the number of hours with extremely high or low power prices on wholesale markets, finds simulation
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Germany could curb power price swings, reduce renewable subsidies with batteries – report | Clean Energy Wire
Doubling Germany’s battery storage capacity could significantly reduce the number of hours with extremely high or low power prices on wholesale markets and decrease renewables subsidies, according to a simulation by solar research institute Fraunhofer ISE. To achieve the price-dampening effect, storage systems needed to react to market signals, which currently is not the case for many home batteries.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great ad by @nationaltrust.org.uk in Liverpool for Labour Party Conference. (photo: @celiarichardson.bsky.social )
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Swiss and German climate journalism networks have set up this great series of briefings. Every Tuesday, 11.55 CET. Sign up here: tally.so/r/EkY0dL
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“sauber fliegen”
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was Spahn tut oder nicht tut, interessiert mich weit weniger als das, was Reiche tut – und für wen sie es tut. Der eine schwänzt Parlamentssitzungen, die andere verspielt Deutschlands Zukunft.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The MAGA US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle has blurted out how America interferes in European politics. At a private dinner in Athens in March 2026, Guilfoyle said of the collapse of the Romanian government: “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”, the WSJ reports.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This. A thousand times.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As the joke goes, no one has done more for the transition away from fossil fuels than Donald Trump. He didn't mean to. He's just that good. www.ft.com/content/4845... “Oil hits $109 after Saudi Arabia closes vital export pipeline”
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Oil hits $109 after Saudi Arabia closes vital export pipeline
Riyadh pulls out of regional talks to de-escalate hostilities over Strait of Hormuz in wake of drone attack last week
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“What is happening in the equatorial Pacific is jaw-dropping and could well mark one of the biggest global weather upheavals in a millennium,” said Prof Bill McGuire in the Guardian on Tuesday The hyper El Nino continues to obliterate records www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’: Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak
The ‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will heavily impact communities across the world
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wagons
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The noise level of the Northern Line is medieval. Crazy noise, people holding their ears in pain, daily ‘signal failures’, ancient waggons. The looks and sounds of a place hollowed out by Brexit and pretence. But, of course, we’d only re-join the EU to ‘lead’ it.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Electricity is 23% of global final energy but delivers 37% of useful energy and powers 46% of the global economy. We don't need to replace every fossil joule. We need to replace the services. A much smaller task. Great to see the @iea.org’s new Electrification report finally measure this.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I keep wondering what Andreas Malm, the author, thinks about all this.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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