Dominik Wiedenhofer

@dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social

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Sustainability, Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy, Climate Change Mitigation. Senior Scientist & Lecturer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Born at 344ppm.

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Dominik Wiedenhofer @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social · Feb 25

Understanding #Transformation pathways complying with climate targets requires model-based insights. Herein, we review studies modeling industry in low energy & material demand futures and find large mitigation potentials, but also crucial limitations of existing models. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Industry Transformations for High Service Provisioning with Lower Energy and Material Demand: A Review of Models and Scenarios | Annual Reviews

Developing transformative pathways for industry's compliance with international climate targets requires model-based insights into how supply- and demand-side measures affect industry, material c...

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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie M. Delmotte , and 22 more Joanna Bryson, Katharine Hayhoe, Valerie M. Delmotte, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Helmut Haberl, Klaus E. Meyer, Garry Peterson, Arthur Geßler, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, John Fasullo, Nancy Knowlton, Jonathan A. Foley, Steve Peers, Harvey J. Miller, Richard Waite, Éva E. Plagányi, Gernot Wagner, Sabine Pahl, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Randall A. Kramer, Andréas Nilsson, Leah Stokes, Georg Weizsäcker, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Sheila R. Foster

Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Reposted by Wolfgang Crämer, Dominik Wiedenhofer

Paul Lehmann @plehmann.bsky.social · 10d

"Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from drained peatlands account for about 7% of the total anthropogenic GHG emissions in the European Union (EU). [...] Four main emission hotspots emerge: the North Sea region, eastern Germany, the Baltics together with eastern Poland, and north Ireland."

Identifying hotspots of greenhouse gas emissions from drained peatlands in the European Union - Nature Communications

An EU-wide analysis shows that drained peatlands are major, underreported sources of greenhouse gases. By mapping emission hotspots, the study provides guidance for targeted rewetting and strengthens ...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Wolfgang Crämer, Dominik Wiedenhofer

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10d

New research: The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression

#climatecrisis
HT @carbonbrief.org
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression

This paper sets out a repertoire of repression operating to criminalise and repress recent climate and environmental protest globally. Deploying a novel mixed methods approach, involving a comparat...

www.tandfonline.com

Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 14d

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Dominik Wiedenhofer

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 18d

The Google Gemini3 LLM is remarkably excellent at reading weather observations from handwritten logbooks.

Example of recovering hourly pressure observations taken in Oxford in December 1883 and January 1884, compared to human-keyed data from relatively nearby sites.

Climate data rescue solved?

Example daily page from Oxford weather logbooks

Hourly pressure data from 3 sites - Oxford, Falmouth and Kew. Oxford transcribed with Gemini3, the others done by humans.

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 18d

In our Climate Report my coauthors and I say: We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. Consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. Read report here doi.org/10.1093/bios...

The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink

We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer

doi.org

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard J. Butler , and 8 more Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard J. Butler, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tommaso Jucker, Malte Jochum, Daniel Zuleta, Xavier Serra‐Maluquer, Benjamin Wildermuth, Olivier Jean Leonce Manzi, Julie Peacock

Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 21d

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tommaso Jucker

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 21d

“A downside to the use of metaphors is that it is easy to regard them as real aspects of nature. This occurs via a fallacy known as reification”

I’ve always liked this paper on the unacknowledged use of metaphors in ecology:

eg, niche, competition, tipping points, habitat
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

Heather Shearer @heather-sea55.bsky.social · 28d

🧪“…destabilizes ecosystem function because relatively few additional extinctions lead to accelerated losses of functional diversity, particularly in trophic groups that deliver important ecological services such as seed dispersal and insect predation.”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - Nature

Large-scale analyses of bird species traits reveal that land-use change reduces resilience of key ecological functions more than previously thought.

www.nature.com

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29d

Don't underestimate where China's science will be in a decade. However, for China to truly be a global leader, Chinese science needs to be less misogynistic and hierarchical, and early-career scientists need to be given the freedom to be creative and not work like robots.

Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership

The nation’s next generation of scientists and technologists will shape the coming decades.

go.nature.com

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

Dr. Matt Schabath (he/him/his) @mattschabathphd.bsky.social · Nov 21

🧪 🧪 Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last? -- Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last?

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

www.nature.com

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Dominik Wiedenhofer

Science Magazine @science.org · Nov 19

Devastating floods led to a 4.3% global reduction in annual rice yield from 1980 to 2015, new #ScienceAdvances research finds. https://scim.ag/4iiwfYd

Severe floods significantly reduce global rice yields

Rice-killing floods reduce global rice yield by 4.3%, with losses rising due to increasing extreme floods since 2000.

scim.ag

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Jussi T. Eronen

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 19

Read this interview with @peterthorne.bsky.social to understand how dire the situation is with respect to US science funding. The US has played an outsized role in Earth observations and global coordination, and even if other nations decide to step in, it would take at least a decade to recover.

Without US satellites, 'we go dark', climate monitor tells AFP

US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitori...

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Reposted by Esther Turnhout, Dominik Wiedenhofer, John Hogan , and 2 more Esther Turnhout, Dominik Wiedenhofer, John Hogan, Stefan C. Aykut, Prakash Kashwan

Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · Nov 19

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?

Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7

cup.org/4hZNlcX

Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions

cup.org

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

Dr. Melanie Bergmann @melaniebergma18.bsky.social · Nov 17

🐳 New study finds‼️7 kg‼️of #plastic items – chiefly polyethylene sheets- in a beaked whale in Rhodes, Mediterranean, which likely caused malnutrition, potentially contributing to the whale's death. PE sheets carried oil/tar increasing the risk for toxic effects.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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David N. Thomas @dnthomas01.bsky.social · Nov 17

Academia is plagued by not-fit-for-purpose metrics that are then used ranking individuals and institutions
Will we ever move away from these? - there is a lot of talk but not a great deal of action?
The comment ⬇️ is a refreshing look at the problem.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To reform universities, first tackle global rankings

Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working.

www.nature.com

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer, Dana R. Fisher

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Nov 16

$170,000 a minute: Why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action

The desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?

#COP30 #climatecrisis
Story by me
1/7
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action

Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Simon L. Lewis, Peter Thorne, Dominik Wiedenhofer , and 1 more Simon L. Lewis, Peter Thorne, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Stacy D. VanDeveer

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Nov 15

My fear is scientists will just sit by & be complicit. Saying you are for 1.5C or net zero is not ambition.

If rich country GHG or CO2 emissions are not dropping at >5% per year, they are not remotely consistent with 1.5C, nor net zero in a reasonable time frame.

Scientists need to point this out.

Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · Nov 15

Rich, historical polluter countries that had the highest legal responsibility to take climate action failed. And now some of these same countries are speaking about '1.5C ambition'. What a charade

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · Nov 13

Habe heute einem gut 70jährigen ehemaligen Spitzenpolitiker zugehört, der fordert: Die Leute müssen früher aufstehen und mehr arbeiten. Und im Alter länger im Job bleiben. Strengt euch an für mehr Wirtschaftswachstum!
Und ich kann diesen Zynismus nicht mehr hören. (Thread)

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jakob Zscheischler, Pieter A. Zuidema , and 7 more Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jakob Zscheischler, Pieter A. Zuidema, Paul Lehmann, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Guy Pe’er, Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Darío Martin‐Benito, Billur Bektaş, Benjamin Wildermuth

Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · Nov 13

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist

We are looking for 4 PhD Positions and one Scientific Programmer / Ecological Data Scientist to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology)

www.uni-regensburg.de

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · Nov 13

Eine kleine Idee tanzt über die Flure der #COP30, ob sie ein ausgewachsenes Vorhaben werden kann, muss sich noch zeigen: Eine Roadmap zum Ausstieg aus Fossilen Energien.
Hä? Ja, keine Sorge, zurücklehnen, ich erklär das.

Thread

Reposted by Helmut Haberl, Dominik Wiedenhofer

BOKU University @bokuvienna.bsky.social · Nov 13

Vier BOKU-Forschende zählen zu den weltweit meistzitierten Wissenschaftler*innen in der Analyse Highly Cited Researchers 2025 von Clarivate Analytics. Wir gratulieren @dominikwiedenhofer.bsky.social, @hehaberl.bsky.social, Karlheinz Erb & Erwin Schmid! short.boku.ac.at/p94g8p000000...

Reposted by Thomas Backhaus, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Stacy D. VanDeveer

Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · Nov 13

Deregulation - the dark path to poison in your lungs, excrement in your rivers, carcinogens in your food.

A growing movement in Brussels is spreading the message that asking business to follow rules leads to economic death. They're working hard to destroy EU environmental + chemical protections.

Reposted by Du Toit, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Victor Galaz , and 1 more Du Toit, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Victor Galaz, Dana R. Fisher

Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · Nov 12

The IEA has brought back the Current Policies Scenario (CPS) in the World Energy Outlook (WEO).

I think this will be useful. Fossil CO2 emissions keep rising, when they should be falling. It is time to admit that. So I hope the CPS can help address this issue.

www.iea.org/reports/worl...

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Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer

Johann Rathke @johannrathke.bsky.social · Nov 11

Es gibt viele Medien, Journalist*innen und Delegierte, die von der #UNFCCC #COP30 aus #Belém berichten. Soweit, so gut!

Um möglichst nah an den Verhandlungen zu sein, empfiehlt sich aber vor allem ein Medium: das Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org! ⬇️

UN Climate Change Conference - Belém, November 2025

Climate change negotiators meeting in Brazil for COP 30 will face intense pressure to agree on indicators to measure adaptation and a roadmap to quadruple the new collective quantified goal on climate...

enb.iisd.org

Reposted by Peter Thorne, James M. Bullock, Dominik Wiedenhofer , and 4 more Peter Thorne, James M. Bullock, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Brett Christophers, Rebecca Tushnet, Steve Carver, David Murakami Wood

Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Nov 10

Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.

We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.

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Benedikt Narodoslawsky @dernaro.bsky.social · Nov 10

Im Oktober vermeldete die Weltwetterorganisation (WMO), dass die Emissionen im Vorjahr schneller stiegen als je zuvor.

Im brasilianischen Belem beginnt heute die 30. Weltklimakonferenz.

Was bringen die Verhandlungen eigentlich?

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

30 Jahre Weltklimagipfel: Was bringen diese Verhandlungen überhaupt?

Am Montag startet der zweiwöchige Klimagipfel in Brasilien. Angesichts der rückläufigen Klimabemühungen dürften die Gespräche zäh werden. Doch für das Gastgeberland hat das Ergebnis viel Gewicht

www.derstandard.at

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Dominik Wiedenhofer

Bronwyn Hayward @bmhayward.bsky.social · Nov 10

Ahead of COP 30 I’ve been thinking about the irony that the critics of our 1.5 IPCC report are many of the people now saying it’s too late to act because we’ve going past 1.5 & we must focus on instead on technological fixes to address overshoot - here’s why I think these arguments are distractions