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Stefan Reis
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Scientist, photographer, traveller, nerd, environment, sustainability, compassion, ...

Environmental science 50%
Geography 15%

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#IGEPAS met again on 9 Dec to build on Cardiff outcomes and align next steps for #EPAs policy communication, drawing on CASRI evidence and agencies expertise.

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IG EPAS follow-up meeting consolidates Cardiff outcomes and sharpens next steps for EPA engagement in FP10
IG EPAS follow-up meeting consolidates Cardiff outcomes and sharpens next steps for EPA engagement in FP10 On 9 December, the EPA Network Interest Group on Sustainability Research and Solutions (IG EP...
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Australia’s shellfish reefs were once abundant but are now critically endangered.

The Reef Builder programme is restoring these ecosystems to improve water quality & provide habitat for marine species.

Read more about this #GenerationRestoration effort: www.decadeonrestoration.org/shellfish-re...
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...

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📣 New #CASRI partners publication out: an overview of Science-Policy-Practice Interface across 14 European countries.

💡 If Europe wants transformative sustainability outcomes, #SPPI needs stronger structures, capacities and coordination.

🔎 open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-3...
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Environmental cooperation is the best insurance against a 🌎 in crisis.

Ahead of tomorrow's Multilateral Environmental Agreements Day at #UNEA7, see how global agreements have shaped action on climate, nature, and pollution, & how multilateralism is key to building resilience: https://bit.ly/4atbzdS

It has been a privilege to be able to contribute to the @unep.org www.unep.org/resources/gl..., together with experts from around the world. We need a whole society approach if we are to stand a chance to solve the profound, interconnected crises we face. @complexenvironmentalhealth.org
Global Environment Outlook 7
The Global Environment Outlook, Seventh Edition: A Future We Choose, the product of 287 multi-disciplinary scientists from 82 countries, is the most comprehensive scientific assessment of the global e...
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As geopolitical challenges and tensions escalate globally, one thing is clear: fragmented politics will not fix a fractured planet.

And why the UN Environment Assembly is essential to a safer, more resilient planet.

I explain more in my #UNEA7 op-ed: www.unep.org/news-and-sto... @unep.org

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#UNEA7 is underway, with negotiations, side events, exhibitions and meetings happening here in Nairobi.

See the atmosphere on the ground and follow key moments through our photo gallery, updated throughout the week: https://www.flickr.com/photos/unep/

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🚀CASRI’s #SRIA co-design is moving ahead!

24 participants from 11 countries - EPAs, EPA-like bodies, programme managers and funders - met to refine #R&I questions for 10 key sustainability topics.

🗓️Next: the Paris workshop (29-30 Jan 2026) for topic-funding matching.

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CASRI Online Workshop: Advancing the Co-Design of the SRIA
The development of CASRI’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) moved forward with an online workshop dedicated to co-designing its content and structure on the 2nd of December 2025. Furthe...
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Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’

The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

Our @iemss.org president Val Snow delivering her keynote talk at #modsim25 in Adelaide on modelling pastoral systems

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🎥New #CASRI interview!

Corinne Merly #BRGM explains CASRI’s move into a co-design phase with funders and programme managers, turning research needs into actionable funding and programmes. Towards #SRIA

👉 Watch the interview:
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Matching topics and funding opportunities: Interview with Corinne Merly (BRGM)
YouTube video by CASRI Project
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I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now.

I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system.

It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.
The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How We Get Out of It | Robert Reich
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Happy World #AMR Awareness Week! #WAAW #WAAW25

At @ukceh.bsky.social our AMR researchers work on both #bacterial and #fungal AMR!

We undertake research monitoring AMR in many different environments (water 🌊, wastewater 💩, air 💨, soil 🌱 & plants 🌿), which means we get out in the field a lot!
“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
The catastrophic illegal waste dumping in Oxfordshire (see next post) is a direct result of the deregulation-by-stealth I wrote about in 2021, when my dead goldfish became a registered waste disposer. I warned it would let the mafia in. And here we are.🧵
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Britain through the looking glass: my dead goldfish is now a registered waste disposer | George Monbiot
Algernon Goldfish is long gone, but I was able to sign him up. No wonder so many crooks are illegally dumping and ruining our environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
We cannot air condition our way out of the heat crisis.

Many cooling methods add planet warming emissions, in-turn increasing cooling demand.

But solutions exist to make cooling more sustainable & affordable: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

#COP30
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."

—FDR, 1936
Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
New reflections from me about the challenge of countering disinformation when the state itself is distributing it

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Der Tagessspiegel über meine gestrige Rede in Berlin:
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Die 45 Grad beziehen sich natürlich auf extreme Hitze: heute bis 39 Grad, künftig durchaus bis 45 Grad.
Mein Redetext (pdf) mit Links zu den Quellen: www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/FFFDemo_Rede_Berlin_Rahmstorf.pdf
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
“EPAs are research actors shaping Europe’s sustainable future” 🌍

Stephan Bartke #UBA shares insights from the first phase of #CASRI:

🔹 600+ identified R&I needs
🔹 4 themes + 4 cross-cutting challenges
🔹 Next: a joint #SRIA and a new #IGEPAS communication

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Strengthening the Role of EPAs in EU Research - Stephan Bartke Interview (CASRI Coordinator, UBA)
YouTube video by CASRI Project
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Priorities.

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“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.”

-Zohran Mamdani

Great opportunity for a PhD Studentship with an excellent group: phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican... - deadline for application is December 1st
Studying atmospheric ammonia and nitrogen deposition through model development and satellite data integration
phd.tech.au.dk