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Paul Behrens
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Prof at Oxford Martin School working on food, energy, and climate change. Book: The Best of Times The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science http://shorturl.at/lzCTZ

#ClimateChange #ClimateAction
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sioldridge.bsky.social
I ask MPs and media heads to consider this question:

𝙄𝙛 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙, 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙙?

Clips below of expert warnings of severe economic and societal threats without emergency action.
#NEB2025
nebriefing.bsky.social National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 11d
Please ask your MP to watch the 9 expert briefings on the climate & nature crisis, and then add their name to the Parliamentary Call for a televised emergency briefing.

More info: www.nebriefing.org/take-action

Full talks: www.youtube.com/@nebriefing

Clips of all nine talks below 🧵1/10👇
#NEB2025
National Emergency Briefing
Take Action on the Climate and Nature Emergency | How to engage after the National Emergency Briefing and support science-led solutions
www.nebriefing.org
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Brilliant, disturbing yet positive talk by @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social his advice is a no-brainer. Hardly anyone is fully aware of our precarious food security plight, or the huge upsides of fixing it. @sioldridge.bsky.social @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Food Security - Professor Paul Behrens | National Emergency Briefing
YouTube video by The National Emergency Briefing
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December 20, 2025 at 11:31 AM
profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
We have a new review out: “Obesity and Climate Change: Co-Crises with Common Solutions”. These aren’t separate crises but two symptoms of the same broken food system. A threat (and thread) 🧵

www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
December 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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annieleymarie.bsky.social
More wise words by the excellent @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social. Read the interview!
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/article/beyo...

Or extracts, in this short 🧵
"Behrens believes in tackling the biggest drivers of environmental damage head-on. 'If you can make a small shift in the parts of the system
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Hope arrives when you can imagine a better path to the future and you start taking action to get there
Future of Food profiles: Professor Paul Behrens
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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nebriefing.bsky.social
Food expert @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social of @ox.ac.uk with a vital message for MPs & the public.

"If we don't lead this change on the front foot, we'll be forced into it anyway as food shocks intensify."

Full talk: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#NationalEmergencyBriefing #NEB2025 #FoodShortages
December 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
Our future food system will be very different. By design or by disaster. Much of the choice is ours

If we get it right, everyone wins. Healthier diets and communities, more nature, higher productivity, stable(r) climate, etc...

My speech: @nebriefing.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvjJ...
Food Security - Professor Paul Behrens | National Emergency Briefing
YouTube video by The National Emergency Briefing
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December 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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sykhalid.bsky.social
Wise words from @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social!

You can hear more from Paul here on our podcast: How To Build A Sustainable World - Paul Behrens.
youtu.be/VQrGldPO7P8
@timcoulson.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
What evidence is there that uplands like this were once covered by temperate rainforest, and would return to such a state naturally but for sheep?

Loads... 🧵
December 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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ox.ac.uk
'It’s urgent that we support a shift to plant-rich diets.'

Oxford @oxmartinschool.bsky.social’s Prof Paul Behrens sets out why the UK food system needs reform - and how it could benefit farmers, the public and nature ⬇️ #OxfordClimate
Expert Comment: National Emergency Briefing- Reforming UK food
Professor Paul Behrens, from the Oxford Martin School, was one of nine experts invited to deliver evidence at the UK’s first-ever National Emergency Briefing on the climate and nature crises, held
www.ox.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Will the government back the call for a televised #ClimateEmergency briefing, as called for by @nebriefing.bsky.social?

In the context of #COP30, I ask the question

Minister's answer:
hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-1...
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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nebriefing.bsky.social
Thank you to @carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social for pushing for Government to consider a televised emergency briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis.

The public have a right to know.

Sign the open letter:
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
Now at over 36,000 signatories.

#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
December 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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"The food industry itself is alarmed. UK food executives have warned that the sector is on course for pronounced shortages and business failures."

@profpaulbehrens.bsky.social of @ox.ac.uk calling for urgent action at the National Emergency Briefing.
#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUP
Expert Comment: National Emergency Briefing- Reforming UK food
Professor Paul Behrens, from the Oxford Martin School, was one of nine experts invited to deliver evidence at the UK’s first-ever National Emergency Briefing on the climate and nature crises, held
www.ox.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
My write up on the @nebriefing.bsky.social here, please consider signing the letter calling on Kier Starmer and media heads to televise a briefing to the country:

theconversation.com/what-we-told...
What we told UK leaders about climate and nature at a national emergency briefing
With so many influential people in the room, the hope was to see a tipping point in the engagement of political, faith, business and cultural leaders.
theconversation.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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oxmartinschool.bsky.social
Are climate models counting people as well as carbon?
A new @thelancetplanet.bsky.social Review with @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social finds major wellbeing impacts - on mental health, work and stability - often missing from policy tools. Including them strengthens the case for prevention.

Link below ⬇️
December 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
Climate action isn’t just about carbon tonnes or warming degrees, it’s about people’s lives, health, dignity, and wellbeing

We've a new article in Lancet Planetary Health mapping how climate policy models are missing far too much of this story. 🧵

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Inclusion of wellbeing impacts of climate change: a review of literature and integrated environment–society–economy models
Climate change has broad and deep impacts on people’s wellbeing; yet, these dynamics are largely excluded from integrated environment–society–economy (ESE) models. In this Review, we provide an overvi...
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December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
Yesterday we spoke to 100s of the UKs MPs, Peers, faith leaders, CEOs, and celebs for the first @nebriefing.bsky.social on the climate & nature crises.

What happened needs to reach millions more, please sign this letter to the PM and media organisations: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... 🧵...
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
Yesterday we spoke to 100s of the UKs MPs, Peers, faith leaders, CEOs, and celebs for the first @nebriefing.bsky.social on the climate & nature crises.

What happened needs to reach millions more, please sign this letter to the PM and media organisations: www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... 🧵...
November 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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A packed audience for the #NationalEmergencyBriefing this morning, listening to 9 experts give a hard-hitting and evidence-based view of the state of climate effects to MPs, Lords, and leaders across media, business and culture.

@nebriefing.bsky.social
Prof Paul Behrens and Prof Mike Berners-Lee at the National Emergency Briefing. Prof Mike Berners-Lee giving the Chairs address at the National Emergency Briefing on 27 Nov 2025 Prof Tim Lenton showing predictions of AMOC at the National Emergency Briefing.
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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nebriefing.bsky.social
Open letter from over 1,000 UK scientists urging all MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing. A huge list full of highly respected names.

"Without much more urgent and decisive action, we risk seeing these impacts overwhelm our capacity to respond."

Please share with your MP #NEB2025
National Emergency Briefing
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Prof. Paul Behrens keynote on land use + #food systems at Sustainability In Drinks in October- youtu.be/xnnzPhkKzps?...
@profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
SID 2025: Keynote Address by Professor Paul Behrens
YouTube video by Sustainability in Drinks
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November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀! Want to join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social in supporting the National Emergency Briefing on Climate & Nature?

🖋️ 𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 urging MPs to attend: lnkd.in/ecGDM3Ry
nebriefing.bsky.social National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · Nov 9
We're delighted that tireless advocate for the natural world, @chrisgpackham.bsky.social CBE, will be opening the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster Central Hall on 27th November.

Chris speaking with @bbclaurak.bsky.social earlier👇

Please make sure your MP is attending: nebriefing.org
#NEB
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
Bit of a details one, this. Myself and Joseph Poore wrote a correspondence on why we need to be really clear about food system boundaries, budgets, and allocations. A few key points: 🧵

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Food systems boundaries are currently poorly defined
Nature Food - Food systems boundaries are currently poorly defined
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November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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"we show that an underestimation of present-day #Antarctic sea ice in the latest generation of #climate models results in an underestimation of future OHU by 3%–14% an underestimation of global cloud feedback by 19%–32% &an underestimation of global atmospheric warming by 6%–7%"

#FasterThanExpected
Increased future ocean heat uptake constrained by Antarctic sea ice extent
Abstract. The ocean takes up over 90 % of the excess heat stored in the Earth system as a result of anthropogenic climate change, which has led to sea level rise and an intensification of marine extre...
esd.copernicus.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
profpaulbehrens.bsky.social
"National security threat" "Economic disaster"

Not from a thriller, but warnings from the UK Joint Intelligence Committee about climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse.

The analysis has been delayed - the threat hasn't

Urge your MP to join us at the @nebriefing.bsky.social www.nebriefing.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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profmarkmaslin.bsky.social
Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – see our new study

UK saved £14.2 billion from lower electricity prices & £133.3 billion from reduced natural gas prices. Offset £43.2 billion in wind energy subsidies consumers saved £104.3 billion

theconversation.com/wind-power-h...
Wind power has saved UK consumers over £100 billion since 2010 – new study
Wind power offers a large financial benefit to UK consumers.
theconversation.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM