Patrick Flamm
@ptrckflmm.bsky.social
Peace & Security in the ‘Anthropocene’, from Low Earth Orbit 🛰️ to Antarctica 🇦🇶. Senior Researcher at Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (@prif.org). Head of Research Group ‘Ecology, Climate, and Conflict.’
Formerly at VUW&UoA in Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿.
Formerly at VUW&UoA in Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿.
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Patrick Flamm
@ptrckflmm.bsky.social
· Nov 27
Using the opportunity to tell you about a new paper that I wrote together with Akiho Shibata about the underrated geopolitical dimension of glacial #geoengineering proposals in #Antarctica.
It’s #openaccess & available online at International Affairs here: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
It’s #openaccess & available online at International Affairs here: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
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Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc
A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc
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If you happen to be in Erfurt tomorrow, I will be there too, speaking at the university about the Germans in Siam before WWI.
And if you're in Berlin, I'll be at the FU discussing the fate of Chinese contract labourers in German Samoa.
And if you're in Berlin, I'll be at the FU discussing the fate of Chinese contract labourers in German Samoa.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If you happen to be in Erfurt tomorrow, I will be there too, speaking at the university about the Germans in Siam before WWI.
And if you're in Berlin, I'll be at the FU discussing the fate of Chinese contract labourers in German Samoa.
And if you're in Berlin, I'll be at the FU discussing the fate of Chinese contract labourers in German Samoa.
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"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"
At 2°C warming, only 25% of Hindu Kush–Himalayan glaciers will survive, warns report | Dehradun News - The Times of India
Dehradun: Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two bill.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
"Glaciers of the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) and the broader High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, which are vital water sources for nearly two billion people, could suffer catastrophic losses even under moderate global warming scenarios, according to a new global assessment by @iccinet.bsky.social"
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China is “reshaping the world’s energy outlook, geopolitics and its capacity to limit the catastrophic effects of #climatechange”, says @economist.com
- "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels'
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www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
- "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels'
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www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
China is “reshaping the world’s energy outlook, geopolitics and its capacity to limit the catastrophic effects of #climatechange”, says @economist.com
- "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels'
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www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
- "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than US makes from exporting fossil fuels'
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www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
It’s already been bad with this Luxon government already on so many issues, but it got even worse now.
Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus
It took more than a year of painstaking cross-partisan negotiation to land the Zero Carbon Act. Now, the Govt is gutting it unilaterally, Marc Daalder reports
newsroom.co.nz
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
It’s already been bad with this Luxon government already on so many issues, but it got even worse now.
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6 November is the Int'l Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the #Environment in War & Armed Conflicts, reiterating that peace & the health of our planet are intertwined. #EnvConflictDay
Learn how #GENeva helps ensure action on environment is part of ensuring peace ➡️ tiny.cc/GENEnvConflict
Learn how #GENeva helps ensure action on environment is part of ensuring peace ➡️ tiny.cc/GENEnvConflict
November 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
6 November is the Int'l Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the #Environment in War & Armed Conflicts, reiterating that peace & the health of our planet are intertwined. #EnvConflictDay
Learn how #GENeva helps ensure action on environment is part of ensuring peace ➡️ tiny.cc/GENEnvConflict
Learn how #GENeva helps ensure action on environment is part of ensuring peace ➡️ tiny.cc/GENEnvConflict
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Today #EnvConflictDAy we are sharing key achievements, lessons learned, and prospects ensure protection of the environment and civilians depending on it remain essential. With thanks to NASA Lifelines for an amazing short documentary on our work
paxforpeace.nl/news/from-sa...
paxforpeace.nl/news/from-sa...
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Today #EnvConflictDAy we are sharing key achievements, lessons learned, and prospects ensure protection of the environment and civilians depending on it remain essential. With thanks to NASA Lifelines for an amazing short documentary on our work
paxforpeace.nl/news/from-sa...
paxforpeace.nl/news/from-sa...
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📝New FIIA Briefing Paper
Environment-related risks can trigger sudden, cascading effects across sectors and borders. @ezhakala.bsky.social and @helmiraisanen.bsky.social explore environment-related risks as part of comprehensive security and discuss ways to prepare for them.
fiia.fi/en/publicati...
Environment-related risks can trigger sudden, cascading effects across sectors and borders. @ezhakala.bsky.social and @helmiraisanen.bsky.social explore environment-related risks as part of comprehensive security and discuss ways to prepare for them.
fiia.fi/en/publicati...
November 6, 2025 at 7:16 AM
📝New FIIA Briefing Paper
Environment-related risks can trigger sudden, cascading effects across sectors and borders. @ezhakala.bsky.social and @helmiraisanen.bsky.social explore environment-related risks as part of comprehensive security and discuss ways to prepare for them.
fiia.fi/en/publicati...
Environment-related risks can trigger sudden, cascading effects across sectors and borders. @ezhakala.bsky.social and @helmiraisanen.bsky.social explore environment-related risks as part of comprehensive security and discuss ways to prepare for them.
fiia.fi/en/publicati...
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Failing to count the GHG emissions from conflicts "underreports and distorts our understanding of global warming and undermines the ability of the international community to tackle its causes." theconversation.com/how-wars-rav...
How wars ravage the environment – and what international law is doing about it
International law is starting to reflect a growing global consensus on the need to recognise the climate effects of armed conflicts.
theconversation.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Failing to count the GHG emissions from conflicts "underreports and distorts our understanding of global warming and undermines the ability of the international community to tackle its causes." theconversation.com/how-wars-rav...
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A welcome #COP30 preview on military and conflict emissions. NATO declined to comment for it, a rather different tone than in the Stoltenburg era... www.spglobal.com/commodity-in...
www.spglobal.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A welcome #COP30 preview on military and conflict emissions. NATO declined to comment for it, a rather different tone than in the Stoltenburg era... www.spglobal.com/commodity-in...
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New OA paper examining why militaries have the responsibility to address #ClimateChange, and the extent to which #military forces are already adopting these responsibilities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Short of disarmament: Towards a climate-responsible military despite geopolitical tensions?
Military forces continue to face criticism for their harmful impacts on ecosystems and their contribution to climate change. Western military responses to climate change have been met with skeptici...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New OA paper examining why militaries have the responsibility to address #ClimateChange, and the extent to which #military forces are already adopting these responsibilities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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6,000,000 year old ice & plenty of wind and cold! What folks go through for old ice.
Team is headed back to Allan Hills now, follow more at COLDEX.org
Support via the incredible National Science Foundation and US Antarctic Program.
PNAS 6Myr results: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Team is headed back to Allan Hills now, follow more at COLDEX.org
Support via the incredible National Science Foundation and US Antarctic Program.
PNAS 6Myr results: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
6,000,000 year old ice & plenty of wind and cold! What folks go through for old ice.
Team is headed back to Allan Hills now, follow more at COLDEX.org
Support via the incredible National Science Foundation and US Antarctic Program.
PNAS 6Myr results: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Team is headed back to Allan Hills now, follow more at COLDEX.org
Support via the incredible National Science Foundation and US Antarctic Program.
PNAS 6Myr results: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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KI schafft neue Realitäten in der internationalen Sicherheit. Warum wir deshalb KI-Regulierung neu denken müssen, schreiben @k3kr.bsky.social und @mgoettsche.bsky.social in einem Gastbeitrag für @table.media (€) – und geben dabei einen Ausblick auf den neuen CNTR Monitor, der am 6.11. erscheint.
Wir müssen KI-Regulierung neu denken
Bisherige Ansätze in der Rüstungskontrolle könnten nicht mit dem Innovationstempo von KI mithalten, schreiben die Forscher Kadri Reis und Malte Göttsche. Deshalb empfehlen sie hier und ab Donnerstag i...
table.media
November 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
KI schafft neue Realitäten in der internationalen Sicherheit. Warum wir deshalb KI-Regulierung neu denken müssen, schreiben @k3kr.bsky.social und @mgoettsche.bsky.social in einem Gastbeitrag für @table.media (€) – und geben dabei einen Ausblick auf den neuen CNTR Monitor, der am 6.11. erscheint.
““They [China and Russia] feel that they are not being listened to,” the CEO of the Norwegian krill fishing company Aker BioMarine, which captured nearly 64% of krill catch in 2023. (…)
Aker has frequent discussions with Russian authorities and is “the only partner that has dialogue with China.””
Aker has frequent discussions with Russian authorities and is “the only partner that has dialogue with China.””
#Antarctic conservation summit #CCAMLR closes with stalemate on MPAs & krill fishing rules via @mongabay.com
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/anta...
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/anta...
Antarctic conservation summit closes with stalemate on MPAs & krill fishing rules
The annual meeting of the international body responsible for conservation of the marine ecosystems in the Southern Ocean concluded on Friday with no progress on two contentious issues before it: the c...
news.mongabay.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
““They [China and Russia] feel that they are not being listened to,” the CEO of the Norwegian krill fishing company Aker BioMarine, which captured nearly 64% of krill catch in 2023. (…)
Aker has frequent discussions with Russian authorities and is “the only partner that has dialogue with China.””
Aker has frequent discussions with Russian authorities and is “the only partner that has dialogue with China.””
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Live footage of the NZ government
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Live footage of the NZ government
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European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting.
Bodes really well for every other institution based on technocratic discussion and consensus-based decision making in the next 3 years… better start preparing for it.
One question is how much these mob-boss tactics are something new, and how much they’re just a cruder extension of the longstanding bipartisan willingness to use US economic centrality as a weapon against designated enemy states like Iran or Cuba or Venezuela.
November 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Bodes really well for every other institution based on technocratic discussion and consensus-based decision making in the next 3 years… better start preparing for it.
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“A French Army artillery demonstration in pouring rain in the south-east of the country last week showed the limits of modern warfare: When the weather gets miserable, cannons may still fire, but drones stay grounded.”
In rain and mud, French artillery unit shows lessons from Ukraine war
The demonstration showed how France’s 35th Parachute Artillery Regiment is trying to adapt to a drone-dominated battlefield.
www.defensenews.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
“A French Army artillery demonstration in pouring rain in the south-east of the country last week showed the limits of modern warfare: When the weather gets miserable, cannons may still fire, but drones stay grounded.”
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🌍🔍Peatlands of Canada's West Coast: A carbon store 3x larger than the regions rainforests. But: depth and extend are barely researched.
👉 Prof. @JürgenKreyling & @hanna-martens.bsky.social sky.social of @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social & @unigreifswald.bsky.social want to change that.
👉 Prof. @JürgenKreyling & @hanna-martens.bsky.social sky.social of @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social & @unigreifswald.bsky.social want to change that.
November 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
🌍🔍Peatlands of Canada's West Coast: A carbon store 3x larger than the regions rainforests. But: depth and extend are barely researched.
👉 Prof. @JürgenKreyling & @hanna-martens.bsky.social sky.social of @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social & @unigreifswald.bsky.social want to change that.
👉 Prof. @JürgenKreyling & @hanna-martens.bsky.social sky.social of @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social & @unigreifswald.bsky.social want to change that.
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Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
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The amazing thing about the last few days is that people are not saying openly enough what has happened. The Chinese stared the US down and the US blinked. It could represent the end of an era and former US allies in Asia-Pacific had better watch out.
November 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The amazing thing about the last few days is that people are not saying openly enough what has happened. The Chinese stared the US down and the US blinked. It could represent the end of an era and former US allies in Asia-Pacific had better watch out.
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I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️
They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬
Thread:🧵Plz RT
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv.
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
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My introduction to a brand new special issue of 'Australian Historical Studies' devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia has just appeared. Thanks to all of the contributors and the journal's editors. 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
After ‘Anglobalisation’: Anglo-German Relations in Australasia
Published in Australian Historical Studies (Vol. 56, No. 4, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My introduction to a brand new special issue of 'Australian Historical Studies' devoted to Anglo-German relations in Australasia has just appeared. Thanks to all of the contributors and the journal's editors. 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Southeast Asian history shows us that there are other pathways to international order and that, contrary to Western modes of thinking, a hegemonic power is not required for stability
What Southeast Asian history tells us about a multipolar order | Aeon Essays
As Pax Americana ends, a multipolar order is emerging. The history of Southeast Asia holds lessons for what’s to come
buff.ly
October 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Southeast Asian history shows us that there are other pathways to international order and that, contrary to Western modes of thinking, a hegemonic power is not required for stability