Plus: hält die abgestellten Autos im Sommee kühler (Komfort ⬆️/AC-Verbrauch ⬇️). Eingriff ins Stadtbild zu vernachlässigen, denn da ist der Schaden bereits entstanden.

Weil es in Haiti, Somalia, Libanon, Nepal, Myanmar, Mauretanien, Burundi und Bhutan auch kein Tempolimit gibt - dann wird dort halt mehr gerast und dem Klima bringt es gar nichts. Solche ideologischen Alleingängen können wir uns nicht leisten.

When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person.

I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors.

And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss.

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Diese Maßnahmen gegen hohe Spritpreise werden diskutiert Seit Mittwoch gelten neue Vorgaben für Tankstellen. Doch Benzin und Diesel werden trotzdem teurer. Nun diskutiert die Politik über weitere Entlastungen. Ein Überblick.

Maßnahmen gegen explodierende Energiepreise:
1) Tankrabatt
2) Pendlerpauschale
3) Kfzsteuer senken
4) Energiepreispauschale
5) Stromsteuer senken
6) Mehrwertsteuer senken
7) Rabatte ÖPNV
8) Übergewinnsteuer
9) Tempolimit & Fahrverbote
Ein Thread🧵(1/18) ⬇️
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

How Europe should respond to the Iran gas shock – and how it shouldn’t The European Union should act now to head off growing impacts from the Iran conflict on gas prices and availability

A short thread on a few key points from our NEW analysis I’d like to highlight:
www.bruegel.org/analysis/how...

by @aroth.bsky.social @tagliapietra.bsky.social @keliauskaite.bsky.social @bmcwilliams.bsky.social and T.Mramor 1/12

Today I wrote a short article about all the other goods that passed the Strait of Hormuz. Ir's not all about oil and gas. The gulf region is also an industrial hub that provides massive amounts of processed goods.
There's LPG and diesel, for example, or sulfur and Helium.
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New commentary: As EU leaders meet in Brussels with the escalating Middle East conflict high on the agenda, Europe Director Frauke Thies argues that a strong #EUETS – alongside targeted relief measures – should be central to Europe’s response to the global #energyprice shock. 1/x

Pekka Siitoin (1944-2003), the Reichsführer of Finland (self-employed), a satanist and a "raunchologist" in his latter years. In the photo, an old man dressed in a red cape and shorts, wearing long "horns" on his head and holding a wooden cross upside down, is making a hand gesture. He is sitting on a porch and looks very, very silly. Among other things, he declared he would be the first Finn to have sex with an "ufo woman," and also knew nifty spells like how to drink a lot of booze but stay sober ("drink two glasses of milk and eat 200 g of cheese. Then say: 'Oh cow, in You I trust.'") But he also was convicted of a bombing and arson of a printer of the newspaper of the Finnish Communist Party. Fuck Nazis. Picture from https://mubi.com/en/cast/pekka-siitoin , details from https://turunaika.fi/jutut/okkultistista-naantalin-natsiksi/ and https://www.hs.fi/helsinki/art-2000006441407.html

So I just learned about the 1986 airplane hijacking attempt in #Oulu, #Finland, and now you too are going to. Because I burst out laughing in a train reading about it.

It has:
✔️beer (lots)!
✔️hijinks!
✔️weird occult Nazis!
✔️✔️✔️"HYPNOTIC-MAGNETIC GAZE!"

Why oh why this isn't a movie yet! (a THREAD.)

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

NEW: Coal-fired power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, for the first time since 1973. The drop came after record clean energy additions in both countries, and was the first time that clean energy was a major driver of falling coal power use.

Biking through the Heide near Amersfoort, NL on the last day of 2025, kids loved it (and me too!)

📢 Bilanz des #Energiejahrs 2025: DE verliert Tempo beim Klimaschutz! Die Emissionen sinken um 9 Mio. t CO₂ bzw. 1,5% = weniger als halb so viele Einsparungen wie 2024. In diesem Tempo würde das Land sein 2030-Klimaziel verfehlen, der Umstieg auf Klimatechnologien in 🏠🚗 🏭 kommt zu langsam voran. 1/x

A picture is worth 1000 words...

This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.

Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.

Chapeau!

Mood.

Der Klimawandel bedroht unsere Zukunft - aber keiner spricht mehr drüber. Warum ist das so? Donald Trump, Russland, Gaza, Krieg, Rente, Wehrpflicht, Stadtbild - diese Themen haben 2025 dominiert: Und das Klima? Haben wir das vergessen?

„Wenn Menschen in ungewohntem Terrain Angst bekommen, gibt es eine goldene Regel: Auf keinen Fall nach hinten lehnen.”
Lesenswerte Reflektionen von @luisaneubauer.bsky.social zur aktuellen Lage der Klimapolitik. Zum Einstieg in die zweite Hälfte der Dekade, die tituliert wurde als „decisive decade“

Here are my favourite 2025 papers on climate policy/politics (listed in no particular order).
1. Ascari, Guido, Andrea Colciago, Timo Haber, and Stefan Wöhrmüller. 2025. ‘Inequality along the European Green Transition’. Economic Journal.
doi.org/10.1093/ej/u...

'Fairytale of New York' played at Shane MacGowan's funeral YouTube video by RTÉ News

Happy Fairytale of New York season to all those who celebrate, and now we have this iconic performance at Shane Macgowan’s funeral to watch, too. 🥹 youtu.be/6s8lvnSmISc?...

Recently, I have been thinking about the political economy of policy advice. Below are my thoughts; I'd be curious to hear what "practitioners" think about these. Let's start by thinking about the demand for and supply in the market for policy advice. Policymakers rely on expertise for two

3) unsolicited and independent, eg policy proposals coming out of academic research. Relevance often limited (often legal/technical/political feasibility not a consideration), in principle independent but political actors can select papers and proposals that match their position (or priors)

2) unsolicited advice in an established format comes from advisory bodies. By nature should be independent, but appointees are also selected since they have taken certain positions in the past / are expected to play certain roles. Formally independent but still need to stay relevant.

Few reflections how advice enters the political system: 1) much of it is solicited and tendered. Tends to be unattractive for independent advisors, since it is (more or less explicitly) to support a given position. Recipients mostly bureaucrats, rarely higher ranks, very rarely elected officials.

Love it! Here are three more candidates for the pack: @kumpfenbach.bsky.social , @economista.bsky.social and @katjadiehl.bsky.social

CYCLING CITIES - Der Film YouTube video by Ingwar Perowanowitsch

Ein sehr schöner sehenswerter Film von @ingwarpero.bsky.social zeigt an wunderbaren Beispielen, wie eine kluge Verkehrspolitik die Lebensqualität in unseren Städten rasch und drastisch verbessern kann! Die Reise geht von Paris über Gent, Utrecht und weitere bis Kopenhagen. youtu.be/R5jQc1jXLAU?...

’tis the season - driving home for Christmas with a #treebybike in tow

Europe is hollowing out its Green Deal, leaving a vacuum of political

End of year reflections on EU climate policy: it’s really not looking good for the Green Deal.
@jannikjansen.bsky.social and I wrote a short piece on why we're far from "staying the course" - and why that's a strategic mistake for Europe (1/12)
tinyurl.com/jdc-green-deal

EU-Klimazoll: Warum der CBAM notwendig und unterschätzt ist Mit dem Emissionshandel und dem CO2-Grenzausgleich (CBAM) stehen aktuell ausgerechnet die Instrumente unter Druck, die zukunftsfähige Geschäftsmodelle anreizen und absichern sollen. Die EU-Kommission ...

Im @tspbackground.bsky.social Energie & Klima habe ich argumentiert, warum der EU-Klimazoll #CBAM besser ist als sein Ruf, weshalb wir ihn für die Industrietransformation brauchen, und welchen Erfolg er bereits vor seinem offiziellen Start verbuchen konnte: background.tagesspiegel.de/energie-und-...

Commission takes action for clean and competitive automotive sector The Commission today presented the Automotive Package to support the sector\'s efforts in the transition to clean mobility.

1/ Es gibt verschiedene Sichtweisen zum „Aus vom #Verbrenner-Aus“. Ich versuche im Thread mal zwei Enden des Spektrums zusammenzufassen: optimistisch ("schadet nicht") und pessimistisch ("Eigentor").

Als Fakten-Grundlage hier die Mitteilung der EU-Kommission: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Ok, let me confess: one of my guilty pleasures is "bicycle infrastructure p***0graphy", watching youtoube clips where users showcase the terrific cycling infrastructure found in some parts of the world. Most of it Dutch and Danish, tbh. Seeing a full-length documentary from Freiburg blows my mind!

#ice #electric #co2 #ice #phev #batteries #chargers #grids #biofuel #hybrid #biofuel | william todts | 13 comments The EU drops its #2035 #ICE ban. The signal this sends is terrible. However, the reality is the majority of cars sold in 2030-2035 must still be #electric and #CO2 will drop sharply as a result. Fir...

Ich verstehe es auch nicht, aber die Kollegen bei Transport & Environment: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...

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