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Senior economist @umweltbundesamt.at Mostly climate policy evaluation & environmental innovation Here for climate science & policy 🌍🇪🇺 Innsbruck-born, UK-educated, Vienna-based Feed 📌 Climate, economics & industrial policy https://tinyurl.com/yn54apjj
Ich nehme am Donnerstag, 19. März, an der Podiumsdiskussion "Biodiversität aus politikwissenschaftlicher Sicht" teil.
@oeaw.bsky.social Tagung „Die Werte der Natur. Recht, Gerechtigkeit und der Preis der Zerstörung“.
18.-20. März in Wien
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After months of wrangling and an epic list of delays, the Commission has finally released its Industrial Accelerator Act.
This could turn into one of the EU’s most consequential industrial policy files in years - and the proposal is honestly not a bad place to start.
Some quick thoughts:
Being a woman in this world is hard. From the Pélicot case to the Epstein files, we are forced to witness the widespread abuse of other women, often without consequences.
Doing something about this starts with how we treat girls. Please read & share @katemanne.bsky.social's plea tinyurl.com/y4fytzkc
Text excerpt from NYT article linked in second skeet saying: “Most of the profits are flowing to the very affluent Americans, who are not subject to this cost-of-living crisis anyway because they’re so rich. They’re getting richer, and everyone else is dealing with inflation,” said Gregor Semieniuk, associate professor of University of Massachusetts Amherst who led the study. The United Kingdom responded to fossil fuel companies’ bumper year by adding a windfall tax designed to capture some of the excess profits and use the money to ease the burden on households facing higher bills. Semieniuk’s team calculated what would have happened if the U.S. government redistributed the portion of the fossil fuel industry’s 2022 profits that exceeded its 2021 returns. They found that the move would send $1,715 to every American household, which, they argued, could have helped ease the burden of inflation on lower-income households.
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Research on the oil and gas crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 showed that the gains of the boon on energy producers were not equally shared.
The wealthiest 1 per cent of the US population eventually received more than 50 per cent of energy companies’ windfall from that particular surge in prices, according to a paper published in September 2025.
“If anything [the US has] become a more powerful exporter and producer of fossil fuels since 2022. And of course, their oil majors are active globally. So I think [US shareholders] are poised to take advantage even more [now],” said Gregor Semieniuk, a professor at the University of Massachusetts who was one of the authors of the research. “Wealth distributions don’t change overnight.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zzkt72yllokx7rstuph6rlrw/bafkreigrlauo2i24owltmckxgpdt4gyzzwwu6hvotpslz57hqdbodogxba@jpeg)
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Who stands to profit as energy prices are rising due to the escalating war in the Middle East? NYT and FT quoting our research on the 2022 energy crisis! Spoiler: in the West it's mainly affluent shareholders.
High time to dust off the discussions on excess profit taxes & strategic price controls.
FT: Mideast energy shock batters markets
EU Gas prices +40%, on top of +60% the day prior (no, not +100% overall)
I'm old enough to remember when gas prices spiked 2x over a weekend, and then 10x by the end of the summer.
That was 4 years ago, the last time a 'leader' blew a fuse.
Yes, then as now, the answer to fossilflation is to get off fossil fuels.
Wird langsam langweilig 🥱 Ist ja nicht so, als ob die Lösung nicht lang bekannt wäre: Erneuerbare machen uns unabhängiger
MMn gehört das in Medieninterviews von Politiker:innen noch viel stärker zum Thema gemacht - einfach überall einstreuen, ORF, Radio, wann wenn nicht jetzt
MMn gehört das in Medieninterviews von Politiker:innen noch viel stärker zum Thema gemacht - einfach überall einstreuen, ORF, Radio, wann wenn nicht jetzt
"In keinem Bereich wurde ähnlich stark gekürzt wie im Klima- und Umweltbereich", sagt [Biodiversitätsforscher Franz] Essl.
Das entspricht auch meiner Erfahrung.
Bei allem, was wir heute über die planetare Dreifachkrise wissen, ist das keine verantwortungsvolle Politik
#WorldWildlifeDay 🌍🦌
Ok können wir jetzt bitte den Windkraftausbau anschieben orf.at/stories/3421...
Jetzt findet ein völkerrechtwidriger Krieg gegen eine brutale Diktatur statt. Beides ist richtig!
RT John Lyndon: Europe’s response (so far) to strikes on Iran splits broadly into four camps:
Clearly critical: 🇳🇴 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 (legal & escalation concerns)
Middle ground: 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 (de-escalation + non-proliferation)
Least critical: 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇮🇹
Outright support: 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇭🇺
x.com/JohnLyndon_/...
It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9
Ok also heute die Balkonpflanzen ausgewintert und die lokale Eisdiele hat auch schon auf. Der Frühling kann kommen, oder? Am 28. Februar 🌱 😐
So wichtig, sich der Grauschattierungen der Welt immer bewusst zu sein und sie auch aushalten zu können. In weiterer Folge wird klar, zu wie wenig Themen man eine eindeutige Meinung haben kann und muss
@nadiacalvino.eib.org
h/t @chrigru.bsky.social
Sehr wichtig, dass auch mal aufgezeigt wird, was gut läuft 👍🏻
"Die Präsidentin der Europäischen Investitionsbank Nadia Calviño schreibt in ihrem Gastkommentar über mögliche #Stärken und #Chancen des gemeinsamen Europas in einer Zeit tiefer Krisen und Spaltungen" www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Wow! Didn't have that on the radar, good news! 🌳🚶♀️🌳🚶♂️🌳
🟢 Unsere Auswertung von österreichischen Patentanmeldungen und innovativen Unternehmen zeigt den Beitrag der Kreislaufwirtschaft zu Österreichs Innovationskraft
🟢 Die Anwendung unseres MIO-ES-Modells zeigt ihr volkswirtschaftliches Potenzial.
Der zweite Teil unserer Arbeit mit KONTEXT Institut zur Kreislaufwirtschaft wurde gerade publiziert ♻️
Danke für die gute Zusammenarbeit! 🙌 1/
🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/icel...
... successfully and painfully transitioned to jobs in clean tech are getting laid off. This past December, Ford shut a huge battery facility in Kentucky, a coal state, firing 1,600 workers in a place where state and local government had spent $250mn to lure the new business in." 3/3
... That boom is already turning to bust. Manufacturing jobs have fallen under Trump, who promised to bring industrial work back to the US... $22bn in planned EV, battery and critical mineral investment has dried up.
Meanwhile, workers in fossil fuel-dependent states who had been... 2/
Also, this - what a waste of resources: "... the repeal of the clean energy manufacturing tax credit puts over 2mn jobs at risk in Arizona, Kentucky, Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, which were starting to benefit from a clean energy-related manufacturing investment boom... 1/
Einige offene Fragen für Strafrechtsprofessor Birklbauer vor dem Prozess gegen die @letztegenerationat.bsky.social
fm4.orf.at/stories/3052... #klimakrise #klimabewegung
At the trial of #LetzteGeneration activists in #Vienna: two guilty verdicts + moderate fines for paint spraying on public buildings & a glue incident at Vienna Airport. But also a recognition that these were small crimes motivated by justifiable concerns fm4.orf.at/player/20260... @fm4.orf.at
Convicted, fined but would #LetzteGeneration's Martha Krumpeck do it all over again?
“ I couldn’t look any child in the eye today if I hadn’t tried. But now, at this point in time, it’s sadly no longer any use. The train has left the station. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
Es ist in Wahrheit so: diejenigen, die nun die Klimapolitik der letzten Jahre für das Straucheln der Industrie verantwortlich machen, werden verantwortlich dafür sein, wenn wir aus dem Straucheln nicht mehr rauskommen. Hören wir also mit dem billigen blame-game auf & machen wir es besser!