Thank you Søren!
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Thank you Søren!
Excellent framework for analysing and addressing transport poverty, as laid out at today’s conference on EU’s Social Climate Fund, in a brilliant presentation by @giuliomattioli.bsky.social.
Also several other insightful talks and panel discussions. All in all a great day on an important issue.
How things change.
10 years ago energy poverty was getting recognition in EU policy, and a few were asking "Is there a transport equivalent?"
Today at the SCF conference they gave us the (slightly) bigger room for the transport poverty breakout session.
Here today
Ohh nice looking forward to meet in person :)
Getting the SCF right is going to be critical to the future of European climate policy. A lot of effort needs to be going into getting the implementation right this year. This is a very important event!
Chuffed to be invited speaker and panelist at this event on the Social Climate Fund organised by @ec.europa.eu DG EMPL next week employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/helping-vuln...
I will be speaking about Transport Poverty which is now officially defined & targeted by EU policies
It was great :)
I celebrate (anti) motonormativity days!
Great quote by @norton.bsky.social at the (anti) motonormativity days in Lausanne
New research finds that ~18% of Americans would like to live car-free -- more than double the share that currently does.
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Heading down to Lausanne to participate in the "(Anti)Motonormativity days" event unil.ch/events/fr/17...
I will talk about research on car dependence, where it's coming, where it's going, where I think it would be interesting for it to go, and how it relates to motonormativity
One of the reasons why authoritarian regimes change voting systems to ensure victory rather than trying to intimidate voters on a retail level is that it takes far too much manpower. Parties are banned or candidates are systematically imprisoned and removed from the ballots.
Chuffed to see my research cited on the Wikipedia page for "Transport Divide" en.wikipedia.org?curid=63542953
Interesting new empirical study on car dependence by @jaimesierra.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.ur...
Maybe what happened (but I'm just speculating) is that Paris is so dense, so walkable and has such a dense subway network that cycling had been "crowded out" by those two, so while there was little cycling there was a lot of untapped potential for it. Peculiar set of conditions.
So for example based on a quick google search, the cycling mode share is still higher in Berlin (18%) than Paris (11%), despite the latter having had much more progressive sustainable transport policies in the last decade. But it was way behind to start with.
I don't know actually! But I think one way of looking at it is that Paris had *very little* cycling infrastructure (and bike use) before that, notably compared to equally dense cities in some other countries in Europe. So while the *relative* increase is important, in some way it's just catching up
Personally I think we should call it something like "car-related economic stress" but I never managed to make that term mainstream... It is what it is
I agree it's an unfortunate term - unfortunately, it tends to stick around - see this from my 2017 paper doi.org/10.17645/si....
Interesting-looking new study into "forced car ownership" in China, finding that "although China's overall FCO rate remains lower than that reported in many developed countries, it has risen rapidly reaching 4% in 2020" doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
Very intesting-looking new literature review article on how to define minimum levels of necessary mobility doi.org/10.1016/j.er...
Ladies and gentlemen, the king of bulls****ers
Was passiert gerade in den USA?
Deutsche Tageszeitung:
Looking forward to this event
OUVEMA's (Anti-)Motonormativity Days
19th & 20th February
Really interesting workshop on understanding and challenging motornormativity, car dependence and dominance feat. @ianwalker.bsky.social, @criscaim8.bsky.social + @giuliomattioli.bsky.social + more!!
Info: www.unil.ch/events/17689...
I was interviewed yesterday by Italian Radio Channel
@radiopopolare.bsky.social on sustainable transport and climate policy - here at around min. 41
radiopopolare.it/puntata/popo...
On the 19-20.2 I will present at the "Anti-)Motonormativity days" event at @unil.bsky.social, with a presentation on car dependence.
Event page (in French): unil.ch/events/fr/17...
Full programme: (in English): api.unil.ch/newsunil/v1/...
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Number of users citing each of top 25 Carbon Brief papers for Bluesky and X
Where is climate research being talked about the most?
Using the new @carbonbrief.org list of top 25 climate papers of 2025 and @altmetric.com, I found that compared with Twitter, these papers were discussed
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