Very extreme risks of fire in England, Belgium and across France and the Alpine arc extending into northern Italy #wildfires #risks #forecast #England #France #Belgium #Belgique
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Eric Maugendre about emissions
Профиль VivelyData scientist; researching climate policy. I calculate how to avoid much carbon emissions: http://data.yt Banner is a directed acyclic graph. Avatar shows a white man in a heatwave.
French Polynesia objects to a Big Tech seabed mining plan made without its input grist.org/indigenous/f...
French Polynesia objects to an American seabed mining plan made without its inputFrench Polynesia was "approached, but not consulted" about a Bay Area startup's plan to explore the seabed near its marine preserve.grist.org‘Climate change positioned as a PR problem rather than risk to the sector, as industry leaders urged to ‘perfect their messaging’. ‘UN FAO official told World Meat Congress that “FAO is your friend” and said “the world needs more animal protein”, despite livestock being a key driver of’ GHG. 🧵
Meat and Dairy Industry Told to “Control the Narrative” in Bid to Derail Climate Progress, New Report Reveals • Changing Marketschangingmarkets.orgA report found $2.3 billion in development bank funding supported factory farming in 2023. Factory farming contributes to methane emissions, deforestation and biodiversity loss, yet projects are being funded by banks like the World Bank’s IFC. by Frida Garza: grist.org/article/worl...
The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problemDevelopment banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture in 2023.grist.orgDespite their huge negative impact on #climate, biodiversity and human health, big meat and dairy corporations have largely been off the hook. Investigation reveals that the industry has largely succeeded in getting several concessions, exemptions and delays to climate action in the sector. #Report:
The New Merchants of Doubt: How Big Meat and Dairy Avoid Climate Action • Changing MarketsLandmark investigation of 22 meat and dairy companies reveals how the industry mirrors Big Tobacco tactics to distract, delay and derail climate action.changingmarkets.orgThe median footprint for #beef is 25 kgCO2eq per 100 grams. But some producers have a much higher footprint: ten percent emit more than 105 kgCO2eq. At the other end, some are much lower. Ten percent emit less than 9 kgCO2eq. Poore, J., & Nemecek, T. (2018).
Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumersFood producer heterogeneity on a global level creates mitigation opportunities with respect to environmental damage caused by food production.science.sciencemag.org#Mining sub-Saharan Africa is expanding fast. For every hectare of direct deforestation for the mine itself, mining triggers, on average, 34 ha of additional offsite loss within 5 years through ancillary activities, inc. agriculture & settlements. 🧩 🧵 Morton, @sheffielddust.bsky.social et al. (2026)
Mining triggers extensive additional deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa - NatureExtensive mining activity leads to large-scale deforestation of dense tropical forests across sub-Saharan Africa, driven particularly by key energy transition minerals such as cobalt.doi.org"We find plantations in temperate regions were twice as likely to suffer stand-replacing #wildfires than natural production forests, including in vital timber-producing nations like China and Russia. Plantations in tropical regions showed no clear effect". Bousfield et al. (2025):
Global risk of wildfire across timber production systems - Nature CommunicationsTimber plantations in temperate countries are twice as likely to be destroyed by wildfires compared to natural wood-producing forests under similar conditions. The increasing threat of wildfires in th...doi.org🥳 Wow ✨ I was patiently waiting for an excellent IAM but your work is flooring me down. 1st your article is big but crystal clear – which eases adoption. 2nd your study is both bold – which triggers enthusiasm – and sound – which eases adoption too. I microblogged about only the "Introduction":
Eric Maugendre on collectives"We introduce a multi-objective, multi-value #IAM framework to guide just climate policymaking under deep uncertainty" We address three shortcomings of previous models: 1. #comparison: "By making decision-makers’ preferences over objectives explicit, multi-objective approaches facilitate a […]
Rivers convey more and more particulate sediments and mercury to the oceans. How come? 1. climate change (in the polar regions), 2. deforestation and mining (in the tropics) 3. damming. Beautiful charts:
Dongfeng LiFig. 5: Drivers and impacts of increasing SSC and land–ocean sediment flux across pan-Arctic.