"Veiligheid is niet alleen een kwestie van bommen en drones. Het is ook een kwestie van een leefbaar klimaat en van een biodiversiteit die ons voedsel en onze mentale gezondheid ten goede komen. Daarin investeren, dat is ook veiligheid." www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...

Met alweer een hete week, slaat Belgische klimaatwetenschapper Jean-Pascal van Ypersele hartenkreet: "Ja, ik ben woedend" | VRT NWS Nieuws

Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, misschien wel de meest vooraanstaande klimaatwetenschapper van ons land, laakt het volgens hem ontoereikende klimaatbeleid. Dat heeft er mee toe geleid dat er in België deze ...

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An Ecosystem of Carbon Dioxide Removal Reviews – Part 3: Enhanced Weathering. cdrxiv.org/preprint/417

An Ecosystem of Carbon Dioxide Removal Reviews – Part 3: Enhanced Weathering – CDRXIV

Enhanced Weathering (EW) is an emerging Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) approach within a growing portfolio of mitigation strategies, offering the potential for durable CDR alongside agronomic co-benefit...

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As Earth-system tipping points are approached, increasing climate instability, not just the tipping itself, becomes a major socioeconomic risk. An important reminder that variability and extremes matter as much as long-term averages. www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized

Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.

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The extreme weather we have now is not the new normal. It’s going to keep getting worse as long as we continue to burn fossil fuels.

‘Unprecedented’ changes in UK climate are normalising extremes, report says

Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record

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Bosbranden van Maasmechelen tot Sicilië: "Dit voorspellen we al 30 jaar" | VRT NWS Nieuws

De bosbranden die vandaag Europa teisteren, zijn een gevolg van de klimaatverandering waarvoor wetenschappers al decennialang waarschuwen. Dat zegt hoogleraar duurzaamheid Hans Bruyninckx. Ondanks de ...

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📣 IPCC opens registration for experts to review the First Order Draft of Working Group I contribution to Seventh Assessment Report. The review runs from 10 August until 2 October. Interested experts can register until 25 Sept 2026: https://bit.ly/4vi25cq Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/WGI7Fod

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

The London Ambulance Service responded to the highest number of life-threatening emergencies in its history yesterday. The Chief Executive said this was "driven by the extreme heat across London".

Much of Europe is sweating in an exceptional heat wave. Heat in Europe has increased 4 times more than in other mid-latitude areas, which has been linked to the Atlantic #coldblob in several studies. #AMOC Slide from a talk I'm about the present at London Climate Action Week #LCAW2026. 1/

Ever since I started on #AMOC stability as a postdoc in 1991, there's been this vexing "cold blob" in the sea surface temperature trend since the year 1900. data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/maps/ Over ocean it's ERSST data; for winter since that relates most to ocean heat transport (👉Caesar et al 2018). 🌊

NEW EXCEPTIONAL EUROPEAN HEAT WAVE First appetizer of an incoming fierce heat wave in Europe today with near 40C in Portugal (North and South) By the summer solstice👇,exceptional heat will sweep France,Benelux,Germany,the Alps,Czechia and than Balkans and East Europe Get ready

New study: 69% of people are willing to cooperate to tackle climate change - even at a personal cost. Yet most people think only 47% would do so. This gap in perception may be holding us back but can be fixed by an informing about willingness to cooperate. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Homo cooperans: Understanding the nature of human cooperation

Human cooperation is fundamental to solving collective challenges, yet its individual drivers remain insufficiently understood. Using globally representative data from an incentivized two-player coope...

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NEW – Q&A: The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/lc8WJob

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

This is one of the most insane things I’ve seen from this regime. Please read this excellent summary and comment in the federal registry. 🧪🌊

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels ✍️ @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org Read here ⬇️

Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels - Carbon Brief

Countries attending a first-of-its-kind summit have walked away with plans to develop national roadmaps away...

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Huge Pacific Heatwave - larger than North America - with record heat spanning 6,000 miles across, peaking in the East Pacific. The highest anomalies are near the Galápagos Islands, a clear sign a mighty El Niño is beginning. 1/

Europe's electricity: 29% fossil fuels in 2024, down from 53% in 2005. Progress. But transport is still 92% fossil. Buildings: 71%. Industry: 61%. And 95% of EU oil and 88% of gas imported. Switching suppliers doesn't fix this. Electrification and efficiency do. More here: rdcu.be/feOjc

📢 #PhD offer: "Towards better carbon accounting for agroforestry systems at global scale" 🌳 🌽 🐄 🌍 . Fully funded by @cirad.bsky.social and GALILEO EU-AU project. Deadline to apply: May 31, 2026. #agroforestry #carbon #IPCC #naturalclimatesolution More details here: www.cirad.fr/content/down...

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org Read here: buff.ly/XtaYP1D

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years. Renewables: 33.8% Coal: 33.0% Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

Reporting what doesn’t work in #CDR matters too - here we explain why soil CO₂ flux measurements do not work for enhanced weathering #EW. Key issue: biological (organic carbon) fluxes dwarf the EW signal, and shared drivers (pH, moisture) obscure attribution. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Response to “Direct Measurement of Carbon Dioxide Removal Due to Enhanced Weathering”

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We are many to work on the IPCC 2027 Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CDRT-CCUS). Great responsibility, many challenges ahead, and a fantastic team to work with!

IPCC@ipcc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More than 150 experts are gathered in Rome, Italy this week to begin work on IPCC's Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization, & Storage. The author meeting is being held at FAO HQ & runs from 14 to 16 April 2026. Read more 🔗https://lnkd.in/gaVjwG3Q

Bad news - we'll soon blow through the carbon budget for stabilizing global temperature at 1.5C Good news - progress on clean energy suggests it is possible to stabilize by 2C www.nature.com/articles/s41... What does the science say? Neither is a magic threshold. Every bit of warming matters.

Global carbon emissions and decarbonization in 2025 - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment

Global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes increased by +0.7% within 2025. However, large-scale deployment of clean electricity sources during the year avoided 10.3 Gt o...

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Transitioning to a net-zero world is one of humanity's greatest challenges. Here are some ways we can reduce carbon emissions and achieve net-zero: www.un.org/en/climatech...

@saravicca.bsky.social is a professor at University of Antwerp whose research focuses on the terrestrial carbon cycle and potential climate solutions like enhanced weathering. She's also active in science communication and is a co-founder of Scientists4Climate in Belgium.

New #enhancedweathering paper: Cation tracing reveals substantial weathering but no inorganic C sequestration. While inorganic C storage may lag behind, secondary reactions & cation retention may support soil organic C stabilization. #CDR @arthurvienne.bsky.social soil.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

Weathering without realizing inorganic CO2 removal revealed through base cation monitoring

Abstract. Enhanced Weathering using basalt rock dust is a scalable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technique, but quantifying rock weathering and CDR rates poses a critical challenge. Here, we investigat...

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More than 150 experts are gathered in Rome, Italy this week to begin work on IPCC's Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization, & Storage. The author meeting is being held at FAO HQ & runs from 14 to 16 April 2026. Read more 🔗https://lnkd.in/gaVjwG3Q

Here is what the journal Nature has to say about our paper on the increasing rate of #globalwarming: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Climate change is speeding up — the pace nearly doubled in ten years

Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

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The US government has agreed to pay TotalEnergies $928 million to cancel its offshore wind leases and redirect the money to oil and gas instead. This is happening during the worst global energy crisis (per IEA) in history and as rising prices put huge pressure on households and businesses.