There is something extra annoying about finding a government "open data" portal that has exactly the data you're looking for and then discovering that only nationals of that country are actually able to use it.
Florian Landis
@florian-landis.bsky.social
Economist, interested in energy and climate policy, studying the distribution of impacts of policies across households
I lived thru the end of public smoking. Early in my career I presented to city councils who were smoking, in front of audiences who were smoking. Smoking in restaurants, airplanes, hospitals… All of that seems insane now, but it was very controversial when we DID change it. We CAN change things.
Niche Neega@strange.blacksky.app · 10mo agoIt’s crazy that people used to be able to just smoke cigarettes wherever they wanted
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
New study suggests that a shortage of secure bike parking is limiting e-bike adoption. Glad to see this issue getting attention. It's intuitive that people with quasi-secure bike storage might be OK risking a pedal bike, but not an e-bike that's more expensive. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
This stopped me in my tracks. An independent study by @qmul.bsky.social has found that after ULEZ was introduced, children’s lungs grew faster in Central London and have now caught up with children outside of the capital. Incredible.
Queen Mary University of London@qmul.bsky.social · 2mo agoAir pollution stunts children’s lung growth. New Queen Mary research found that improvements in air quality after the introduction of London’s ULEZ are associated with accelerated lung growth in children. Read more: shorturl.at/Jx86o
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2mo agoEvery conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"
There’s a point in a career when people you taught or mentored come back to you, adults with whole lives, and it’s weird that i’m still 30-years-old. Weird!
The Hormuz debacle has taught friends and adversaries of America a bleak lesson. To get Donald Trump’s respect, show that you can hurt him. My column on a world of coercion. It’s reported from Taiwan, home to a chipmaking choke point economist.com/internationa... from The Economist
Allies learn how to bully America
Can Taiwan use its chipmaking industry to strong-arm Donald Trump?
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Markets work for consumers, but only when competition is protected. Businesses naturally seek market power. That's why the answer isn't just being pro-business. It's being pro-market. https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/convenience-has-a-price-but-they
What's in for me? Klimaschutz sollte stärker die lokalen und persönlichen Zusatznutzen, sog. Co-Benefits, in den Vordergrund stellen. Darüber habe ich mit Maja Göpel im Podcast NEU DENKEN gesprochen. Das gesamte Gespräch über die Energiewende ist hier: youtu.be/HJEu5ojxagE?...
We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.
Nach Schweden ist nun der zweite #KlimaSozialPlan von der EU-Kommission angenommen worden. Was #Litauen plant, für untere Einkommen aus den #ETS2 Geldern zu finanzieren, ist hier in der Übersicht zu sehen (und ausführlich drüben bei linkedin: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...)
Turns out I'm actually *better* than all you name rememberers!
Psychologists say if you always forget the names of people you just met, it isn't a sign you don't care, it may be a sign your brain was absorbing more about them than most people do
You’ve just been introduced to someone. You shake their hand, you hear their name, you might even repeat it back — and within a minute, it’s gone. You’re nodding along to their story about moving from...
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“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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On sale: Chinese solar PV panels. "[...] they still sell for below their average production costs." Should we buy them while offers last?
The Economist@economist.com · 4mo agoThe Gulf war won’t save it
Now just imagine how many people see others cycling for transportation but are part of the massive "cautious but curious" crowd, waiting for safer, more enabling infrastructure design.
Jehiah@jehiah.cz · 5mo agoCycling continues to increase in NYC
Our latest @bruegel.org: How Europe should respond to the Iran gas shock – and how it shouldn’t tl;dr The EU should prepare for persistently higher gas prices and use this crisis to advance long-term decoupling from fossil fuels by pushing electrification 🔗: doi.org/10.64153/JZB... 1/5
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
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Great 🤦♂️ We are in an energy crisis, and EU countries decide to spend a lot of money boosting energy demand -- thus making the crisis worse -- and subsidising wealthy households, at taxpayer expense! Should've rather targeted assistance, as e.g. income support, to those households who need it.
Alexander Roth@aroth.bsky.social · 5mo ago(3) The majority of measures are untargeted and focus on lowering energy prices - instead of helping vulnerable groups and promoting structural change And here the link again: www.bruegel.org/dataset/2026...
Der heutige Artikel des @tagesanzeiger.bsky.social zum Thema Benzinpreisdeckel und Tankrabatte zählt sehr gut auf, wieso diese unsinnig sind. Gleichzeitig diskutiert er auch wieso Politiker trotzdem versucht sind, darauf reinzufallen. www.tagesanzeiger.ch/billiges-ben...
Massnahmen gegen Energiekrise: Billiges Benzin für alle? Das macht alles nur noch schlimmer
Weltweit greifen Staaten zu Tankrabatten und Preisdeckeln, die schon 2022 kaum halfen. Fachleute warnen: Die populären Massnahmen schaden.
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For the first time ever, heat pumps outsold gas boilers in Germany in 2025. 48% of all new heating systems installed last year were heat pumps. Gas fell to just 39%. A decade ago, heat pumps had a 7% market share. The transformation has been remarkable.
🌱 Folge 4 von #Nachtisch ist online - mit @alinemase.bsky.social ( @caritasschweiz.bsky.social ) und @florian-landis.bsky.social (ZHAW). Soziale #Gerechtigkeit und #Klimapolitik - wie geht das zusammen? Jetzt anhören 👉 scnat.ch/de/id/DyuZb
this is a significant victory in a campaign that has been going on for at least a decade. #econsky #academicsky #medicine #Germany marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/germ...
Germany legalizes kidney exchange !!
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This tactic should be recognizable to a LOT of us. But we don’t have to fall for it.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?
Lie: Bike-lanes cause traffic congestion. Truth: Bike-lanes help solve traffic congestion. Lie: Bike-lanes hurt street shops if they replace parking. Truth: Bike-lanes help street shops more than street parking does. Lie: Bike-lanes cost us too much. Truth: Bike-lanes save us all public money.
Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · 7mo agoHow many more studies does your city need proving that people on bikes and on foot spend more on shopping streets than people in cars? But the store owner LOVES parking in that spot right outside… Bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth
The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was “the most influential city in the world”, says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: “The bike beat the car.”
How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
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#Methanol is a key starting material for chemical products. Researchers from ETH Zurich can now produce this precursor from #CO2 and hydrogen with high efficiency using single atoms for #Catalysts.
Using individual atoms to achieve fossil-free chemistry
Methanol is a key starting material for chemical products. Researchers from ETH Zurich can now produce this precursor from CO2 and hydrogen with high efficiency by using isolated metal atoms as cataly...
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Germany's BEV share in car production is (quite a bit) higher than Switzerland's BEV share in car purchases 🙈. And they say the German car manufacturers were dragging their feet...
Jaap Burger@jaapburger.eu · 8mo agoLast year, 40% of cars manufactured in Germany had an electric drivetrain, which is a 23% increase on the previous year. Of those, 73% were battery-electric cars, totalling 1.22 million.