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PIK – Green hydrogen: Short-term scarcity, long-term uncertainty

September 19, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Green hydrogen from renewable electricity and derived e-fuels are uniquely valuable for achieving climate neutrality. They can replace fossil fuels in industry or long-distance transport where direct electrification is infeasible. However, even if production capacities […]

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PIK: Living in timber cities could avoid emissions – without using farmland for wood production

August 30, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Housing a growing population in homes made out of wood instead of conventional steel and concrete could avoid more than 100 billion tons of emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2 until 2100 Read Here

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PIK: Increase in heatwaves in western Europe linked to changes in the jet stream

July 8, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Heatwaves over Europe have increased three to four times faster than in the rest of the northern mid-latitudes like e.g. the US or Canada, a new study finds. An international team of scientists looked at […]

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PIK: Food crisis due to Ukraine war calls for demand-side action: less animal products, less waste, and greening EU agricultural policy

March 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

The global food system is impacted by the war in Ukraine, adding to the direct humanitarian and security crisis caused by the Russian aggression. Ukraine and Russia are major producers of grains and fertilizers, yet […]

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PIK: Germany’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increase

March 17, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) has released its greenhouse gas emissions report 2021 for Germany. Unlike global emissions, German emissions have not reached another record high, but have risen nonetheless. Read Here

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PIK: How to protect emissions trading from excessive financial speculation

December 27, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

CO2 emissions trading – a key element of EU climate policy – can be protected from distortions driven by financial speculators, a new report shows. Read here

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PIK: Too dry, too hot, or too wet: Increasing Weather Persistence in European Summer

December 7, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Global warming makes long lasting weather situations in the Northern hemisphere‘s summer months more likely – which in turn leads to more extreme weather events, a novel analysis of atmospheric images and data finds. These […]

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PIK – New study: World map of the most important protected areas to avert a climate catastrophe

November 18, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

New research out today from Conservation International maps the places on Earth that humanity must protect to avoid a climate catastrophe. These ecosystems contain what researchers call “irrecoverable carbon,” dense stores of carbon that, if […]

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PIK: 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2021

November 4, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

As compounding impacts from our worsening climate crisis become more visible around the globe, leading researchers at COP26 highlight urgent and interconnected risks and solutions. The 10 New Insights in Climate Science series is a […]

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PIK – The Ripple Factor: Economic losses from weather extremes can amplify each other across the world

November 1, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The difference between an accident and a disaster is that the former consists of a single incident, the latter  of a number of incidents – sometimes minor – that when they come together result in […]

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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

March 2, 2023 1

Book Review by Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington are authors of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies.  They launched their book with […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

January 8, 2023 0

Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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