Utrecht University Utrecht University in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University ranking World University Rankings provided by Times Higher Education. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence a thread 🧵1/16

67 Greenlandic women suing Denmark, saying they were fitted with IUDs without their consent or knowledge between 1966 and 1970. Some were as young as 13. Move was part of a plan to reduce Greenland’s population, by Miranda Bryant theguardian.com/world/2023/oct… via The Guardian #bioethics

Our #decarbonization working group, led by Valeria Zambianchi and Chris Höhne, meets on Taskforce Meeting day of the 2023 Radboud Earth System Governance conference from 11am-1pm. Join to discuss all things climate mitigation! earthsystemgovernance.org/2023radboud/ta…

The levels of historical illiteracy of at least three concepts deserves an award in its own right. But he's too busy retweeting anti-semitism approvingly to try and learn

Today on EHN: Valeria Zambianchi's recent talk w/ Josie Chambers abt co-production of knowledge, the concept of failure in env conservation, methodological rigour + “futuring” towards sustainabilityas part of our #DoingEnvHist series. envhistnow.com/2023/11/21/env… #EnvHist #EnvHum

Great to share my thoughts on how environmental histories connect to environmental futures, through an interview with Valeria Zambianchi of Environmental History Now. envhistnow.com/2023/11/21/env…

Really excited about this piece on histories and futures for environmental sustainability on Environmental History Now Big thanks to Josie Chambers for such an insightful conversation on co-production, futuring, utopia, and more🌱🪻

This is climate coloniality again: A capitalist-colonial capture of opportunities that could have made some headway, but now a theater of spectacle disguised with rhetoric. The #COP28 with huge fossil-fuel industry representation & access to documents was doomed from the start.

Meanwhile, Oxfam International lays it all out in their latest report. oxfam.org/en/research/cl… It's like we're living in 2 realities: one for plebes like us, where climate is a real thing, one stupid fantasyland for the super rich to keep on being terrible. #COP28 for oilmen and billionaires.

This is far beyond alarming. A takeover of councils by corporations will make Britain one of the most exploited and corporatised states anywhere in the world. Local democracy is desperately important for a functioning society.

They meet in secret to learn how to "heal" LGBT people Nikolaeva, antonia groß and I went undercover to Europe’s invite-only conversion therapy conference, hosted by a British company that's ‘home for the once-gay’. Out now in Byline Times & taz bylinetimes.com/2023/12/09/the…

New cars in EU and UK growing 1cm wider every two years, shows report - indicative of our urban stupidity. Regulate before urban life is eradicated. theguardian.com/business/2024/…

🌐 How can we make multilateral environmental agreements more effective? Delighted to share my first PhD publication with Rakhyun E. Kim PROBLEMSHIFTING, delving into the impact of complex interactions of MEAs. doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2… #OpenAccess

Delighted to share our latest from Valeria Zambianchi and Kato van Speybroeck on colonialism and university rankings, as part of our ongoing Tools for Change series #envhist #envhum envhistnow.com/2024/03/28/see…

Happy and thrilled to share this essay! Very much enjoyed reflecting about re-imagination of the present to mitigate the climate crisis via the multidimensional worlds of “Flatland” 💫 Big thanks Edge Effects for the opportunity + grateful for editorial support Rudy Molinek 🙏

CfP alert ⚠️ Our Working Group on Decarbonization is hosting two exciting virtual panels at the 2024 ESG Forum and we're open for abstract contributions!

Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds theguardian.com/environment/ar…

"Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.." Time to revisit Rebecca Solnit's "Hope in the Dark," written in the middle of a senseless war under a senseless administration themarginalian.org/2016/03/16/reb…

🔍 An investigation by United States Senate Democrats revealed that major oil companies have not only misled the public on climate change for decades, but continue to misinform about their climate “solutions”. drilled.media/news/ccs

“The fossil fuel industry remains the biggest obstacle to the clean-energy transition, and climate disinformation remains its most potent tool.” Aaron Regunberg jacobin.com/2024/08/climat…