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📚 Be recognised for creating a policy research powerhouse delivering internationally-leading research publications and resources.
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🎓 Have trained a cohort of the next generation of climate change, energy and biodiversity post-graduate scholars
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🌍 Be recognised for leading global conversations on “what works” in terms of effective climate change innovation and policy
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🤝 Have research- and policy-oriented collaborations with key international stakeholders
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🥅 Have traceably influenced the future UN Sustainable Development Goals framework
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Wonderful to have you here! Thank you for an excellent discussion - it was great hearing about the next big innovations from all of the panellists.
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Very pleased to see you here, Mari!
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New paper available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by Florian Nachtigall, Felix Wagner, Peter Berrill and @efesce.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social
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By applying this method to urban planning in Berlin, they found that 64,000 planned housing units could reduce emissions by 43 percentage points. This highlights the importance of evidence-based planning to effectively mitigate CO2 emissions in cities.
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Factors like age, income, and car ownership also play a significant role, with the biggest impact on middle-aged, high-income, car-owning households.
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New research uses a double machine learning approach to tackle this issue, analysing travel diaries from 32,201 Berlin residents. The researchers discovered that ignoring these complex effects overestimates the impact of city design on emissions by 13%–18%.
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Find the full article here 👇 bennettinstitutesussex.org/stories/an-e...
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@efesce.bsky.social's abridged opinion piece now available in English here: bennettinstitutesussex.org/stories/rapi...
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Full article in @tagesspiegel.de in German: www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/macht...
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Immediate political action is needed to prevent AI from destabilising democratic systems. Responsibility lies with developers, companies, and governments.
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AI systems cause significant ecological damage due to their enormous energy and water consumption. DeepSeek is very efficient, but cheap use could lead to a further scaling of use and the associated climate damage
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Social media platforms should detect and remove AI-supported disinformation early. The EU must enforce the Digital Services Act and GDPR more consistently, with heavy fines for violations and a dedicated task force.
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Proposed technical and regulatory countermeasures: robust training and procedures for detecting fake content, diverse training data, regular audits, transparency requirements, and independent security testing.
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Particularly worrying is that AI-supported disinformation in social media is manipulating voters, generating realistic fake news and deepfakes. Conventional disinformation detection methods are easily circumvented, threatening democratic processes.
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AI malfunctions can lead to biased decision-making, increased discrimination, and false information generation.
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3 key risk types: malicious use, malfunction, and systemic. AI's ability to create disinformation, facilitate cyber attacks, and develop dangerous technologies is particularly alarming.
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Green Flight Paths align efforts and interventions for globally important airport hubs like Heathrow. The need for SAF must be coupled with capability and responsibility as key drivers for action, if we are to strive for a just transition towards a net zero future. doi.org/10.1039/D4EE...
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3rd runway or no, it is essential that production capacity for SAF be rapidly accelerated, supply chains for low-carbon energy and materials for SAF synthesis be strengthened, and infrastructure investment be unlocked swiftly
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A 3rd runway in line with climate targets may be possible; not because SAF is a "game changer", but because it is essential.
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We are nowhere near at the production capacity needed: the UK's SAF target is only 10% by 2030
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SAF shines for reducing emissions for long-haul, but interventions like electrification are better for short-haul