Policy Advisor for European Affairs | Expat in Brussels | Technology enthusiast

Brussels, Belgium
Joined January 2020
“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”
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Herzlich willkommen im #VÖB, @SimonKessel! Als Referent für Sustainable Finance ist Simon für das Team Europa und Internationales in unserem Büro in Brüssel aktiv. Vorher war er in selbiger Stadt für den @VKUonline tätig. Wir wünschen weiterhin einen erfolgreichen Einstieg!🥳
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Happy #WorldCleanAirDay! And if you're in Brussels, remember to avoid being outside between 12h and 22h because the air is poison.
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Could you imagine if Biden pulled a trillion dollar coin from behind Kevin McCarthy's ear on live television? It would be the greatest moment in American history.
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Microsoft released copilot in Excel, and it is officially caught up with Google on the AI race. Fantastic to watch.
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The future of email with ChatGPT.
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Well this kinda captures the European approach to climate policy in a nutshell...
Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050...
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Love it.
Denmark's public transit agency has made the greatest transit advertisement of all time. No notes. (Din Offentlige Transport)
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Heute hat die deutsche Bahn sich gegen Bielefeld und für Minden entschieden. Hätte ich auch so gemacht.
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Land use with gas cars vs. land use with EVs (artist’s rendering)
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German Car Lobby Chief Says Government Should ‘Seize This Climate Change Opportunity’ And Build A New Autobahn On Drying Rhine Riverbed
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„Das war es, was wir unter Klimawandel erwartet haben, vielleicht für einen späteren Zeitpunkt, vielleicht 2040-2045, aber nicht zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt. Deswegen kann man auch durchaus sagen, dass wir das Problem unterschätzt haben.“ Forscher Dr. Andreas Marx @UFZ_de bei @ARTEde
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Es ist echt beunruhigend, wie extrem Menschen weltweit gerade von Hitzewellen betroffen sind. Frankreich: Noch nie wurden dort so früh im Jahr 40°C gemessen, die Bahn warnt, dass die Gleise der Hitze nicht standhalten könnten. AKWs müssen ihre Leistung drosseln, weil Dürre /1
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"one point is becoming alarmingly clear to scientists: heat is a pollen killer. Even with adequate water, heat can damage pollen & prevent fertilization in canola & many other crops, including corn, peanuts, & rice" "At stake is much of our diet." #food e360.yale.edu/features/polle…
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We are approaching the climate tipping point - where feedback loops kick in and disasters become unmanageable. You need to know about this. You need to know before it's too late. 🧵
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“The first problem is that there are thousands of different plastics… They all include chemical additives and colorants that cannot be recycled together, making it impossible to sort the trillions of pieces of plastics into separate types for processing.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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Scientists say the public should be terrified by the deluge of recent extinction research known as 'the Apocalypse Papers' calling for it to immediately become part of daily human conversations. 🧵
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BREAKING: huge trove of files obtained by hacking into Xinjiang police / re-education camp computers contain first-ever image material from inside camps, reveal Chen Quanguo issuing shoot-to-kill orders, Xi Jinping demanding new camps because existing ones are overcrowded. 🧵
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Someone actually made a David Attenborough style voiceover for this video of a destroyed Russian tank.
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