Wolfgang Blau

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Managing Partner, Climate Hub, The Brunswick Group / Co-Founder Oxford Climate Journalism Network. Past: President International of Condé Nast / Exec. Director Digital Strategy, The Guardian / Editor-in-Chief, www.zeit.de.
Affilitions: Advisory board UNFCCC / Trustee Internews.org / Visiting Fellow 2023, University of Pennsylvania, Perry World House.
Climate Change
Climate Crisis
Climate Communication
Climate Strategy
Wolfgang BlauAug 3, 2025

“Intermittency of Renewables”. Well, yes. Some news about the growing intermitttency of nuclear power stations:

Financial Times: “Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars” https://on.ft.com/4fsSclS

Wolfgang BlauMar 16, 2023
Spending the week in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, preparing for the UN Climate Summit COP28 which will take place here from Nov 30 to Dec 12 this year. This will be the venue for it.
Wolfgang BlauJan 22, 2023
Icy Hampstead Heath this morning. (London)
Wolfgang BlauJan 20, 2023
Germany’s national ARD-TV interviewed me about the prominence of climate change as a topic at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. (Spoiler: Was it prominent? Yes. Was it prominent enough: No, it wasn’t.)
Video: https://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/video/video-1143971.html
Wolfgang Blau, Managing Partner Climate Hub Brunswick Group, zur grünen Transformation von Unternehmen

Wolfgang Blau, Managing Partner Climate Hub Brunswick Group, zur grünen Transformation von Unternehmen

tagesschau.de
Wolfgang BlauJan 12, 2023

The World Economic Forum’s top-3 long-term risks are all climate-related:

https://www.weforum.org/reports/global-risks-report-2023/

Global Risks Report 2023 | World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2023 explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade that include energy supply and food crisis, rising inflation, cyberattacks, failure to meet net-zero targets, weaponization of economic policy, weakening of human rights.

World Economic Forum
Wolfgang BlauJan 7, 2023
I’ll be at the #WEF in Davos to speak, learn more and meet about climate change, the need for greater corporate climate literacy (board level and management) and the role of and potential for corporations in fighting climate change.
If you will be there and think we should meet, I still have some time open and will enjoy hearing from you.
Wolfgang BlauJan 4, 2023
Link: https://t.co/hgrZwj2N5C
How journalists can better sound the alarm on climate change

A Q&A on climate change coverage w/ Oxford Climate Journalism Network co-founder Wolfgang Blau Wolfgang Blau, the co-founder of Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN), started his career as a radio news presenter and news editor in Germany. After working for different … Continue reading →

Center for Journalism Ethics
Wolfgang BlauJan 3, 2023
My cat likes to sleep with climate books.
Wolfgang BlauJan 2, 2023
Remarkable online tool for US residents to see the wide range of discounts and tax credits they can get since Jan 1st under the Inflation Reduction Act. From solar panels to heat pumps and electric stoves to electric vehicles:
https://www.rewiringamerica.org/app/ira-calculator
Household Electrification Savings Calculator

How much money could I save with the Inflation Reduction Act?

Rewiring America
Wolfgang BlauJan 1, 2023
Been playing around with OpenAI’s image generator DALL.E and asked it to ‘carve a Tesla out of coal’: