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As I noted last week, the prestigious International Energy Agency reported that despite some emission reductions from the United States and Europe, the world keeps on spewing more and more gigatonnes of greenhouse gases. Luckily, the IEA proposes in its latest report four energy policies that would cut by eight percent the 2020 emissions compared […]
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While emissions in Brazil, the United States or Europe decrease, global greenhouse gases emissions keep on increasing. Indeed the International Energy Agency – IEA – has noted that global emissions increased by 1.4 percent in 2012. If nothing was done to reverse this nefarious trend, the average global temperature would increase by a massive 5.3°C.
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According to the New Scientist ” Humanity has a second chance to stop dangerous climate change. Temperature data from the last decade offers an unexpected opportunity to stay below the agreed international target of 2 °C of global warming. ” A new analysis (…) suggests that Earth will warm more slowly over this century than we
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Yesterday Alice Stollmeyer asked on Twitter “ What should the European Commission do to improve air quality ? ” as she is participating today to a EU chat session dedicated to green topics. My answer was quite simple: Ban new coal projects and phase out the existing capacity. Replace by efficiency and renewables. This would
Could the European Union ban coal ? When ? Read More »
After a quite long hiatus, here is a new article I wrote for Cleantechies. In this one we see how the European Union has almost reached its emissions goals for 2020 and what should be done now. Here is the introduction : ” According to the latest statistics from Eurostat, greenhouse gases emissions in the
European emissions decreased by 2.1 percent in 2012 Read More »
We have seen time and again that the People’s Republic is doing a lot to fight against climate change. Energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear, even a carbon tax, no option is left unused and this is good news. Meanwhile, we have seen that the country is more than plagued by pollutions and environmental problems of all
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If you are scared – or even simply concerned – by climate change, odds are that you might have weatherized your place, turned to efficient appliances and lightbulbs and perhaps even ditched your car. While these actions and many others are quite obvious, they might not have the biggest impacts. Kelly Rigg, the Executive Director
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I have been committed since January 2007 to bring you each month a selection of the latest headlines and best researches on sustainable development, climate change and the world energy sector. However, I don’t blog as much as I would like to and generally write around 25 posts per month. But many more news are
Worth an article – my April 2013 tweets Read More »
Given how Humankind keeps on spewing dozens of billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year, this was expected : carbon dioxide concentration have reached 400 parts per million. While this may sound mundane to most people, this is a real event, and one that could have dire consequences. Last time CO2 concentration were this high,
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Fossil fuels are making less and less sense as renewable energies are becoming cheaper and cheaper and as climate change is becoming more and more serious. This is even more the case since we’ll have to leave most of it buried. The Guardian, the Financial Times and the Economist published compelling articles on a new
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