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According to the 390-pages atlas released by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Africa is changing rapidly because of many factors like deforestation and climate change. The already fragile environments are under pressure due to wars, the increasing population and water scarcity, a major problem as 300 million people suffer from it. However, all these […]
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You perhaps remember my enthusiastic post on the launch of the WE campaign, by the former US Vice President Al Gore and the Alliance for Climate Protection. This time, a UK initiative that has the same goal (to enable us to decrease our daily CO2 emissions) is going global as it is being launched in
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As I stated previously, no energy solution answer perfectly to all our needs. Renewables are no exception as they also suffer from two main issues : low energy density and intermittance. According to the French magazine Science & Vie, this poses a serious problem which compromises the dream of a future where we would get
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The International Energy Agency released today an interesting report urging once again its members to work on technologies that might solve the energy-climate equation. Stating that it is now or never, the experts believe that if nothing was done CO2 emissions would soar by 130 percent by mid century when in the opposite, they need
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June fifth is important as it is the World Environment Day (WED) and my sister’s birthday (Joyeux anniversaire !). But since you don’t care that much about one event let’s talk about the other… The WED is one of the main opportunities for the United Nations Environment Programme to promote environmentally friendly behaviors and climate
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Germany is often quoted as the definite example in climate change mitigation. However, as with all black and white fallacies, it is not really the case and the situation is not that simple. Indeed, even if our neighboring country gets far more energy from renewables than we are, it relies much too heavily on coal,
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According to an official US federal report, climate change will seriously alter the country, and this in many ways such as water and crops growth. This study represents the shift of policy on climate change of the current administration and will probably motivate the next one on tackling climate change. Indeed, the threat seems to
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According to two different sources – the UNHCR and the NGO Christian Aid – as much as a billion people may find themselves homeless or stateless by the middle of century. Stateless might be too strong a word, but with the situation of countries like Bengladesh and many islands threatened by rising sea levels, this
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According to a study released in the US magazine Nature, the carbon dioxide and methane concentrations are currently at their highest in the last 800,000 years. This is the conclusion drawn by European scientists after drilling the ice of Antarctica over 3 kilometers. According to Le Figaro it is the result of more than 20
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Lord Nicholas Stern released last month a new report on climate change mitigation : Key Elements of a Global Deal on Climate Change (pdf). It focuses on the increasing risks of inaction and stresses that the commitments of both developed and developing countries are vital. To the AFP quoting Lord Stern, he underestimated the threat
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