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The European Union presented last week its climate change mitigation and energy plan, and I am somehow disappointed by it. The final plan states a measure to decrease by a mere 20 percent greenhouse gases emissions by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. This is in total contradiction with what was mentioned in Bail (minimum of […]
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Avec un peu de retard, voici l’heure de vous proposer le résumé de mes articles du dernier mois de 2007. On retiendra diverses nouvelles de ces jours, bonnes et moins bonnnes, mais j’ai le sentiment que les choses vont dans la bonne direction, et ce meme si la situation requiert plus que jamais de grands
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We stay in the arctic region as today’s article is on Norway which expressed its willingness to become totally climate neutral by 2050. Being climate neutral means that one country – or one person – does not emit any greenhouse gases or when it does, offset its emissions. In this article I will have a
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Under the term permafrost, scientists refer to frozen soil that is mostly found in cold countries like Canada and Russia (cf. map from the UNEP on the left) Climate change might unfreeze these soils, which might be a serious danger as they contain very large quantities of methane, a very potent greenhouse gas. I previously
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According to several sources, including the Financial Times and the International Herald Tribune, the British government approved the building of new nuclear plants. This occurs as nuclear energy is becoming more and more interesting as it is the second lowest greenhouse gases energy solution behind hydro. This might be for this country the beginning of
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Albeit the fact I consider myself as an ecologist and took various actions to decrease my greenhouse gases emissions, I never really did any calculations of my impact. But the New year’s day brought me an opportunity to have a look at my CO2 emissions as I went to Nancy by train and I avoided
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This is perhaps the most serious and most worrying news of the beginning of the year as Canada reported last year the most important ice melting ever witnessed. According to the WWF, summer sea ice in the arctic could disappear within six years, much faster than previously thought about. Temperatures at the poles rise much
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I read this month The Revenge of Gaïa, the latest book from one of the major ecological thinkers of our time, Dr. James Lovelock. This book is not optimistic as the author believes it is already too late to work on sustainable development and that we have to operate a sustainable retreat. I truly enjoyed
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As the Bali Conference of Parties within the IPCC finished on December 14th, it is time for me to sum up the situation with what took place during those days. The least I can say is that the official position from the United States seriously endangered the negotiations and led to an agreement with minimum
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This is the question asked by Le Figaro [Fr] as the United Nations released a report that should urge ALL world leaders to make climate change mitigation their top priority. According to the UN, many countries in Africa, Asia and Americas might be seriously threatened by wars as their environments deteriorate in many ways. But
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