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 June 2012 tweets Read More »
Fossil fuels lobbies and anti climate change think tanks alike are getting more and more desperate as connect the dots and demand action on greenhouse gases and pollutions of all kinds. As if this wasn’t enough, Senator Bernie Sanders (Independant from Vermont) and Congressman Keith Ellison (Democrat from Minnesota) introduced a bill to end polluter welfare. If
US fossil fuels interests are getting desperate Read More »
Here is another post I wrote for Cleantechies. This one is on how renewable energy sources like solar, wind and so on are progressing accross the European Union. I hope you will like it. Here is the beginning : ” According to Eurostat, the share of renewable energy sources in the gross final energy consumption in
Share of renewables keep increasing in Europe Read More »
A thousand billion dollars, or if you prefer, a trillion dollar. This is the staggering amount of money you and I are handing out to Big Fossil fuel companies each year by the mean of governmental subsidies. At a time of climate weirding and warming, massive pollutions of our air, water and soil, massive unemployment
It is high time to end fossil fuels subsidies Read More »
I wasn’t planning to write anything about it last week, but the football game opposing France and Ukraine during the Euro was interrupted by torrential rain. This was the first according to commentators. Now, many events related to the Fête de la Musique have been canceled in the North and East of France – including
Climate change probably disrupted popular events Read More »
Yes, you read that right. With all the fuss about renewable energies like solar, wind, hydro, geothermal and so on, the energy source that saw its use increase the most recently is the dirtiest of them all : coal. As the BP Statistical Review 2012 reports : ” Coal was again the fastest growing fossil
The inexorable rise of… coal Read More »
India is willing to increase significantly its clean energy output as it is willing to reach 53 GW by 2017. In the next five years it will add almost 30 GW, to be compared to the 13 GW added to the grids in the last five years. As Bloomberg notes : ” to add 15,000
India to add 30 GW of renewables by 2017 Read More »
Even today too many people are still believing that cleantech isn’t making financial sense. Some others think that we the current crisis, we can’t spend money on futilities. Here is a post that could make them change their minds. The Green Market Blog collected forecasts and the prospects are enthusing as “ the global market
Cleantech is the next great investment opportunity Read More »
” What if the European Union solved the triple crisis – economy, energy, environment – by solving the financial one ? Alice Stollmeyer sent me last week a link of project to do just that. “ ” Some European nations – Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal – are owing more and more money to the European
EU countries could pay back their debts With renewables Read More »
As Treehugger reported last week, the Japanese company Sharp has broken another record : 43.5 percent of efficiency, to be compared with their previous record, 36.9% efficiency which had been reached in November 2011. Typical solar panels in the market today still have around 15 or 20 percent of efficiciency. But research is breaking records
Another solar efficiency record : 43.5 % Read More »
