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A Ratatouille advertisement promotes energy efficiency

The US Department of Energy recently released a 30-second TV advertisement featuring Pixar’s latest film, Ratatouille. This video urges people to turn to low consumption light bulbs and to a more energy efficient living in order “to power and secure America’s future”. I really liked this advertisement as the goal it is aiming at is …

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Mexico invests three billion USD in wind energy

The Mexican government plans to invest up to three billion US Dollars (2.18 billion €) in the next three years in wind power. This will be done in order to generate up to 2,000 megawatts (MW). The Ministry of Energy will team up with local companies to implement wind turbines throughout the country. Seven companies …

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Résumé du mois d’août 2007

Le mois dernier fut marqué par de nombreux évènements en relation avec l’énergie, le changement climatique et le développement durable. On a parlé notamment du regain d’intérêt du nucléaire avec les Etats-Unis et l’Inde qui veulent construire des dizaines de réacteurs et d’un projet des Nations Unies qui a permis de planter des millions d’arbres …

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UN prepare the negotiations of after Kyoto

The United Nations met last week in Vienna and agreed on recognizing the target set by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They thus made the first step toward action. The target agreed upon mentions a decrease of 25 to 40 percent of global greenhouse gases by 2020. This meeting was preparing the Bali …

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Third generation of PV panels on the way

My Belgian friend Qat recently wrote on his blog an interesting article on the forthcoming generation of photovoltaïc captors. These new solar technology is due to have a yield of 40 percent, a huge improvement as the current ones have a yield of “only” 17 percent. This news was originally reported by the magazine of …

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On July 31st, ten millions of trees were planted in India

As I mentioned it there, the Chinese government is planting billion of trees. It seems that similar projects are under way in India and elsewhere. According to the United Nations Environment Program more than 10 million trees were planted on July 31st by 600,000 people in Uttar Pradesh. As deforestation accounts for a fifth of …

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Investments in renewables could hit $750bn by 2016

According to Ernst & Young, one of the largest auditing companies in the world, the global renewable energies market could be the subject of investments worth up to USD 750 billions by 2016 (559 billions Euros). In 2006, the global investments in these energy sources were of USD 100 billions. According to the United Nations, …

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The deforestation of Amazonian forest is slowing down

According to the Brazilian Environment Ministry, the deforestation of the Amazonian forest have slowed down by 25 percent in Brazil in 2006 from 2005. Mr. Luiz Inacio da Silva, the President of Brazil, stated that preserving the environment doesn’t need to slow the economic growth as the latest statistics showed. I will tackle more in …

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India to build more nuclear plants

India, the largest democracy in the world, is currently building six reactors and plans to build nearly twenty more by the year 2020. To do so, the country will rely on foreign technology and companies like the French Areva or the US Westinghouse are beginning negotiations to enter this huge market. This is done to …

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Extreme weather events are occurring worldwide

As I mentioned it previously in this article, in January the UK Met Office forecast that 2007 would break all-time records on a meteorological point of view. By reviewing the data available with the first months of the year, it seems to be absolutely the case. This is what the United Nations revealed via one …

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