The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is ever more pressing. Various forms of action are available to Governments to achieve this goal. The economic instrument is one of them and taxation is one of its modalities. With the collapse in the price of a barrel of oil, which is likely to become
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The life-crushing machine just went haywire with the coronavirus crisis. But the consequences that result from our lack of foresight make it necessary to alert and mobilize on the urgency of other dangers that have not disappeared during this pause for health reasons of the weather: global warming, disappearance, etc.
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More than ten days after the fire, during the night of 25 to 26 September, at the Lubrizol factory, classified as a Seveso site, the harvesting of fruit and vegetables was banned in around a hundred towns in Normandy and the Hauts-de-France region. Doubts, mistrust, and grey areas remain in the
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Twelve months after the launch of a major national plan, the energy renovation of buildings seems to be at a standstill, according to the Cler - Network for Energy Transition. In the face of the current climate change, it is urgent that acceleration strategies and concrete responses are implemented, in particular
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According to the projections and scenarios of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2017, without a significant contribution from improved energy efficiency, global energy needs will increase by a further 30% by 2040 (of which 2/3 will be in Asia), which is equivalent to adding another China and India to the
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Climate change is a threat to food security. There will be 9 billion people to feed in 2050. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food production will need to increase by 70 % over the next 35 years to feed our planet. What
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The exit of the United States from the Paris Agreement, announced in June, sent a first negative signal. Since then, numerous reports have pointed to a worrying gap between the objectives collectively agreed in Paris and the actions actually taken. The rich countries are financially cautious while the poor countries are not.
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