Jeff Bezos, the billionaire boss of Amazon announced a few days ago that he was giving 10 billion dollars of his personal fortune to save the planet. A spectacular announcement that immediately made the world go round the world. Yet the details of this investment are for the moment very rare.
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A few weeks ago, a conference was held at the Collège de France organized by the Institut Louis Bachelier, bringing together a group of top economists. The first surprise, which is not a surprise at all, was a magnificent graph showing the close link between growth in world gross domestic product and growth in energy consumption since 1990.
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Despite all the warnings from scientists, the climate marches, the growing awareness of public opinion, the protests of young and old, the fine speeches of governments and the fine palaver of industrialists, the world continues to walk on its head. The world's energy experts have
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To produce electricity in thermal power stations, coal has been the king fuel since the 19th century. With global warming and commitments more or less shared by everyone to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, black fuel has found itself, at
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Étudiant en audiovisuel, vidéaste scientifique, réalisateur amateur ou passionné de sciences ? L’Andra, en partenariat avec Pariscience, vous invite à participer au concours de courts métrages « Regards sur les déchets radioactifs ». Le principe ? Proposer un projet de court métrage sur le thème des déchets radioactifs en répondant à
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In 2015, the then Minister of the Environment, Energy and the Sea set up a committee to assess projects and compliance with the carbon budget and low-carbon strategy, multi-year energy programming projects for metropolitan France, etc. to support this assessment mission,
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The number of authorized wind turbines has collapsed. For France, which wants to present itself as a climate champion, the situation is becoming embarrassing. All the more so as the persistent delay in approving new projects is fuelling speculation that the French government has an ulterior motive for slowing down the expansion of wind power:
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La transition énergétique est souvent un thème de discorde. Tout le monde admet la nécessité de changer nos modèles énergétiques ; il en va de notre survie sur cette planète. Les solutions existent, souvent en nombre et anarchiques. Elles possèdent toutes plus ou moins d’externalités négatives avec lesquelles il faut faire
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Bitcoin is regularly in the headlines. This star of the cryptodevises arouses both waves of enthusiasm, sometimes hysterical, and the darkest fears and suspicions. Two studies have just been published simultaneously, shedding new light on cryptomoney. These are energy chasms that emit in
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Today, digital technology is almost unanimously regarded as the main lever for economic and social development. In developed countries, where the digital transformation of businesses and the public sector is accelerating, it is often seen as the key solution for returning to growth. In developing countries, its
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According to a report by the National Observatory of Energy Precariousness, one French person in five is in energy precariousness, i.e. their energy expenses exceed 10 % of their income. This leads to public health problems and situations of exclusion. On 25 September, the Grenoble INP Foundation inaugurated a chair in energy security.
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In order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, we must stop using fossil fuels. Because we cannot wait to act before we know whether the renewable gas bet will be won, we must now seek to restrict the use of gas by relying on other decarbonated energies, such as electricity, etc., to achieve carbon neutrality.
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L’énergie cristallise toutes les facettes des relations que nous nouons avec nos propres techniques, et tous les malentendus qu’elles suscitent. La source de ces malentendus vient de ce que nous considérons nos techniques comme des absolus, se suffisant à elles-mêmes, permettant de tout trancher, de nous extraire de n’importe quelle
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Launched in November 2017 by the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Solidarity Transition, the "My Project for the Planet" scheme invites citizens to propose projects in the fields of energy, the circular economy and biodiversity. Internet users now have until May 11 to submit their proposals.
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Issue de la Loi sur la transition énergétique de 2015, la Programmation pluriannuelle de l’énergie (PPE) fixe tous les cinq ans les objectifs de consommation et de production d’énergie que se donne la France pour les 5 à 10 ans à venir. Pour le prochain exercice, aux horizons 2023 et
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Nicolas Hulot, Jacques Mézard et Julien Denormandie, ont installé aujourd’hui le comité de pilotage du plan de rénovation énergétique des bâtiments. Objectif : coconstruire une France sobre en carbone. Animé par Marjolaine Meynier-Millefert, députée de l’Isère, et Alain Maugard, président de Qualibat, le comité aura pour mission de coconstruire et
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MINES ParisTech invites you to discover the portraits of its doctoral students and their careers, in connection with the School and its research centres. Today, a meeting with Romain Dupin, PhD student at the Centre PERSEE (Processes, Renewable Energies and Energy Systems). A young researcher of 27 years old, Romain Dupin has been working for
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Les Assises européennes de la transition énergétique auront lieu à Genève les 30, 31 janvier et 1er février 2018. Pour aborder cette importante rencontre, Green Cross France et Territoires propose ici une tribune de Nicolas Imbert, Directeur exécutif de Green Cross France et Territoires, sur le thème « Solidarité entre énergies :
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Published on September 18 in the very serious journal "Geosciences", under the title, "The carbon budget and the trajectory to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees", an international study deserves our full attention. According to this work, led by Professors Richard Millar (University of Oxford), Jan S. Fuglestvedt
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The company is putting pressure on the energy suppliers! In addition to a growing and increasingly connected population and manufacturers demanding a seamless network, suppliers are facing an environmental challenge pushed by governments since COP21. How to produce constant energy for all, without
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