Le mois d’octobre fut excessivement riche en bonnes et mauvaises nouvelles au niveau environnemental et fut pour moi l’occasion d’écrire de nombreux articles. Au niveau des réjouissances on retiendra l’obtention du Prix Nobel de la Paix par les spécialistes du climat du GIEC et Al Gore ou le Grenelle de l’Environnement en France. La plus …
Many of my international readers have been willing to know more on le Grenelle de l’Environnement and the decisions that have been taken afterwards. They can rejoice as the concluding speech by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been translated into English, Spanish and German. You can access to the Adobe’s PDF full versions on …
This week in France takes place a series of events that are due to reduce the amount of waste produced. This is important as we are now producing nearly a kilogram per habitant per day. All this makes for the total population the equivalent of 2.800 Eiffel Tower. (or 28 million kilograms of waste each …
Some ideas are very promising to help us in mitigating climate change and among them are green roofs and walls. Planting grass or trees like in Manhattan (cf. picture) on top of buildings have many advantages as it decreases the air pollution, the local temperature of cities and greenhouse gases emissions and so on. In …
The United Nations Environment Program released last week its fourth Global Environment Outlook and issued “(its) final wake-up call to the international community” to tackle environmental issues. Among those threats are climate change, but also overfishing, air and water pollution and so on. This was written 20 years after the first version, known as the …
Yesterday in Paris took place what will perhaps be remembered as the green event of the decade in France. The President Nicolas Sarkozy detailed in a 30-minute speech a very ambitious plan that concluded weeks of discussions on environmental causes within what is called here Le Grenelle de l’Environnement. From transportation and housing to electricity …
The International Energy Agency released this week an interesting paper on energy efficiency and its importance. According to an IEA executive :“Improving energy efficiency is the most cost-effective concrete action governments can take in the short term to address climate change and energy security concerns” I propose in this article the main statements and findings …
Ce mois-ci fut pour moi l’occasion d’écrire en Français plus que d’habitude et de proposer un long article sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre selon la source d’énergie utilisée. Les principaux évènements furent la réunion des pays de la région Asie Pacifique (APEC) et les préparatifs au sein des Nations Unies des …
I have been reading and enjoying for some months the Business of green blog from the IHT. The RSS feeds of this blog are displayed on my sidebar. Today I was reading their latest article “Do low energy light bulbs work?” and I felt like giving my humble opinion on that matter and posted a …
The European Union will give a minimum of 50 million € (and up to 300 million) between 2008 and 2010 to developing countries. This will be done in order to enable these countries to cope with climate change related events and to reduce both local poverty and greenhouse gases emissions. Actions will notably include the …
