Tag: Climate and transitions
Clean energy, green batteries, carbon-free steel: the promises of the Swedish “laboratory”
What could be more detestable than a jet ski? Answer: a snowmobile. Noisy and 50 times more polluting than a car – but essential in snowy expanses until the end…
SNCF: climate change, a serious threat to rail
Drought, fires, heat waves, floods… The year 2022 will have been marked by meteorological phenomena of rare intensity, destined to repeat themselves. And for many sectors, the consequences of climate…
Drought: artificial groundwater recharge, a viable solution?
Alerts follow one another on the level of underground water tables. The vast majority shows a very low level for the season, auguring a summer period marked by droughts, even…
Energy transition: let’s focus more on territories and Europe
The energy transition occupies all spheres: from companies to individuals, the most concerned; from energy companies to distributors, of course; but above all that of institutional players, who have put…
Green Industry Tax Credit: Who are the winners and losers?
Objective: to reindustrialize France. Emmanuel Macron unveiled this Thursday, May 11, a series of measures intended to “accelerate” reindustrialization, which he considers “the mother of battles”. It will also make…
Reduction of pesticides: when the European right opposes the Commission
“Now is not the time to jeopardize Europe’s food security.” One year before the European elections, the European People’s Party (EPP), the leading political force in the Strasbourg Parliament, has…
Reindustrialisation: tax credit, car bonus… What to remember from Macron’s announcements
After the weeks of heckling caused by the pension reform, Emmanuel Macron is reinvesting in the economic field, unveiling his strategy to “accelerate” the “reindustrialization” of France. In front of…
Global warming: the Council of State asks the government to take “additional” measures
The Council of State demanded that the government take “all useful additional measures” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within a year, in a decision published on Wednesday May 10 on…
Faced with droughts, are vertical farms the solution?
To produce one kilo of lettuce, you need about… 250 liters of water. For cucumber 350 and up to 700 liters for the same quantity of apples. As the drought…
Russian gas, how to do without it? The study that shows the way forward for the EU
The question agitated all political leaders from the first weeks of the invasion in Ukraine: will the European Union be able to do without Russian gas? Very dependent, it has…