Tag: Climate and transitions
Flamanville EPR: delays, anomalies and lack of manpower… EDF’s cursed site
Cursed site, industrial fiasco, French nuclear nightmare… The qualifiers have been threadbare and the misadventures of the Normandy site are countless. The Flamanville EPR will experience another six-month delay before…
Heating with wood and pellets: still a profitable alternative?
By investing this year in two pellet stoves in addition to his gas boiler, Gilles was convinced to make a deal. But the reality looks more complex than he thought.…
“It’s the gold rush”: agrivoltaism whets the appetite of energy companies
Thus separated from each other, attached by a thin metal frame culminating 5 meters in height and posts arranged every 27 meters, one would believe that the photovoltaic panels of…
Carbon border tax: for Europe, the hardest part begins
A historic decision. And the term is not overused. On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the European Union endorsed the decision to create a carbon border adjustment mechanism (MACF).…
Critical materials: how the European Union can regain sovereignty
83% of the world’s primary energy comes from fossil fuels. Reducing the dependence of our societies to limit global warming and anticipate the depletion of deposits will require increased use…
EDF and SNCF: culture of monopoly or climate, you have to choose!
Inflation, high-intensity war in Europe, energy crisis: one by one, the landmarks that used to structure the world are falling to the benefit of chronic instability. And yet, in this…
Giving a diamond at Christmas, a bad idea?
When you give a diamond to your significant other, are you committing… ecocide? Yes, the production of these natural gemstones pollutes. Firstly because to find it, you have to dig…
Covid-19, Mpox, avian flu… The decline of biodiversity threatens us all
Animals of all kinds locked up in a market, a confined city, an invisible enemy raging, the world soon to its knees… The beginning of the script for a disaster…
Coffee, cocoa, meat… These products resulting from deforestation are now banned by the EU
No traceability, therefore no cocoa, or even coffee… After long negotiations, the European Parliament and the EU Member States reached an agreement overnight from Monday to Tuesday to ban imports…
Adrien Estève: “For the armies, the climate is never the first priority”
The climate crisis cuts across all strata of society. The army, too, wonders about the upheavals in progress and to come. From the use of weapons with more than harmful…