Tag: climate
White paper on climate risks: towards a 60% increase in claims in France in 30 years
With global warming, extreme weather events tend to increase and intensify. Including in France. And while awaiting the publication of the second part of the sixth report of the IPCC,…
Research: Brain size significantly affects birds ’ability to adapt to climate change
Climate change has been found to reduce the size of birds, but the magnitude of the change varies by species. Bird scientists have long found that climate change is shrinking…
Pension fund from Zeist no longer wants to invest in companies that ignore the Paris Climate Agreement
In practical terms, this means that companies that want investments from PFZW must commit to reducing CO2 emissions by the end of 2022 at the latest. If they do not,…
Will Zeist pension fund collapse under pressure from climate activists? ‘There are no more excuses’
The office of the pension fund has been occupied by activists a few times. There is also pressure from Zeist itself. A number of concerned local residents are members of…
Climate: no net zero carbon emissions without nuclear power, say researchers
The nuclear debate is raging. A little more still in these times of presidential campaign. The work unveiled today by researchers could shed light on the issue beyond Franco-French political…
Germany recruits Greenpeace chair as ‘climate ambassador’
It’s a political coup that the new German Foreign Minister has just pulled off. Ecologist Annalena Baerbock presented her new “special representative for international climate policy” at midday, who is…
Energy: what if blockchain saved the climate?
Let’s talk a bit about blockchain. This technology, whose name is traditionally associated with digital uses, stores information and transactions in encrypted form, and secures them in distributed, tamper-proof computer…
Climate crisis: ‘Big companies like Amazon, Google and Apple are not meeting their goals’
According to a new study, the world’s largest companies do not comply with the climate targets they set, and they exaggerate their efforts towards these targets. Google, Amazon, Ikea, Apple…
Coal: public enemy no. 1 of the climate is resisting
A disastrous snub to the planet, and to the climate. The British leaders, hosts of the last edition of the United Nations Conference on the climate had however sworn it,…
Climate activists occupy site of pension fund in Zeist, already tenth action
“There are between 10 and 20 activists on the site. Staff who were supposed to be at the office today were let in on foot. It is quite calm here,”…