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A global climate change accord calling on nearly 200 nations to make emissions cuts goes into effect this week. But will it be enough to save the planet? Photo courtesy of the U.N. Environment Programme. The U.N. Environment Programme dumped a bucket...

La Grande Bretagne encalminée / Claude Crampes et Thomas-Olivier Léautier, TSE debate, 15/12/2015 Le mercredi 4 novembre entre 17h et 18h, nos voisins britanniques ont dû résoudre un problème qui risque de se répéter dans tous les pays où la décarbonation...

The product of the COP 21 climate conference, the Paris Agreement [pdf], is usefully seen as a double-faced, precisely balanced coin. On one side are climate change mitigation commitments; on the other side are commitments of international public finance...

The world has come together and agreed to do something significant about climate change. Not as much as I’d like: it’s estimated that if we do just what’s been agreed to so far, we can expect 2.7°C of warming, and more pessimistic estimates range up...

Analysts say cuts in emissions will need to increase sixfold if the powerful G20 nations are to meet the climate challenge on reducing greenhouse gases. LONDON, 1 September 2016 – The promises made by the G20 group of the world’s leading economies to...