Tag: Carbon
“Companies can now display carbon neutrality devoid of any physical reality”
Tribune. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines carbon neutrality as the balance, on a global scale, between CO2 emissions and removals2 anthropogenic over a given period. In line…
“There can be no exit from carbon without real redistribution of income and assets”
Environmental activists protest as world leaders participate in COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, November 3, 2021. BAY ISMOYO / AFP THEhe COP26 started in Glasgow (Scotland). Let’s say it up front:…
Carbon neutrality, a distant horizon for the Indian giant
The second most populous country, with its 1.3 billion inhabitants, the third largest polluter in the world, India largely holds the climate battle in its hands. Without major effort on…
India surprises by promising carbon neutrality by 2070
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his statement at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland on November 1, 2021. ALASTAIR GRANT / AP India created the surprise, Monday 1er November, in Glasgow,…
Australia announces goal of carbon neutrality by 2050
A coal mine in Singleton, north of Sydney, in November 2015. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal, on which much of its electricity generation is based. WILLIAM WEST…
With its carbon border tax, the European Union is accused of protectionism
In front of the European Commission building, in Brussels, on May 24, 2021. JOHN THYS / AFP It is a new source of tension between developed and emerging countries in…
How Britain plans to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) and Microsoft founder Bill Gates at a green finance summit in London on October 19, 2021. LEON NEAL / AFP Only ten days before…
Europe divides on expanding carbon market
QUENTIN FALCOMPRESSED The European Union (EU) wants to be at the forefront of the fight against global warming, and it is true that it is, for the moment, ahead of…
the negaWatt scenario to achieve carbon neutrality
Wind turbines near Allonnes (Sarthe), July 20, 2021. JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP No construction of a new nuclear reactor, energy consumption halved, electricity production 100% from renewable energies … The…
“Rationing, a future alternative to the carbon tax? “
Tribune. How to meet our climate commitments? Today, the objective of achieving “carbon neutrality” in 2050, set by the national low carbon strategy (SNBC), remains so abstract that we are…
Carbon neutrality: Germany takes stock
“Climate crisis made in Germany”: projection by Greenpeace of portraits of German political figures on a chimney of the Neurath thermal power station (North Rhine-Westphalia). BERND LAUTER / AFP Houses…
Danger to waste incineration: carbon is causing problems for recycling companies
Monday, August 30, 2021 Risk of waste incineration Carbon causes problems for recycling companies Carbon is a high-tech plastic that is just as suitable for car and bicycle construction as…