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A 6th synthesis report published by the IPCC ? At the end of March 2023, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) completed its 6th cycle of analysis on the state of scientific knowledge on climate change. The first volume was published in August 2021, the second in February 2022 and the third in April …

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Adapting to a changing climate : water resources During the winter of 2022-2023, France went through a severe drought, counting 32 days without rain. The last winter record was 22 days without rain in 1989. Late February, soil conditions were drier than usual, comparable to the conditions usually encountered in mid-April; Namely 2 months ahead …

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Let’s talk about Carbon Neutrality ! Let’s talk about it because carbon neutrality is the goal of many states involved in the fight against global warming. It is also the goal of more and more companies.  Let’s talk about it because, in order to bring order to corporate carbon neutrality communications, on 13 April 2022, …

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How to fight Climate Change? The 2nd and 3rd volumes of the 6th IPCC Synthesis Report were published a few months ago. On this occasion, we propose to take stock of the issues related to climate change. Three previous articles discussed issues related to the energy transition. If you have read them, you may associate …

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How to achieve the Energy Transition? How have energy mixes evolved? What levers should be activated to best initiate the energy transition?  In the previous article of this series dedicated to energy transition, we mentioned the importance of energy mixes as a first step in understanding the causes of our CO2 emissions. We propose here …

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Why shall we accelerate on transitionning our energy supply ? Why is this transition necessary? What is the link with global warming? In the first article of this series (available here) we talked about the history of energy in order to shed the light on the upcoming worksites. What are the objectives of energy transition …

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The history of the energy transition From the hunter-gatherers, through the Roman Empire to our days The energy transition, this ubiquitous but ultimately poorly understood concept, is often used to designate the gradual abandonment of certain energies in conjunction with the development of others. But has this process already taken place in the short history …

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