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Les intelligences artificielles génératives, type ChatGPT, suscitent des investissements faramineux, dopés par des promesses délirantes. Elles renforcent le projet libertarien et technoféodal des milliardaires de la tech.

On the topic of climate and carbon reduction commitments, corporations like Google, Microsoft, and Shell once positioned themselves as leaders in sustainability, setting ambitious net-zero goals to align with global environmental efforts. However, the rapid rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence is forcing these companies to reconsider—or even abandon—these commitments as they struggle to balance environmental responsibility and making money from new tech.

GenCast, l'IA signée DeepMind qui surpasse les météorologues humains. Précision, rapidité et prédictions jusqu'à 15 jours au rendez-vous !

La mise en œuvre de politiques publiques encourageant le recours aux modes de transport actifs (marche, vélo) plutôt qu’à la voiture améliore la santé de la population non seulement directement, mais aussi indirectement, en réduisant l’utilisation de combustibles fossiles, la pollution sonore et la pollution de l’air. De nouveaux travaux chiffrent ces bénéfices, en s’appuyant sur les quatre scénarios Transition(s) 2050 de l’Agence pour la transition écologique (ADEME).

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Des chercheurs ont simulé des milliers de civilisations extraterrestres. Découvrez ce qui les anénantit à chaque fois !

Misinformation by fossil fuel companies is slowing down the energy transition and global efforts to tackle climate change, warns the UN.

From farmers to disaster survivors, new plaintiffs and progressing lawsuits are putting pressure on industry polluters.

This report reveals the tactics of Big Meat and Dairy companies to delay, distract, and derail action on transforming the food system, mirroring strategies used by the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. Food systems are responsible for around a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, with approximately 60% coming from animal agriculture, the largest source of man-made methane emissions.

Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them

In Virginia, a small conservation group is leading the fight against the powerful and secretive data center industry.

Since the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world’s 60 largest private banks financed fossil fuels with USD $6.9 trillion. Nearly half – $3.3 trillion – went towards fossil fuel expansion. In 2023, banks financed $705 billion in fossil fuel financing with $347 billion going to fossil fuel expansion alone.

Vliegen is slecht voor het milieu, maar hoe groot de schade per land precies is, is bijzonder moeilijk te berekenen. Tenzij je er big data bij neemt, dachten Noorse wetenschappers.

European and US oil and gas majors have made profits of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars since Russia invaded Ukraine, according to a new analysis by Global Witness marking two years since the conflict began. After posting record gains in 2022 off the back of soaring energy prices, the big five fossil fuel companies paid shareholders an unprecedented $111 billion in 2023. In the hottest year ever recorded, this figure is some 158 times what was pledged to vulnerable nations at last year’s COP28 climate summit.

Finance needs of developing countries now 10-18 times as big as international public finance flows Growing gap results from rising adaptation needs and faltering adaptation finance Failure to enhance adaptation has huge implications for losses and damages

Aurélien Bigo, chercheur spécialisé dans la transition des transports, partage sa vision de l'évolution des mobilités dans les années à venir.

After yet another summer of increased extreme weather events caused by the burning of fossil fuels, some of the world’s richest oil and gas companies are investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up their extraction of new oil and gas. 

A coalition of British Columbians are organizing their municipalities to take oil and gas companies to court over the costs of the climate crisis

Energy firms have made record profits by increasing production of oil and gas, far from their promises of rolling back emissions