Focus Climat

L’enquête « Fueling Ecocide » révèle, à l’échelle de la planète, l’ampleur des activités des multinationales du pétrole et du gaz dans les zones naturelles protégées. Grande Barrière de corail, espèces en danger, zones humides… sont mises en péril par l’exploitation. […] Ce sont des zones naturelles protégées parmi les plus précieuses et les plus fragiles de la planète. Au sein de celles-ci, on compte la Grande Barrière de corail en Australie, la réserve de biosphère Maya au Guatemala, plus vaste forêt tropicale d’Amérique centrale, ou les marais du Bas Ogooué, au Gabon, refuge d’espèces menacées comme les éléphants et les hippopotames.

Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans

UN GEO report says ending this harm key to global transformation required ‘before collapse becomes inevitable’

A deal is welcome after talks nearly collapsed but the final agreement contains small steps rather than leaps

Watchdog’s flagship report says rise in low-carbon electricity will make transition ‘inevitable’, despite Trump’s calls to carry on drilling

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

The planet is nearing dangerous limits. Yet progress on clean energy shows what’s possible. With political will, cooperation can still avert the worst of the climate crisis

The Production Gap Report finds that 10 years after the Paris Agreement, governments plan to produce more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, steering the world further from the Paris goals than the last such assessment in 2023.

Le « SAF » ou Sustainable Aviation Fuel, est depuis longtemps érigé en mesure phare de la décarbonation du transport aérien, qui communique très largement sur le sujet. IATA annonce même sans sourciller que les SAF couvriront 65% des besoins de l’industrie à l’horizon 2050, contre… 0.3% en 2024. Qu’en est-il vraiment, et faut-il développer les SAF un peu, beaucoup… ou pas du tout ?

Some experts tee up public comment on EPA report calling fossil fuel concerns overblown, as others fast-track review

António Guterres says ‘sun is rising on a clean energy age’ as 90% of renewable power projects cheaper than fossil fuels

Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms

Despite working on polar science for the British Antarctic Survey for 20 years, Louise Sime finds the magnitude of potential sea-level rise hard to comprehend

Identifying the socio-economic drivers behind greenhouse gas emissions is crucial to design mitigation policies. Existing studies predominantly analyze short-term CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, neglecting long-term trends and other GHGs. We examine the drivers of all greenhouse gas emissions between 1820–2050 globally and regionally. The Industrial Revolution triggered sustained emission growth worldwide—initially through fossil fuel use in industrialized economies but also as a result of agricultural expansion and deforestation. Globally, technological innovation and energy mix changes prevented 31 (17–42) Gt CO2e emissions over two centuries. Yet these gains were dwarfed by 81 (64–97) Gt CO2e resulting from economic expansion, with regional drivers diverging sharply: population growth dominated in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, while rising affluence was the main driver of emissions elsewhere. Meeting climate targets now requires the carbon intensity of GDP to decline 3 times faster than the global

Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online [...] The report recommended that if global red meat eating was cut by 50%, the “planetary health diet” would provide nutritious food to all while tackling the harms caused by animal agriculture, which accounts for over 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. It suggested individuals – particularly in wealthy countries – should increase their consumption of nuts, pulses and other plant-based foods while cutting meat and sugar from their diets.

Dans le cadre de la transition énergétique, l’aviation se tourne vers des e-fuels nécessitant des volumes importants d’électricité bas carbone pour être produits. Or, cette électricité est bien moins taxée que l’électricité destinée à des besoins « primaires », tels que le chauffage ou l'éclairage, comme le détaille mon étude publiée dans Climate Policy(1).

As fossil fuel interests attack climate accountability litigation, environmental advocates have sounded a new warning that they are pursuing a path that would destroy all future prospects for such cases. Nearly 200 advocacy groups have urged Democratic representatives to “proactively and affirmatively” reject potential industry attempts to obtain immunity from litigation.

Climate change will fuel contests—and maybe wars—for land and resources.

The world’s addiction to fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein’s monster sparing nothing and no one”, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. “Our fossil fuel addiction is a Frankenstein’s monster, sparing nothing and no one. All around us, we see clear signs that the monster has become master,”

Un armateur norvégien a annoncé avoir modifié un de ses navires pour en faire "le premier au monde" doté à bord d'un système de captage et de stockage du CO2 à grande échelle afin de réduire ses émissions.Alimenté au fioul lourd, un carburant décrié pour ses émissions élevées de soufre, particules fines et dioxyde de carbone, le Clipper Eris devrait voir ses rejets de gaz à effet de serre (GES) réduits de jusqu'à 70%, a indiqué son propriétaire, le groupe Solvang.