Jean Jouzel

Terwijl de transportsector het moeilijk blijft hebben met vergroenen, kiest het Roeselaarse logistiekbedrijf Eutraco resoluut voor zero-emissie. Voor het einde van het jaar zal een derde van hun vloot uit e-trucks bestaan, over 10 jaar zullen ze allemaal elektrisch zijn. Is de elektrische vrachtwagen de toekomst van transport? Wij gingen op bezoek.

Wat doorgaat voor de 'klimaatactie' van de EU-Commissie is een Trojaans paard volledig ten bate van de privésector. De EU breekt daarmee al haar klimaatbeloften. Ze garandeert maximale winsten voor de privésector met Europees belastinggeld als waarborg, zonder openbare controle en vooral, zonder enige positieve klimaatimpact, volgens een onderzoek van SOMO.

Purpose Animal emissions account for nearly 60% of total greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector. To estimate these emissions, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed a dedicated module within the Global Livestock Environmental Assessment Model (GLEAM). Although previous studies have explored selected inputs for specific animals and emission types, a comprehensive analysis of all 92 inputs (parameters and emission factors) had not been conducted. This study aimed to identify the most influential inputs affecting ruminant emissions in GLEAM.

This article examines the technocentric bias that characterizes climate mitigation literature, focusing on the reports of the IPCC's Working Group III. This bias stems from structural features of the scientific field that prioritizes innovation, leading to the overrepresentation of technological solutions in climate research. Funding mechanisms further reinforce this tendency by incentivizing collaboration with industrial R&D, creating a self-reinforcing loop in which scientific authority and industrial interests converge. The IPCC's institutional positioning—as a policy-relevant yet politically cautious body—amplifies this dynamic by favoring allegedly “cost-effective” technological pathways that lack practical feasibility.

Hoewel er meer dan 6000 rivieren door het Nepalese landschap kronkelen, is het steeds moeilijker voor de Nepalezen om toegang te krijgen tot water. Er is steeds minder water, er is de klimaatverandering en de systemen om water te beheren zijn ook nog eens complex. Water was lange tijd een gedeeld en publiek goed in Nepal, maar die solidariteit maakt geleidelijk aan plaats voor conflict.

The growth in US power demand is surging to its highest rate in decades, driven first by the electrification of oil and gas production and then by the build out of data centers. While still below the 5-10% growth seen in China, the world’s first “electrostate," the US power sector is experiencing rapid structural growth. The country is delivering more than a 3.5% annual power demand growth rate for the first time in several decades, potentially positioning the US as the world’s next “electrostate,” despite the strong oil and gas focus of the Trump administration.

Countries must move rapidly to slash CO2 emissions from homes, offices, shops and other buildings—a sector that accounts for a third of global greenhouse gas pollution, the United Nations said Monday. Carbon dioxide emissions from the building sector rose around 5% in the last decade when they should have fallen 28%, according to a new report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

De Europese autobouwers zullen in 2026 nog geen boetes moeten betalen als hun wagens de klimaatdoelen van dit jaar nog niet halen. Dat heeft Ursula von der Leyen, de voorzitter van de Europese Commissie, vandaag aangekondigd. De Commissie wil de sputterende auto-industrie zo meer ademruimte geven.

As authorities declared 2024 the hottest on record, a key private sector climate alliance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) abandoned a requirement that members be aligned to the Paris agreement. That was followed by a network of net zero asset managers suspending work, and deleting from its website its statement of commitments that members must adopt, after BlackRock, the biggest of them all, quit its ranks.

Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C is essential for avoiding the worst climate change impacts, but doing so requires cutting emissions 42% by 2030 and 56% by 2035. Current policies alone will achieve less than a 1% reduction.