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Former UN secretary general calls for rich countries to honour promises made to the developing world after years of failure

L'Innovative genomics institute, un centre de recherche de Berkeley en Californie fondé par Jennifer Doudna, la co-inventrice nobélisée des ciseaux génétiques CRISPR-Cas9, veut modifier les gènes de plantes de culture comme le riz et le sorgho afin de renforcer leur aptitude au stockage du CO2 rapporte la Technology Review. Ce programme destiné à diminuer la présence dans l’atmosphère du CO2, issu des émissions humaines et responsable de l’effet de serre qui réchauffe le climat, est financé par une subvention de 11 millions de dollars de la fondation du patron de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.

Researchers call for recognition of latest online strategies used to derail climate action

En 1957, la Suisse est à l'origine de l'interconnexion des réseaux électriques européens. Mais, aujourd'hui elle n'existe plus pour les Européens, qui utilisent ses réseaux sans même avertir Swissgrid. Chez l'opérateur national, les manœuvres destinées à éviter la surcharge des lignes augmentent de 30% par an afin d'éviter un black-out.

When we call for help because of a house fire, we don’t expect the fire department to say that we should wait until it has that great new fire truck with better hoses. We don’t expect the firemen to tell us their jackets aren’t quite fireproof so they can’t help.

Un quart de la population mondiale habite dans des zones inondables, le nombre des inondations annuelles a doublé en 40 ans, lesquelles représentent le premier risque climatique des villes. Que faire? Heidi.news est parti à la recherche des solutions «nature-based», loin du solutionnisme high-tech.

An astute journalist I know once described carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a “delay-and-fail strategy” devised by the fossil fuel industry. The industry’s ploy was utterly obvious to him: Promise to perfect and deploy CCS at some vague point in the future. By the time people catch on that CCS won’t work, the fossil fuel industry will have successfully extended the time it has operated without onerous regulation for another couple of decades.

As the public conversation on climate change evolves, so too does the sophistication and range of arguments used to downplay or discount the need for action (McKie, Reference McKie2019; Norgaard, Reference Norgaard2011). A mainstay of this counter-movement has been outright denial of the reality or human causation of climate change (Farrell et al., Reference Farrell, McConnell and Brulle2019), supplemented by climate-impact scepticism (Harvey et al., Reference Harvey, Van Den Berg, Ellers, Kampen, Crowther, Roessingh and Mann2018) and ad hominem attacks on scientists and the scientific consensus (Oreskes & Conway, Reference Oreskes and Conway2011). A fourth strategy has received relatively little attention to date: policy-focused discourses that exploit contemporary discussions on what action should be taken, how fast, who bears responsibility and where costs and benefits should be allocated (Bohr, Reference Bohr2016; Jacques & Knox, Reference Jacques and Knox2016; McKie, Reference McKie2019). We call these ‘