Transition énergétique ?

C’est une phrase qui s’est rapidement imposée au moment des inondations meurtrières qui ont touché Valence (Espagne) en octobre 2024 : « Seul le peuple sauve le peuple. » Elle est aujourd’hui inscrite sur des centaines de mosaïques, qui, partout dans la ville, indiquent le niveau de la crue. Cette phrase peut aussi se révéler pertinente, voire même cruciale, pour prévenir les prochaines catastrophes, note un groupe de chercheurs.

Report cites scale of killings and aid blockages, and calls on member countries to punish those responsible

Legal analysis has accused Israel of committing genocide in four out of five categories as defined by 1948 convention

I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years. This movement has been an incredible force, thanks to your courage, passion and commitment. It has created a new public consciousness and a powerful sense of popular will. These are major achievements. And yet it is clear that we have now reached an impasse and a new path is needed.

Fuyant l’acharnement de Donald Trump contre la liberté de la recherche, trois enseignants américains spécialistes du fascisme, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder et Jason Stanley, se sont expatriés à Toronto, alarmés par la montée de «l’autoritarisme» aux États-Unis.

Legal residents of the United States sent to foreign prisons without due process. Students detained after voicing their opinions. Federal judges threatened with impeachment for ruling against the administration’s priorities. In the Opinion video above, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder and Jason Stanley, all professors at Yale and experts in authoritarianism, explain why America is especially vulnerable to a democratic backsliding — and why they are leaving the United States to take up positions at the University of Toronto.

Dans un entretien au « Monde », le professeur de philosophie américain explique pourquoi il a décidé de s’exiler au Canada. Il justifie ce départ par les assauts de l’administration Trump contre les campus américains, même si son université a été jusqu’ici relativement épargnée. Jason Stanley est professeur de philosophie, spécialisé dans les pratiques et le langage des régimes autoritaires. Il a décidé de quitter Yale et de rejoindre la Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy de l’université de Toronto, au Canada.

Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels of GDP per capita that currently characterise high-income countries. However, this would require increasing total global output and resource use several times over, dramatically exacerbating ecological breakdown. Furthermore, universal convergence along these lines is unlikely within the imperialist structure of the existing world economy. Here we demonstrate that this dilemma can be resolved with a different approach, rooted in recent needs-based analyses of poverty and development. Strategies for development should not pursue capitalist growth and increased aggregate production as such, but should rather increase the specific forms of production that are necessary to improve capabilities and meet human needs at a high standard, while ensuring universal access to key goods and services through public provisioning and decommodification. At the same time, in high

Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with their high per-capita CO2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement if they continue to pursue aggregate economic growth. Over the past decade, some countries have reduced their CO2 emissions while increasing their gross domestic product (absolute decoupling). Politicians and media have hailed this as green growth. In this empirical study, we aimed to assess whether these achievements are consistent with the Paris Agreement, and whether Paris-compliant decoupling is within reach.

Background Scientists have raised concerns about whether high-income countries, with their high per-capita CO2 emissions, can decarbonise fast enough to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement if they continue to pursue aggregate economic growth. Over the past decade, some countries have reduced their CO2 emissions while increasing their gross domestic product (absolute decoupling). Politicians and media have hailed this as green growth. In this empirical study, we aimed to assess whether these achievements are consistent with the Paris Agreement, and whether Paris-compliant decoupling is within reach.