Veille 2.1

Oil in the North Sea is expected to be net-energy negative by 2031. This means that in 2031, it’ll cost more energy to extract the fossil fuels than we would gain by using them, rendering extraction unfeasibly expensive. Yet, rather than use our remaining years of access to these fuels to turbo-charge new energy infrastructure, fossil fuels are being extracted and burned for business as usual: quick cash. Around the world, the lights will go off in nations that don’t have back-up renewables. That’s most of them.

Chaleur record, émissions record, consommation record de combustibles fossiles. Un mois après la Cop28, le monde est plus éloigné que jamais de ses objectifs collectifs en matière de climat. Selon des recherches récentes, la « crise comportementale » de l’homme, terme inventé par une équipe interdisciplinaire de scientifiques, est à l’origine de tous ces problèmes.

New paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other innovations are just a sticking plaster Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems, according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.