Liberal democracies are today confronted with a wave of popular distrust in their ability to serve the majority of their citizens and solve the multiple crises that threaten our future. This threatens to lead us into a world of dangerous populist policies exploiting the anger without addressing the real risks, ranging from climate change to unbearable inequalities, or major global conflicts. To avert major damages to humanity and the planet, we must urgently get to the root causes of people’s resentment.
Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage.
Germany’s recent climate policies move emissions projections downwards, but the three-party coalition government remains significantly divided on comprehensive action across all sectors, putting the country’s climate targets in danger.
Emmanuel Macron vient d'annoncer que "la France se retirait du Traité sur la charte de l’énergie", ce Traité qui retarde, renchérit ou bloque la transition énergétique...
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It’s the bedrock idea underpinning global climate politics: Countries that got rich by spewing greenhouse gasses have a responsibility to cut emissions faster than those that didn’t while putting up money to help poor nations adapt.
Trade union delegates, including representatives from IndustriALL Global Union and industriAll Europe, spent two intense weeks lobbying and organizing at COP26 in Glasgow to make sure that workers’ issues were on the agenda at the climate conference.
Les deux semaines de négociations dans le cadre la COP26 ont accouché d’un accord en deçà de l’urgence climatique. Les États riches, principaux émetteurs de gaz à effet de serre, ont refusé de soutenir financièrement les pays du Sud, premières victimes du dérèglement climatique.
Energy projects that are incompatible with Europe’s climate goals are about to be granted priority status by the European Commission, EU lawmakers warned on Thursday (11 November).
Deux ouvrages – « Le Bien commun, le climat et le marché » de Benjamin Coriat et « L’Illusion de la finance verte » d’Alain Grandjean, membre du Haut Conseil pour le climat, et du financier Julien Lefournier – reviennent sur les illusions de nombreux économistes, persuadés que le marché et la finance peuvent être les moyens de lutter contre les dérèglements climatiques.
Der erste gemeinsame Bericht des Weltbiodiversitätsrates (IPBES) und des Weltklimarates (IPCC) verdeutlicht, wie Biodiversitäts- und Klimakrise zusammenhängen und welche Synergien bei den Schutzbestrebungen entstehen.
Die Zerstörung intakter Ökosysteme und der Klimawandel spielen eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Verbreitung neuartiger Viruserkrankungen wie Sars-CoV-2. Ein Interview mit dem Tropenmediziner Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit über den Ursprung des Virus und den
S. Monserrate. MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, (Jan 27, 2022)https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material.
Convention citoyenne pour le climat. PDF, (June 2020)Rapport de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat à l’issue de son adoption formelle dimanche 21 juin 2020..