Bill Gates: a great disappointment There is no doubt that Bill Gates is one of the people who has made and keeps making a difference in our time. His creation
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Reassessing the climate action, revisiting Baseline assumptions and avoiding ‘one-fit-all’ approach
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At the end of 2019, I had the chance to participate in a peer-review of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Although the texts
On 4 December 2019, in her first Brussels press conference the newly appointed president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said she will lead a ‘geopolitical Commission’. One
Bernard Durand and Jean Pierre Riou, energy experts and authors of numerous articles in our columns, have just written “The treason of the clerics”, a voluminous working document on the
Scientists, let’s not go back to the pre-Covid world of unrestrained professional travelling
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Pre-Covid, scientists and more generally academics clocked up thousands and thousands of airmiles to attend conferences, workshops, and various other professional meetings. I know: I did the same. Many of
The general infatuation with hydrogen is the subject of justified criticism that often remains confused by mixing everything up. Michel de Rougemont try to get some clarity. The question of why
Europe’s quest to confront climate change and achieve carbon neutrality is being undermined by “Big Ag”? That’s not my claim. It’s the latest in a series of attacks on those
Among the climate community, the social cost of carbon corresponds to the net balance between harms and benefits resulting from a given climate change, mostly expressed in a global temperature
Amidst the pain brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, a sliver of good news percolated earlier in May, when research from Nature Climate Change showed that CO2 emissions have fallen by
Many scholars and world leaders in politics and industry (Pinker, Obama, Gates, etc…) have argued rightly that the human condition has improved dramatically in the period after World War II: