Vincent Bénard, town and country planning engineer and economist, former president of the Brussels-based Hayek Institute, is the author of “The EU Climate Law: An Economic and Societal Disaster with
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Discussions about global warming are almost always rooted in the idea that we should never have strayed from the pre-industrial climate. But there is no evidence that this climate was
“Scientific progress, not politics, should be the focus at COP28 climate conference” Climate conference season seems to come earlier every year. COP28, the latest instalment of the UN’s annual global
Steve Koonin has served as undersecretary for science at the Department of Energy during the Obama administration and was the founding director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science
“A good ESG rating of a company or of an investment fund does not decide on its performance.” says Michel de Rougemont (Interview)
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With the publication of his new essay, “The great delusion of rescuing the planet by a great reset: How the economic and financial circles are pleased to be convinced” Michel
The theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming is regularly presented as benefiting from a solid scientific consensus. What proves the solidity of this consensus? A scientific article, published in 2016 by
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
According to a recent study from the Pew Research Centre, a very large number of people on Earth place global warming top as one of the defining issues of our
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
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