Articles sur Climate change policy

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7 novembre 2016

Growing inequality in the US is bad news for climate change

David Holmes, Monash University

Whether it's Clinton on Trump in the White House, progressive action on climate change in America - and therefore globally - is going to take a hit.

Efforts to combat climate change are making extracting oil from areas like Canada’s tar sands fields more expensive. Emily Beament/PA Wire via AP

3 novembre 2016

Should oil companies like Exxon be forced to disclose climate change risks?

Paul Griffin, University of California, Davis et Amy Myers Jaffe, University of California, Davis

The SEC and others are pressing Exxon to disclose more climate change risks to investors. But new research suggests shareholders are already pricing in those costs on their own.

Yallourn Power Station in the Latrobe Valley, is one of the emissions intensive power stations that remains open. AAP Image/David Crosling

14 septembre 2016

FactCheck: Have eight of Australia’s 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years?

Dylan McConnell, University of Melbourne

Environment and energy minister Josh Frydenberg said that eight out of Australia's 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years. Is that right?

Malcolm Turnbull faces many challenges in transitioning Australia to a post-mining boom economy. Lukas Coch/AAP

12 juillet 2016

A snapshot of the challenges facing the new Turnbull government

John Daley, Grattan Institute; Andrew Norton, Grattan Institute; Jim Minifie, Grattan Institute; Marion Terrill, Grattan Institute; Peter Goss, Grattan Institute; Stephen Duckett, Grattan Institute et Tony Wood, Grattan Institute

What are the key policy challenges facing the new Turnbull government in terms of economic growth and budgets, cities, transport, energy, school education, higher education and health?

Coastal communities around Australia are facing the rising threat of coastal erosion. AAP/Dave Hunt

6 mai 2016

Coastal communities, including 24 federal seats at risk, demand action on climate threats

Barbara Norman, University of Canberra

Coastal communities include 24 federal seats held by margins of 5% or less, and their local councils are pressing the Australian government to show more urgency about the impacts of climate change.

The Australian government seems to think fossil fuels need help, when businesses are deciding otherwise. Coal image from www.shutterstock.com

26 février 2016

Fossil fuel growth centre harks back to old ideas about climate costs

Ben Parr, University of Melbourne

Do fossil fuels need saving from efforts to combat climate change? The Australian government seems to think so, but that sort of thinking is out of date.

Organisations like the African Union must find a way to monitor countries’ environmental commitments. Shutterstock

11 février 2016

How Africa can up its game to meet environmental challenges

Camilla Adelle, University of Pretoria

Africa has fewer resources than others when it comes to climate change adaptation. For this reason environmental agreements must be monitored by the likes of the AU.

Raise the (Thames) Barriers! diamond geezer/Flickr

14 juillet 2015

Barriers, canals and fake islands: how we can save cities from rising sea levels

Sally Brown, University of Southampton; Ivan Haigh, University of Southampton et Robert Nicholls, University of Southampton

With the sea level set to rise up to 1m by 2100, cities around the world must adapt, if they're to avoid disaster.

Has any other country achieved a greater reduction than Australia in the intensity of their emissions per unit of GDP over between 1990 and now? AAP Image/Dan Peled

19 mai 2015

FactCheck: Has any country bested Australia in emissions intensity reduction since 1990?

Graham Palmer, University of Melbourne et Roger Dargaville, University of Melbourne

Recent comments by Federal Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, implied that Australia is leading the world in reduction of greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP. Is that right?

The price of growth? Ebola management in Guinea. European Commission DG ECHO

2 février 2015

Beyond GDP: the Ebola shock should push us to pursue quality of growth

Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies

If ever we wanted a reminder of how global capitalism has got things wrong, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa serves the purpose well. Our assumption that economic growth is essential is not only a feature…

A properly designed cap and trade scheme could lift Illinois out of the fog. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

5 décembre 2014

Cap and trade could be the answer to state budget crises

Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

So-called cap and trade may be a solution to a problem it was not intended to solve: state budget crises. Cap-and-trade policy was designed to address climate change by putting a “cap” on carbon dioxide…

Powering into the night. The Drax plant in Yorkshire. Gareth Davies

4 novembre 2014

Time for a celebrity regulator as Britain faces winter power cuts

Richard Tol, University of Sussex

Winter is coming. And the UK has a real chance of [brownouts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout_(electricity) or even blackouts from lack of power. The long predicted capacity crunch in electric power…

1 juillet 2014

Battle for hearts and minds on climate change will be fought across generations

James Dyke, University of Southampton

Last week there was a bit of a hullabaloo when it was discovered that the international programme director for Greenpeace, Pascal Husting, was flying to work from Luxembourg to Amsterdam a few times a…

Multilateralism, so much hot air. Sebastian Kahnert

10 juin 2014

Tax carbon consumers to see real action on climate change

Laura Nielsen, University of Copenhagen et Henrik Palmer Olsen, University of Copenhagen

As delegates gather once again for climate talks in Bonn, the question has to be asked: after decades of conferences, committees, procedures and protocols, is the multilateral approach to tackling climate…

Not so cheap: coal has wider costs than the price of digging it up. Calistemon/Wikimedia Commons

8 juin 2014

Not so cheap: Australia needs to acknowledge the real cost of coal

Melissa Haswell, UNSW Australia et Haydn Washington, UNSW Australia

US President Barack Obama’s latest plan to reduce carbon emissions is a welcome one, and not just because it addresses climate change. In publicising the plan to cut emissions from old coal power stations…

Underwater cabinet meetings may soon be all too common. Mohammed Seeneen/AP

23 avril 2014

Legal avenues to fight climate change are limited, but growing

Sharon Turner, UCL

Given that the IPCC now considers that climate change is “unequivocal”, that human influence is “95-100%” likely to be the dominant cause, and that its effects are already being felt around world, it is…

Balancing energy security and emissions reduction: even more complicated than this. Bruno Fahy/EPA

16 avril 2014

EU energy security is only as strong as its weakest link: the former Eastern Bloc

Jessica Jewell, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

With tensions running high in Ukraine and the release of the third part of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, energy security and climate change are on governments’ agendas. Specifically, how to reduce…

How much green will it cost to go green? epsos.de

2 avril 2014

IPCC report shows Stern inflated climate change costs

Richard Tol, University of Sussex

How much does climate change cost? What will be the impact on our wallets? The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group II has concluded that global warming…

2 avril 2014

Time to separate weather resilience from climate change

David Schultz, University of Manchester et Vladimir Janković, University of Manchester

The IPCC’s latest climate change report has made it clear that global temperature rises will be the cause of more extreme weather events around the world. Indeed, weather disasters increasingly provoke…

Is the city shrouded in a carbon bubble? Lars Plougman

19 mars 2014

Financial markets should take climate policy more seriously

Sam Fankhauser, London School of Economics and Political Science

The number of climate change laws on the statue books of the world’s leading economies grew from less than 40 in 1997 to almost 500 at the end of 2013. Most leading countries now have legal provisions…

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