Gianni Silvestrini The worldwide energy framework is rapidly changing. Different signals highlight the already happening energy transition: an annual renewable energy installed capacity which overcomes the fossil and nuclear one and decreasing prices of clean technologies. Are China and USA the leading actors of this epic change? An article of Gianni Silvestrini, scientific director of…
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A rapid process of urbanisation and an expanding middle class with increasingly western tastes will keep energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions in China at high levels over the next 20 years. However, changes are unfolding in China that offer promise and opportunities for cutting emissions. The findings of a research project funded by the…
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UNEP’s “Emission Gap Report 2014”: greenhouse gas emissions including non-CO2 must shrink to net zero by 2100. Emissions gap may widen by 2030 but low carbon path offers opportunities for the future In order to limit global temperature rise to 2°C and head off the worst impacts of climate change, global carbon neutrality should be…
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