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...
<strong>Exclusive:</strong> Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
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
This project, “The Road Towards a Carbon Free Society A Nordic-German Trade Union Cooperation on Just Transition”, is a collaboration between the Council of Nordic Trade Unions (NFS), the Friedrich-Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB).
A startup called H2 Green Steel, is on its way to launching the world’s first large steel production plant powered by green hydrogen in northern Sweden as it aims to begin production in 2024 and reach its full production potential of five million tons of carbon-free steel by 2030.
By Bettina Reinboth, Head of Social Issues, the PRI: As investors increasingly address climate change within their investments, it is important to remember that climate change is as much a social issue as an environmental one. And, as we celebrate International Women’s Day, it is also important to address gender inequality as we move towards a low-carbon global economy.
As 100 million people in Europe are in lockdown, the US seems to be completely unprepared for the tsunami that is about to hit. “We’re about to experience the worst public health disaster since…
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Die Vereinigung "Scientists for Future" möchte sich nicht in Parteipolitik einmischen, stattdessen aber Einfluss auf gesellschaftliche Diskurse nehmen.
Die Digitalisierung als Brandbeschleuniger im Klimawandel oder als Helfer? Der Wissenschaftliche Beitrat der Bundesregierung fordert, die Weichen zu stellen.
Powers is the artist who keeps reinventing himself in difficult trades—brain science and modern musical composition before this. And now: The Overstory, about Trees: Lean into the trunk of a pine tree or an oak, a beech or an alder and listen, Rick Powers is telling us.
It has become clear, if it wasn’t before, that there is a fundamental choice between pursuing progressive policies and a hard Brexit. Rather than enabling Corbyn’s Britain – the regulations, state aid and nationalisation desired by many on the Left – a hard Brexit could derail these visions. Leaving the EU isn’t just going to consume government and parliament now, it is likely to dominate the next decade, politically and financially constraining any government in the future.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called U.S. President Donald's Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord a mistake. Modifying Trump's iconic slogan, Macron also said that it was the shared responsibility of all people regardless of where they are from to make the planet great again.
Europe’s plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today (22 May) if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen by EurActiv.
Climate Debate Daily is an independent website from Denis Dutton, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who founded and edits the well-known website, Arts & Letters Daily. Climate Debate Daily is intended to deepen our understanding of disputes over climate change and the human contribution to it. The site links to scientific articles, news stories, economic studies, polemics, historical articles, PR releases, editorials, feature commentaries, and blog entries. The main column on the left includes arguments and evidence generally in support of the IPCC position on the reality of signficant anthropogenic global warming. The right-hand column includes material skeptical of the IPCC position and the notion that anthropogenic global warming represents a genuine threat to humanity.
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350.org is an international campaign dedicated to building a movement to unite the world around solutions to the climate crisis--the solutions that science and justice demand.
S. Monserrate. MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, (27.01.2022)https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material.
Convention citoyenne pour le climat. PDF, (Juni 2020)Rapport de la Convention citoyenne pour le climat à l’issue de son adoption formelle dimanche 21 juin 2020..