Electricity use is growing worldwide, providing a range of energy services: lighting, heating and cooling, specific industrial uses, entertainment, information technologies, and mobility. Because its generation remains largely based on fossil fuels, electricity is also the largest and the fastest-growing source of energy-related CO2 emissions, the primary cause of human-induced climate change. Forecasts from...
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Billets marqués ‘ CO2 emissions ’
Electricity in a climate-constrained world
CO2 emissions from fuel combustion 2012 edition
The data in this OECD report are designed to assist in understanding the evolution of the emissions of CO2 from 1971 to 2010 for more than 140 countries and regions by sector and by fuel.
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Decarbonisation of the electricity sector – is there still a place for markets?
(...) A number of countries, like the UK, are already in the process of reforming their electricity markets in order to ensure the delivery of the huge quantities of low carbon investment which will be needed; these reforms have involved a more central role for the government in decision-making, and in underwriting investments. The...
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2052: A global forecast for the next forty years
In the report, Jorgen Randers raises essential questions: How many people will the planet be able to support? Will the belief in endless growth crumble? Will runaway climate change take hold? Where will quality of life improve, and where will it decline?
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The gigatonne gap in China’s carbon dioxide inventories
"Nature Climate Change a publié en ligne une étude internationale indiquant que les émissions de dioxyde de carbone (CO2) chinoises pourraient être de 20% supérieures aux chiffres officiels délivrés par les autorités chinoises..."
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Consommations conventionnelles de carburant et émissions de C02 – Véhicules particuliers neufs vendus en France en 2012
Ce guide de l'Ademe recense tous les véhicules particuliers homologués par l’UTAC vendus en France en 2012. « Le grand Palmarès ADEME » dresse la liste des véhicules les moins émetteurs de CO2, pour les 10 premières valeurs d’émissions de CO2.
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Counting the cost of carbon
Hivers froids, baisse du prix du charbon... L'intensité carbone a augmenté plus vite que la croissance mondiale en 2010, d'après une étude britannique... (info source © terraeco.net)
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Power perspectives 2030. On the road to a decarbonised power sector
A contributing study to Roadmap 2050: a practical guide to a prosperous, low-carbon europe
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CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion 2011
The data in this IEA's book are designed to assist in understanding the evolution of the emissions of CO2 from 1971 to 2009 for more than 140 countries and regions by sector and by fuel
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Long-term trend on global CO2 emissions
Les émissions mondiales de CO2 ont augmenté de 45 % entre 1990 et 2010, atteignant le record absolu de 33 milliards de tonnes, selon un récent rapport publié par le Centre commun de recherche (JRC) de l'UE...
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Growth in emission transfers via international trade from 1990 to 2008
The paper compares the growth in emissions from the production of internationally traded products with the reported emission reductions in developed countries.
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Energy economics : CO2 emissions in China
This book presents a collection of the researches on China's CO2 emissions as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEP)
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CO2 emissions induced by EU’s final use of products are estimated to be 9 tonnes per capita
Eurostat estimates the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) induced by the EU's final use of products to be 9 tonnes per capita per year
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China’s Energy and Carbon Emissions Outlook to 2050
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