Mary Robinson: This year will go down in history as the one when globaltemperature records were not merely surpassed but shattered. There is alsoa risk that 2023 becomes the year that multilateral co-operation on climatefractures, if leaders do not respond at the scale and with the urgency thescience demands. As COP28 starts in Dubai against…
On November 30 officials will begin to discuss an agenda in the UAE thatincludes measures on fossil fuels and boosting funds for vulnerablecountries. We were walking for 12 hours in 37 or 38-degree heat, and youcould feel the heat from the fire,” Joanna Harber said, recounting howwildfires on Rhodes turned her summer holiday to hell.…
SOPHIE TETREL, Paris, MURIEL BOSELLI, Paris, France, 28 Nov 2023 (Montel) France’s plan to replace the Arenh regulation with a nuclear tax is a “leap into the unknown” and does not guarantee that EDF will sell atomic output at EUR 70/MWh, analysts told Montel. “We are switching to a full market system. It is a…
The UK government is seeking backers for the nuclear power station in Suffolk. Ministers havelined up Abu Dhabi investors to take a significant stake in the Sizewell Cnuclear power plant, as concerns grow among Conservative MPs over aseparate Emirati bid for The Daily Telegraph. The government is looking for backers for the £20 billion power…
A University of Reading team of researchers looked back at a model thatpredicted nuclear power would expand dramatically in order to assess theefficacy of energy policies implemented today. Results published in thejournal Risk Analysis showed the team found simulations that inform energypolicy had unreliable assumptions built into them and that they need moretransparency about their…