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Net Zero or Zero Carbon? Five Types of Green Buildings Explained / Pembina Institute, the Energy Collective, 27/04/2018Homes and buildings can both consume and produce energy in many ways. In the world of green buildings, a variety of terms are used and some confusion surrounds their definitions... lireHow energy efficiency can boost resilience / Grace Relf, Senior Research Analyst, ACEEE blog, 16/04/2018Extreme weather events and natural disasters such as bomb cyclones, forest fires, the polar vortex, and hurricanes are wreaking havoc on buildings, the electric grid, and other critical US infrastructure. Some communities are still struggling to rebuild from last year’s disasters, even as another hurricane season approaches. In the wake of these events, many people are asking: how can we make our systems more resilient?... lireThe Low Costs of a Zero-Carbon Economy / Adair Turner, Project Syndicate, 24/04/2018The challenge in moving to a fully "green" economy now concerns harder-to-abate sectors such as trucking, shipping and aviation, steel, cement, and chemicals. To make the same rapid progress there that has been made in renewable-energy technologies requires the same type of forward-looking policies... lireDecarbonization: It Ain’t That Easy / Daniel Raimi, Alan J. Krupnick, Resources for the Future blog, 20/04/2018This week, the New York Times published an editorial entitled “Earth, Wind, and Liars” by economist Paul Krugman. In it, Krugman argues that the costs of renewable energy—wind in particular—have fallen so dramatically that “…there is no longer any reason to believe that it would be hard to drastically “decarbonize” the economy. Indeed, there is no reason to believe that doing so would impose any significant economic cost”... lireCommerce international et développement durable : passer des paroles aux actes / Alain Grandjean, Chroniques de l'anthropocène, 27/04/2018En matière de commerce international, Donald Trump déstabilise son monde, en plaidant pour un protectionnisme d’un autre âge. C’est le moment de prendre l’initiative pour faire évoluer la vision traditionnelle de ce commerce (libre-échangiste ou protectionniste) qui ne tient aucun compte du développement durable... lirePourquoi le conflit commercial sino-américain pourrait affecter durablement le secteur de l'énergie / Thibault Laconde, Energie et développement, 23/04/2018Après des mois de tensions, la Chine et les États-Unis semblent décidés à en venir aux mains : le 23 mars, les États-Unis ont imposé un droit de douane de 25% sur les importations d'acier et d'aluminium - en exemptant leurs principaux partenaires commerciaux à l'exception de la Chine, le 2 avril celle-ci a répliqué avec des taxes sur 128 produits importés des États-Unis, le 4 l'administration Trump a annoncé des droits de douanes supplémentaires sur 1033 produits, la Chine a immédiatement riposté en ciblant cette fois l'agriculture américaine... lire