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What We Can Learn from Germany’s Windy, Sunny Electric Grid / Andrew Campbell, Energy Institute at Haas blog, 3/08/2015Today’s release of the final Clean Power Plan by President Obama ushers in an exciting period of change on US power grids. Wind and solar energy will get a big boost through the plan. The plan recognizes that to sustain public support for this strategy, the costs of integrating the new technologies need to be kept down and the grid needs to remain reliable. Several revisions to the draft plan were made specifically to provide time and flexibility to ensure the lights stay on while more clean energy sources join the grid. An important accommodation is carefully phasing in targets... lire la suiteClimate wonks focus on economics. They need to pay more attention to politics / David Roberts, Vox energy environment, 20/08/2015Citi GPS (a research arm of Citibank) has issued a magisterial new report that is both a detailed exploration of the economics of climate change policy and an attempt to answer the perennial question of whether acting aggressively to avert climate change is "worth it."... lire la suiteQuel avenir pour la politique européenne des transports face aux enjeux environnementaux ? / Christine Revault d'Allonnes-Bonnefoy, députée européenne, blog Huffington Post, 23/08/2015Confrontée à la plus grave crise économique de son histoire et face à l'urgence du drame migratoire, l'Union européenne n'apparaît qu'à travers le prisme négatif de l'austérité et celui d'une "Europe forteresse" ne parvenant pas à jouer la solidarité dans tous les Etats membres. Pour autant, sans nier cette "urgence européenne", il existe d'autres politiques européennes dont on parle moins mais qui, à l'instar de la politique régionale, jouent un rôle indispensable dans la vie quotidienne de millions de citoyens européens... lire la suite