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Unconventional climate policy: the next frontier / Thomas Spencer &#38; Sani Zou, Climate 365, 19/06/2015The Canfin-Grandjean Commission released its report yesterday, commissioned by the President of France, Francois Hollande. This report explores conventional and unconventional policy options to increase investment in low-carbon, and climate-resilient infrastructure projects.... lire la suiteIn-depth: the science behind the papal encyclical, Carbon brief, 19/06/2015(...) Ottmar Edenhofer, chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, says that a Vatican City project initiated under Benedict fed into the encyclical released yesterday. He tells Carbon Brief... lire la suiteAdvanced nuclear energy and the battle against climate change / Thomas Young, PlanetPolicy, 19/06/2015Over the last several years, tremendous innovations focused on powering the world while cutting carbon emissions have emerged. Attention has gravitated heavily toward advancements in wind and solar, in particular, but another energy source may have the most immediate potential: advanced nuclear energy... lire la suiteThe Climate Pope /Johan Rockström,Professor in Global Sustainability and Director of the Stockholm Resilience Center at Stockholm University, Project syndicate, 19/06/2015Pope Francis’s just-released encyclical on the environment sends a powerful message not just to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, but to the rest of the global population as well. Firmly rooted in science, the teaching document – the most significant from the Vatican in over a decade – recognizes the need for urgent action, as the world confronts potentially catastrophic climate change... lire la suite