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• Why did the price of oil fall after June 2014? / Lutz Kilian, Vox, 25/02/2015 http://www.voxeu.org/article/causes-2014-oil-price-declineBetween June and December 2014, the Brent price of crude oil fell by 44%, resulting in one of the most dramatic declines in the price of oil in recent history. This column presents a new quantitative analysis of the market for crude oil. According to the model the authors use, around half of the decline ($27) was predictable using publicly available information. A part of this decline was due to a slowdown in global economic activity, but the major part came from supply and demand shocks in the oil market. Nevertheless, there are reasons to expect the decline in oil prices to end soon...• Five things I Learned About the Oil Price Crash / Michael Levi, Energy, security, and climate, 24/02/2015 http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2015/02/24/five-things-i-learned-about-the-oil-price-crash/The Council on Foreign Relations hosted a symposium yesterday on the causes and consequences of the oil price crash. Our three panels tackled the reasons for the crash and the future of oil prices; the economic fallout from the crash in the United States and around the world; and the geopolitical consequences of the oil price crash, both to date and going forward...• The Immorality of Coal / Raja Jayaraman, Jonathan Keren-Black, Thea Ormerod &#38; Stephen Pickard, Project Syndicate, 23/02/2015 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/coal-immorality-climate-change-by-raja-jayaraman-et-al-2015-02Momentum seems to be building for a global deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris this December. With this sense of optimism comes a keen awareness that the use of fossil fuels must be phased out globally as rapidly as possible. Indeed, the idea that greenhouse-gas emissions should be reduced to zero by 2050 is gaining wider acceptance...• Après les options, quelles visions pour l’accord de Paris ? / Céline Ramstein, Climat 365, blog IDDRI, 18/02/2015 http://www.blog-iddri.org/2015/02/18/apres-les-options-quelles-visions-pour-laccord-de-paris/Une nouvelle session de négociation s’est achevée vendredi à Genève, deux mois après la conférence de Lima. Étape encourageante, cette semaine a permis aux Parties de s’approprier le texte (qui avait été annexé à l’accord de Lima), d’ajouter leurs propositions, d’entendre et de mieux comprendre les positions de chacun, et d’aboutir dans une atmosphère constructive à un nouveau texte qui va servir de base de négociation pour Paris, ce notamment grâce aux deux nouveaux co-présidents, Ahmed Djoghlaf et Daniel Reifsnyder, qui ont su mener les discussions d’une manière reconnue par tous comme étant efficace, inclusive et transparente...