"Cutting useful subsidies while showing blind confidence in immature technologies are two sides of the same inertia," warns Jean-Yves Pidoux, the former director of the SIL.
Published for the first time by the AES, this tool dedicated to the security of the electricity supply paints a potentially critical picture of the country's situation within a quarter of a century.
In the years to come, humanity will have to rethink the way it manages soils. Naturally, this implies better preservation of remaining natural ecosystems, but also rethinking how it exploits those already conquered.
"In an ideal world, high-income individuals, aware of their responsibility, would voluntarily give up highly greenhouse-gas-emitting activities," explains Philippe Thalmann, professor of environmental economics at EPFL.
