"A wind farm can be perceived with pride, as a contribution to our security of supply, a milestone toward greater autonomy," says René Longet, a member of the committee of the association ProEole Geneva and author of « Planète Etat d'urgence : Les réponses de la durabilité ».
"We hope this conference will put the collective implementation of more ambitious measures to protect the climate back at the forefront," explains Isolda Agazzi, head of development policy at Alliance Sud.
"The average female driver thus spent 14.90 francs on gasoline to travel 100 kilometers in 1981, compared with 16.10 francs today. In the meantime, household disposable income has, however, been multiplied by 2.85," recalls Philippe Thalmann, professor of environmental economics at EPFL.
With the proliferation of digital services, such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence, digital infrastructures and platforms generate very significant energy consumption. An analysis in "True or False" format.
A dramatic turn of events and a sign of the times: the international conference convened in Busan, South Korea on this subject ended in the early hours of 2 December 2024 in failure.