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🌼 European nations must end repression of peaceful climate protest, says UN expert
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/28/european-nations-must-end-repression-of-peaceful-climate-prote…

"Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years"
#Plastic #Plastics
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https://www.ft.com/content/2082647f-fe3f-41b5-9060-da9ad20cbdb8

‘Grownup’ leaders are pushing us towards catastrophe, says former US climate chief
“We are slowed down by those who think of themselves as grownups and believe decarbonisation at the speed the climate community calls for is unrealistic,” said Todd Stern,
who served as a special envoy for climate change under Barack Obama, and helped negotiate the 2015 Paris agreement.
“They say that we need to slow down, that what is being proposed [in cuts to greenhouse gas emissions] is u…

Stoppen met kolencentrales en ouderwetse hoogovens, dat moet, dat zijn de grootste stappen. Maar ja, dat kan de burger niet, dat is aan de politiek en het bedrijfsleven dus ligt de nadruk elders. https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/112000706977419967

"From 2016 to 2022, 80 percent of global #CO2 #emissions were produced by just 57 [state-owned and private sector] companies."
Additionally, "since the #ParisAgreement was signed, 58 of the top 100

"South Africa's new energy plan needs a mix of nuclear, gas, renewables and coal, says expert"
#SouthAfrica #Energy #FossilFuels

South Africa's new energy plan needs a mix of nuclear, gas, renewables and coal, says expert
South Africa's economy has been hard hit by 15 years of loadshedding (rolling blackouts). The country's coal-fired power plants have a maintenance backlog and frequently experience unexpected technical failures. On the other hand, South Africa has committed, under the Paris Agreement, to transition to low-carbon energy generation technologies by 2050. This puts South Africa at an energy crossroads where it needs well thought out policy development and implementation to make the transition possi…

"Norway and the UK were furthest from the Paris climate agreement because the countries were “aggressively” exploring and licensing new oil and gas fields. In 2021, the International Energy Agency found there was no room for new oil exploration in its pathway to net zero emissions."

French Senate supports bilateral security deal with Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/13/french-senate-supports.html

Between Green Hills and Green Bills: Unveiling the Green Shades of Sustainability and Burden Shifting through Multi-Objective Optimization in Swiss Energy System Planning
Jonas Schnidrig, Matthieu Souttre, Arthur Chuat, Fran\c{c}ois Mar\'echal, Manuele Margni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12973

Between Green Hills and Green Bills: Unveiling the Green Shades of Sustainability and Burden Shifting through Multi-Objective Optimization in Swiss Energy System Planning
The Paris agreement is the first-ever universally accepted and legally binding agreement on global climate change. It is a bridge between today's and climate-neutrality policies and strategies before the end of the century. Critical to this endeavor is energy system modeling, which, while adept at devising cost-effective carbon-neutral strategies, often overlooks the broader environmental and social implications. This study introduces an innovative methodology that integrates life-cycle impact …

Representation of a Noisy Transmission Line
Martin Bucher (Universit\'e Paris Cit\'e/CNRS), Daniel Molnar (University of Cambridge)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10908

Representation of a Noisy Transmission Line
We analyse a lossy transmission line and the Johnson-Nyquist noise generated therein. A representation as a noisy two-port with a voltage and a current noise sources on one end of a noiseless two-port is given. An expression for the noise properties is given for an arbitrary temperature profile along the transmission line. Agreement is demonstrated between the general expression found here and special cases calculable using thermodynamics. This work is motivated by the REACH experiment to obser…

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Odd nuclei and quasiparticle excitations within the Barcelona Catania Paris Madrid energy density functional
An extension of the Barcelona Catania Paris Madrid (BCPM) energy density functional is proposed to deal with odd-mass systems as well as multiquasiparticle excitations. The extension is based on the assumption that the equal filling approximation (EFA) is a valid alternative to the traditional full blocking procedure of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov method. The assumption is supported by the excellent agreement between full blocking and EFA calculations obtained with different parametrizations of…

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Dynamics of Global Emission Permit Prices and Regional Social Cost of Carbon under Noncooperation
We build a dynamic multi-region model of climate and economy with emission permit trading among 12 aggregated regions in the world. We solve for the dynamic Nash equilibrium under noncooperation, wherein each region adheres to the emission cap constraints following commitments that were first outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement and updated in subsequent years. Our model shows that the emission permit price reaches $811 per ton of carbon by 2050. We demonstrate that a regional carbon tax is com…

"Climate change could drive mammal extinction in Brazil’s Caatinga, study warns"
#Brazil #Animals #Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change could drive mammal extinction in Brazil’s Caatinga, study warns
Even if everything goes well and the targets set by the Paris Agreement are met, average temperatures are expected to rise by 2.7° Celsius (4.86° Fahrenheit) this century, according to the United Nations, with the dry season extending for 21 more consecutive rainless days. As expected, this will have drastic consequences for the climate and […]