Home france
 

Keywords :   


Tag: france

COP21: France to spend billions on African renewable energy projects

2015-12-01 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: France plans to spend billions of euros in renewable energy and other environmental projects in its former west African colonies and across Africa over the next five years, President François Hollande said on Tuesday. Africa produces little of the greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, produced by burning fossil fuels, linked by scientists to rapid climate change. But it is particularly vulnerable to a changing climate, as much of its population is poor, rural and dependent on rain-fed...

Tags: france energy projects spend

 

France, Germany, Canada call on world to put price on carbon

2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: One of the smartest ways to fight global warming is putting a price on carbon dioxide pollution, some key world leaders at the international climate summit say. Either a tax on carbon dioxide emissions or trading carbon pollution like pork bellies, which puts a price on carbon, will help use capitalism to get closer to a day when the world isn't adding heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere, according to leaders of France, Germany, Canada, Chile, Mexico and Ethiopia, as well as heads of the World...

Tags: price world france call

 
 

International Wine & Spirit Competition 2015 - France & Italy Gold, Gold Outstanding - just the Winners

2015-11-30 21:57:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

Last week, International Wine & Spirit Competition rounded off the full list of gold and gold outstanding medal winners for 2015. Here are the winners from France and Italy's wine regions.

Tags: the just international france

 

France, India to launch global solar alliance

2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: French President Francois Hollande and India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday launch an international solar alliance aimed at eventually bringing clean and affordable solar energy within the reach of all. The launch will coincide with a summit of world leaders at the start of two weeks of talks on the outskirts of Paris to seek a new global deal on curbing climate change, by shifting from fossil fuels towards renewable energy. An Indian government statement on Sunday said there...

Tags: france global india launch

 

France Uses Sweeping Powers to Curb Climate Protests, but Clashes Erupt

2015-11-30 02:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The French government is using the sweeping emergency powers it gained after the Paris terrorist attacks to clamp down on any possible disruption to the two-week global climate conference that starts on Monday, limiting public demonstrations, beefing up security and placing two dozen environmental activists under house arrest. The efforts to restrict protests as world leaders arrived to reach an international deal to contain global warming were not entirely successful; 174 people were taken...

Tags: france powers climate curb

 

Sites : [98] [99] [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105] [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] [111] [112] [113] [114] [115] [116] [117] next »