Published 2015 | Version v1
Journal article

Acting efficiently on climate change

  • 1. Conseil francais de l'energie (France)
  • 2. IFP energies nouvelles (France)
  • 3. Conseil Francais de l'energie (France)

Description

Climate change is a major issue. A survey of the utility companies that account for 80% of the world's electric power was released during the 20. climate conference in Lima as part of the World Energy Council' Global Electricity Initiative. It has concluded that all these utilities see climate change as being real and declare that policies for adapting to it are as important as policies for limiting it. Nonetheless, 97% of these utilities think that consumers will refuse to pay more for decarbonized electricity. This is the core problem in the fight against climate change: all agree that the issue is urgent, some agree about what should be done, but none wants to pay

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Additional titles

Original title (French)
Agir efficacement contre le changement climatique

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Responsabilite et Environnement
Journal Volume
1
Journal Issue
no.77
Journal Page Range
p. 60-64
ISSN
1268-4783