Anime La semaine verte, ex-correspondante à Pékin et à l'ONU. Host of La semaine verte, former CBC Beijing and UN correspondent. Passionnée par la planète.
'Like finding a unicorn'
The moment in which researchers react to first-ever photos of the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, a bird lost to science for 140 years
[📹 Jordan Boersma]
hmmm… crise agricole, crise climatique, crise de la biodiversité… ça brasse quand même à La semaine verte, n’est-ce pas @snyderjulie ? 😉 La 54e saison commence le 14 septembre, ne manquez pas ça !
From the amount of aquatic food produced annually to millions employed, aquatic food systems are proving their vital role in nourishing & sustaining a growing population.
Take a closer look at the sector from 5 key angles.
https://t.co/NWvhPQCjdX
#SOFIA2024#BlueTransformation
🦋 La belle-dame, ce papillon capable de traverser l’océan Atlantique d’une traite
Après dix ans d’enquête, les scientifiques ont désormais la certitude que ce papillon est capable de traverser l’océan Atlantique sans faire de pause
Lire : https://t.co/yw6YbVxSgs
It's become a bit of a cliche to call it a paradox or a contradiction that China is building staggering amounts of both new clean power generation and new coal power plants.
It only is one if you fail to grasp the scale of China's electricity consumption growth, as most people inevitably do.
China today generates enough power from clean sources to power Germany SIX times over, up from two times a decade ago. In a few years, China's clean power generation will be equal to U.S.' total electricity consumption. China's power generation from wind&solar alone is about to hit three times Germany's total electricity consumption next year.
If China's power demand had stayed on 2009 level, the massive increase in CO2-free power generation would have made the grid 80% clean, instead of the current 33%. CO2 emissions from the power sector would have fallen by 75%.
What happened instead is that electricity demand doubled and clean power generation didn't keep up, while it did manage to increase its share from 20% to 33%. Predictably, the difference was delivered from coal, and CO2 emissions went up by 90%.
China now uses twice as much power as the U.S., after overtaking the country only in 2010. Put another way, China's additional power demand since 2010 is equal to the total consumption of the U.S.
60% of that electricity demand growth went to industry, mainly basic manufacturing like steel and other metals, cement, glass and chemicals, so it's really a function of China's extremely investment- and construction intensive growth model.
And no, it's not just about the size of China's population: per capita electricity consumption in China overtook Germany in 2022.
The good news is that China's clean energy growth is finally reaching the scale where it can cover all of the growth in power demand. This is happening even as power demand growth likely slows down with the economic slowdown.
These trends have been masked in the past year by the collapse in hydropower generation which is readily visible in the graph, but will likely become apparent in the year or two.
Most of the data for the post and the graph is from the amazing datasets of @EmberClimate.
@CaillouFred Je lui parlais en russe et il me répondait en “sourjik”, qui est un mélange d’Ukrainien et de Russe. Oui j’ai besoin d’une interprète, car je ne parle pas ukrainien.
Notre reportage sur le cauchemar logistique de l’exportation du grain ukrainien. Des millions de tonnes de grain qui doivent transiter par des petits ports fluviaux sur le Danube. #ukraine https://t.co/DCFiL34jp1
La difficile livraison de céréales ukrainiennes qui doivent être exportées vers les marchés mondiaux. @cathmerc s'est rendue à la frontière ouest de l'Ukraine où les petits ports sur le Danube sont désormais la seule voie de sortie pour les récoltes.
📻https://t.co/wc89HVVg37
“They just start dropping and there was nothing you could really do about it. I’ve never seen anything like it.” Heat, humidity kill hundreds of cattle in U.S. Midwest #climat https://t.co/RD497PbmsF
J'ai interviewé Isabel Crook à Pékin en 2012. Femme au destin extraordinaire, elle comptait parmi les rares étrangers à avoir vécu les bouleversements de la Chine de l'intérieur / Isabel Crook, 107, Dies; Her Life in China Spanned a Century of Change https://t.co/mo8PUNcaHJ
Les🐮dont le lait sert à fabriquer le parmesan souffrent de la chaleur. Et le fourrage pousse moins bien. Résultat: une production en baisse et des coûts qui grimpent (notamment pour faire fonctionner des ventilateurs géants dans les étables) #climat https://t.co/3BEVuyf7wp
«(...) nous ne pouvons plus continuer à nous fier à un système réglementaire obsolète qui protège l'industrie des pesticides plus qu'il ne protège les Canadiens» -Extrait de la lettre de démission de Bruce Lanphear https://t.co/JeYuUPSuYs
Assis sur scène et « magané » (ses mots), le chanteur des Cowboys fringants Karl Tremblay montre tout son courage au #FEQ et donne tout, porté par 90 000 spectateurs.