Greenhouse gas

ISSUES

GG emissions are still climbing

The greenhouse effect was discovered in the XIXth century: Joseph Fourier described it in 1824. It is the process by which certain atmospheric gases absorb some of the energy of sunlight reflected by the Earth. Without this, they would go back into space. This energy heats the planet. And the more gases there are, the more they heat the planet.
This is a natural mechanism. Thanks to it, the Earth's average temperature is compatible with life. Without it, the Earth's average temperature would go down to -18°C and even much lower. But the greenhouse effect is not always favourable to life as on Venus, it is the cause of its unbearable surface temperature: about 460°C.
The recent greenhouse gas concentration increase on Earth has caused global warming. The phenomenon has not surprised scientists: in 1896, the Swedish researcher Arrhenius calculated that if the CO2 in the atmosphere doubled, the average temperature would go up by...

NEWS

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DEBATES

Governments need to urgently identify how ambition can be raised on climate

UNEP

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Greening the European Investment Bank

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FOCUS

Nobel Price of ecology

Designed to recognize grassroots environmental heroes, the Goldman Environmental Prize, founded by Richard and Rhoda Goldman in 1989 In San Francisco, is awarded annually to individuals from the six inhabited continental regions for sustained and significant efforts to...

VIDEOS

14/03/2013	In 2010 New York City added 54 million metric tons of carbon dioxide...	21/11/2012	Geo-engineering aims to mitigate climate change.
16/07/2012	The city of Ghent has broken down the barriers to cycling and moved it...	05/04/2012	The feature documentary SHATTERED SKY premieres at the DC Environmental...

GREEN TIPS

Intelligent electricity

In Washington State, an electrical network offers some 300 homes an intelligent energy supply. The principle...

INDICATORS

Carbon dioxide emissions

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