Issue 5 (July 2006) of Tendances Carbone is available for download here.  This is the monthly newsletter of Powernext Carbon and the Climate Change Task Force of Caisse des Dépôts. As before, the newsletter includes information on recent carbon emissions and energy prices, along with weather and economic activity indexes. (Link is to the English edition.)
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The UK Government released its energy review today (see BBC report).  Highlights: A green light given to new nuclear power plants and a target for renewable energy sources to comprise 20% of UK energy needs by 2020.  In addition, revised planning processes to fast-track new energy generation projects and plants.  Main drivers:  the need to reduce [...]

According to the BBC, 125 World Heritage sites are at risk from climate change.  For example, the Tower of London could suffer due to rising sea levels. The World Heritage Committee, which regulates these sites, is meeting in Lithuania, where the issue of climate change and its impact on heritage sites has become a hot [...]

Shadow Trade Secretary Alan Duncan has said that his party wanted to “explore every conceivable method of generating electricity before we go to nuclear”.
He and David Cameron believe that the future of the UK’s power should be “bottom-up and decentralised”, rather than provided by a few enormous power stations.
The Tories’ Energy Review’s interim findings argue [...]

A panel of climate experts convened by BBC News has concluded that climate change is a genuine threat.
After their discussions each member answered 20 questions, with a fairly cynical consensus over the inspiration for the conference, a book entitled The Revenge of Gaia.
They did also agree that ‘Climate change is real, dangerous and significant in [...]