François Hollande a proposé cette semaine aux chefs d’Etat européens, en amont du sommet des 28 et 29 juin à Bruxelles, une série de mesures de croissance “à effet immédiat” nécessitant 120 milliards d’euros, affirme le Journal du dimanchedans son édition du 17 juin. L’hebdomadaire assure s’être procuré une copie d’un document de 11 pages transmis selon lui jeudi [...]
The head of the International Monetary Fund called Tuesday for governments to tax carbon dioxide emissions to help limit human-generated greenhouse gases thought to contribute to a change in the Earth’s climate and to raise revenue in difficult budget times. “We need to get the green economy right,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said in [...]
Global investment in renewable energy surged to a new high last year, despite the widespread recession. But experts warned that the rate of growth was showing signs of slowing, and would need to speed up if the world’s economies are to be transformed on to a low-carbon footing. Last year, investment in renewable energy reached [...]
Europe at the lead of the new industrial revolution Venue TBC AGENDA 9:15 Opening Session: Helle Thorning-Schmidt (tbc): Prime Minister of Denmark José Manuel Barroso: President of the European Commission 9:50 Key-Note Speech Antonio Tajani Vice-President of the European Commission 10:40 Panel Discussion “Industry’s role in the new industrial revolution: Generating smart growth through Europe 2020″ 11:50 Panel Discussion [...]
Key facts and arguments: The Staff Working Document informs and advances an on-going strategic reflection process on how to build a competitive, low carbon and resource efficient economy in line with the Europe 2020 Strategy. Overall employment in “eco-industries” is estimated at 1-2% of total European employment. Job creation in these industries has been positive throughout the [...]
Celle-ci a représenté 452 600 emplois en 2010, soit une hausse de 4,5 % par rapport à l’année précédente, selon des chiffres présentés par le ministère de l’écologie, mercredi 28 mars. Mais ce chiffre avancé par le Commissariat général au développement durable (CGDD) est à relativiser. Car il ne traduit pas nécessairement des créations de nouveaux emplois. “Aucun des [...]
The study ‘Delivering the Ambition: employment in renewable energy in Scotland’, which will be launched at the Scottish Renewables Annual Conference in Edinburgh (27 March), is the first comprehensive assessment of full-time equivalent posts in Scotland to date. Having surveyed more than 200 companies working across a variety of renewable technologies including wind, wave and [...]
“The economic benefits of these policy initiatives are self-evident. Europe currently imports more than €300 billion of its energy needs – about 2.5% of its GDP. Achieving our renewables and energy efficiency targets in 2020 could reduce this bill by €200 billion. It could also create up to 2 million jobs – most of them [...]
Clean energy markets are already substantial in scope and growing fast. Between 2004 and 2010, global clean energy investment exhibited a compound annual growth rate of 32%, reaching €185 billion in 2010. By the end of 2009 the renewable energy sector secured more than 10% of Europe’s final energy consumption. In terms of new capacity, renewable [...]
The true risk to jobs in European heavy industries is not high-carbon prices, but the collapse of European demand in construction and infrastructure markets. Ironically, one sure way to encourage growth and jobs in these markets would be to incentivise investment in large-scale low-carbon infrastructure, which is a voracious user of steel, cement, aluminium and [...]