Climate change

Access to energy and the fight against climate change

Overcoming energy scarcity is an essential condition for socio-economic and human development. Beyond significant regional disparities (between countries, between urban and rural areas), 70% of the inhabitants of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are deprived of access to electricity and their numbers…

Energy and climate change and the Paris agreement

The Paris Accord, adopted by COP21, set even more ambitious targets than the 2-degree Celsius cap on global average temperature increases set in Copenhagen in 2009. Indeed, its 196 signatories agreed to maintain this ceiling by 2100 and to continue…