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Bike-sharing migliora ambiente e qualità vita,7 città leader

Sono Barcellona, Lione, Città del Messico, Montreal, New York, Parigi e Rio de Janeiro le 7 città che possono vantare il più alto tasso di penetrazione del sistema di ‘bike-sharing’. Lo attesta una ricerca condotta dall’Institute for transportation and development policy (Itdp) di New York che ha incluso 400 città di 5 continenti dove si stanno mettendo in pratica sistemi per implementare la condivisione delle biciclette. Lo studio è incluso nella prima guida “The bike share planning guide”, edita dall’Itdp, contenente le best-practices adottate nelle città che offrono questo tipo di servizio ai cittadini.

OPEC, Foreseeing No Glut, Keeps Oil Production Level Steady

Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed on Wednesday to leave their combined daily quota for petroleum production at 30 million barrels, a decision that was expected to keep prices at their current steady and relatively high levels. Even though some analysts foresee challenges shaping up for the oil producers next year, OPEC officials, meeting in Vienna, saw no reason to make changes now, given the many uncertainties about the outlook for supply and demand.

Réduire à 50 % la part du nucléaire en France, crédible ou non?

A-t-elle été poussée par son tropisme pro-nucléaire ? A-t-elle dit tout haut ce que certains – y compris au sein de la majorité – pensent tout bas ? Toujours est-il qu’Anne Lauvergeon, ex-présidente du groupe nucléaire français Areva, a jeté un pavé dans la mare en déclarant, mardi 3 décembre au micro de France-Inter, que l’objectif du gouvernement de réduire à 50 % la part de l’atome dans la production électrique française, d’ici à 2025, «n’est pas réaliste ». Et d’ajouter : « Je crois que la date a été plus ou moins renvoyée à plus tard ». Une sortie qui a aussitôt entraîné une ferme mise au point de l’entourage deFrançois Hollande et du ministre de l’écologie, Philippe Martin, prompts à réaffirmer que les engagements présidentiels « seront bien évidemment respectés ».

Offshore wind gains in UK shake-up of renewables subsidies

Subsidies for onshore wind and solar power in the UK are to be cut in preference for larger subsidies for offshore power generation in a shake-up of the subsidy system for renewable energy. Details contained in the National Infrastructure Plan confirm the guaranteed price for onshore wind – which has been hugely controversial in rural England – is to be lower than the draft prices set out in a consultation in the summer.

Energy bills: Ed Miliband promises simplification on top of price freeze

Ed Miliband will pledge on Friday to “reset the broken energy market”, promising that all energy bills will be simplified and use the same method to explain the cost of energy per unit and the precise standing charges. The idea is one of many laid out in a green paper on energy, including the implementation of its plan for a 20-month price freeze. Labour hopes its proposals will keep the pressure on the government over rising energy prices.

After Changes, How Green Is The Times?

In January, The Times dismantled its “pod” of reporters and editors devoted to that subject. And in March, it discontinued its Green blog, a daily destination for environmental news. Times editors emphasized that they were not abandoning the subject — just taking it out of its silo and integrating it into many areas of coverage. The changes were made for both cost-cutting and strategic reasons, they said, and the blog did not have high readership. Readers and outside critics weren’t buying it. They scoffed at the idea that less would somehow translate into not only more, but also better.

So what has happened since? And where does the situation stand now? I talked to Times journalists and outside observers who are close readers of The Times’s environment coverage — including former Vice President Al Gore, a leading voice and a former newspaper journalist himself. And with the help of a news assistant, Jonah Bromwich, my office did its own analysis.