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  • Climate change: CERN is to investigate the climate

    Besides the Large Hadron Collider project (see "Technology"), CERN is at the forefront of a wide range of other projects including one designed to investigate the influence of galactic cosmic rays on the Earth's clouds and climate: for the first...

    • Date de publication : 12/02/2007
  • Refrigerant news: Hillary Clinton announced the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on February 16, 2012, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants

    • Date de publication : 09/07/2012
    • Sujets : Environnement, Généralités
  • Ozone-climate interactions

    Ozone affects climate, and climate affects ozone. According to NASA's Observatory Earth, well before the expected stratospheric ozone layer recovery date of 2050, ozone's effects on climate may become the main driver of ozone loss in the...

    • Date de publication : 28/04/2004
  • Indoor climate: benefits

    A study led by the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), tends to show that improved indoor climate also improves school results. According to the ICIEE (International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy), three experiments in which...

    • Date de publication : 26/07/2006
  • The French Climate Plan

    This summer, the French Minister of the Environment and Sustainable Development presented the Climate Plan: the government's action plan to address, by 2010, the major challenge of climate change. It involves measures encompassing all sectors of...

    • Date de publication : 10/11/2004
  • 2004 Climate Protection Award

    Since 1998, the Climate Protection Award is awarded by the US Environmental Protection Agency in recognition of achievements in protecting the Earth's climate. On April 13, 2004, this award was presented to 12 international individuals and...

    • Date de publication : 25/05/2004
  • Climate control for your desk

    We are used to taking command of our personal climate in planes and cars by using simple controls. Why not in buildings too? A study of the effect of installing individual air-conditioning vents at office desks, and putting controls at each...

    • Date de publication : 07/03/2010
  • Climate change issues: G8 statement

    The Group of Eight leading industrialized nations (G8) met with 5 major emerging countries (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa) early June in Heiligendamm and published a statement demonstrating a far greater will to address climate...

    • Date de publication : 05/08/2007
  • Climate change: moving slowly but surely

    During the International meeting on the Montreal Protocol that took place in Geneva in June 2010 (see Newsletter No. 43, July 2010), proposals to phase down HFCs using the tools of the Montreal Protocol were discussed again. They were presented...

    • Date de publication : 07/02/2011
  • UN Climate Change Conference in Bali

    - The 13th United Nations Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, which was also the 3rd meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, took place in Bali, Indonesia, on December 3-14, 2007. More than 10 000 persons attended this event which...

    • Date de publication : 12/02/2008
  • Climate change issues: IPCC Report 2007

    The IPCC 4th Assessment Report Climate Change 2007, which was released in May 2007, provides very valuable figures on greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions, including those of fluorinated gases (CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs) used in refrigeration. - In 2004, the...

    • Date de publication : 05/08/2007
  • Briefs: Largest climatic laboratory

    The McKinley Climatic Laboratory, located in the US Air Force Eglin Base in Florida, USA, which began testing in 1947, is the largest climate testing facility in the world. The temperature inside the 77 x 61 x 21 m hangar, with a 4700 m² base...

    • Date de publication : 11/02/2011
  • Climate change: The cost of global warming

    The Stern Review is the most comprehensive study ever performed on the economics of climate change. According to the report commissioned by the UK Chancellor, pre-industrial level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere was 280 ppm CO2 equivalents...

    • Date de publication : 12/02/2007
  • Climate control in the Gibraltar tunnel project

    A project for a tunnel linking Punta Paloma in Spain and Malabata Point in Morocco and currently in preparatory phase raises some interesting and crucial climate control issues. Governments of both nations appointed the Swiss engineer Giovanni...

    • Date de publication : 13/05/2008
  • Briefs: IPCC/TEAP Special Report on Ozone and Climate

    The 8th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the 14th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol invited the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Technology and...

    • Date de publication : 27/07/2004