Policymakers devote significant efforts to decrease CO2 emissions, as climate change has Q7 numerous adverse impacts on society. While the global level of CO2 emissions has been gradually rising since the 1990s, the highest growth was observed in low- and middle-income economies. This study differs from nascent…
Understanding the relationship between economic growth and GHG emissions is crucial for achieving sustainable development and the Paris Agreement decarbonization goals. The objective of this paper is to analyse the long-term relationship between sectoral Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the…
Highlights • We reviewed 179 articles on decoupling published between 1990–2019. • The papers present evidence of absolute impact decoupling, mainly between CO2 and GDP. • No evidence of economy-wide, national/international absolute resource decoupling. • No evidence of the kind of decoupling needed for ecological…
The relationship between economic growth and environmental pollution continues to attract significant research interest for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers all over the globe. Theoretically, the environmental benefit of economic growth should be greater than its negative externality with higher level of development. However, from the…
Despite the huge difference in their climatic regimes, the OECD countries are among the world’s largest energy consumers and emitters of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide. Nonetheless, no studies have been conducted to decompose and decouple the long-term influential primary factors of carbon emissions for…
The past 30 years have seen immense progress in improving the quality of life for much of humanity. Extreme poverty — the number of people living on less than $1.90 per day — has fallen by nearly two-thirds, from 1.9 billion to around 650 million.…
Une étude américaine montre que 32 pays dont la France sont parvenus à un découplage total entre croissance économique et émissions de CO2 depuis 2005 : leur PIB a augmenté tandis que leurs émissions ont diminué. [Lire plus]
Les secteurs éolien et solaire affichent des croissances exceptionnelles en 2020, révèle un rapport de l'Agence Internationale de l'Énergie. L'élément le plus positif de ce bilan est que ces chiffres records devraient devenir habituels dans les années à venir. [Lire plus...]
Avec sa fondation, Solar Impulse, le psychiatre et aéronaute Bertrand Piccard réfléchit depuis cinq ans à une myriade de solutions - à destination aussi bien des consommateurs que de l'industrie - pour faire face au changement climatique. Il présente, ce soir, les 1000 (et plus)…
As long as economic growth is a major political goal, decoupling growth from resource use and emissions is a prerequisite for a sustainable net-zero emissions future. However, empirical evidence for absolute decoupling, i.e. decreasing resource use and emissions at the required scale despite continued economic…
Dans le cadre d'un cycle de réflexion sur les territoires, Léonard, la plate-forme de Vinci dédiée à l'innovation, a voulu savoir si les avancées technologiques pourraient permettre aux villes de conserver leur actuel mode de croissance. Dans les prochaines décennies, la technologie sera-t-elle une actrice majeure ou un frein notoire au développement de la croissance verte ? Quatre experts en économie verte ont été invités à débattre le 15 janvier dernier à Paris.
