by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Jun 19, 2020 | Agriculture, Energy, Innovation, Resources - Climate
The concepts of “agriculture” and “environment” have been in conflict for several decades, even generations, whereas they should naturally go together. The many pressures exerted by the agricultural system on the environment and climate are increasingly...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Mar 25, 2020 | Energy
Beyond its traditional industrial applications (mainly petroleum product chemistry and refining), hydrogen has real potential to fuel the energy transition. Hydrogen can play a part in decarbonising certain sectors, including transport, as well as facilitating the...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Feb 26, 2020 | Circular economy, Energy
The renewable energy production sectors, still just emerging at the start of the 21st century, are now seeing their costs fall rapidly thanks to technological advances and the economies of scale associated with the increasing installed volumes. Certain sectors are...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Dec 2, 2019 | Energy
Heating currently accounts for almost half of final energy consumption in France, but remains largely reliant on fossil fuels. At the end of 2018, the percentage of consumed heating originating from renewable sources stood at just 19.9%, while the objective set for...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Nov 13, 2019 | Air, Energy, IMA, Innovation, Resources - Climate, Risks, Sea & coast, Sites and Soil
Alongside electronic communication and global positioning systems (GPS, Galileo), Earth observation is another key field of satellite applications. With applications ranging from resource management to land-use planning, ocean and coastline, air quality, natural...
by Pollutec | Jun 26, 2019 | Energy, Pollutec
The French Energy Transition Law sets the target for renewable energy use at 32% by 2030. The first thing that springs to mind when we think of ‘alternative’ energy is renewable energy, in the strict sense of the term: solar, wind or biomass (including biogas). The...
