Nuclear after Paris: any clearer?
One might have expected that the Paris Conference of Parties meeting (COP21) on climate change in December of last year might have placed a particular focus on nuclear power. For some years France has generated a higher proportion of its power from nuclear than any other country. This French...
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| description | One might have expected that the Paris Conference of Parties meeting (COP21) on climate change in December of last year might have placed a particular focus on nuclear power. For some years France has generated a higher proportion of its power from nuclear than any other country. This French version of Germany's Energiewende – tournant énergétique perhaps? – came along a quarter of a century before Germany’s and, if judged in carbon reduction terms at least, was notably more successful. In comparison with its neighbour, Germany's energy and environmental policy (set out in the 1991 and 2000 Renewable Energy Acts), had had limited success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, even before the 2011 post-Fukushima decision to close its nuclear plants. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:1cb123b8-6aae-4559-95a8-5c5e341bbded2022-03-26T11:06:56ZNuclear after Paris: any clearer?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:1cb123b8-6aae-4559-95a8-5c5e341bbdedORA DepositOxford Institute for Energy Studies2017Grimston, MOne might have expected that the Paris Conference of Parties meeting (COP21) on climate change in December of last year might have placed a particular focus on nuclear power. For some years France has generated a higher proportion of its power from nuclear than any other country. This French version of Germany's Energiewende – tournant énergétique perhaps? – came along a quarter of a century before Germany’s and, if judged in carbon reduction terms at least, was notably more successful. In comparison with its neighbour, Germany's energy and environmental policy (set out in the 1991 and 2000 Renewable Energy Acts), had had limited success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, even before the 2011 post-Fukushima decision to close its nuclear plants. |
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