The surprise for most French people upon hearing that Valéry Giscard-d’Estaing had died was that he had survived this long. At the age of 94, he hadn’t been President since the summer of 1981. His mainstream contemporaries were Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Schmidt. Leonid Brezhnev was at the time still First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Global emissions are very close to peaking
The masters of the renewable universe, gathered at the New Energy Finance summit this week, were adamant: Net Zero is happening come what may.
