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Carbon capture faces its technological and economic limits

Paula Coussy, Head of CO2 Externalities Project at IFPEN, Florent Guillou, Process Design Engineer and Project Manager at IFPEN, Raphaël Huyghe, Program Manager at IFPEN in the Chemistry for Industry Results Center

On February 19th, 2025
4 min reading time

To achieve the target of capturing 450 million tonnes of CO2 by 2050, various decarbonisation strategies must be considered.

Hervé Douville
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Droughts exacerbated by climate change

Hervé Douville, Researcher at Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM)

On February 5th, 2025
4 min reading time
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Extreme rainfall: can we anticipate the risk of flooding?

Jan Polcher, Research Director at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (CNRS) and lecturer at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

On January 22nd, 2025
3 min reading time

With global warming, periods of extreme rainfall are intensifying, but it remains difficult to predict future flood risks with any accuracy.

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EU-Mercosur agreement: sorting the true from false

Charlotte Emlinger , Economist at CEPII and Doctor in Economics at Montpellier SupAgro, Mathieu Parenti, Professor at Paris School of Economics and Researcher at INRAE

On January 8th, 2025
7 min reading time

The EU-Mercosur free trade agreement has been fuelling public debate for several weeks now: how can we sort out the real from the fake?

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How scientists are studying the deep sea floor

Laurent Mortier, Professor at ENSTA (IP Paris)

On December 10th, 2024
5 min reading time

Against a backdrop of climate and biodiversity crises, ocean observation is of vital importance today.

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Blue and green water: why they affect us all

Pilar Acosta, Professor in Management of Innovation at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris), Juan Diego Avila Hurtado, Master's Student at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris), Hector Bonnel, Master's Student at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris), Alexander Bracklo, Master's Student at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

On November 29th, 2024
5 min reading time

Green water is the world's largest contributor of freshwater, and is necessary for terrestrial ecosystems.