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International campaign 2009 - Copenhagen Climate Summit
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Over 50,000 People Join the Call of a Dozen International NGOs to Demand a "Nuclear Free Climate Agreement"
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True facts
Global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by at least 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
Industrialised countries, the main producers of greenhouse gas emissions, must reduce their emissions by 40% by 2020.
It takes about 10 years to build one single reactor. So the nuclear option is definitely no answer to the urgency of the fight against climate change.
75% of global greenhouse gas emissions are produced by sectors of the economy which don’t depend on electricity. The nuclear option is therefore irrelevant for those sectors.
For each euro invested, increased energy efficiency and certain types of renewable energies can achieve up to 11 times more reductions in greenhouse emissions than nuclear power.
Nuclear energy only amounts to 2.4% of global energy use. It is a very marginal energy.
Since 1974, the OECD countries have officially committed 55% of their energy research budgets to nuclear energy, i.e. 250 billion dollars.
Private nuclear operators benefit from enormous public subsidies, direct and indirect, without which they could not commission a nuclear reactor.
The future costs of decommissioning nuclear power plants and managing radioactive waste will reach hundreds of billions of euros.
The hotter the weather, the more unsafe it becomes to operate power plants: 1/4 of French nuclear reactors had to be shut down in 2003 because of the summer heat wave.
As climate changes, droughts become more frequent. Yet the production of nuclear energy requires 25,000 times more water per kWh than wind or solar energy…
A study by German scientists has shown that there is a 117% increase in childhood leukaemia within a 5 km radius of some nuclear reactors.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection states that any irradiation dose may cause cancers and hereditary disorders.
Radioactive waste remains dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. There is no solution to prevent radioactive substances from leaking into the environment.
More reactors mean more equipment and more nuclear material spreading across the world. The proliferation of nuclear weapons becomes faster and easier.
The real solutions to fight climate change exist: energy efficiency, energy saving, increase in renewable energies…
…fighting deforestation, transition towards sustainable farming, economic relocalisation, etc…
The emerging sector of renewable energies is already employing 2.5 million people across the world.
In less than 10 years, Germany has created 300,000 jobs in the renewable energy sector.
For the same investment, energy efficiency and renewable energies create 15 times more jobs than the nuclear industry.
Copenhagen Blog
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17 December 2009 : Au Klimaforum
La journée se déroulera en grande partie au Klimaforum. Le Klimaforum est un immense regroupement de bâtiments de la ville de Copenhague.
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16 December 2009 : 110 chefs d’Etat à Copenhague
A Copenhague, ce sont 110 chefs d’Etat présents: le dispositif de sécurité dans la ville est impressionnant. Dans le Bella Center, le jeu des négociations se tend sérieusement.
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15 December 2009 : Signatures de la carte postale géante dans le Bella Center: Opération réussie
Après un bref brief de l’équipe à l’auberge, nous rejoignons le Bella Center. Plus de deux heures d’attente pour entrer dans le Bella Center! La veille, certains fraichement arrivés à Copenhague, on fait jusqu’à 10 heure de queue pour se faire accréditer!
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