It’s sweater weather in Paris. But even though November brings brisk temperatures and fall foliage, it doesn’t mean last summer’s record heat should fade from our memories. One of the suggested reasons why students are so boiling mad is the hell they endured back in June in overheated classrooms and baking shoebox apartments.
The global warming issue compounded by war in the Gulf driving up prices at the pump and in the stores. In this an El Nino year, where the whole planet’s prey to extreme weather, the hosts of the annual UN climate summit in Turkey tout a remedy turbo charge the electrification of the planet. We’ll ask about what they mean and whether it will work, particularly for the likes of India whose carbon footprint is growing alongside its economy and its population. Many look at the smog this time of year and compare with the China of the early 2000s. What lessons can Delhi learn from its neighbor’s energy transition… China which remains the planet’s manufacturing powerhouse.
Produced by François Picard, Théophile Vareille, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip, Charles Wente.
This story originally appeared on France24
