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Parking lots are becoming as important as cars in climate change efforts

Parking lots are becoming as important as cars in climate change efforts

CGV | Visual Group China | Getty Images It’s not just cars that will experience the energy transition in the years to come. The parking lots where electric vehicles charge are the subject of increasing construction efforts linked to climate change and the reduction of carbon emissions. A law approved in France last month requires …

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Talks at COP27 are entering the home stretch - but the draft deal has been criticized for setting the stage for 'climate hell'

Talks at COP27 are entering the home stretch – but the draft deal has been criticized for setting the stage for ‘climate hell’

Around 35,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries are expected to gather in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss collective action to tackle the climate emergency. Ahmad Gharabli | AFP | Getty Images As COP27 climate summit talks enter the home stretch, ministers and negotiators from nearly 200 countries are scrambling to reach consensus …

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Moscow-based renowned professor denounces France as "genetic Turkophobic, Islamophobic"

A renowned Moscow-based professor denounces France as “genetic Turkophobe, Islamophobe”

By Professor Kamran Rustamov The ethnic French pope Urban II called for a crusade against the Turks. “Madame, by killing Turks, Your Imperial Majesty prolongs my days”, wrote Voltaire to Catherine II in 1769. The famous French writer Victor Hugo once wrote in one of his books that “with the barbarians”, and this is how …

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