Nuclear industry runs with very long cycles to the opposite of other economic activities. After the war and despite twenty years of efforts, it appeared that French nuclear paths did not answer to the expectations and, in 1974, Messmer government put in competition the two American nuclear leaders, General Electric and Westinghouse, the first one with the boiling water technology and the second one with pressurized water. The last one won and Framatome chose it for its nuclear reactors. During twenty years, nuclear industry enjoyed a state of grace. 58 reactors were built and are still operating. French households took ...

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In France, we are delivering speeches and we like writing laws. One of the favorite purposes is the evolution of a key economic activity: energy production and consumption. It is also at the heart of the debate about environment and the threats greenhouse gas emissions are weighting on the planet. But it is also a key sector for the purchasing power and companies results. Every year, British Petroleum publishes a report on world energy production and consumption by sources of energy and by country. That also allows to assess midterm trends since the report provides the last ten years figures ...

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China is today the most important emitter of greenhouse gas but that has not been always the situation. The country over passed the United States only recently. As climate change is linked to the accumulated pollution, the new emitters have considered for a long time that the efforts had to be at first imposed to the countries which were responsible of the past accumulation. That was the China position but it has changed. The support, without any ambiguity, by Beijing to the Paris Agreement, is the proof of it and it is not the reflection of diplomatic or symbolic attitude ...

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