It was thought that the inflation issue was definitely over. During almost ten years, until the Covid-19 crisis, price increase in the developed countries had been very low, sometimes even negative to the point that central banks, with in the first position the European Central Bank, had re-interpreted their mandates: instead of acting to make inflation going down at a level inferior but near 2%, the ECB had reduced its rates and launched a massive public bonds purchase plan to make inflation rebounding to a level near but inferior to 2%. Everything has changed first with the sanitary crisis and ...

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The fight against the greenhouse gas emissions has now taken an essential place in most developed countries and has become a major political challenge. European institutions are concerned and are the place where sometimes occur severe confrontations between the States. But that can lead to adopted positions or to decisions which have an opposed effect to the sought-after objectives. The total emissions generated by the production and the fossil fuels utilization, calculated with the integration of the methane and of the consequences of the natural gas flaring around oil fields, as each year BP evaluates them, show that the level ...

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The climate warming is attributable to the emissions of greenhouse gas which are caused by human activities, in the first position of which are the production and the utilization of energy. It is, which is rarely mentioned, a global phenomenon. It is the action of all the States which is important and there is no relation between the behavior of a country and the damages it could suffer on its territory. To the opposite, its action will profit to everybody in proportion with the share it occupies in the whole emissions. In that way, if France reaches its carbon neutrality ...

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