Retirement? Jorgen Randers does not know. At 77, the Norwegian researcher continues to pound the pavement worldwide, a tireless Sisyphus scientist who still seeks to alert humanity to the climate emergency. The co-author of the report Limits to growth (Ed. Rude de l’Echiquier), published in 1972, was in Lausanne last June, invited by E4San institute created by the University of Lausanne, EPFL and IMD to reflect on social issues related to the economy.
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September 3, 2022
Soaring electricity prices: here are the three tracks of the European Commission
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The European Commission proposes to cap part of wholesale electricity prices, to adopt regulated tariffs for the most vulnerable and to strengthen incentives to reduce consumption, according to a project consulted on Friday by AFP.
The European executive announced on Monday that it was preparing “emergency response“on the electricity market to limit the surge in household and business bills, while working on”structural reform“to dissociate electricity prices from gas prices, which soared with the war in Ukraine.
In a document which will be examined on September 9 by European energy ministers in Brussels, the Commission details three avenues of emergency measures, starting with a cap on wholesale prices for certain sources of electricity.
Today, it is gas that determines the price of electricity
Currently, on the European market, it is the cost price of the last source of electricity mobilized to meet demand at any time, which determines the price imposed on all operators on the continent: this is often from a gas-fired power station.
The other sources of energy (renewable, nuclear, coal) sell the electricity they produce at a price indexed to gas prices, much higher than their operating costs: Brussels therefore proposes to cap the price paid to these power stations , to put an end to the windfall profits made by energy companies.
Support vulnerable households
In return, Member States might “generate additional financial revenue” (different in each country according to its energy mix), which they might use to support the most vulnerable consumers: direct aid, regulated tariffs, reductions in electricity bills.
This is the second recommended measure. “Less than half of states use regulated tariffs, while direct income support remains the most widely used instrument in the EU to support households“, notes the Commission, which wants “provide a greater degree of legal certainty to extend regulated tariffs (…) in particular with the possibility of a clear derogation (to European rules) to also cover SMEs“.
On the other hand, the European executive says it is once morest an indiscriminate cap on retail prices for all consumers, “an interventionist political measure that risks distorting the markets” and to be expensive for the States.
Push to consume less
Finally, in line with the plan adopted in July to reduce the EU’s gas consumption, Brussels is proposing to intensify the incentive measures to reduce the demand for electricity, in particular by remunerating consumers who restrict their needs, or via calls for tender awarding compensation to manufacturers in exchange for a given reduction in their consumption.
‘Suthin’ returns to ‘Wissanu’ pointing out 8 years of Prayut, not counting the year 2014 like taking a book as a master
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
on September 3 Mr. Suthin Klangsang MP Maha Sarakham Pheu Thai Party (PA) as chairman of the coordinating committee of the opposition party or whip the opposition interview the case Mr. Wisanu Krea-ngam Deputy Prime Minister Specifies the statement to solve the allegations of the prime minister’s 8-year-old Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-ocha that he listened to and answered all the opposition party questions that it should not have any effect. The court would have to use its own fair discretion. without having to take into account anyone’s feelings. Why is it necessary to enact a prime minister’s term of 8 years and to prevent any problems? And today is it entering the time of problems that everyone is worried regarding? If everyone thinks regarding this principle, the answer is not difficult.
Mr. Sutin said The intent of this draft is that he doesn’t want people to be prime minister for more than 8 years, by any means or from when. Even 8 years is dangerous. reality General Prayut How many years have you been prime minister? Everyone counts the numbers.
When asked if he agreed with the issue, Mr. Wissanu said he did not specify in the statement when the 8-year age should begin, but pointed out only that it was not on August 24, 2014. Mr Suthin said. The spirit of the law that he feared would accumulate power, networks, influence and political succession. It’s been since 2014, so I think the person who doesn’t count 2014 is the person who took the letter as Mr. did not take the intention of being a master But the law must take the will as the master. Not taking the book as Mr.
The second marriage mother married her daughter’s classmate’s father “the witness is the class guide” Net tears praise: must be happy | International | CTWANT
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Who says it’s not good not to have a personal relationship? There is a wife in China who has been married twice. She lived with her daughter following her divorce 7 years ago. She met the father of her daughter’s classmate by chance. The two sides knew each other because of their similar circumstances, and decided to marry each other, which moved a large number of netizens.
According to the “Second News Video” report, a second-married mother in Taiyuan, Shanxi shared her marriage story. After she divorced her ex-husband in 2015, she lived alone with her daughter and married her daughter’s classmate’s father five years later. It is reported that her mother died in a car accident when her stepdaughter was 8 years old, which made her feel very distressed.
Under such a wonderful fate, the woman met the father of her current stepdaughter classmate, and the two fell in love with each other until they formed a warm family. Sisters, they are wearing the same clothes, a family of 4 walking on the street, can’t tell which is the mother and which is the father, two insecure children, they will never be afraid to sleep at night”, the family gets along very well , The two children also had long-lost smiles on their faces.
After the story was exposed, netizens left messages one following another, “Warm!”, “I hope your family lives a happy life, and under the sunshine of love, I believe that the haze in the children’s hearts will slowly dissipate”, “The two families cuddle each other and become a family. Live the rest of your life happily”, “This is the most suitable second marriage I’ve ever seen, you must live happily ever following.”