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Nuclear power is cost-competitive with other forms of electricity generation, except where there is direct access to low-cost fossil fuels.
Fuel costs for nuclear plants are a minor proportion of total generating costs, though capital costs are greater than those for coal-fired plants and much greater than those for gas-fired plants.
System costs for nuclear power (as well as coal and gas-fired generation) are very much lower than for intermittent renewables.
Providing incentives for long-term, high-capital investment in deregulated markets driven by short-term price signals presents a challenge in securing a diversified and reliable electricity supply system.
In assessing the economics of nuclear power, decommissioning and waste disposal costs are fully taken into account.
Nuclear power plant construction is typical of large infrastructure projects around the world, whose costs and delivery challenges tend to be under-estimated.
For information on financing specifically, please see information page on Financing Nuclear Energy.
Assessing the relative costs of new generating plants utilizing different technologies is a complex matter and the results depend cr
Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity
Carbon emissions of richest 1 percent surged to 16 percent of world’s total CO2 emissions in
Their carbon emissions are enough to cause million excess deaths due to heat.
Unequal countries suffer seven times more flood fatalities than more equal countries.
Fairly taxing the super-rich would help curb both climate change and inequality.
The richest 1 percent of the world’s population produced as much carbon pollution in than the five billion people who made up the poorest two-thirds of humanity, reveals a new Oxfam report today. It comes ahead of the UN climate summit in Dubai, amid growing fears that the °C target for curtailing rising temperatures appears increasingly unachievable.
These outsized emissions of the richest 1 percent will cause million heat-related excess deaths, roughly equivalent to the population of Dublin, Ireland. Most of these deaths will occur between and
“The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction, leaving humanity choking on extreme heat, floods and drought,” said Oxfam International interim Executive Dir
A Database of Military, Financial and Humanitarian Aid to Ukraine
The Ukraine Support Tracker lists and quantifies military, financial and humanitarian support by governments to Ukraine since February It covers 41 countries, specifically the EU member states, other members of the G7, as well as Australia, South Korea, Turkiye, Norway, New Zealand, Switzerland, China, Taiwan, India, and Iceland. The database is intended to support a facts-based discussion about support to Ukraine.
We focus on government-to-government transfers into Ukraine. Due to a lack of comparable and reliable data, we do not quantify private donations or transfers by international organizations like the Red Cross. For more details see below. We are continuously expanding, correcting, and improving this project. We therefore very much welcome any help to improve the tracker. Feedback and comments on our paper and database are highly appreciated. You can contact us at ukrainetracker@ or by using our online feedback form.
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Gabriele Ferretti, Kateryna Kuzmuk, Taro Nishikawa, Jonas Schweigard, Christoph Trebesch
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1/3 of the world&#;s population doesn’t have access to Internet
1/3 of the world&#;s population does not have access to the Internet according to the latest study published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU is a United Nations development agency specializing in information and communication technologies based in Geneva.
According to the ITU, billion people (so 1/3 of the world population) would not be connected to the Internet in , compared to 3 billion in On the other hand, billion people in the world have access to the Internet today.
Beyond these figures, it is the slowdown in the growth of Internet users that is puzzling the ITU. The number of new people who connect to the Internet is increasing, but the growth is much slower than in the recent past.
Described as &#;encouraging&#; by the U.N. agency, this slower growth suggests that &#;without increased investment in infrastructure and a renewed push to foster digital skills, the chances of connecting everyone by look increasingly slim,&#; the ITU explains.
&#;The COVID pandemic has given us a big boost in connectivity, but we need to build on this momentum to ensure that everyone, everywhere c