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Glasgow: Herald

Article Summary   by:blsecret    
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The chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell , the worldwide petroleum company is present to Davos.
Davos is situated in Switzerland, it’s here that the Word Economic Forum is held .
Jeroen van der Veer, the Boss of this company speak to the reduction of carbon emissions. He develop two scenarios, atempt to deblock the situation face to exploitation of oilfield . The first is called “Scrambles”or more specificaly struglle against his own carbon emissions in reducing the figures of 20 per cent of wrong emissions in 2015 or 2020.

The secondary point of vue is called “Blue print” a sort of worldwide collaboration or international initiatives , like kyoto, like Bali and soon as possible Copenhagen. The principal concerned the United Stated hesitate again to the way to follow. In the past, the agreement on this question of energy and notability on the emissions of greenhouse gases are awlays been refuse by the United State. Nevertheless, an agreement has recently been found to reduce and progressively remplace the petrole by orthers energies, like the fossil fuel or renewables.
In the futur, the numbers of person on the hearth will be of 9 billions persons in 2050, against 6 billions persons today, this fact show that the global population inscreasingly to means exponential, the needs in energy will be colossal. Only one thing stay to resolve, the exploitation of fossil fuel like oil sands or shales cost hugely money. The means in R&D must be enormous, the price of barrel risk to explosed.
It’s however the way to follow, the efforts must be bring on the inovations, the new markets, like the fuel convert in vegetal oil or others ways. The electric possibilities are enormous, all the ways are possible , stay the value or worth of this investiments, the volontary of great country consumer of this products like the emergeant country, the ressources to manage, the lack of energy and perhaps the eventualy restrictions praticed according to the figures anounced.
It’s an crucial questions of XXI century, concerning all the people who consume of the days this products. The professionals of this questions and notability the petroleum industry and the car makers, but equaly, the government following their politic targeting the reduction of global warming must all do for struggle against a changing world.
Published: January 27, 2008   
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