Mark Kelly

I am a parttime beef farmer and data scientist in Ireland, and I write about energy and climate as it pertains to Ireland.

cycling in Paris

The Path to a Realistic Paris Agreement Plan

So one needs to look outside of official policy to have any chance of finding a realistic plan to meet the obligations under the Paris Agreement. I recently came across one such plan – Le Plan de transformation de l’économie Française (The French Economy Transformation Plan) authored by The Shift Project, an influential energy and climate think tank in France led by the engineer and system-thinker Jean-Marc Jancovici.

October 22, 2024

Movie still from Ecosophia

The Illusion of Sustainability

There is nowhere in the industrialised world where food is produced sustainably. The only place where that happens is the non-industrialised world where the main 2 energy inputs are forms of renewable energy – human and animal muscle power.

October 17, 2024