Well, that's good news. The French seem to have understood that the taking and the attacks we are making on our environment are no longer sustainable. We must change our model, starting by changing our habits. A study conducted by Greenflex shows that the movement seems to have started.
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2002. There is little media coverage of the environment. At that time, the French are distractedly interested in the issues of the planet, biodiversity, their food and even less in global warming. And yet, that year, seventeen years ago, Jacques Chirac took the podium at the Johannesburg summit.
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Créée il y a un an à l’initiative des Pays-Bas, la Commission mondiale sur l’adaptation (Global Commission on Adaptation) avait pour objectif implicite de faire progresser la visibilité politique de la question de l’adaptation au changement climatique, et par conséquent d’accélérer le rythme des actions destinées à la préparation aux
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Is foresight capable of influencing the future in a way that promotes what is desirable? Foresight was born in the thought of a man, Gaston Berger, who was confronted with the difficulties of elaborating public decision making. Since then, French and Anglo-Saxon schools have diverged, but continue to share an optimistic conviction: the future can
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The growing number of international migrants has now reached 272 million, surpassing the growth rate of the world population, according to new data from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) released on 17 September. These figures reflect a jump over 2010, when the
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Batribox, Electricians Without Borders and thousands of young people put their energy into the electrification of a Guyanese school. An eco-solidarity operation with a twofold mission: to teach students about the challenges of recycling and good sorting practices and to support a sustainable development project. Objective: 80 tons of
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Evénement incontournable sur l’alimentation dans le monde, la 13e édition du festival ALIMENTERRE se tiendra partout en France et dans 12 pays du 15 octobre au 30 novembre 2019. Alors que de plus en plus de citoyens prennent conscience des dérives du système alimentaire mondialisé, le festival part à la
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While the flames are far from being brought under control and the fires continue to ravage the forests in the Amazon (but also in Central Africa, Siberia and Indonesia), there are already a growing number of announcements and initiatives to prepare for the "aftermath". This article by Yann Laurans, Frédéric Amiel and
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Biomim'expo, the major annual gathering of actors and stakeholders in biomimicry and innovations inspired by life, returns for a 4th edition, on 11 September 2019 at the Paris City Hall, and on 22 October at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie. The event has become the
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Water is a common good, a natural heritage, one of the most essential, if not the most essential to human life, which must be managed to ensure its sustainability. What is less well known is that access to drinking water is based on a scientific and technical heritage, developed and maintained over the years.
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Harold Vasselin's latest documentary "Gens des blés" will be released on DVD on September 5, 2019. It is a story of wheat and Man. Pierre is a biotechnologist, Florent is an organic farmer, Isabelle is an agronomist. Each of them works on the creation of new wheat, but they do it in a different way.
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Les solutions fondées sur la nature (SFN) bénéficient d’une attention politique croissante. Elles feront l’objet d’un axe de travail lors du sommet pour l’action climatique organisé par le secrétaire général des Nations unies (SGNU) de septembre 2019, et sont au cœur de l’Agenda de l’action pour la biodiversité, lancé en
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Biodiversity is undergoing massive and rapid erosion: 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction according to the latest IPBES report. Among the main causes is the artificialisation of land caused by urban sprawl and diffuse constructions, which destroy natural habitats and ecological continuities. It
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Dans le domaine industriel et de la production alimentaire ou de tout autre domaine, l’optimisation du rendement est indispensable pour rester performant face à la concurrence. L’amélioration des performances et la détection rapide de défauts deviennent des démarches incontournables pour les entreprises. La technologie sert l’industrie en utilisant les performances
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The situation of French research and its loss of attractiveness are cause for alarm. Emblematically, the "misery" of the young researcher, the one he or she experiences after recruitment, whether in a research organisation or in a university, represents one of the greatest weaknesses of the current system. At
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Foodwatch alert: The Foreign Affairs Committee rolls out the red carpet for the AACC, two days before its vote in the National Assembly on July 17 to ratify the Europe-Canada trade agreement. The headlong rush for free trade agreements continues at full speed, just a few days after the announcement of the agreement.
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Bringing digital technology to schools has become a fully-fledged part of education policy, as enshrined in the law of 8 July 2013 on the refounding of the Republic's schools. To this end, a new public service has been created, the "educational digital public service",
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In France, the current industrial agricultural model is impoverishing biodiversity, depriving farmers of the ecological services provided by nature and ultimately threatening our ability to feed ourselves. We must therefore accelerate the agro-ecological transition from input-dependent agriculture. To do this, the Noé association is asking, through
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Recent statements by two members of the government, Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet and Secretary of State for Digital Media Cédric O, are fuelling dangerous confusion in an otherwise legitimate public debate on the spread of hate speech, the mass dissemination of false news, influence peddling, etc.
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The MINES ParisTech engineering school aims to increase its leadership in the field of predictive sciences for the Industry of the future, by mobilizing all its skills in a research, development and training offer that takes advantage of the convergence of intensive computing resources, numerical simulation tools and algorithms for the processing of
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