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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In mid-June 2019, Total La Mède's new biorefinery will start producing biodiesel, i.e. around 650,000 metric tons per year, despite the end of the tax niche for palm-oil-based biofuels voted by the government in December 2018. This "biofuel" is produced at
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The oil group Total has one ambition: "to become the major player in responsible energy"! Notre Affaire à tous, 350.org and Friends of the Earth have compared this stated ambition with the Group's real environmental strategy and are publishing a report entitled "Total" on May 29, 2019,
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Yet this was the first trial, the very first climate justice action at EU level: European and global families against the European authorities in May 2018 for their inaction on climate change. But the EU Court of First Instance ruled that the action, called the "Climate Change Action", was inadmissible.
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The European Union is increasing the number of bilateral free trade agreements, in all opacity. This is the analysis and point of view of the foodwatch association, which defends the rights of consumer citizens to greater transparency in the food sector and access to healthy food. A few days before the European elections, the organisation
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Researchers from Inserm and the University of Strasbourg, within Unit 1260 "Regenerative Nanomedicine", have developed an implant which, applied as a dressing, enables cartilage to be regenerated in the event of major joint injuries or early osteoarthritis. The details of this innovation validated in
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At the opening of the Grand Messe de l'innovation, Viva Technology, the press relations agency RB & associés, devoted the new workshop-debate organized at the 17th arrondissement town hall to the innovative potential of our companies on 14 May. In an environment that is becoming more and more
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It is not only in France that the campaign for the European elections is struggling. The situation is the same in the 28 member states of the European Union. In the United Kingdom, the pro-Brexit section of the electorate finds it difficult to accept the fact that they have to go to the polls,
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"Cities are fighting traffic jams with Big Data", "Applications to beat traffic jams on the road", "The end of the galley": digital technology has arrived in the cities with its share of promises. Optimizing the city, making it smarter. In every
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On the occasion of the European elections, HOP publishes its White Paper and proposes 50 measures for sustainable consumption and production. It is a public policy guide for a society without accelerated obsolescence. Among the key recommendations: the introduction of a sustainability index, courses to learn how to repair as soon as possible, and the creation of a sustainable consumption and production index.
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