The 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which ended on 29 November in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), was the last before the 2020 Conference. COP 15, to be held in Beijing (China), will be an important milestone in the history of governance.
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In 1889, the architect Camillo Sitte declared that "All the principles of the art of building cities can be summed up in the fact that a city must offer its inhabitants both security and happiness" (1). Today, in 2018, the quality of urban development is still helping to create
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France has long been alarmed at the artificialization of a department every ten years. However, we are still far from putting an end to it, as the President of the Republic pledged during his election campaign. This is why we must welcome the return of this issue to the political agenda, at the same time as it is being discussed in the European Parliament.
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Urbanisation gained on natural or cultivated areas, expansion of industrial or commercial infrastructures, roads, car parks, ... all contribute to a complete and often irreversible change in land use. Few people are aware of this, but France is particularly affected by this phenomenon, which leads to the loss of biodiversity and farms.
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In the recent past, two announcements deserve to be compared and commented on. The first is the prediction of the near disappearance of apes from the planet within 25 to 50 years. The second is the fear of an "end of globalization" expressed in Davos by various supporters of free trade, including
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