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Scientists, environmentalists, young people concerned about their future, all observers of climate change have been shouting it for years. Political inaction and pusillanimity in the fight against climate change are leading us straight to an unliveable world. What we knew less about, and which

What a great learning moment we are currently living through! The coronavirus crisis brings us a lot of experiences that we could build on. We have learned about the "flattening of the curve" of the pandemic. Why not take advantage of this experience and the concepts that have emerged from it?

When maps of greenhouse gas emissions in China, before and after the Coronavirus outbreak, were published, some people immediately shouted victory. When traffic stops, when factories stop running, when people are locked in their homes, the air becomes

Warning from the scientific community; public commotion; commitment from public authorities to act; finding that nothing has really changed; new warning from scientists, etc. Like a well-established dance step, the ritual has been repeated since 1979, when the first scientific warning was issued at the World Conference.

"This Greenpeace advertisement was banned from the Paris metro and cinema networks. The NGO wanted once again to denounce the inaction of political leaders in the face of the climate emergency. In its press release, Greenpeace reports that the statement was judged "to have been made by the court of justice".

How are we going to live in the cities of the South of France if new climatic furnaces develop, as in 2019, endangering life? 2019 was the year of climatic awakening. Montpellier, Marseille, Toulouse, Narbonne, Nîmes... So many southern cities in which the inhabitants are active, active, active, active, active...

A Dutch government scientist has proposed to build two titanic dams between Scotland, Norway, France and England to completely close off the North Sea. These giant constructions would be able to protect about 25 million Europeans from the consequences of rising sea levels due to global warming.

For at least forty years, scientists have been alerting the world to the climate crisis. They have long preached in the desert like prophets of bad news. But things have changed. And the year 2019, in particular, has marked a turning point. The climate crisis is now part of our daily lives. Every

At the opening of COP 25, we are once again given the same curves, modern variations of the sign hanging in the hairdresser's shop: tomorrow we shave for free. Only one region of the world combines the potential to transcend national sovereignty, the capacity for creativity, the capacity for innovation and the ability to create, all in one place.

Fossil CO2 emissions have not stopped growing: they continued to rise in 2019 despite the decline in the use of coal, offset by the use of oil and especially natural gas. A new warning was issued on Wednesday 4 December on the sidelines of COP25 at

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg filed an appeal at the UN against five states on 23 September, claiming that their inaction on climate change would violate children's rights. This is the latest in a long series of complaints filed around the world since the mid-2000s. With

The disaster will not be for thirty or fifty years from now. It won't be in a century. No, it's for 2030, which is tomorrow. A shocking study has just been published in Nature, by Australian researchers who have been analysing for several years a geological period of intense upheaval, the

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just published its special report on oceans and the cryosphere on 25 September. One hundred and four scientists from thirty-six countries have referenced and deciphered seventy thousand publications; their 900-page report provides an implacable diagnosis of the state of the oceans and the cryosphere.

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

Greta Thunberg's address to the heads of state gathered for the climate summit at the UN on 23 September sounded like a cry. At the age of sixteen, in tears but above all in rage, the girl who has become the symbol of the youth climate movement, has been pushing for a change in the world's climate.