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Polls and voting estimates had hardly seen it coming: environmentalists have made their mark in the European elections. They are increasing the number of their members in the future European Parliament by 50 %. A strong dynamic, driven by a young vote, which imposes the urgency of the need for a new European Parliament.

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.

Climate change, contrasts between regions of the globe, loss of biodiversity, air and soil pollution, access to drinking water... as much bad news for the planet as the stakes: what if you could equip a ship with the best digital immersion technologies to envisage new scenarios for our planet?

On 27 November last, the President of the Republic installed the High Council for the Climate. Composed of twelve scientific, economists, engineers and experts, it is responsible for providing an independent perspective on the Government's climate policy. This Wednesday, May 15, 2019, the decree officialises the

Ocean ecosystems are in decline. In a new report published at the end of April in the Journal of Marine Sciences of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), marine conservationists and data professionals from IBM reveal new ways in which technology and networks

On French territory alone, nearly 1,000 coastal communities are exposed to the risk of marine submersion and the cost of the damage caused by storms increases with each phenomenon. In order to help communities limit damage to coastal infrastructures in the event of a storm, a

Precious resource, the water will run out. And, faced with the risk of drought forecast for this year 2019, after the rather severe drought of 2018, the Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition wants to put in place a number of preventive and indispensable measures in France, as concern is being felt. Indeed, the

The climate walks are multiplying, collectives are flourishing everywhere, and the most diverse initiatives are announced. When, in France, the "Affair of the Century" petition was launched to sue the State for climate inaction, the counters went wild. More than two million signatures in a few days. It is necessary to

The young people who demonstrated on 15 March in all the major countries of the world for the climate showed their determination but also their sense of shock formulas. One of them flowered on the brandied signs. We are adopting it to report on a report (yet another) published by the United Nations.

En matière d’information entre les droits de l’homme et l’environnement, l’accord d’Escazù signé en mars 2018 est un exemple réussi d’accès du public à la justice climatique dans la zone Amérique latine / Caraïbes. Alors que la communauté internationale réfléchit aux options possibles pour renforcer l’effectivité du droit international de l’environnement

  To wage the climate war, you need money, and a lot of money. Where do you get it? In the pockets of populations, citizens already in great economic distress, or peoples threatened with the end of their world? To try to win the climate battle, we need 1,000 billion

In the climate crisis, there is a strange phenomenon: pusillanimity, if not the defection of States. While all the world's seers are in bright red and public opinion around the world is aware of the gravity of the situation, while at the

Faced with the desertion of States, trapped between their economic constraints, the pressure of industrial lobbies, their lack of ambition in the medium term and their temptation to authoritarian climate denial, the citizens' response is getting into battle order. On a global scale, over the past two or three years, we have seen

Tous les scientifiques du climat nous le disent : nous sommes mal barrés. Nos efforts pour limiter nos émissions de gaz à effet de serre sont largement insuffisants alors que le compte à rebours est lancé et qu’il ne nous reste qu’une poignée d’années avant que la surchauffe du monde ne

A court of appeal in The Hague confirmed on 9 October last year the injunction for the Dutch state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. In the name of the right to life and the right to have an

The devastating fires in California in November, the earthquake in Indonesia, the explosive eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, the drought in France, ... but also the construction of facilities for migrant children in Texas, or the development of roads and buildings on a remote island of the

This COP24, which ended on 15 December, demonstrated the inertia, if not the carelessness, and even sabotage of States in the face of climate change. A COP has minimized the stakes while the stakes turn to urgency. Faced with this defection, many initiatives led by citizens, elected representatives or