A Youtubeur at the COP24: five videos to tell the story of the climate negotiations - Episode 1 Sunday 2 December marked the opening of the 24th climate conference (COP24) and with it the hope that the States will be able to find an ambitious agreement capable of keeping warming below the +1.5°C mark.
PlusDes matériaux scientifiques consensuels pour une négociation à hauts risques Ce dimanche 2 décembre, les États se sont réunis pour la COP24 à Katowice, en Pologne. L’enjeu principal de cette réunion au sommet est d’améliorer la transparence et le suivi des engagements climatiques des pays, en termes de réduction d’émissions
PlusLa COP 24 se tient à partir du 2 décembre : Que faut-il en attendre ? Trois ans après le succès de la COP 21 de Paris sur le climat, va se tenir à Katowice, en Pologne, la COP24 chargée de préciser les règles d’application de l’accord de Paris. Depuis,
PlusLes émissions de gaz à effet de serre ont encore battu tous les records l’année dernière L’agence météorologique mondiale (WMO), organisme spécialisé de l’ONU, vient de publier, ce 22 novembre, son dernier bulletin sur le niveau des émissions de gaz à effet de serre dans l’atmosphère. En 2017,
PlusSelon un rapport que vient de publier le partenariat mondial Climate Transparency, 82 % de l’énergie des pays du G20 est encore fournie par les combustibles fossiles : pétrole, charbon, gaz. Cette situation repose sur le doublement des subventions aux industriels de l’énergie fossile au cours des dix dernières années. Des
PlusJair Bolsonaro, newly elected and already nicknamed "the Trump of the Tropics", worries scientists around the world. As president of Brazil, he will control nearly two-thirds of the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest. But he has argued that too many
PlusThe new IPCC report to limit global warming to +1.5°C highlights the need for all countries to step up their efforts to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement. Europe cannot escape this conclusion. The European Union has set itself the objective of reducing its emissions
PlusHeavy rain, floods, ... in the face of these extreme events, the question of the link with climate change comes up again and again. Have these events become more likely with global warming? Will they be more frequent or more intense in the future? The answer is far from obvious, but new knowledge is now allowing us to
PlusDirect economic losses due to weather-related disasters over the past 20 years have been 2.5 times higher than in the period 1978-1997, the United Nations said in a report. In the report, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), explains
PlusFollowing the presentation of the IPCC report on 8 October, the body of evidence pointing to massive and sustained climate change is growing. Everyone has their own solutions, recommendations and good resolutions: burning fewer light bulbs, changing cars, eating less meat, giving up
PlusPerhaps it will be necessary to remember this day on Monday, October 8, 2018. It began with the publication of a 400-page paving stone: the report of the IPCC, the international organization that monitors our climate. Its verdict is a wake-up call: the climate is getting out of control and if nothing is done we are going to
PlusThe melting of the Arctic ice is an ecological disaster that global warming is producing more intensely every day. But for some, this climatic catastrophe is a godsend. It opens up new shipping lanes where only a few years ago the ice pack was so thick that it froze.
PlusA US government report reveals that the Trump administration is fully aware of the devastating effects of climate change but that nothing will be done to stop the trend. On the contrary. A chilling cynicism. For President Donald Trump, climate disruption is a vast and complex problem.
PlusIt cannot be said that the Arctic has never accustomed us to lush vegetation. The expanses of ice, the blizzard-swept plains, provide an unfriendly environment for plants. The only plants that can withstand these extreme cold temperatures are usually shrubs of very low growth.
PlusThree years after commitments were made at COP21 in Paris, only 9 countries out of the 180 that signed the Paris Accord have adopted the measures needed to contain the rise in climate risks. An OECD report points to this inertia, even though emissions have fallen back to
PlusAs the United Nations General Assembly is now taking place and dozens of heads of state are about to take the podium to parade and deliver their good word, an internal note reveals the incredible unpreparedness of the United Nations to deal with the peril of climate migration.
PlusThe document was for internal use, but the Euractiv site has just published its contents. It is a confidential note from BusinessEurope, the organisation headed by Pierre Gattaz, which federates the major European employers' associations. The note of this European Medef unveils its strategy in the negotiations with the European Union on
PlusConfidential documents from Shell and Exxon dating back to the 1980s were recently updated and analysed by a Stanford University researcher, Benjamin Franta. Reading these documents is chilling. The tankers describe in black and white, and in detail, the
PlusFor 85% of the French, the government is not up to the environmental challenges, while 78% of them want ecology to become a government priority. This new school year is witnessing a flurry of citizen initiatives to save the climate and our future. Marches, petitions, appeals...the initiatives are numerous and prove that,
PlusAfter a trying summer marked by devastating heat waves, the French political and social back to work season was marked by the ecological crisis: Nicolas Hulot's resignation, followed by an unprecedented citizen mobilization during "for the climate" marches organized throughout France on September 8.
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