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
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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
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Twelve months after the launch of a major national plan, the energy renovation of buildings seems to be at a standstill, according to the Cler - Network for Energy Transition. In the face of the current climate change, it is urgent that acceleration strategies and concrete responses are implemented, in particular
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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
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While the government is working on a separation of EDF's activities to isolate nuclear power from the rest of the group, the question of waste is resurfacing. A major public debate on the management of radioactive materials and waste is being launched today for a period of five months. The issue at stake
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Human activity poses risks that have not yet been properly assessed to these complex communication networks that are the odours of nature. Agricultural processing industries, agricultural activities and livestock breeding produce large quantities of volatile organic compounds that mix with natural sources. To aggravate
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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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Despite all the warnings from scientists, the climate marches, the growing awareness of public opinion, the protests of young and old, the fine speeches of governments and the fine palaver of industrialists, the world continues to walk on its head. The world's energy experts have
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It is a race against time that is being played out in Australia, as in other parts of the world. Coral reefs, shelters of marine biodiversity, are disappearing at a glance. If global temperatures continue to rise to 2°C, half of the world's coral reefs will be destroyed.
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There are 7.7 billion of us living on this Earth. Another 80 million every year, or 220,000 every day. Even if the pace has slowed down a little, the trend leads us to a world population of more than 8 billion souls by 2022 to reach the 10 billion mark in 2050.
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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.
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See you Saturday March 30th for Earth Hour - 60 minutes for the planet! And this year, for the first time, the WWF is organizing a live talk show between 8:00 pm and 8:35 pm at the foot of the Eiffel Tower (1). Scientists' alerts are multiplying to highlight the unprecedented decline
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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
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Youth is on edge. This Friday, March 15, the ecological rescue will be on all the banners of the young people on strike for the climate. Schoolchildren will be joined by Manifesto students for an ecological wake-up call. Academics and scientists will join their march as they announced on March 5.
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To produce electricity in thermal power stations, coal has been the king fuel since the 19th century. With global warming and commitments more or less shared by everyone to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, black fuel has found itself, at
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Plastic waste is a growing problem: plastics production is set to double over the next decade and, without planning for effective waste management, the social, economic and environmental impact is also expected to increase. We are now faced with plastic pollution of the oceans that
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This Friday, March 8, 2019, Energy Observer, the first hydrogen ship around the world, will be relaunched in Saint-Malo after a long optimization project. The technical objective of this project is precisely to test, validate and make reliable technological innovations under the harshest conditions, which will be those of
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Between a tomato grown in greenhouses, without much taste but very cheap, and an expensive organic tomato, reddened by the sun in the open ground, more and more fruit and vegetable growers are testing a third way: the guaranteed "zero pesticide residue". With a small label
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Thought to be so numerous and resilient that they would survive even a global nuclear conflict, insects are nevertheless disappearing everywhere, threatening to take many other species with them in serial collapses. What can be done about it? These issues are not orphaned, and political mobilization to tackle them is essential.
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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
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