A Youtubeur at COP24: five videos to tell the story of the climate negotiations - Episode 2 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
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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.
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Des 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
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La 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,
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In one to two years, French power plants will no longer know where to store their irradiated fuel The huge pools at La Hague (Manche), where irradiated fuel in French nuclear power plants is cooled, are approaching saturation which could gradually block all French reactors, warns the Institut de Radioprotection et de
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En plein conflit social avec les « gilets jaunes » contre la hausse des taxes sur le carburant et le manque de pouvoir d’achat, Emmanuel Macron a présenté ce mardi matin 27 novembre devant les membres du Conseil national de la transition écologique (CNTE) un projet de mesures, sans changement
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Les 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,
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Selon 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
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While biodiversity loss continues, the world has two years to negotiate the future global framework to succeed the current UN "strategic plan" for biodiversity (2011-2020). This framework should make it possible to renew the objectives of the international community and, above all, to set out
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Jair 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
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American farmers will be able to use dicamba in their crops. This pesticide, a cousin of glyphosate, is produced by Monsanto-Bayer. Highly controversial, it was the subject of fierce discussions but finally the American authorities have just renewed its authorization. Volatile, it spreads to neighbouring fields and devastates everything, or almost everything,
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Current recycling technologies are limited for plastic polymers, resulting in either poor quality recycling or high processing costs. But enzymes now offer a glimmer of hope since the discovery in Japan a few years ago of the "Ideonella" bacterium.
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As part of Galeries Lafayette's "GO FOR GOOD, for a more responsible fashion" initiative, the off-studio agency presents a manifesto installation made of shredded plastic: the design thus invests the territory of the revalorization of our waste by presenting a manifesto work of art, "The 7th continent". The designers
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The law on energy transition for green growth places the Overseas Departments and Collectivities and Corsica at the forefront of the development of renewable energies. It also gives them responsibility for defining their own multi-annual energy programming, in collaboration with the State. How to better respond to the challenges
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The 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
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Heavy 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
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Direct 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
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Following 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
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Over the past few decades, migrants have become increasingly connected, as have the societies in which they live. In this particular form of forced mobility, that due to migration, the use of new technologies makes it possible to remain anchored in the country of origin, while facilitating integration.
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Perhaps 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
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