Global plastics production has reached 311 million metric tonnes and is expected to continue to grow at around 4 % per year for the foreseeable future. While plastics offer many benefits to society, there is growing awareness of the potential impact of chemical components
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La production de masse de matière plastique a commencé il y a une soixantaine d’années. Dans ce laps de temps, celle-ci s’est considérablement accélérée, générant plus de 8 milliards de tonnes. Une tonne par être vivant sur cette planète ! Le problème, c’est qu’une petite dizaine de pourcent seulement de cette
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A groundbreaking study makes for the first time a comprehensive assessment of all life on Earth. There is no shortage of revelations and surprises in this analysis. It reveals that the 7.6 billion humans represent only a tiny fraction (0.01%) of all living things.
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The international community's ambition to fight global warming comes at a cost: between $50,000 and $90,000 billion over the next 15 years, according to estimates by economist Adair Turner for the low end of the range and economists from the Commission on Economy and Climate "New Climate Economy" to
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The good news is that fifteen percent of the world's landmass is designated as a protected area, an area where endangered wildlife should be able to live undisturbed. The bad news is that more than one-third of the land officially designated as protected is facing
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Nicolas Hulot, Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Solidarity Transition, has made the recovery of biodiversity a key issue in the Ministry's political action, on a par with the energy transition, and invites citizens, organizations and territories to take up this challenge in order to
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The small island of Ulva, the pearl of Scotland with pristine beaches, has been bought by five of its six inhabitants who feared it would fall into the hands of tycoons from Russia or the Middle East, a local organisation said Friday. The announcement had made more than one dream. For sale:
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L’énergie cristallise toutes les facettes des relations que nous nouons avec nos propres techniques, et tous les malentendus qu’elles suscitent. La source de ces malentendus vient de ce que nous considérons nos techniques comme des absolus, se suffisant à elles-mêmes, permettant de tout trancher, de nous extraire de n’importe quelle
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It is a visit like no other that will take place in Paris from May 17 to 23, that of the international representatives of the Maori, Massai, Ashaninka, Tolinou, Kanak, Huni Kui and Papuan peoples, united and on the march to defend the rights of nature. Coming from all over the world at the invitation of
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South Africa, and particularly Cape Town, is suffering from an unprecedented drought. The municipality has even announced that the taps could be closed during August. To solve this serious crisis, a sea rescue specialist has come up with a crazy idea: towing an iceberg from Antarctica and
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In the southwest corner of the Antarctic continent, there is a river of ice known as "the world's most dangerous glacier". On Monday, American and British scientists officially launched a venture to study the Thwaites Glacier. Their goal: to determine whether it is heading towards a catastrophic collapse in a
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C’est peut-être la fin d’une interminable bataille : vendredi 27 avril 2018, les États membres de l’Union européenne ont adopté la proposition de la Commission d’interdire trois néonicotinoïdes (la clothianidine, l’imidaclopride et le thiaméthoxame) à toutes les cultures en plein champ. Ces produits suscitent la controverse depuis leur déploiement dans les années 1990.
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On Monday, April 23, 2018, the government published its roadmap for the circular economy inscribed in the great Climate Plan and the Energy Transition Law for Green Growth of 2015. While this concept is still emerging in the construction sector, a circular economy project
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Alors que ce mercredi 2 mai seront dévoilées les propositions de la Commission européenne sur le futur cadre financier pluriannuel, l’Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (Iddri) publie un Policy Brief intitulé « Le futur budget européen sera-t-il vert ? Dix sujets à suivre dans les prochains mois
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As part of the necessary energy transition, France had set itself the objective of installing 500 to 600 high-power machines in the form of offshore wind turbines so that by 2030, 40 % of our electricity will come from renewable energies. Although France has the second largest deposit of wind energy in the world, it is not the only one.
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By sounding the alarm about the climate, scientists can make some of us think of the fable of the boy and the wolf. Yet studies are multiplying and repeating themselves: all the scenarios lead to a worsening that is unfolding before our very eyes. One last
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A flutter of butterfly wings could trigger a tornado halfway around the world. Everybody knows this image intended to popularize chaos theory. The discovery just made by researchers at Stanford University is of a similar nature. They have shown that from
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A new April 2018 report by Rainforest Action reveals one of the most serious cases of illegal destruction of tropical forests in Borneo in recent years. Approximately 10,000 hectares of peatland have been illegally destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations,
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The world bestseller by Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso has finally been published in French. L'Intelligence des plantes is a book that stirs. In it, the author multiplies the evidence supporting his sometimes controversial hypothesis: plants are living beings endowed with a certain form of intelligence. If we only discover this truth today,
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How can we observe animal species evolving in the wild without interfering with their lives? Observations are often delicate because they involve an intrusion likely to modify their behaviour or even their environment. A new innovative project, the S.I.E.L. project (Surveillance par Image des Espèces en Liberté), within the framework of the FSDIE (French Development Fund for International Cooperation).
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