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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As 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.
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As if suffering from heat, droughts, floods and storms were not enough, a new UN report states that climate change is also increasing hunger in the world: in 2017, for the third year, the number of people in chronic hunger
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Tomorrow, Saturday 8 September, more than 150 events related to the fight against global warming will be held throughout France - several tens of thousands of people are expected, in what is already shaping up to be one of the largest climate mobilisations in France. Everywhere in France,
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Sea level rise, shoreline erosion, rapid urbanization : Bangkok, which is hosting the preparatory meeting for COP-24, the next UN climate conference, from 4 to 9 September, is sinking inexorably and could be partly submerged by 2030. A foretaste of what
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The links between global warming and geopolitical risks and migration are no longer to be demonstrated. The UN Security Council has just published an alarming study: if nothing is done quickly to mitigate the extreme climate risks in Iraq, the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) may find itself back in a "climate crisis".
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In an op-ed published on the World Economic Forum website, Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International and former Executive Director of Greenpeace International warns of the lack of a global treaty on the management of populations displaced by climate change. However, according to UN figures, by 2050 there will be
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The migrant crisis has become in the minds of the main media in our countries the first major European crisis. By undermining the legal foundations of the Community, by dislocating the solidarity of its constituent peoples, this crisis has turned European hospitality into a quota fair, as if the
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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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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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Food security for refugee populations and uncertainties about future UN food aid budgets can only be reconciled through well-targeted, accurate and effective food aid. INRA researchers and their colleagues propose to simultaneously take into account individual data and data relating to the food security of refugee populations.
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At the beginning of 2018, a project called "Bubble Box" won first prize in the call for projects Talents #2024 of the City of Paris. This mobile and autonomous hygiene module for migrants, refugees and the homeless was developed by four students from the School of Public Affairs of the University of Paris.
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Economic researchers have found a systematic link between periods of drought and the outbreak of riots in sub-Saharan Africa. The scientific community has been hypothesizing for several years that there is a link between droughts and the outbreak of riots. In order to formally verify this hypothesis
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According to a recent report, the number of wild animals on Earth has halved over the past 40 years. The sixth mass extinction of species is now underway. Not since the end of the dinosaurs have so many animal species disappeared from the Earth. The causes of this situation are indeed
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While the world sounds the sirens of post-humanism, even transhumanism, of artificial intelligence and increased man, of technological progress leading us straight to immortality, there is a voice telling us the exact opposite. No, man has reached his biological, physiological and environmental limits. He has reached a ceiling
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While the ozone hole tends to close over Antarctica, scientists observe that this is far from being the case at lower latitudes, where sunlight is strongest and billions of people live. In these regions, ozone
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The population of the African continent is growing rapidly. Estimated at 140 million in 1900, it reached one billion in 2010. It will reach 2.5 billion in 2050 and more than 4 billion in 2100, according to the medium scenario of UN projections (see figure below). Today, one human being out of six lives in
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According to textbooks, all modern humans come from a population that lived in East Africa about 200,000 years ago. This theory is based on some very serious evidence: genetic analysis of humans from all over the world and the discovery of
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With some ifs, we could bottle Paris. Everybody knows the saying. In this case, Paris would not be bottled but would look like the Serengeti Park in Tanzania, with elephants, giraffes and rhinoceroses roaming the site of the current Champs Elysées. A late night delirium one
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On the occasion of the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the COP22 Steering Committee commissioned the first pan-African study on global warming. It was conducted among young people born in the decades 1980 to 2000, the
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