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Plusieurs « dizaines de milliers de personnes » sont désormais impactées en Ouganda par un mégaprojet pétrolier du groupe français Total et ont « commencé à perdre leurs moyens de subsistance avant même de percevoir » une compensation, dénoncent mardi les associations les Amis de la Terre France et Survie. En octobre 2019, six

France's mineral resource potential is largely undervalued to date. The country is home to significant resources of rocks and industrial minerals as well as numerous metals (tungsten, antimony, gold, lead, zinc, germanium, copper, lithium and molybdenum). These metals and rare earths include

The demand for cobalt is skyrocketing. It is proportional to the deployment of our electric cars and our use of digital technology; because without cobalt, there are no batteries. People die for it, children suffer for it, livelihoods, education, neighbourhoods, the environment and personal safety.

A strange scene is being repeated in different parts of the world at the moment, in the skyscrapers of business districts, on the top floors of glass towers, or in the quiet and discreet clubs of Wall Street or the City. Scenes worthy of the Shakespearean tragedies the

According to data analysed by the NGO Global Witness, between 2013 and 2019, the French financial sector financed five of the six most harmful agro-industrial companies directly or indirectly involved in deforestation activities in the world's three most important tropical forests, namely the Brazilian Amazon, the Amazon Basin and the Amazonian Basin.

By dint of repeating that coal is a disastrous fossil fuel for the planet, world leaders seem to have finally understood. Coal has recorded a drop of 3 % in world electricity production. This figure is an average, with ups and downs according to the

The only effective and socially just way to meet our climate commitments is to allocate each citizen a quota of fossil energy, part of which he or she can freely sell or buy from his or her neighbours. What international agreements or national governments never talk about: reluctant

The prestigious Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company announced on Wednesday 2 October that it was withdrawing aid from the BP oil group in the name of the "climate emergency". A movement that is making its mark all over the world. BP's patronage allowed the RSC, a British theatre company based

Make amends for driving by planting trees? The idea appeals to many people. But is it such a good idea? A few euros, a few clicks and a tree is planted: at a time when travelling by plane can rhyme with guilt, it has never been so easy to compensate for one's emissions of

Water is a common good, a natural heritage, one of the most essential, if not the most essential to human life, which must be managed to ensure its sustainability. What is less well known is that access to drinking water is based on a scientific and technical heritage, developed and maintained over the years.