Le Parlement européen a adopté ce mardi 28 avril 2015, en séance plénière, un plafond de 7% à l’incorporation des agrocarburants de première génération dans les carburants traditionnels d’ici à 2020 dans la réforme européenne des agrocarburants. Pour les organisations signataires, ce plafond est bien trop haut pour limiter le développement
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The Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol will stop in Paris in December for its 21st edition since 1997. This is the 21st time that we are promised a major agreement binding 196 countries to save our climate! Let's bet that this time it will be the right one!
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Hier, mardi 14 avril, et pendant deux jours, l’ADEME tient deux journées de réflexion sur les énergies renouvelables dans le mix électrique. L’agence gouvernementale y dévoile une étude sur la photographie d’une France où l’électricité proviendra à 100% des énergies renouvelables qui puisse satisfaire la consommation projetée à l’horizon 2050. Une
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Microalgae are a very promising source of alternative to oil, without competing with the food industry. For the first time, they have been used to make... bitumen! Are we moving towards the creation of bio-bitumens for green roads based on micro-algae? Researchers from the Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Laboratories
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La possibilité de soutenir concrètement les énergies propres, c’est possible ! Et la bonne nouvelle, c’est qu’aujourd’hui il existe des réseaux pour cela du type Energie partagée, mouvement qui accompagne et finance grâce à l’épargne solidaire des projets d’économies d’énergie et d’énergies renouvelables maîtrisés localement par des citoyens et des collectivités. Et depuis
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The World Economic Forum in Davos is known as the meeting place for world leaders. This year it will bring together more than 40 heads of state and government and 2,500 business and opinion leaders. Pur Projet will be present and will launch a new application for planting trees.
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Si Rhône-Alpes se lance maintenant dans l’adaptation au changement climatique, l’eau sera son atout. La reconquête de la qualité de nos cours d’eau avance fort : la pollution organique de nos cours d’eau a été divisée par dix en 15 ans. Nous avons sorti de la médiocrité les rivières les
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While Ségolène Royal presented the report on the state of the environment 2014 in France on Friday, December 5, a Declaration on Biosphere Ethics was signed today in Montreal. A common vision shared by Montreal, Quebec City and Paris to regain control of the ethical rules for the protection of the biosphere.
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Half the sounds of nature have disappeared in fifty years. However, resistance fighters are taking care to listen, record, preserve and broadcast the endangered sounds. This is why, according to the terraeco.net article. How many natural sounds do you hear every day? How long has it been since a pretty noise interrupted your
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Chaque pays européen doit produire 23% de son énergie en mode renouvelable d’ici 2020. Pour relever ce défi, la France – dans le cadre de la loi de transition énergétique votée ce 14 octobre – a prévu un arsenal de méthaniseurs de toutes sortes (digesteurs de lisiers, de déchets, de
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Brown marine algae are plants that have neither flowers nor channels to conduct sap, yet they reveal adaptations of their immune system that converge with the same mechanisms in plants, but also in animals. Researchers from the Integrative Biology of Marine Models Laboratory of
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Les satellites pilotes des cultures, les filets-capteurs d’eau comme l’organisation des tours d’eau dans les villages, garantissent encore l’accès à l’eau au Maroc. Jusqu’à quand ? Pour un pays pris entre augmentation de la productivité fruitière et céréalière et le changement climatique, l’optimisation des utilisations de l’eau est un défi
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How to involve citizens in water management? How can we raise awareness of the complex challenges related to this resource that we share and that is vital to us? For thirty years, a third of the world's population has had no access to drinking water. This figure remains unchanged and
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There is an urgent need to rethink our relationship with the sea, as well as the way we organise and conduct our activities. We need to move from a logic of pickers-profits to a logic of enlightened and responsible ocean managers, in order to preserve the environmental capital that the oceans represent. Read More
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In the Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Syria are competing for limited water resources. At the heart of this policy of water conquest is the Jordan River basin. State of play. Is the Middle East the scene of armed conflicts over water? "I prefer the term political tensions
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Today, 800 million people do not have access to safe drinking water. How can this be remedied? This is one of the questions that the participants of the 6th World Water Forum, which took place at the beginning of March in Marseilles, tried to answer: the village of solutions, in which one of the tents groups together
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After several months of work, studies and commissions, the 6th World Water Forum and the Alternative Forum opened their doors at the beginning of March in Marseilles. For 5 days, researchers, NGOs, ministers, local authorities and companies met to discuss access to water in poor countries, water governance, sanitation and pollution.
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