On Wednesday 12 June, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe delivered his second general policy statement, which won the confidence of the deputies (363 votes in favour and 163 votes against, 47 abstentions), before submitting it this Thursday 13 June to the senators, who will have to vote in the wake. It
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In mid-June 2019, Total La Mède's new biorefinery will start producing biodiesel, i.e. around 650,000 metric tons per year, despite the end of the tax niche for palm-oil-based biofuels voted by the government in December 2018. This "biofuel" is produced at
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Thirty-three years after the worst nuclear disaster, the highly contaminated area around the Chernobyl power plant, abandoned by its inhabitants, has been transformed into a unique reserve where elk, deer, wolves and many other wild animals thrive and multiply. Could human presence be more harmful than the
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Climate change, contrasts between regions of the globe, loss of biodiversity, air and soil pollution, access to drinking water... as much bad news for the planet as the stakes: what if you could equip a ship with the best digital immersion technologies to envisage new scenarios for our planet?
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World specialists in agroforestry, an ancestral practice associating trees and crops that has been abandoned for several decades in favour of intensive agriculture, are meeting in congress this week to discuss ecological solutions to the agri-food challenge. Until May 23, researchers, farmers, scientists, political and economic decision-makers from some 100 countries are meeting,
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With one million species threatened with extinction, nature's decline is unprecedented. This is the conclusion of the Global Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) unveiled at UNESCO Headquarters on 6 May 2019. Alternatives and initiatives
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The ocean has always been a place of exploration, a reserve of biodiversity, a source of inspiration and legends, ... This exhibition at La Grande Galerie de l'Evolution in Paris, from April 3, 2019 to January 5, 2020, will also reveal surprising and little-known facets of the ocean. Through a
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It is a race against time that is being played out in Australia, as in other parts of the world. Coral reefs, shelters of marine biodiversity, are disappearing at a glance. If global temperatures continue to rise to 2°C, half of the world's coral reefs will be destroyed.
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See you Saturday March 30th for Earth Hour - 60 minutes for the planet! And this year, for the first time, the WWF is organizing a live talk show between 8:00 pm and 8:35 pm at the foot of the Eiffel Tower (1). Scientists' alerts are multiplying to highlight the unprecedented decline
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Thought to be so numerous and resilient that they would survive even a global nuclear conflict, insects are nevertheless disappearing everywhere, threatening to take many other species with them in serial collapses. What can be done about it? These issues are not orphaned, and political mobilization to tackle them is essential.
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L’édition 2019 du concours Capitale française de la Biodiversité sera lancée dans les prochains jours avec pour thème : « Climat : la nature source de solutions » La neuvième édition du concours Capitale française de la Biodiversité mettra en avant les actions de communes et intercommunalités françaises de toutes tailles en
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This is the most massive episode of species extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. More than half of all insects are disappearing worldwide at an accelerated rate; the hecatomb is reaching the staggering figure of 80 % for Europe. When insects disappear, the entire living chain is affected. No more food
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As a lawyer and activist, Valérie Cabanes has encountered situations on every continent where the fundamental rights of peoples are affected by damage to their natural environment. She describes some of these experiences, analyzes recent environmental pressures on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and proposes an architecture for the future.
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The 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which ended on 29 November in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), was the last before the 2020 Conference. COP 15, to be held in Beijing (China), will be an important milestone in the history of governance.
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This is Finland. A first is about to be made: a vaccine to protect bees has just been developed by scientists. It would be the first vaccine in the world, with the hope of halting the decline of this insect's populations, and avoid causing a crisis.
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The Earth is much more alive than we thought: a rich intraterrestrial ecosystem living in the depths of the Earth has been discovered. It's almost twice the size of all the world's oceans. Despite the extreme heat, lack of light, minute nutrition and pressure
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Biotechnological risks, access to and sharing of the benefits of biodiversity: these are the issues at stake at the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP14, COPMOP3 and COPMOP9 ), which is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from 17 to 29 November 2018. Decision-makers from more than 190 countries are expected to
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In accordance with the commitment made in the "Climate Plan" adopted in July 2017, five ministers (1) announce the adoption today, Wednesday, November 14, 2018, of the national strategy to combat imported deforestation aimed at halting deforestation caused by the import of forest products by 2030.
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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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Vendredi 12 octobre 2018, la LPO lance, avec le soutien de Chambres d’agriculture France (APCA) un nouveau programme intitulé “Des terres et des ailes”, pour lutter contre la disparition des oiseaux communs de nos campagnes et les faire revenir sur les terres agricoles. Les derniers chiffres issus de l’étude
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