Two important events have taken place recently. The report of the UN-sponsored IPCC, which was released on 8 October. At the same time, the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to William Nordhaus, a pioneer in integrating climate change into economic models. While IPCC scientists are alarmed about the
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Heavy rain, floods, ... in the face of these extreme events, the question of the link with climate change comes up again and again. Have these events become more likely with global warming? Will they be more frequent or more intense in the future? The answer is far from obvious, but new knowledge is now allowing us to
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Direct economic losses due to weather-related disasters over the past 20 years have been 2.5 times higher than in the period 1978-1997, the United Nations said in a report. In the report, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), explains
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A mesure que le changement climatique et ses conséquences se font sentir, un nouveau genre littéraire gagne en popularité et fait une apparition remarquée à la Foire du livre de Francfort qui se tient du 10 au 14 octobre. Il s’agit de la « cli-fi » ou climat-fiction. Au rythme des
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From climate marches, massive petitions calling for political action, rainy platforms to mobilize a definitive start... to the artists - soon to be as appalled as the economists - behind Juliette Binoche. The movement spurred by Nicolas Hulot's resignation is gaining momentum. If he is going to leave the front
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Three years after commitments were made at COP21 in Paris, only 9 countries out of the 180 that signed the Paris Accord have adopted the measures needed to contain the rise in climate risks. An OECD report points to this inertia, even though emissions have fallen back to
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For 85% of the French, the government is not up to the environmental challenges, while 78% of them want ecology to become a government priority. This new school year is witnessing a flurry of citizen initiatives to save the climate and our future. Marches, petitions, appeals...the initiatives are numerous and prove that,
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After a trying summer marked by devastating heat waves, the French political and social back to work season was marked by the ecological crisis: Nicolas Hulot's resignation, followed by an unprecedented citizen mobilization during "for the climate" marches organized throughout France on September 8.
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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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The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, has just issued a cry of alarm in the form of a countdown on 10 September: there are still two years left to act against climate change or risk "disastrous consequences". By drawing up a blackboard of threats to the food chain and access to food and water, the United Nations has given the world the opportunity to take action.
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How weird is this first day of school! Contrary to other years, we don't have the natural nostalgia of the warm sand of the beach, the aperitif in front of the barbecue or the escapades in the forest or the scrubland. This new school year is like boarding an infernal machine that you don't even know you're in.
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C’est au service Copernicus, programme phare de la commission européenne pour l’observation de la Terre lancé en 2014, que revient la tâche de mettre à disposition libre et gratuite, pour tous les publics, de l’intégralité des données passées, actuelles et futures sur le climat. Baptisé « magasin des données climatiques » pour
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The king of the African savannah, the tree of life, the pharmacist tree, the magic tree, the millennium baobab tree, is disappearing. Silently and mysteriously. An international team of researchers is making this tragic observation: the oldest baobabs in Africa are dying. We do not know the causes of
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Le label Transition énergétique et écologique pour le climat (TEEC) est le premier label public destiné aux investissements privés de l’économie verte. Élaboré pour mobiliser une partie de l’épargne au bénéfice de la lutte contre le changement climatique, son périmètre est désormais ouvert aux Organismes de placement collectif immobilier (OPCI)
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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 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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Muriel Pénicaud, ministre du Travail, et Estelle Sauvat, haut-commissaire à la transformation des compétences, lancent le programme 10Kverts pour favoriser l’accès des jeunes et les demandeurs d’emploi aux emplois verts et verdissants. L’invention d’un nouveau modèle productif et social plus respectueux de l’environnement est une nécessité. Il s’agit
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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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Copernicus, le programme phare d’observation de la Terre de la Commission européenne, et le service Copernicus de surveillance de l’atmosphère (CAMS), tous deux mis en œuvre par le Centre européen pour les prévisions météorologiques à moyen terme (CEPMMT), ont présenté au Parlement européen à Bruxelles, le 10 avril 2017, le
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L’année 2017 a été la plus coûteuse jamais observée en ce qui concerne les incidents météorologiques et climatiques extrêmes. Et la situation ne s’arrange pas : « 2018 a débuté par des situations désastreuses » dans ce domaine, a affirmé jeudi l’ONU à Genève. Dans sa Déclaration sur l’état du climat mondial
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