When maps of greenhouse gas emissions in China, before and after the Coronavirus outbreak, were published, some people immediately shouted victory. When traffic stops, when factories stop running, when people are locked in their homes, the air becomes
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In the face of the climate emergency, NGOs are uniting in favour of a vast citizen movement for the planet. To do this, they are pooling their expertise in an unprecedented action group, hosted on the WAG - We Act for Good application, launched by WWF France: "Acting with NGOs". Its ambition? To call on all
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Warning from the scientific community; public commotion; commitment from public authorities to act; finding that nothing has really changed; new warning from scientists, etc. Like a well-established dance step, the ritual has been repeated since 1979, when the first scientific warning was issued at the World Conference.
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A former engineering student at ISAE-SUPAERO, Maxime Efoui-Hess has made the defence of the climate his personal and professional leitmotiv. Convinced that engineers have a major role to play in protecting the environment, the young graduate has taken the sidelines by joining The Shift Project, a lobby group that aims to promote the protection of the environment.
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Face à l'effondrement - Militer à l'ombre des catastrophes by Luc Semal - Edition Puf - L'écologie en questions, février 2019 - 361 Pages A wind of collapse is blowing today on ecological mobilizations, political ecology and especially on its youth. Because we have not been able to adapt, the collapse
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How are we going to live in the cities of the South of France if new climatic furnaces develop, as in 2019, endangering life? 2019 was the year of climatic awakening. Montpellier, Marseille, Toulouse, Narbonne, Nîmes... So many southern cities in which the inhabitants are active, active, active, active, active...
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L’épidémie de coronavirus Covid-19 en cours, qui a débuté à Wuhan à la fin de l’année dernière, illustre bien la menace que représentent les maladies infectieuses émergentes, non seulement pour la santé humaine et animale, mais aussi pour la stabilité sociale, le commerce et l’économie mondiale. Ces perturbations se produisent dans
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::: 04/02 - The magazine Futuribles is organising a round table on Tuesday 4 February 2020, from 5.30 to 7.30 pm, on the theme "The sea rises". On October 24, 2019, the National Research Alliance for the Environment (AllEnvi) published the results of a prospective study on the environmental, social and economic consequences of the sea.
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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
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In a context of extreme climatic urgency, neither States nor companies are able to respond to the challenges of the anthropocene. The Internation collective, formed on the initiative of the critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist and the philosopher Bernard Stiegler, and joined by numerous personalities from all over the world,
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The whole world is stunned by the images of the giant fires ravaging Australia. Their scale would almost make the fires in California, Russia and even the Amazon almost insignificant compared to the "Monster", the mega fire that is currently raging. The damage caused locally is considerable and still far from being quantified, in particular to
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For at least forty years, scientists have been alerting the world to the climate crisis. They have long preached in the desert like prophets of bad news. But things have changed. And the year 2019, in particular, has marked a turning point. The climate crisis is now part of our daily lives. Every
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The lesson of Greta Thunberg, by Bernard Stiegler - Edition Les liens qui libèrent (LLL), January 16, 2020 Dressing is the task par excellence of the 21st century: this is what Greta Thunberg, like Antigone, teaches like no one before her to adults who have become irresponsible. Here is
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Le climat qui cache la forêt - Comment la question climatique occulte les problèmes d'environnement, by Guillaume Sainteny - Edition Rue de l'échiquier, collection L'écopoche, November 2019 - 256 Pages The book that puts the climate back in its place and contributes to renewing the debate on climate change. A word of comment
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Il est où, le bonheur de François Ruffin - Editions Les Liens qui Libèrent (LLL), November 2019 - 192 pages François Ruffin positions himself here on the climatic and social emergency, with back and forth between past and present. A hard-hitting book aimed at young people (and others).
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At the opening of COP 25, we are once again given the same curves, modern variations of the sign hanging in the hairdresser's shop: tomorrow we shave for free. Only one region of the world combines the potential to transcend national sovereignty, the capacity for creativity, the capacity for innovation and the ability to create, all in one place.
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La Cité de l’Économie présente sa première exposition temporaire Nés quelque part – L’expo dont vous êtes le héros, jusqu’au 24 novembre 2019 : Un voyage au cœur des enjeux du climat et du développement dans le monde. Présentée par l’Agence française de développement et l’association Ars Anima, Nés quelque
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Swedish activist Greta Thunberg filed an appeal at the UN against five states on 23 September, claiming that their inaction on climate change would violate children's rights. This is the latest in a long series of complaints filed around the world since the mid-2000s. With
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Créée il y a un an à l’initiative des Pays-Bas, la Commission mondiale sur l’adaptation (Global Commission on Adaptation) avait pour objectif implicite de faire progresser la visibilité politique de la question de l’adaptation au changement climatique, et par conséquent d’accélérer le rythme des actions destinées à la préparation aux
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Greta Thunberg's address to the heads of state gathered for the climate summit at the UN on 23 September sounded like a cry. At the age of sixteen, in tears but above all in rage, the girl who has become the symbol of the youth climate movement, has been pushing for a change in the world's climate.
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