Après vingt ans de négociations, interrompues à plusieurs reprises, la France rejette le traité de libre-échange Mercosur en l’état entre l’Union européenne et des pays sud-américains, compte tenu de l’orientation prise par les politiques publiques de ce bloc de pays qui vont clairement à l’encontre des objectifs collectifs de l’Accord
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Réunir l’ensemble de la société pour parler climat pendant 24 heures au cœur des territoires, c’est le pari des 24 heures du Climat, qui se tiendra les 17 et 18 septembre prochains, en visioconférence. Ministres, parlementaires, entreprises, ONG, chercheurs, citoyens, scientifiques, philosophes, institutions, administrations, think tanks… les 17 et 18
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En novembre 2019, l’Union européenne (UE) a ouvert la voie à une initiative, le Green Deal (ou Pacte vert), pour l’Europe – idéalement pour le monde. Pour en relever réellement les défis « complexes et interdépendants » dans une « réponse politique qui doit être audacieuse et globale », selon
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Géomimétisme – Réguler le changement climatique grâce à la nature, de Pierre Gilbert – Préface de Gaël Giraud – Edition Les Petits matins, 3 septembre 2020 – 184 pages Quelle est notre meilleure alliée pour combattre le changement climatique ? La technologie pure, encore et toujours, comme le fantasment les
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2,1 milliards d’habitants, soit près de 25 % de la population mondiale seront impactés par des menaces écologiques d’ici 2050 : changement climatique, risques de catastrophes naturelles, insécurité alimentaire ou pénurie d’eau. Un chiffre dévoilé aujourd’hui par un rapport, l’Ecological Threat Register (ETR) qui mesure les menaces écologiques auxquelles les
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Le Secrétaire général de l’ONU, António Guterres, vient d’accorder une interview exclusive à Londres ce jour au Covering Climate Now. Cette interview est publiée ici dans le cadre du partenariat de UP’ Magazine avec Covering Climate Now, une collaboration mondiale de plus de 400 médias sélectionnés pour renforcer la couverture
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During Covid-19, the climate crisis continues. It gets worse. The media, all focused on the pandemic have forgotten it a little, but the climate crisis has not disappeared and extreme events have multiplied around the world in recent weeks. They occur at the worst
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It was 38°C on Saturday in Verkhoyansk, eastern Siberia. Never before seen in June in this weather station known to be the coldest in the northern hemisphere. A record that comes against the backdrop of alarming reports of climate disruption that is accelerating in the Arctic regions. Is it already
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As the 150 citizens of the Citizens' Climate Convention meet this weekend to validate their concrete proposals to be submitted to the government, measures have already been made public on Thursday 18 June. Among them, the amendment of Article 1 of the Constitution to make France
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The pandemic at Covid-19 is not over, let summer come. Specialists predict that it will be hot and that the scorching temperatures will break records. This is already the case, this month of April and May in South-Eastern Europe, which is suffocating. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned this Tuesday 26 May
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The month of April broke temperature records, heralding one of the hottest summers on record. But these pessimistic predictions are outweighed by reality. The heat wave we feared after the pandemic episode is already here. In the middle of May, the month of the sweet spring sung by Ronsard, the
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"Only a crisis, real or perceived, produces real change," said the famous American economist Milton Friedman four decades ago. "When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are circulated."
Crises shape history. This is why some people think that the global pandemic is
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All the world's whistle-blowers, the Greta Thunberg, the IPCC experts, the green, yellow or blue activists, the defenders of the Paris Agreement, the greenest of environmentalists, all are just small arms. They are beaten to a pulp. A virus has managed to make this
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On April 1, the United Nations announced that the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) scheduled to take place in Glasgow in November 2020 was postponed to next year because of the VIDOC-19 crisis. Following this decision, the Chair of the Environment Committee, from
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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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"This Greenpeace advertisement was banned from the Paris metro and cinema networks. The NGO wanted once again to denounce the inaction of political leaders in the face of the climate emergency. In its press release, Greenpeace reports that the statement was judged "to have been made by the court of justice".
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Climate change, junk food, marketing by tobacco and alcohol companies, ... Children's health is under "immediate threat" everywhere and no country in the world is adequately protecting their future, warns the United Nations (UN). Progress has been made over the past 20 years to protect children's health.
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