L’accès à de nombreux médicaments, comme des analgésiques courants ou des traitements anticancéreux, est menacé par la vague d’extinction de la biodiversité dans le monde. Car soixante mille plantes et champignons sont utilisés pour leur valeur médicinale. 40 % d’entre eux sont directement menacés d’extinction, mettant en péril nos approvisionnements
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Should we introduce Jane Goodall? Founder of the Institute that bears her name and UN Messenger of Peace, her reputation precedes her. Famous for her lifelong work on primates, she advocates a new relationship with nature. In a recent intervention, she challenged all of humanity. The
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Depuis une dizaine d’années, des scientifiques alertent sur le risque de crises systémiques liées à notre système alimentaire. La globalisation et l’industrialisation de l’agriculture, de la transformation et de la distribution, joint à une occidentalisation de l’alimentation, ont accru les émissions de gaz à effet de serre à l’origine du
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Ce n’est un secret pour personne que la plus grande forêt tropicale du monde, l’Amazonie, subit une pression immense, s’approche d’un point de basculement écologique et risque de s’effondrer. Mais la situation est bien pire que nous ne le pensions. Des scientifiques suggèrent que l’avenir sombre de l’Amazonie est déjà
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Événement international de haut niveau, le Global Forest Summit se tiendra pour la première fois le 12 mars prochain. À l’initiative de Reforest’Action et de l’Institut Open Diplomacy, ce sommet virtuel basé à Paris réunira des représentants d’organisations internationales, des membres de gouvernements, des acteurs du monde des affaires et
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C’est une première victoire qui en appelle d’autres car, ce lundi 9 novembre, les ministres du commerce des pays de l’UE, réunis en vidéoconférence, devaient enclencher le processus de ratification de l’accord de libéralisation du commerce entre l’UE et les pays du Mercosur (Brésil, Argentine, Uruguay et Paraguay). Cela ne
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La déforestation en Amazonie brésilienne a augmenté de 55 % au cours des quatre premiers mois de l’année par rapport à la même période de 2019. La destruction a atteint l’année dernière son plus haut niveau en onze ans. Les tribus amazoniennes sont confrontées à de plus en plus de
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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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The trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) is the largest trade treaty ever negotiated. Signed a year ago, the ratification of this nearly €17 trillion agreement could fail because of Brazil's environmental and human abuses of
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The pandemic is hitting the world. Everybody. Like a scourge of fate. In reality, this crisis is a product of our way of living the world. By extending the limits of our human habitats into the wilderness, we have not only destroyed biodiversity, but have also entered into a new era.
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What if we had found "the cheapest and most ingenious way to combat the global warming that is impacting forests today"? It is in any case the bet of a young American engineer, Topher White, who, with the help of his startup RainForest Connection (RFCx) located in
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According to data analysed by the NGO Global Witness, between 2013 and 2019, the French financial sector financed five of the six most harmful agro-industrial companies directly or indirectly involved in deforestation activities in the world's three most important tropical forests, namely the Brazilian Amazon, the Amazon Basin and the Amazonian Basin.
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This report was supported by the Pulitzer Center. It originally appeared in Rolling Stone. It is republished here as part of UP' Magazine's partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 selected media outlets to strengthen journalistic coverage of change.
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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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Jair Bolsonaro, newly elected and already nicknamed "the Trump of the Tropics", worries scientists around the world. As president of Brazil, he will control nearly two-thirds of the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest. But he has argued that too many
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A new April 2018 report by Rainforest Action reveals one of the most serious cases of illegal destruction of tropical forests in Borneo in recent years. Approximately 10,000 hectares of peatland have been illegally destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations,
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In the recent past, two announcements deserve to be compared and commented on. The first is the prediction of the near disappearance of apes from the planet within 25 to 50 years. The second is the fear of an "end of globalization" expressed in Davos by various supporters of free trade, including
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Defence Airbus and Space, The Forest Trust (TFT) and SarVision have jointly developed an innovative service that allows food and beverage companies to provide evidence of the implementation of their commitments to environmental protection and more specifically the fight against deforestation. After 14
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Boreal, temperate, tropical or equatorial, the forest is an essential ecosystem on the continents, a place of refuge for fauna and flora. Of the 2 million known species on Earth, more than half live in a tropical forest. However, the forest is going through difficult times, between deforestation and
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Planting 1 billion trees a year to fight deforestation is the crazy bet of this former NASA engineer. To achieve this, he has developed a drone that is able to "strafe" areas to be reforested with tree seeds. This saves time and
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