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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PlusResearchers say better forest and soil management could play a major role in combating climate change. Their conclusion is based on the most comprehensive description to date of how greenhouse gas emissions can be
PlusBoreal, 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
PlusFrançois Siegel, editor of the magazine Wedemain, talks to us about a different kind of finance that proposes to invest its savings in the reforestation of forests, a "friendlier" kind of finance, in a way. Green finance makes it possible to invest in ecologically useful projects. By placing your money on a "Livret Arbre", at
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