The measures taken to combat the Covid-19 pandemic are disrupting our daily lives. Many see this as an opportunity to initiate more sustainable behaviours, and even hope that this experience of imposed sobriety will be transformed into a real awareness in favour of more environmentally virtuous lifestyles. This
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The Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the French Agency for Biodiversity (AFB) are co-organizing, on a regular basis (every three months or so) until COP 15, moments to decipher and appropriate international news relating to biodiversity: the "Biodiversity 2020 Platform". What is the objective? To enable stakeholders to
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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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While the flames are far from being brought under control and the fires continue to ravage the forests in the Amazon (but also in Central Africa, Siberia and Indonesia), there are already a growing number of announcements and initiatives to prepare for the "aftermath". This article by Yann Laurans, Frédéric Amiel and
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Les solutions fondées sur la nature (SFN) bénéficient d’une attention politique croissante. Elles feront l’objet d’un axe de travail lors du sommet pour l’action climatique organisé par le secrétaire général des Nations unies (SGNU) de septembre 2019, et sont au cœur de l’Agenda de l’action pour la biodiversité, lancé en
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The 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which ended on 29 November in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), was the last before the 2020 Conference. COP 15, to be held in Beijing (China), will be an important milestone in the history of governance.
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The Board of Directors appoints Sébastien Treyer as IDDRI's Chief Executive Officer. The Board of Directors of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), which met on Tuesday 18 December, appointed Sébastien Treyer as the Institute's Director General. He was chosen after a
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While biodiversity loss continues, the world has two years to negotiate the future global framework to succeed the current UN "strategic plan" for biodiversity (2011-2020). This framework should make it possible to renew the objectives of the international community and, above all, to set out
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Europe is at a crossroads. It has long been the bearer of an original model of capitalism, based on strong ambitions from a social (redistribution and welfare state, provision of public services, etc.) and environmental point of view, but which now seems to be eroding. Can Europe reinvigorate its model and the
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How to "Govern and Innovate in the Real Digital City"? The question comes back to a report published on 25 April 2018, in the form of a "handbook", produced by the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI) and the FING (New Generation Internet Foundation), which focuses on the capture of
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Alors que ce mercredi 2 mai seront dévoilées les propositions de la Commission européenne sur le futur cadre financier pluriannuel, l’Institut du développement durable et des relations internationales (Iddri) publie un Policy Brief intitulé « Le futur budget européen sera-t-il vert ? Dix sujets à suivre dans les prochains mois
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A "Digital and Environment" White Paper of 26 proposals has just been presented on Monday 19 March to the Secretaries of State Brune Poirson (ecology) and Mounir Mahjoubi (digital). Objective: to launch the debate among public players to put the potential for digital transformation at the service of the ecological transition. It is published
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France has long been alarmed at the artificialization of a department every ten years. However, we are still far from putting an end to it, as the President of the Republic pledged during his election campaign. This is why we must welcome the return of this issue to the political agenda, at the same time as it is being discussed in the European Parliament.
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Nicolas Hulot, ministre de la Transition écologique et solidaire, a présenté jeudi 6 juillet le Plan climat de la France. Au-delà des annonces qui ont fortement retenu l’attention, comme l’objectif de neutralité carbone d’ici 2050 et la fin des ventes de voitures diesel et essence en 2040, le plan français
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The objective of sustainable development commits States to adopt production and consumption policies compatible with sustainable development. How can we think about this imperative? How can we approach sustainable consumption and production twenty years after Rio? Have we really moved from managing scarcity to integration?
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Urbanisation gained on natural or cultivated areas, expansion of industrial or commercial infrastructures, roads, car parks, ... all contribute to a complete and often irreversible change in land use. Few people are aware of this, but France is particularly affected by this phenomenon, which leads to the loss of biodiversity and farms.
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Three months after the Paris conference that led to the adoption of a climate agreement, the international community is embarking on a new project: the development of a binding legal instrument on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction (Beyond National Jurisdiction). While the
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Au sein de la communauté océan, rassemblant scientifiques, ONG et représentants du secteur privé, on attend la COP21 avec impatience. Depuis plusieurs mois, on se consulte, on s’organise, on s’associe et on prépare publications et évènements qui, on l’espère, auront un impact décisif sur les négociations. Car le lien entre
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As negotiators prepare an agreement text for COP21, which is expected to establish a new climate regime, the international scientific community is gathering in Paris for four days, from 7 to 10 July, under the auspices of global scientific institutions (ICSU [World Science Council] and FutureEarth [International Programme on Climate Change]).
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The third 2014 Environmental Conference held on 27 and 28 November in Paris announced that "the fight against climate change will be declared a great national cause for 2015" by the Prime Minister in his closing speech. The United Nations Climate Conference opened its
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