Someday history will probably judge. Twenty companies, twenty oil and gas companies, more than half of which are state-owned enterprises, hold the sad record of being responsible for 35 % of greenhouse gas emissions alone. For decades, they have contributed to the disruption of the global economy.
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Preliminary results of a large study with contributions from 80 heart-breaking scientists. The Mediterranean, cradle of our cultures, landscape of the founding myths of our civilizations, crossroads of three continents, living basin of 500 million human beings, the Mediterranean of Giono, Pagnol, like that of Averroes or of
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Global warming is shaping up to be more serious than expected, with the worst-case scenario predicting +7°C in 2100, French scientists warned Tuesday, presenting new and very alarming climate models that will serve as a basis for the IPCC. The UN climate experts will unveil in 2021 their new assessment report on
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The young people who demonstrated on 15 March in all the major countries of the world for the climate showed their determination but also their sense of shock formulas. One of them flowered on the brandied signs. We are adopting it to report on a report (yet another) published by the United Nations.
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Since the beginning of December, the UN has been conducting an intense awareness campaign to warn about pollution and land degradation (#StopSoilPollution). It draws up a worrying report that could put a large part of humanity at risk. Indeed, degraded soils become irrecoverable in less than a generation. Pollution
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Following the presentation of the IPCC report on 8 October, the body of evidence pointing to massive and sustained climate change is growing. Everyone has their own solutions, recommendations and good resolutions: burning fewer light bulbs, changing cars, eating less meat, giving up
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The document was for internal use, but the Euractiv site has just published its contents. It is a confidential note from BusinessEurope, the organisation headed by Pierre Gattaz, which federates the major European employers' associations. The note of this European Medef unveils its strategy in the negotiations with the European Union on
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The consequences of climate disruption could be far greater than the current predictions of climate scientists. This is what researchers at the University of Geneva say. They went back to the distant past to learn the lessons of a warming that occurred 56 million years ago. In contrast to the current disturbance
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Tomorrow, Saturday 8 September, more than 150 events related to the fight against global warming will be held throughout France - several tens of thousands of people are expected, in what is already shaping up to be one of the largest climate mobilisations in France. Everywhere in France,
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Sea level rise, shoreline erosion, rapid urbanization : Bangkok, which is hosting the preparatory meeting for COP-24, the next UN climate conference, from 4 to 9 September, is sinking inexorably and could be partly submerged by 2030. A foretaste of what
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L’Arctique va mal. Sa glace de mer la plus ancienne et la plus épaisse est en train de se briser. D’étranges lacs ponctuent son paysage. La chimie même de son eau est en train de changer. Les choses pourraient être sur le point d’empirer. De nouvelles recherches ont en effet
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La semaine dernière, la Terre a établi des records de température. Il fait chaud, très chaud, partout, et le phénomène semble ne pas vouloir s’arrêter. Chacun ressent cette surchauffe anormale, de nombreux morts sont déclarés dans plusieurs endroits du monde, certaines régions atteignent le seuil du supportable avec plus de
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Une équipe internationale de 59 scientifiques de 17 nations vient de publier un rapport dans la revue Nature Geosciences. Leur constat est terrible : le réchauffement de la planète pourrait être le double de ce que prédisent les modèles climatiques. Ce sont des mécanismes d’amplification, mal représentés dans les modèles, qui
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Man-made greenhouse gas emissions threaten to make rice less nutritious. This is the alarming finding of scientists in a study published on May 23. A major risk threatening the staple food of billions of people. Scientists found that rice contains
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While the ozone hole tends to close over Antarctica, scientists observe that this is far from being the case at lower latitudes, where sunlight is strongest and billions of people live. In these regions, ozone
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La COP23 qui vient de s’achever laisse un goût amer. Les États ne sont pas parvenus à accélérer le rythme de leurs engagements. Une triste impression d’impuissance, alors que les rapports alarmants s’accumulent sur l’état du climat. Le dernier en date, publié par l’ONU alerte : si nous atteignons la barre
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COP23, which opens in Bonn on Monday 6 November and runs until 17 November, comes after another year of extreme weather events, the impacts of which have again broken historical records - such as the floods in Central and South Asia and the recent series of hurricanes in the Americas.
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Le 30 octobre 2017, en présence de Nicolas Hulot, Bruno Lechevin, Président de l’ADEME, et Bertrand Piccard (1), Président de la fondation Solar Impulse, ont signé un Memorandum d’Entente. Grâce à cet accord, l’Alliance mondiale pour les solutions efficientes et l’ADEME renforceront leur coopération pour promouvoir les technologies propres et
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Les glaciers des Alpes françaises, malmenés par le réchauffement climatique, fondent trois fois plus vite depuis 2003, avec une perte moyenne totale de 25% de leur superficie en 12 ans. Les conséquences écologiques et sociétales pourraient être dramatiques. La fonte s’est brutalement accélérée. Selon le laboratoire de Glaciologie et
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Hotter summers, houses closer to the trees: fires continue to ravage Mediterranean forests every year, and it will be necessary to change mentalities and behaviour to hope to reverse the trend, say researchers. Is the forest burning more than before? In France, forest fires do not
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