Green, the color of hope used to symbolize nature, on the eve of the COP29 which begins tomorrow, Azerbaijan. A new international conference on climate which is still taking place, after Dubai last year, “ at one of the largest hydrocarbon exporters on the planet“, REMARK The New Obs. In 2024, black gold, “ oil is still king», notes the weekly, and the world “ still addicted to fossil fuels », even though to achieve the objective of the Paris Agreement of global warming contained at 1.5°C, it is necessary, according to a report from the International Energy Agency, to immediately abandon the development of new oil or gas fields. The director of the AIE therefore advocates “ for accelerated decarbonization»: Fatih Birol became “ scratching hair » of fossil fuel producers, indicates The New Obs which devotes an article to the one who “ broke the “rich man’s club” side of the International Energy Agency by opening it to large emerging countries “.
Green is on the cover Today in France Weekend for an issue entirely devoted toenvironment. With a report in the lush Guyanese forest, on the Brazilian border, discovering the ancestral practices of the natives. “Amazonian societies could (re)teach us how to preserve our ecosystems or recreate healthier relationships between fauna, flora and humans », explains researcher Guillaume Odonne. Even if there, too, we live “a clash of generations“. “Cultivate cotton to weave your hammock, rely on the shaman in case of illness»: many customs «are today out of step with the call of modern life “, we can read in this report, which concludes by adding that “many people think that these two worlds should inspire each other to try to save the essential “.
The climate and the European Union facing the return of Donald Trump
There is still a long way to go, therefore, and this should not get better with the re-election of Donald Trump to UNITED STATES. “This will be the elephant in the room at COP29“, it will be “in everyone’s mind» in Azerbaijan, written Release. In its weekend edition, the newspaper warns: “We will have to deal with an assumed climate skeptic and proud of it“. When it comes to the environment, Donald Trump “intends to set up a system of destruction», worries, inReleaseLaurence Tubiana, one of the architects of the Paris Agreement, which the United States could leave again with Donald Trump. “The global context is conducive to seeing other countries follow it“, she believes, thinking of Argentina and Venezuela. In the absence of the United States, Laurence Tubiana is therefore banking on China which has, according to her, “any interest in climate diplomacy continuing to work”, for economic reasons. She also cites Brazil and the European Union. Except that the EU is also disturbed by the return of Donald Trump.
“The protection provided by the United States is no longer guaranteed», recognizes the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in The Parisian Sunday. “Europeans face a triple existential risk,continues Jean-Noël Barrot:widespread insecurity and war on the continent, industrial and technological decline and the disintegration of the democratic model“. “Donald Trump’s victory must serve as an electric shock», hopes, in La Tribune Sundaythe director general of the Paris Peace Forum. According to Justin Vaïsse, the return of the Republican to the White House “confirms a trend in the international system, which is moving towards ever more protectionism and trade wars. In this landscape, there remains poor little Europe, whose center of gravity remains free trade“.
“The planet is turning, and Europe is watching», laments Éric Chol in his editorial in The Expressasking oneself “where have the great leaders of yesterday gone?“. “The famous Franco-German engine is good for scrapping,adds Franz-Olivier Giesbert in The Point,and nothing has replaced it yet. At a time when all the skies of the world are covered with black clouds, Europe has decided to return with the cows to watch the passing trains“.
Jordan Bardella publishes his first book
He is also not a convinced European. Jordan Bardella on tour, in the media, to advertise his first book: What I’m looking for, a title written on a photo-portrait of the president of the National Rally in black and white. Cover reminiscent of Barack Obama’s memoirs.Le Figaro Magazinepublishes extracts from these 324 pages. Jordan Bardella presents himself as a “child of the working classes and son of Italian migrants, heir to republican meritocracy“. He looks back on his childhood in Seine-Saint-Denis, near Paris, in the Gabriel-Péri city, and also talks about his first name, which he says he had difficulty “to assume“. “I wanted the French to understand in depth what I think and the reasons that lead me to think it.», explains Jordan Bardella in The Sunday Journalowned by Vincent Bolloré like Éditions Fayard which publishes the work. “The president of the RN seeks to erase his belonging to the extreme rightanalysisThe New Obs,by presenting himself as more liberal than Marine Le Pen. Without denying anything, in reality, of its identity and authoritarian obsessions“. In substance as well as in form, Release is even more critical: “In this book with a style so bad that we end up thinking he really wrote it alone, Marine Le Pen’s heir apparent barely manages to discover himself.“.
The return of the Olympic and Paralympic spirit with Aurélie Aubert
She appears with white sneakers, with blue and red laces, and the same smile that capsized France last summer: Aurélie Aubert, on the front page of the magazine The Team. Images of the Paralympic boccia champion «lost in ecstasy on her chair once victorious” have “grab the hearts», recalls the report. Since its title, Aurélie Aubert’s daily newspaper “with a host family in a hamlet in Eure exploded”, and her volunteer trainer “still feeling tired“. But “she’s a fighter», assures Claudine Llop Cliville. Orphaned, suffering from cerebral palsy due to a lack of oxygen at birth, Aurélie Aubert struggles to recognize it but, yes, her victory in Paris last summer is a “revenge“. In this life “not very simple», she assures that boccia is “his lifeline“. “If I’m deprived of it, I cry. When I play it, my day is beautiful. It’s a life project“. After the numerous media requests, Aurélie Aubert hopes to be able to resume training normally and, once again, wear the colors blue, white, red, again signs of hope.