Tag: Biodiversity
Member States agree at the UN on a treaty to protect the high seas and its resources
After fifteen years of negotiations, the substantive discussions to reach an international treaty for the protection of the sea beyond national jurisdictions are now over. Once ratified by enough States,…
World Ocean Summit, leading marine economics conference, opens in Lisbon
For three days, players in the marine economy gather in Portugal to find new solutions for protecting the oceans. The conference will focus on the impacts of fishing, transport and…
Pesticides in France: “We are witnessing a collapse of biodiversity”
/ Podcasts / international guest On Saturday February 25, President Emmanuel Macron spent the day at the Paris Agricultural Show. He took the opportunity to announce a new plan on…
Whales, guardian angels of the Earth
The documentary The Guardians of the Planet, released Wednesday at the cinema in France, is an aesthetic and educational love song to the greatest living being. The role of cetaceans…
Transport and biodiversity: two irreconcilable logics
At this level of investment, it is no longer a wave but a tsunami: until 2030, infrastructure spending in OECD countries could reach on average 3,500 to 4,000 billion dollars…
Tourism and biodiversity: “We must limit access to the resource”
How to reconcile economic development and the preservation of biodiversity? This is the challenge facing the French West Indies and which is being debated this Thursday during a day of…
#BG4SDGs, Banca Generali: “Biodiversity for the health of Planet Earth”
(Finance) – What does it mean to protect biodiversity? Why protect natural capital and safeguard the variety of life on earth through the proper functioning of ecosystems? These are the…
a Canadian company filmed dumping its waste in the ocean
Canadian mining company The Metals Company was filmed dumping its waste overboard. However, this company is today the only one able to exploit the mineral resources of the deep seabed,…
Plant your own mini forest: 15,000 free trees for more biodiversity
“It is important that these elements return to our landscape because they promote biodiversity, retain CO2 and water and capture particulate matter,” the province of Utrecht said. “In this way…
associations want the environment to be better covered in the media
As climate change hits ever harder and we are witnessing the mass extinction of plant and animal species, activists are criticizing the French media and want these subjects to be…