Tag: Climate and transitions
Climate: these “alarming changes” highlighted by the year 2022
Heat waves, fires, drought… The summer of 2022 was the hottest ever recorded in Europe, confirmed this Thursday, April 20 the European Copernicus program in a report. Temperatures were about…
Forest fires: is France ready for another high-risk summer?
1,000 hectares of vegetation going up in smoke, and the first major devastating fire of the year. In the Pyrénées-Orientales, some 500 firefighters were mobilized, supported by six water bomber…
Global warming: how Paris is preparing for future heat waves
Is Paris in danger of becoming unlivable? The heat peaks will be more and more numerous in the capital, and temperatures could regularly reach 50 degrees by the end of…
Sorting waste, food, planes… The weariness of Westerners with eco-gestures
After a year 2022 marked by numerous weather anomalies, opinion pollsters were expecting a few surprises. But certainly not to such great… apathy. According to the latest Obs’COP barometer carried…
Climatosceptics: why 37% of French people no longer adhere to IPCC speeches
The rebound challenges. In the space of a year, the proportion of climatosceptics has increased by almost ten points in France, to reach 37% according to Obs’COP, a study carried…
Global warming: the Rhône, a river in full mutation
Its meanders, quiet, stretch over more than 800 kilometers through Switzerland. The peaceful appearance of the Rhône, the third longest French river, was nevertheless disturbed at the beginning of March…
Energy crisis: why the difficulties will persist, by Cécile Maisonneuve
With the return of spring and the prices of gas and electricity on the wholesale markets returning to levels prior to the outbreak of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, it…
Climate: what to remember from the G7 commitments
As part of their goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 “at the latest”, the G7 countries (United States, Japan, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Canada), shared, that Sunday,…
Drought: will we all have water in the tap this summer?
It is a report went relatively unnoticed. On April 12, the General Inspectorate for the Environment and Sustainable Development (Igedd) published a “feedback on water management during the 2022 drought”,…
Eternal pollutants: in which objects are they used?
A Report of the General Inspectorate for the Environment and Sustainable Development (IGEDD), published this Friday, April 14, recommends that the government act “without delay” against PFAS pollutants, these substances…