Tag: Climate and transitions
Paris-Toulouse by electric car? Story of a trip under tension
In front of a handful of amused customers, the frank laughter of the hostess breaks the heavy silence of the underground car park of the Gare de Lyon, in Paris.…
Height of the towers, full ground… Four questions on the local “bioclimatic” urban plan of Paris
New horizon for the city of Paris. After several years of disagreements within the majority of the town hall on the local “bioclimatic” urban plan (PLU), the left-wing forces that…
Droughts: their management requires a “radical change”, points out a report
The disaster is not far away. The “worst” was avoided during the drought of the summer of 2022, particularly in terms of a break in the supply of drinking water.…
Energy sovereignty: “Ministers have tried to discard themselves on their administrations”
More than 400 pages of analyses, reports, graphs and thirty proposals to be implemented quickly to prevent France from crashing into the energy wall. This is the content of the…
Drinking water contaminated with a banned pesticide: what are the health risks?
No alert at this stage, but increased vigilance. Residues of a pesticide that has been banned in France since 2020, chlorothalonil, are ubiquitous in drinking water. About a third of…
Polluted drinking water: “Banned pesticides do not disappear as if by magic”
More than four years after its ban, residues of chlorothalonil persist in tap water. A report from the National Health Security Agency (ANSES) published this Thursday, April 6, focused on…
Energy transition: the end of coal-fired power plants slowed down by China
China is moving against the tide. While the number of new coal-fired power plants is slowing down on the planet, the Middle Kingdom continues to massively build new electricity production…
Metolachlor: what we know about this herbicide whose ban is debated
There was an announcement and then a confirmation. Thursday, before the congress of the majority agricultural union, the FNSEA, Marc Fesneau announced that he asked the French Agency for Health…
Lower CO2 emissions: good news that satisfies no one except…
The government is delighted and sees the first effects of its sobriety plan. On social networks, however, the announcement of the 2.5% drop in greenhouse gas emissions in France in…
Climate: in France, the rise of “regional IPCC”
A cycle has ended. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a summary of the three parts of its 6th report on 20 March. Since 2015, he has compiled…