Tag: Climate and transitions
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…
Paris says no to self-service scooters: the concern of the three private operators
An opposition as overwhelming as abstention: Parisians voted Sunday, April 2 at 89.03% against self-service electric scooters which, accused of “nuisance”, will have disappeared from the roadway of the capital…
End of electric scooters in Paris: “There will be no massive transfer to cycling”
The Parisians have decided. Or rather 4.2% of them. If the town hall of Paris listens to them, the fleets of the three electric scooter operators will disappear from the…
Sobriety: 110 km / h, air conditioning, teleworking… The executive details its instructions for companies
After a first rather successful test this winter, the government is relaunching its sobriety plan for businesses. Objective: spend the summer without breaking the bank, while energy prices are still…
Climate justice: what the “historic” resolution adopted by the UN provides
“Together, you are writing history,” said United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres from the podium, when discussing the resolution presented on Wednesday March 29. The UN General Assembly adopted, by…