Tag: Climate and transitions
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…
digital, a blind spot in our sobriety efforts
In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon explains the challenges of the digital ecological transition with Valentin Ehkirch, Climate journalist at L’Express and Maxime Recoquillé, Tech journalist. Listen to…
Sainte-Soline: why does Darmanin want to dissolve the “Earth Uprising” movement?
“Repeated violence, attacks against the police, calls for insurrection… The Uprisings of the Earth have once again shown Sainte-Soline the threat they represent. In responsibility, I am launching the procedure…
Mega-basins: in Spain, the model of water reservoirs is running out of steam
They say no to bedpans. Thousands of people gathered this weekend in the Deux-Sèvres department, in Sainte-Soline, to demonstrate against these vast reservoirs dedicated to crop irrigation. The demonstration turned…
Mega-basins: why Sainte-Soline is at the heart of tensions
They could be renamed the “basins of anger”. The new demonstration against these water tanks is placed under high security, this Saturday, March 25 in Deux-Sèvres. Up to 10,000 people…
End of thermal engines in 2035: how the German lobby imposed itself
And in the end Germany wins, you might say. After several weeks of turmoil within the European authorities, the Commission and Germany announced on Saturday that they had found common…
“It’s the story of a scientist who went wrong”: Steven Koonin, the art of climate denial
“Read Koonin and stop spouting on the effects of climate change.” The reply, scathing, comes back more and more often on social networks. It must be said that with Steven…
Dieselgate: new alert on 19 million vehicles in Europe
A sense of deja vu. Nineteen million diesel vehicles driving in Europe would present “suspicious” levels of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, alerted, Wednesday March 22, the International Council on Clean…
Garbage collectors’ strike: these mountains of waste that we don’t want to see
It doesn’t take long to spoil a stroll through one of the most beautiful cities in the world. In one week more than 5,000 tons of uncollected waste have accumulated…
Energy and climate: putting an end to the unbearable levity of laws, by Cécile Maisonneuve
While the trash cans were burning in the streets of Paris following the government’s activation of this famous article 49.3 to pass the pension reform bill, two interesting sequences played…