Tag: Environment
7,000 jobs threatened in Central America’s largest copper mine
In Panama, demonstrators oppose the continued exploitation of the largest copper mine in Central America. They denounce in particular its impact on the environment. But this mobilization risks also having…
197 countries facing climate change and its consequences
COP28 opens this Thursday in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 197 states met for two weeks under the auspices of the UN to try to advance negotiations to combat climate change…
agreement to protect Doñana Park threatened with desertification
Doñana is the largest, most important natural marshland park in Southern Europe. It is threatened with disappearance by drought, but Madrid and Andalusia have agreed: 700 million euros will be…
60 big French bosses are mobilizing for the ecological transition
Four days before COP28 in Dubai, 60 presidents of large French groups are calling for accelerating investments in the ecological transition. They sign a column in the Sunday edition of…
Macron appoints Macky Sall special envoy of 4P, an opposition coalition protests
Part of the Senegalese opposition published an open letter on Friday evening addressed to French head of state Emmanuel Macron. In this document, members of Fite (Front for inclusiveness and…
the French state condemned again for air pollution
The Council of State, the highest administrative jurisdiction, certainly notes some progress but the measures implemented by the executive are still considered insufficient, in Paris and Lyon, to bring pollution…
Switzerland will be able to store CO2 in foreign seabeds, says its government
This Wednesday, November 22, the Swiss government authorized the export of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas linked to human activity, with a view to storing it in the…
Environment: the world still far from its climate objectives
The commitments made by the international community are still more than insufficient to achieve the objectives and limit global warming. It is the United Nations which says this this Monday,…
record rain for more than thirty days, Pas-de-Calais still in apprehension
Metropolitan France, which has experienced very heavy flooding in recent weeks, particularly in Pas-de-Calais, was affected between mid-October and mid-November 2023 by unprecedented accumulations of rain over a long period,…
Wind turbine manufacturer Siemens Energy announces annual loss of 5 billion euros
The German group reported an annual loss of nearly 5 billion euros, weighed down by its wind subsidiary, the day after the disclosure of a 15 billion euro rescue plan…