Tag: Environment
In Besançon, “green hearings” to advance environmental justice
The European Court of Human Rights examines this Wednesday, March 29 a request against the French State for climate inaction. To get things moving in environmental matters, NGOs are turning…
Training of magistrates for trials related to environmental disputes
The European Court of Human Rights examines this Wednesday, March 29 a request against the French State for climate inaction. Faced with climate and environmental issues, NGOs are increasingly turning…
Violence in Sainte-Soline: “A minority seeking confrontation”
/ Podcasts / Guest France Violence has erupted during protests in France in recent days. Against the pension reform first, but also against a mega-basin project, in Sainte-Soline, in the…
a GIGN gendarme killed in Guyana during an operation against illegal gold panning
A young French gendarme, member of the elite GIGN intervention unit, lost his life this Saturday March 25 in an operation with the army in Maripasoula, in the Guyana Amazonian…
Clashes between anti-basin demonstrators and police in Sainte-Soline
Clashes erupted this Saturday March 25 between demonstrators and the police around a disputed water reserve under construction in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres. Thousands of people mobilized despite the ban on…
after the decision of the Council of State, a difficult compromise between NGOs and fishermen
Monday, March 20, the Council of State ordered the French government to close certain fishing areas in the Bay of Biscay to ensure the survival of dolphins. Although this decision…
opponents of mega-basins are mobilizing again in Deux-Sèvres
Opponents of mega-basin projects are mobilizing this weekend in France. This Saturday, March 25, from 10 a.m., nearly 10,000 people are expected in the Deux-Sèvres department, despite the prefecture’s bans,…
Death of French glaciologist and pioneer of climatology Claude Lorius
Claude Lorius was 91 years old and was the first to highlight the role of CO2 in global warming. In 2008, he received the Blue Planet Prize, a kind of…
SD member Elsa Widding is being pushed from the environment committee
According to Kinnunen, there is a change in the committees, and a replacement for Widding will be appointed shortly. Elsa Widding will instead take a seat as a deputy in…
Africa will have to adapt its sanitation system to more frequent floods
Humanity has broken the water cycle “, her “ vital substance “. The words spoken in New York by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the second day of the United Nations…