Intempéries

Le géant pétrolier français TotalEnergies n'a pas encore démarré la production dans son projet contesté d'oléoduc en Afrique de l'Est mais les fragiles écosystèmes en Ouganda en souffrent déjà, avec des effets "dévastateurs" sur l'environnement, dénonce vendredi une activiste d'une ONG ougandaise. La région du lac Albert abrite des ressources pétrolières estimées à plus d'un milliard de barils que le géant pétrolier veut exploiter en partenariat notamment avec le groupe pétrolier chinois CNOOC à travers les projets Tilenga et EACOP (East African Crude Oil Pipeline).

La Cour européenne des droits de l'Homme, siégeant en Grande Chambre, a conclu mardi à de multiples violations de la Convention par la Russie, dans le cadre de son occupation de la Crimée depuis 2014.

De natuurherstelwet, een van de laatste grote wetgevende luiken van de Europese Green Deal, is dan toch goedgekeurd. Twee jaar na het voorstel heeft de Oostenrijkse minister van Milieu alsnog voor gestemd, waardoor de nodige meerderheid van de lidstaten is gevonden. Opvallend: binnen de Oostenrijkse federale regering dreigt nu wel een politieke crisis.

Abstract. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Evidence-based decision-making needs to be informed by up-to-date and timely information on key indicators of the state of the climate system and of the human influence on the global climate system. However, successive IPCC reports are published at intervals of 5–10 years, creating potential for an information gap between report cycles. We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. We compile monitoring datasets to produce estimates for key climate indicators related to forcing of the climate system: emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activit

This year elections are taking place across the globe, covering almost half of the world’s population. It is also likely to be, yet again, the hottest year recorded as the climate crisis intensifies. The Guardian asked young climate activists around the world what they want from the elections and whether politics is working in the fight to halt global heating.

Une analyse menée par les services du renseignement et de la sécurité montre que la désinformation est une menace réelle à l'approche des élections, indique jeudi le centre de crise (NCCN) dans un communiqué de presse.

L’augmentation des niveaux de CO2 atmosphérique actuelle est 10 fois plus rapides qu’à tout moment au cours des 50 000 dernières années.

Près de 80% des scientifiques du Giec interrogés par le «Guardian» pensent que la température sur Terre aura augmenté d’au moins 2,5°C au cours de ce siècle par rapport à la fin du XIXe.

Après la découverte de fortes concentrations de virus H5N1 dans le lait de vaches contaminées par la grippe aviaire aux Etats-Unis, l'OMS a recommandé vendredi d'appliquer des mesures de sécurité alimentaire de bon sens comme l'usage de lait pasteurisé.

Over the past 50 years, humans have extracted the Earth’s groundwater stocks at a steep rate, largely to fuel global agro-economic development. Given society’s growing reliance on groundwater, we explore ‘peak water limits’ to investigate whether, when and where humanity might reach peak groundwater extraction. Using an integrated global model of the coupled human–Earth system, we simulate groundwater withdrawals across 235 water basins under 900 future scenarios of global change over the twenty-first century. Here we find that global non-renewable groundwater withdrawals exhibit a distinct peak-and-decline signature, comparable to historical observations of other depletable resources (for example, minerals), in nearly all (98%) scenarios, peaking on average at 625 km3 yr−1 around mid-century, followed by a decline through 2100. The peak and decline occur in about one-third (82) of basins, including 21 that may have already peaked, exposing about half (44%) of the global population to groundwater stress. Most

Een gelekte nota toont de prioriteiten van de EU-lidstaten voor de nieuwe Europese Commissie na de komende Europese verkiezingen. De Bond Beter Leefmilieu is formeel: “De EU-regeringsleiders willen elke inzet voor de biodiversiteit- en klimaatcrisis overboord gooien”.

In een historische uitspraak heeft het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens vastgesteld dat landen die nalatig zijn in het uitvoeren van effectief klimaatbeleid, de mensenrechten van hun burgers schenden.

6 Europese lidstaten, onder leiding van de Oostenrijkse minister van Landbouw, vragen versoepelingen van de ontbossingswet die eind dit jaar van kracht wordt. Die moet verhinderen dat nog producten op de Europese markt komen waarvoor bos is gesneuveld. Hun vraag wordt vandaag in Brussel besproken op de bijeenkomst van Europese Landbouwministers.

Evidence shows a continuing increase in the frequency and severity of global heatwaves1,2, raising concerns about the future impacts of climate change and the associated socioeconomic costs3,4. Here we develop a disaster footprint analytical framework by integrating climate, epidemiological and hybrid input–output and computable general equilibrium global trade models to estimate the midcentury socioeconomic impacts of heat stress. We consider health costs related to heat exposure, the value of heat-induced labour productivity loss and indirect losses due to economic disruptions cascading through supply chains. Here we show that the global annual incremental gross domestic product loss increases exponentially from 0.03 ± 0.01 (SSP 245)–0.05 ± 0.03 (SSP 585) percentage points during 2030–2040 to 0.05 ± 0.01–0.15 ± 0.04 percentage points during 2050–2060. By 2060, the expected global economic losses reach a total of 0.6–4.6% with losses attributed to health loss (37–45%), labour productivity loss (18–37%) and i

Le Brexit, la toute-puissance de la Big Tech, les cryptomonnaies, les fake news et même la hausse des prix du café : tout s’explique par le “quantitative easing”, affirme “The New Statesman”. L’hebdomadaire britannique choisit de faire sa une sur les risques et les limites de cette politique monétaire.

Anthropogenic emissions drive global-scale warming yet the temperature increase relative to pre-industrial levels is uncertain. Using 300 years of ocean mixed-layer temperature records preserved in sclerosponge carbonate skeletons, we demonstrate that industrial-era warming began in the mid-1860s, more than 80 years earlier than instrumental sea surface temperature records. The Sr/Ca palaeothermometer was calibrated against ‘modern’ (post-1963) highly correlated (R2 = 0.91) instrumental records of global sea surface temperatures, with the pre-industrial defined by nearly constant (<±0.1 °C) temperatures from 1700 to the early 1860s. Increasing ocean and land-air temperatures overlap until the late twentieth century, when the land began warming at nearly twice the rate of the surface oceans. Hotter land temperatures, together with the earlier onset of industrial-era warming, indicate that global warming was already 1.7 ± 0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2020. Our result is 0.5 °C higher than IPCC estim

Le monitoring mené par la Société wallonne des eaux (SWDE) dans le cadre de la recherche de PFAS se poursuit.

Societies and political structures, like the humans they serve, appear to become more fragile as they age, according to an analysis of hundreds of pre-modern societies.

Policy-makers seeking to limit the impact of coal electricity-generating units (EGUs, also known as power plants) on air quality and climate justify regulations by quantifying the health burden attributable to exposure from these sources. We defined “coal PM2.5” as fine particulate matter associated with coal EGU sulfur dioxide emissions and estimated annual exposure to coal PM2.5 from 480 EGUs in the US. We estimated the number of deaths attributable to coal PM2.5 from 1999 to 2020 using individual-level Medicare death records representing 650 million person-years. Exposure to coal PM2.5 was associated with 2.1 times greater mortality risk than exposure to PM2.5 from all sources. A total of 460,000 deaths were attributable to coal PM2.5, representing 25% of all PM2.5-related Medicare deaths before 2009 and 7% after 2012. Here, we quantify and visualize the contribution of individual EGUs to mortality.

The State of the Cryosphere 2023 – Two Degrees is Too High report shows that all of the Earth’s frozen parts will experience irreversible damage at 2°C of global warming, with disastrous consequences for millions of people, societies, and nature. Confirming that just 2°C of global warming will trigger irreversible loss to Earth’s ice sheets, mountain glaciers and snow, sea ice, permafrost, and polar oceans, it updates the latest science and highlights the global impacts from cryosphere loss.

Le conflit au Proche-Orient renforce une confusion entre faits et fiction qui gagne du terrain au Royaume-Uni, s’inquiète l’hebdomadaire de gauche “The New Statesman”. Le symbole d’une perte de repères profonde liée au sentiment de déclassement des sociétés occidentales, selon le journaliste Andrew Marr.

De Europese Unie zal haar eigen energie- en klimaatdoelen niet halen op basis van de plannen die tot nog toe zijn ingediend. Dat blijkt uit een vernietigende doorlichting van Climate Action Network Europe, een koepel van milieuorganisaties.

Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.

l'exploitation minière des minéraux destinés à l'alimentation électrique a exposé 23 millions de personnes à des déchets toxiques, pollué 500 000 km de rivières et détruit 16 millions d'acres de terres agricoles. Des dizaines de millions de personnes sont désormais exposés aux eaux de ruissellement toxiques provenant des mines de métaux, selon une nouvelle étude.

Des températures particulièrement élevées, accompagnées d'un vent chaud, ont été enregistrées mardi sur le littoral oriental de l'Australie, faisant craindre des feux de forêts aussi dévastateurs qu'au cours de l'été 2019-20.

La croissance du PIB ne permettra pas la préservation d’une Terre viable, révèle une étude d’envergure. La croissance durable étant impossible, il faut adopter une économie post-croissance, estiment les scientifiques.

ibrio are bacteria that cause an estimated 80,000 illnesses each year in the United States. About a dozen species of Vibrio are pathogenic to humans. V. parahaemolyticus causes the most infections in the United States, accounting for about 40% of reported cases of vibriosis, followed by V. alginolyticus, which accounts for about 20%. Most people with Vibrio infection have diarrhea. Some people might also have stomach cramping, nausea, vomiting, fever, and chills. One species, V. vulnificus, is known to cause life-threatening infections. About 150–200 V. vulnificus infections are reported to CDC each year and about one in five people with this infection die—sometimes within 1–2 days of becoming ill.

Een milieuorganisatie had bezwaar aangetekend maar volgens de hoogste bestuursrechter zijn de gevolgen voor natuurgebieden beperkt.

Le président américain Joe Biden a décrété jeudi l'état de catastrophe naturelle pour Hawaï, où des incendies fulgurants ont détruit une ville sur l'île de Maui et fait au moins 53 morts, ce qui va permettre de débloquer d'importantes aides fédérales pour l'archipel.

Alimentés par des vents violents aggravés par l'ouragan Dora, qui passe actuellement dans l'océan Pacifique, des incendies ravagent l'île de Maui, et dans une moindre mesure celle d'Hawaï. Les autorités ont établi mercredi un bilan provisoire de six morts, tandis que de multiples commerces et habitations ont été détruits.

De Verenigde Staten willen miljarden bomen aanplanten in de strijd tegen de klimaatverandering. De wil is er, het geld ook, maar er nauwelijks boompjes voorhanden.

A team of Penn State researchers investigated how seeing frightening news about climate change day after day may shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and how willing they are to take action to address it. They published their findings in the journal Climatic Change. 

Abstract. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments are the trusted source of scientific evidence for climate negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the first global stocktake under the Paris Agreement that will conclude at COP28 in December 2023. Evidence-based decision-making needs to be informed by up-to-date and timely information on key indicators of the state of the climate system and of the human influence on the global climate system. However, successive IPCC reports are published at intervals of 5–10 years, creating potential for an information gap between report cycles. We follow methods as close as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One (WGI) report. We compile monitoring datasets to produce estimates for key climate indicators related to forcing of the climate system: emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radia

Le Covid a pourtant moins causé de décès qu’en 2021. L’institut mentionne d’autres causes, comme la grippe ou les fortes chaleurs de l’été 2022.

De VS verkoopt wapens aan minstens 48 autoritaire regimes. Het rommelt echter binnen de leidende elites in Washington DC. Meer en meer stemmen roepen op de waanzin van het huidige buitenlandse beleid van de VS te stoppen. De oorlog in Oekraïne moet ook omwille van het klimaat zo snel mogelijk onderhandeld stoppen. De Franse energiegigant Total verbergt zijn klimaatvernietigende activiteiten achter kleine vitrine-investeringen in hernieuwbare energie.

WMO's annual State of the Climate in Europe report explores changes in climate indicators, extreme events and climate policy.

De snel groeiende productie van olie en gas in de de VS eist een zware tol van de volksgezondheid. Nieuw onderzoek spreekt van een jaarlijkse rekening van 77 miljard dollar.

De komenden maanden voeren ministers van de EU-lidstaten en de europarlementsleden cruciale onderhandelingen over de ‘Natuurherstelwet’. Het gaat om het belangrijkste wetgevende initiatief voor bescherming van de Europese natuur in de laatste 30 jaar.

A train derailed and flooded a town with cancer-causing chemicals. But something larger, and more troubling, is at work.

Dozens of people have been imprisoned, as changes in the law are used to curb protest. Is it part of a turn towards a more authoritarian state?

Vier maanden na hun afspraak om het gas- en stroomverbruik flink te drukken, hebben amper twaalf lidstaten al bindende maatregelen genomen. Veel landen doen enkel vrijblijvende inspanningen, en acht lidstaten hebben zelfs nog helemaal niets gedaan.

It’s not just indifference. It’s an active, and deadly, cavalier attitude towards the lives of others: an example other nations follow

In Europe, a large-scale war could cause the Baltic Sea to freeze over and severely compromise food security – potentially for decades and even centuries to come. An ever-growing body of work has shown that even a local nuclear conflict could usher in a climate catastrophe. As marine scientists, we have considered what this could specifically mean for the world’s oceans. In 1982, a group of scientists including Carl Sagan began to raise the alarm on a climate apocalypse that could follow nuclear war. Using simple computer simulations and historic volcanic eruptions as natural analogues, they showed how smoke that lofted into the stratosphere from urban firestorms could block out the sun for years.

We rijden ons op verschillende manieren vast in onze wagens. Met ellenlange files, dure tankbeurten, geopolitieke afhankelijkheid van petrostaten en de schade aan de planetaire en onze eigen gezondheid. MO*Ontwikkelaar Jonas Van der Slycken pleit voor een duidelijke verschuiving naar andere vervoersmiddelen. ‘Maar zullen we met het huidige beleid wel zo’n “modal shift” kunnen realiseren?’

Some two dozen climate liability suits have been making their way through the courts since 2015, bolstered by media investigations and attribution studies that are able to accurately pinpoint the precise contribution climate change has made to the damages inflicted by extreme weather events. A 2021 study in the journal Nature, for example, found that just over $8bn (£7bn) of the $62.7bn (£55.3bn) in damages caused by Superstorm Sandy across New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, is attributable to sea-level rise caused by climate change.

New Jersey public school students will be the first in the country required to learn about climate change while in the classroom starting this school year. "Climate change is becoming a real reality," New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy, who spearheaded the initiative, told "ABC News Live" on Thursday. The new standards were adopted by the state's board of education in 2020, but because of the pandemic, the roll out was halted, giving educators and districts more time to prepare the lesson plans for all students in grades K-12.

Face à l'urgence, des dirigeants du monde entier ont appelé mardi à redoubler d'efforts pour lutter contre l'insécurité alimentaire croissante dans le monde, exacerbée par une convergence de crises, l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine et le manque d'engrais.

De Algemene Vergadering van de Verenigde Naties heeft de toegang tot een schoon en gezond leefmilieu officieel erkend als universeel mensenrecht, en dat met een overweldigende meerderheid.

Progressieve wetgevers en activisten eisen een noodreactie van de regering Biden en van de congresdemocraten na de 6-3 uitspraak van donderdag ll. in de zaak West Virginia tegen het Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."De catastrofale impact van deze beslissing kan niet worden onderschat," zei volksvertegenwoordiger Pramila Jayapal (democrate), maar "we kunnen ons niet neerleggen bij een nederlaag."

Een nieuw vonnis van het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof legt de macht van de regering-Biden sterk aan banden wat betreft energiebeleid.

The publication provides a summary on the state of the climate indicators in 2021 including global temperatures trends and its distribution around the globe; most recent finding on Green House Gases concentration, Ocean indicators; Cryosphere with a particular emphasis on Arctic and Antarctic sea ice, greenland ice sheet and glaciers and snow cover; Stratospheric Ozone; analysis of major drivers of inter-annual climate variability during the year including the El Niño Souther Oscillation and other Ocean and Atmshperic indices; global precipitation distribution over land; extreme events including those related to tropical cyclones and wind storms; flooding, drought and extreme heat and cold events. The publication also provides most recent finding on climate related risks and impacts including on food security, humanitarian and population displacement aspects and impact on ecosystems.

Against the backdrop of the water crisis in the Colorado River Basin, where the country's largest reservoirs are plunging at an alarming rate, California's two largest reservoirs — Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville — are facing a similar struggle.

Previous studies show that city metrics having to do with growth, productivity and overall energy consumption scale superlinearly, attributing this to the social nature of cities. Superlinear scaling results in crises called ‘singularities’, where population and energy demand tend to infinity in a finite amount of time, which must be avoided by ever more frequent ‘resets’ or innovations that postpone the system's collapse. Here, we place the emergence of cities and planetary civilizations in the context of major evolutionary transitions. With this perspective, we hypothesize that once a planetary civilization transitions into a state that can be described as one virtually connected global city, it will face an ‘asymptotic burnout’, an ultimate crisis where the singularity-interval time scale becomes smaller than the time scale of innovation. If a civilization develops the capability to understand its own trajectory, it will have a window of time to affect a fundamental change to prioritize long-term homeosta

Avant même la guerre en Ukraine, l'insécurité alimentaire aiguë a frappé près de 40 millions de personnes supplémentaires en 2021, pour atteindre près de 200 millions, en raison des conflits et des crises climatiques et économiques, prévient l'ONU mercredi dans son rapport sur les crises alimentaires.

Wanneer de overheid in de VS nieuwe autosnelwegen, pijpleiding of andere infrastructuur wil laten bouwen, moet ze opnieuw eerst de gevolgen daarvan voor het milieu onderzoeken. President Joe Biden herstelt zo belangrijke milieuregels, die onder zijn voorganger Trump werden afgeschaft.

Twee door de VS geleide oorlogen tegen Irak, in 1991 en 2003, hebben een ecologische ramp veroorzaakt. De VN classificeerde in mei 2021 Irak als "het vijfde meest kwetsbare land ter wereld' voor klimaatverandering". Dirk Adriaensens stelde een uitgebreid dossier samen over de verpletterende verantwoordelijkheid van de VS voor de vernietiging van Irak, van zijn natuur, zijn landbouw, zijn industrie, zijn infrastructuur, zijn volksgezondheid en zijn bevolking ... een oorlogsmisdaad zonder voorgaande.

Au lendemain de la publication du troisième volet du rapport du Giec, l'une des autrices répond aux questions de franceinfo sur les principales conclusions de ce document.

The Ukrainian crisis has revived an old debate: how to effectively sanction a state like Russia? Let’s say it straight away: it is time to imagine a new type of sanction focused on the oligarchs who have prospered thanks to the regime in question. This will require the establishment of an international financial register, which will not be to the liking of western fortunes, whose interests are much more closely linked to those of the Russian and Chinese oligarchs than is sometimes claimed. However, it is at this price that western countries will succeed in winning the political and moral battle against the autocracies and in demonstrating to the world that the resounding speeches on democracy and justice are not simply empty words.

Milieuorganisaties Bond Beter Leefmilieu en Greenpeace België trekken samen met milieuactivist Thomas Goorden en burgerbeweging Grondrecht opnieuw naar de Raad van State om het hervatte grondverzet voor Oosterweel in met PFAS-vervuilde grond aan te vechten (1). De werken werden begin vorige week hervat, ook al zijn tal van problemen met gehanteerde bodemnormen, milieu-impact, gezondheidsimpact, impact op sanering en aansprakelijkheid nog altijd niet opgelost.

Lors d’une conférence de presse ce mercredi, la porte-parole de la diplomatie russe, Maria Zakharova, a semblé réduire les conditions fixées jusqu’à présent par le Kremlin dans ses discussions de paix avec Kyiv.

As head of state-owned oil firm Rosneft, oligarch commands central place in the economy

The frightful noise of gunfire, bombing and children’s screams in the cities of Ukraine reverberates across Europe. The full-scale Russian invasion launched last week is an unprovoked, heinous crime perpetrated against Ukraine’s citizens, their sovereign democratic state and all the free peoples of the world. The 24th of February is a day that will live in infamy. It will not be forgiven. It will surely never be forgotten.

Alors que le réchauffement de la planète s'accélère, 195 pays commencent lundi l'adoption d'un rapport scientifique de référence sur ses impacts dévastateurs, qui peindra sans aucun doute une image sombre de l'avenir auquel l'humanité doit se préparer.

Satisfying the increased demand for food is placing pressure on the world’s water, land and soil resources. Agriculture has its part to play in alleviating these pressures and contributing positively to climate and development goals. Sustainable agricultural practices can lead to direct improvements in the state of land, soil and water, and generate ecosystem benefits as well as reduce emissions from land. Accomplishing all these requires accurate information and a major change in how we manage the resources. It also requires complementing efforts from outside the natural resources management domain to maximize synergies and manage trade-offs.

At Cop26 the wealthy countries cast themselves as saviours, yet their efforts are hopelessly inadequate and will prolong the injustice. the story of the past 500 years can be crudely summarised as follows. A handful of European nations, which had mastered both the art of violence and advanced seafaring technology, used these faculties to invade other territories and seize their land, labour and resources.

Les émissions de CO2 du Brésil ont augmenté de 9,5% sur un an en 2020, au moment où la moyenne mondiale baissait de 7%, selon un rapport publié jeudi par une ONG, qui attribue cette hausse à la déforestation.

From October 28-31, 2021, public hearings has been held in the 'Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes' (CICC) against various transnational corporations ...

By now, you’ve probably heard that global supply chains are in a state of disarray. Here's a simple breakdown of what’s causing it: ...

Avec son cortège de confinements et de restrictions, la pandémie a causé un très fort recul des dépistages et des traitements contre ces autres maladies.

Dit jaar zien we wereldwijd enorme branden die land, bos en gemeenschappen verwoesten. Waarom komen deze catastrofale branden steeds vaker voor en wat zijn de gevolgen? Hoogleraar Fire and Global Change Victor Resco de Dios: ‘Welkom in een nieuw tijdperk van bosbranden.’

Le plus gros incendie de Californie, qui a déjà dévoré l'équivalent de la ville de Chicago en végétation, est si volumineux qu'il génère désormais son propre climat, au risque de rendre la tâche des pompiers qui le combattent encore plus ardue lundi.

While the early months of 2021 have been cooler than much of the past decade, global temperatures have risen in recent months as the effects of La Niña have started to fade.

Alors que le monde se prépare à la 26e session de la Conférence des Parties (COP 26) à la Convention-cadre des Nations unies sur les changements climatiques, qui se tiendra au Royaume-Uni dans le courant de cette année, l’action climatique ne doit pas négliger les communautés touchées par les conflits. A ce titre, l’Irak mérite toute notre attention.

Plants should be flourishing in these ocean waters with plenty of nutrients and inorganic carbon in the form carbonic acid. It could be possible the phytoplankton are missing key nutrients such as ferric, but why should this be happening now?

Les fonctionnaires du ministère de la Transition écologique n’en peuvent plus : surcharge de travail, services désorganisés, sous-effectif durable, hiérarchie aux abonnés absents, efforts vains quand Bercy remporte tous les arbitrages... Beaucoup s’interrogent sur le sens de leur emploi lorsque les politiques menées sont totalement en deçà de ce qu’exige l’urgence climatique. Ce sont les bons élèves du ministère de la Transition écologique.

To climate scientists, clouds are powerful, pillowy paradoxes: They can simultaneously reflect away the sun’s heat but also trap it in the atmosphere; they can be products of warming temperatures but can also amplify their effects.

Un nouveau rapport sur les aspects économiques, sanitaires et sociaux de la croissance avance que celle-ci a un « coût dévastateur » pour la nature.

A moins d'une transformation radicale du système économique, les pandémies comme le Covid-19 vont se multiplier et faire plus de morts, alertent jeudi des experts de l'ONU sur la biodiversité (IPBES) soulignant l'immense réservoir de virus inconnus dans le monde animal. "Sans des stratégies de prévention, les pandémies vont émerger plus souvent, se répandre plus rapidement, tuer plus de gens et avoir des impacts dévastateurs sans précédent sur l'économie mondiale", met en garde ce rapport.