Justice & Paix

Budgets are now climate policy. But mainstream media hasn’t caught up.

La victoire du démocrate socialiste, premier maire musulman de la plus grande ville des Etats-Unis, mais aussi celles d’Abigail Spanberger et de Mikie Sherrill, élues gouverneures de Virginie et du New Jersey, sont autant de motifs d’espoir pour les progressistes américains, un an jour pour jour après l’élection de Trump à la Maison Blanche.

Today, Nate is joined by Luke Kemp, a researcher whose work is focused on existential risks (or X-risks), which encompass threats of human extinction, societal collapse, and dystopian futures. How can we begin to understand the likelihood and gravity of these ruinous events, and what kinds of responses from people and governments could further undermine social cohesion and resilience? What roles do human biases, hierarchical power structures, and the development of technologies, like artificial intelligence and geoengineering, play in X-risks? How can we collaborate across industries to protect our modern systems through effective risk management strategies? And in what ways do our institutions need to become more inclusive to better democratize decision-making processes, leading to safer futures for humanity?

Ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Brazil, advocacy groups are pushing for companies and governments to set meaningful emissions targets to lower emissions from livestock.

Le plan de paix de Trump pour Gaza laisse peu de place aux Palestiniens pour déterminer leur avenir, rappelle le politiste dans une tribune au « Monde ». La « déclaration de New York », portée par la France, suit une autre logique et entend redonner un horizon politique à la région sur la base de la solution à deux Etats.

Plusieurs études d’opinion ont récemment fait état d’un décrochage des thèmes du climat et de l’environnement dans la liste des préoccupations des Français. Mais des consultations au niveau local, ou des inquiétudes connexes, comme la santé, montrent que ce désintérêt doit être relativisé.

Le pays, fortement émetteur de carbone, prévoit de réduire ses rejets de gaz à effet de serre de 7 % à 10 % d’ici à 2035. Un objectif incompatible avec l’objectif de limiter le réchauffement à 1,5 °C.

Dans une tribune au « Monde », deux professionnels du monde animal alertent sur la « vulnérabilité des non-humains face à la brutalité du changement climatique », et dressent un bilan alarmant des effets de la canicule sur la faune sauvage.

Le président américain s’est dit prêt à imposer des droits de douane supplémentaires substantiels aux pays qui s’attaqueraient aux géants américains du numérique.

For the last 80 years, Thwaites has been losing more water through melting than it’s been gaining in snow.Half a metre of sea-level rise would submerge large parts of Asia’s coastal cities including Manila and Bangkok, as well as sizeable chunks of the Netherlands and the east of England. It’s also half of the sea-level rise needed to begin flooding Manhattan.

Comment résister et contrer la domination des Big Techs ? Cette tribune propose de quitter au plus vite tous les réseaux sociaux.

Since Donald Trump's presidential election victory, major tech companies have abandoned years of policies restricting military work and sought out lucrative defense contracts and deeper connections with the Pentagon.

Mark Lynas has spent decades pushing for action on climate emissions but now says nuclear war is even greater threat Climate breakdown is usually held up as the biggest, most urgent threat humans pose to the future of the planet today. But what if there was another, greater, human-made threat that could snuff out not only human civilisation, but practically the entire biosphere, in the blink of an eye?

The world's largest polluters are also the safest from the environmental damage they help create—while the countries least to blame face the greatest threats, including the increased possibility of violent conflict.

Pour Donald Trump, il s’agit de concrétiser certaines promesses phares de sa campagne, comme la prolongation des baisses d’impôt - bénéficiant surtout aux plus riches -, entamées lors de son premier mandat. Derrière l’emballage flatteur du "Big and Beautiful Bill", les détails du texte révèlent également des coupes drastiques dans le système public de santé. France 24 décrypte ce mégaprojet qui divise jusque dans le camp républicain.

A Dartmouth College research team came up with the estimated pollution caused by 111 companies, with more than half of the total dollar figure coming from 10 fossil fuel providers: Saudi Aramco, Gazprom, Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, National Iranian Oil Co., Pemex, Coal India and the British Coal Corporation. For comparison, $28 trillion is a shade less than the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States last year.

Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement’s 2 degree goal.Top Wall Street institutions are preparing for a severe future of global warming that blows past the temperature limits agreed to by more than 190 nations a decade ago, industry documents show.

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Les intelligences artificielles génératives, type ChatGPT, suscitent des investissements faramineux, dopés par des promesses délirantes. Elles renforcent le projet libertarien et technoféodal des milliardaires de la tech.

On the topic of climate and carbon reduction commitments, corporations like Google, Microsoft, and Shell once positioned themselves as leaders in sustainability, setting ambitious net-zero goals to align with global environmental efforts. However, the rapid rise of energy-hungry artificial intelligence is forcing these companies to reconsider—or even abandon—these commitments as they struggle to balance environmental responsibility and making money from new tech.