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Pour la première fois, une agence des Nations unies avance des façons de s’adapter à la hausse des températures au-delà de cette barre symbolique. Mais ce constat et les solutions présentées suscitent les critiques d’associations.

Le Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement prend acte du dépassement prochain de l’objectif le plus ambitieux de l’accord de Paris, et dessine une nouvelle trajectoire afin de repasser dessous avant la fin du siècle. Celle-ci implique des efforts gigantesques et des transformations radicales.

We propose a new paradigm, as toxicology currently lacks the proper perspective. From the 1950s to the 1970s, at least one-third of all toxicological testing in the United States, including for chemicals and drugs, was misleading scientists, and this worldwide issue persists today. Moreover, petroleum-based waste and heavy metals have been discovered in pesticide and plasticizer formulations. These contaminations have now reached all forms of life. Widespread exposure to chemical mixtures promotes health and environmental risks. We discovered that pesticides have never undergone long-term testing on mammals in their full commercial formulations by regulatory authorities or the pesticide industry; instead, only their declared active ingredients have been assessed, contrary to environmental law recommendations. The ingredients of these formulations are not fully disclosed, yet the formulations are in general at least 1000 times more toxic at low environmentally relevant doses than the active ingredients alone u

Malgré la pollution qu'il représente pour la planète, la production de plastique continue d'augmenter, une tendance contre laquelle le recyclage ne suffira pas, a mis en garde la patronne de l'ONU-Environnement Inger Andersen.