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Nouveau "TALK" sur LIMIT avec Adélaïde Charlier, étudiante à la VUB & U-GENT en sciences politiques et sciences sociales. Elle est devenue célèbre en tant que co-fondatrice et porte-parole de Youth for Climate Belgium, un mouvement de jeunes qui a organisé des marches pour le climat dans de nombreuses villes belges. Devenue le visage des marches pour le climat en Belgique, nous discutons du monde de l'activisme, ses débuts, ses combats et sa vision de l'avenir dans un monde où les mensonges, le greenwashing et la désinformation s'organisent pour conserver le business as usual.

School and university students all over the world are planning to take school strikes one step further and occupy our campuses to demand the end of the fossil economy. Taking a lesson from student activists in the 1960s, the climate justice movement’s youth will shut down business as usual. Not because we don’t like learning, but because what we’ve learned already makes it clear that, without a dramatic break from this system, we cannot ensure a livable planet for our presents and futures.

Nous avons peur de l’été, et des autres à venir. Cette année encore, la Belgique bat un record et il n’y a aucune raison de s’en réjouir. Ce samedi 18 juin 2022 a été le jour tropical (température maximale supérieure ou égale à 30 degrés) le plus précoce jamais enregistré. Ces records sont presque devenus anodins. Pourtant, la fréquence accrue de ces records atteste du dérèglement climatique de la manière la plus tangible qui soit.

António Guterres compares climate inaction to tobacco firms dismissing links between smoking and cancer

Models indicate that there could be between 25 and 30 extreme events a year by mid-century

Governments not listening to people with disabilities despite them being at high risk, say researchers

Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying cause of today’s climate change crisis. The year was 1856. Foote’s brief scientific paper was the first to describe the extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas to absorb heat – the driving force of global warming. Carbon dioxide is an odorless, tasteless, transparent gas that forms when people burn fuels, including coal, oil, gasoline and wood.

Exclusive: Nearly half existing facilities will need to close prematurely to limit heating to 1.5C, scientists say

Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns

Many are still missing after this month’s floods. Extreme weather is becoming more frequent, and it can be devastating