Tag: environmental health
In Uganda, the dream of oil billions eclipses the climate
Can we become an oil country in 2024? Worse, in five or ten years? In December 2023, the hottest year in history ended with a consensus among the world’s governments…
In video games, a carbon footprint calculator soon to be mandatory to obtain assistance from the CNC
LéA GIRARDOT / “THE WORLD” “If I have an AMD Ryzen 5 processor in my bike, it’s not at all the same as if I have a Ryzen 9! How…
The Canadian state targeted by a trial for climate inaction
The Canadian state will finally be judged for climate inaction, the country’s courts have decided, after a complaint filed four years ago by a group of fifteen young environmental activists.…
“Companies have a major role to play in the ecological transition and must have the most complete information possible to make the right choices”
HASith the progressive implementation, from January 2024, of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), transposed into French law on Wednesday December 6, we are preparing to write a new page…
“Europe must stand firm and raise global standards on sustainability”
LEurope is about to adopt a bold two-part plan to regulate the relationship between business and human rights. There directive on corporate sustainability reporting (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, CSRD), adopted…
Believers and ecologists, they put their “faith into action to denounce TotalEnergies’ displayed contempt for the climate”
4:56 p.m. Green and orange standards rise as night falls in the La Défense business district, near Paris. On one of them: “Deliver us from Total”and on another “Warm hearts,…
“With this new law, the French will have immense difficulty accessing GMO-free food”
Lhe European Commission is preparing to open the doors of the European Union (EU) to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) resulting from new genomic techniques (NTG) by exempting them from the…
“With this new law, the French will have immense difficulty accessing GMO-free food”
Lhe European Commission is preparing to open the doors of the European Union (EU) to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) resulting from new genomic techniques (NTG) by exempting them from the…
Bangladesh faces worst dengue outbreak ever recorded in the country
A mosquito control operation, in Dhaka, October 12, 2023. FATIMA TUJ JOHORA / REUTERS Dozens of feverish patients on drips are lying on beds, lined up one after the other,…
Jean-David Zeitoun, doctor: “Pollution is the older sister of climate change”
LThe brakes are well-known. From the point of view of States, decarbonization has two discouraging features. Firstly, our emissions are drowned in the mass of CO2 global, any major effort…
The European Parliament rejects a key text of the Green Deal on the use of pesticides
The surprise is total. And even his fiercest opponents on the right of the political spectrum did not expect it. The European Parliament rejected, on Wednesday November 22, one of…
Faced with antibiotic resistance, France presents contrasting developments
An employee of the French company NG Biotech prepares antibiotic resistance analysis tests, in Guipry-Messac (Ille-et-Vilaine), April 6, 2020. DAMIEN MEYER / AFP The World Health Organization (WHO) designates it…