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’Biodiversity, it’s now or never’ by Julia Marton-Lefèvre (Head of IUCN)
Our food comes from supermarkets, our water from the tap, and our medicine from the pharmacy. One button is normally enough to heat or cool things ; one flush to start decomposing our waste ; one remote control to find cultural or spiritual inspiration. Or so it often seems. It is easy to forget that all of this, without exception, comes directly or indirectly from nature. The fundamental realities of our life on earth have not changed. Read more
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6 billion Others – Scientists talk
Global warming is no longer a hypothesis but a fact. The phenomenon is global and affects various aspects of our world and our lives, so scientists from diverse disciplines have worked to gain the most complete understanding of it. These scientists have written thousands of pages of articles and/or technical reports ; but being interviewed by the 6 billion Others’ team, they summarized the critical points in one or two minutes. Read more
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Madagascar : our organic waste recovery as agricultural compost project has been validated
Our project of organic waste recovery as compost for agricultural use in Madagascar, supported by Action Carbone in partnership with the NGOs Tananamadio and Gevalor, has been validated by Bureau Veritas according to the VCS label (Voluntary Carbon Standard). This validation, rewarding a long-term work on the field, makes this greenhouse gas emissions reduction project, the first one in Madagascar to be validated by VCS label. It will allow the reduction of 150 000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the next 10 years. Before launching the project, waste was stored in air in a landfill, and methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, was emitted. The production of compost from waste can reduce these emissions. Read more
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Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Pretty speeches can take you only so far. A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world’s leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action.The failure of Copenhagen was not the absence of a legally binding agreement. The real failure was that there was no agreement about how to achieve the lofty goal of saving the planet, no agreement about reductions in carbon emissions, no agreement on how to share the burden, and no agreement on help for developing countries. Read more
