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Recovering urban wildlife isn’t just about protecting a city’s parks and rivers, but also making its streets, homes and skyscrapers greener.
Pollutions, perte de biodiversité, changement climatique, mais aussi maladies chroniques liées à l’alimentation et à l’environnement : autant de problématiques à aborder de façon transversale.
Inspired by citizens’ assemblies in Ireland and France, Germany is doing the same. One hundred and sixty Germans, four major issues, one goal: for lawmakers to live up to their climate pledges. The Citizen Assembly is set to debate Germany’s environmental ambitions and make sure its voices are heard. Martin Kuebler discusses recent developments in an article on the Deutsche Welle website.
Index measuring countries transition to fair and prosperous sustainability. Interactive map, full report, key findings and country profiles. The TPI is a scoreboard that monitors and ranks countries based on their 4 transitions to fair and prosperous sustainability. The transition is measured on 4 dimensions - economic (education, wealth, labour productivity and research and development intensity, industrial base)
- social (health life, work and inclusion, free or non-remunerated time, equality)
- environmental (greenhouse gas emissions reduction, biodiversity, resource productivity, energy productivity)
- governance (fundamental rights, security, transparency, sound public finances)
These measurements are the basis for a new model of prosperity for Europe and the world. A model which focuses on resilience, inclusiveness and sustainability and which supports the EU’s 2021 Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy. All EU countries and 45 other countries are included in the TPI.
Environmental journalist Ketan Joshi looks into plastic production as an alternative source of income for the fossil fuel industry In the face of decreasing demand and profit margins to match, fossil fuel companies are seeking a source of alternative income. Their answer? Plastic production. We asked environmental journalist, Ketan Joshi, to take a closer look at the fossil fuel industry's 'plan b', and just how much damage more plastic could possibly do to our already saturated planet.
L'Office national des forêts (ONF) met en avant son projet "Forêts urbaines", une offre d'expertise auprès des collectivités pour "réinventer la nature en ville".
This edition maps the different worlds of green politics today, exploring the movements and ideas driving its development. Zooming out, the edition asks what wider changes in politics and society mean for political ecology as it faces interlocking environmental and social crises in the 21st century.
As much as a way of understanding the world as a movement to change it, political ecology is on the rise. A reckoning with our society’s position in a wider ecological system is taking place. Faced with irrevocable damage that makes life everywhere more insecure, from Italy to Finland, people are organising for a change of course at the ballot box and through insurgent street protests. From concepts such as ecofeminism and the Green New Deal to questions of narrative and institutional change, this edition maps the forces, strategies, and ideas that will power political ecology, across Europe as around the world. The 2020s can be a decade of change for the better, or the worse.
Land use is central to many of the environmental and socio-economic issues facing society today. This report examines on-going challenges for aligning land-use policy with climate, biodiversity and food objectives, and the opportunities to enhance the sustainability of land-use systems. It looks at six countries – Brazil, France, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico and New Zealand – with relatively large agricultural and forestry sectors and associated greenhouse gas emissions, many of which also host globally important biodiversity. Drawing on these countries’ relevant national strategies and plans, institutional co-ordination and policy instruments, the report provides good practice insights on how to better align land use decision-making processes and to achieve stronger coherence between land use, climate, ecosystems and food objectives.
Europe faces environmental challenges “of unprecedented scale and urgency,” according to a comprehensive overview of air, land and water ecosystems published on Wednesday (4 December) by the European Environment Agency. Even though some progress was made in areas like air and water pollution, these are “not nearly enough” to meet the EU’s long-term goals, according to the EEA’s ‘State of the Environment’ 2020 report. Overall trends have not improved since the EEA’s last report in 2015, the agency said. “Europe’s environment is at a tipping point,” said Hans Bruyninckx, the EEA’s executive director, citing methane emissions from thawing permafrost, melting ice and forest degradation as one of the dangerous feedback loops leading to accelerated heating of the planet.
Municipalities are of special importance for the practical implementation of activities on the ground. The European Green Belt Association awards model municipalities as “Model municipality of the European Green Belt” every year. It is assigned to municipalities with outstanding commitment for the European Green Belt as outlined in the criteria for selection.
BioNET, an independent regional network of 14 biodiversity-related civil society organizations (CSOs) in South-East Europe (SEE), is shaping a position paper with a primary focus on the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020, to help SEE countries achieve biodiversity conservation as part of the EU accession process.
The position paper will be finished within the next two months and the BioNET plans to present and discuss it with the Biodiversity Task Force (BDTF), the regional technical and advisory body of the Regional Working Group on Environment.
Faced with a looming ferocious summer with little rain forecast, the New South Wales government has embarked on a Noah’s Ark type operation to move native fish from the Lower Darling – part of Australia’s most significant river system – to safe havens before high temperatures return to the already stressed river basin.
L’État a demandé à trois établissements publics, Cerema, IGN et IRSTEA, de travailler en synergie à la mise en œuvre de cet observatoire qui permettra d’établir des orientations opérationnelles efficaces pour contraindre l’artificialisation des sols.
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This paper looks at the series of plans developed by the UK Labour Party under the progressive leadership of Jeremy Corbyn between 2016 and 2019 for re-establishing public ownership and operation of services and infrastructure which had been privatised over the previous 40 years.
A new project launched in Paris might help the city finally achieve a long-held but elusive goal: making the River Seine clean enough to swim in. Now, however, the city has a plan that might be able to curb pollution more permanently, making it swimmable — and usable as a competition venue — in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The experience of lockdowns across European cities has driven home the importance of access to green space to health and quality of life. In Spain, the political renewal seen in many towns after the municipal elections of 2015 helped push public space and biodiversity up the local agenda. Today, rewilded rivers in Madrid or Errenteria in the Basque country are examples of how investment and imagination can transform urban environments for the better.
Some 52,000 premature deaths could be prevented each year if cities met recommended levels on air pollutants, study shows
The fight to have ecocide recognised as a crime against humanity in both international and national law has spanned multiple decades. During this time, countless crimes against ecosystems and their inhabitants – human and animal – have been carried out with devastating effects. Now ecocide has finally made it onto the political agenda in Europe and around the world. But the battle to ensure that legislation means perpetrators will be brought to justice is far from won.
Grenoble a été désignée ce 8 octobre "Capitale verte européenne" 2022 par un jury d'experts de la Commission européenne, qui décerne chaque année depuis 2008 ce titre à une ville d'Europe engageant des mesures "exemplaires" en matière d'environnement et de développement durable. Le chef-lieu de l'Isère succédera à la ville finlandaise de Lahti, qui deviendra en janvier 2021, après Lisbonne, l'actuelle "Capitale verte européenne", la prochaine ville ambassadrice des transitions de l'Union européenne. Nantes a été la première ville française à obtenir cette récompense, en 2013.
"Nous sommes très fiers. Nous allons faire de ce titre une base pour nous unir et pour accélérer les transitions. Nous serons des ambassadeurs proactifs et exigeants. Notre objectif est de partager un futur désirable", a déclaré le maire de Grenoble, Éric Piolle, à l'issue de la cérémonie d'attribution du titre qui s'est tenue à Lisbonne et a été retransmise en duplex dans les cités finalistes. "Dans le passé récent, nous avons eu à faire face à des crises majeures et la plupart sont imputables à notre manque de respect envers la nature", a-t-il ajouté.
Le coronavirus occupe – non sans raison – les radars médiatiques et politiques depuis quelques semaines. Mais il est une autre crise, moins visible mais tout aussi grave, qui progresse très vite sans être suffisamment prise en compte, celle du climat et de l'environnement. Selon de nouvelles données révélées par l’Organisation météorologique mondiale (OMM), tous les indicateurs sont au rouge.
On Friday 31st January the UK will leave the European Union, its laws and its institutions. But what does Brexit mean for the UK’s environment?
Dans son dernier essai, lauréat du prix de la Fondation de l’écologie politique, le chercheur propose une approche décoloniale de la crise environnementale. Et affirme qu’elle ne se résoudra pas sans prendre en compte les inégalités raciales et sociales héritées de la domination occidentale.
This booklet is a beginner’s guide to how to become a greener and more sustainable city. It is based on the advice and recommendations of experts in urban planning who are from cities that have actually made the transition to sustainability. It also contains the latest knowledge and expertise from relevant experts in environmental legislation from the European Commission, as well as those involved in managing European funding opportunities for cities, and those who know about EU knowledge sharing networks and research.
Putting the youngest ever Commissioner-designate in charge of managing the most fearful threats for future generations of Europeans, such as environment protection and oceans' conservation, is the biggest gamble Ursula von der Leyen took in composing her team.
Let's face it, when it comes to the environment, there isn't much to rejoice about. So to spare you a long summer of eco-anxiety, we looked for some glimmers of hope. Here are five reasons to be optimistic.
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