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COP27 ended with more than 24 hours delay and with a sense of unfinished business. While progress has been made, including the commitment to establish of a Loss and Damage fund, fossil fuels are yet ...
These past few months, actions from climate activists have been divinding public opinion, and for some people, this kind of activism could even be counterproductive. True, throwing soup on the glass protecting a Van Gogh ...
On the morning of Friday 14 October, two environmental activists from the Just Stop Oil movement threw soup at Van Gogh’s famous painting The Sunflowers, on display at the National Gallery in London. Filmed by ...
Instead of asking the question “Why we should boycott the World Cup in Qatar?”, the question should rather be “Why do you think this football World Cup should take place despite the evidence of corruption ...
For a week now, politicians and media have been talking about private jets. At the origin of this media interest, Julien Bayou, EELV deputy, who expressed the wish to “ban private jets”. According to him, ...
An absolutely brilliant idea has resurfaced in recent weeks. First evoked by Christophe Cassou in 2019, several scientists suggested during the June 2022 heatwave to name the climate hazards by the names of the sources ...
For months, and especially since the results of the first round of the 2022 presidential elections, many newspapers, and public figures have been repeating over and over again, sometimes out of desperation, that “the French ...
At the time of writing, India and Pakistan have been facing repetitive heatwaves for more than a month. India has registered its most severe heatwave in March since 1900. Temperature in Pakistan reached 51°C on ...
More and more people are asking what the carbon footprint of a flight is, and that’s good. The problem is that there are several calculators, more or less old, and that very often take very ...
After the 5th boundary was officially crossed in January 2022, an international team has just published a new study showing that the planetary boundary of the freshwater cycle has been crossed. This time, researchers from ...
After the report of the Working Group I (WGI) and II (WGII), released in February 2022, the 3rd and last report is finally out! After presenting the physical understanding of climate change, its impacts and ...
This is one of the least covered topics, yet absolutely crucial. The banks are warming the planet and continue to do so without ever being held accountable. The 13th edition of the Banking on Climate ...
The 110 km/h is back in the debates these last weeks, in a context of urgency to reduce oil consumption. Last but not least, the International Energy Agency has presented the reduction of speed on ...
Since the IPCC report in August 2021, voices defending possible green growth or decoupling are becoming increasingly rare. The word green growth is no longer really used by politicians, even if some still dare to ...
Since the beginning of war in Ukraine, all barriers are breaking one by one. What was impossible on yesterday is becoming essential today. Two weeks following the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Putin ...
After the IPCC Working Group I (WGI) report in August 2021, the second report is finally out! While the first report focused on the physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, this last ...
Demography. The notorious “taboo” subject that we hear about daily. We would be too much on Earth for some people, and there would be an urgent need to find solutions to remedy this. To answer ...
Is the digital nomad the new trend to champion global warming? The question deserves to be asked. If you are not on social media, you may not be familiar with this lifestyle. This is nothing ...
It is with great joy and emotion that we can announce that our book Tout comprendre (ou presque) sur le climat is officially released on March 3rd! This book is the result of a collective ...
After a first article “Will nuclear power plants resist climate change?” , here is our second article on safety by Michaël Mangeon, associate researcher EVS – Environnement Ville Société (UMR 56000). Climate change impacts the ...
Nuclear power plants, which produce low-carbon electricity in the same way as renewable energies, are a way of tackling climate change. However, as the issue of the electricity mix becomes more prominent in the public ...
In recent years, we have seen a clash between individual and collective actions. After hearing in 2017 that “100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions“, we now hear “individual actions are responsible for only ...
6 months examining Eric Zemmour’s speeches and ecological program. Here is the result: No need to refresh the page frantically, this is not a bug. Ecology is not a subject for Eric Zemmour. If of ...
“You have to listen to the scientists!!!” To listen to them, support them, and relay their work, you should already follow them on Twitter. Why Twitter ? Because it is the network where scientists are ...
Every sporting event brings its share of emotions and scandals. The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing will be no exception. Let’s cut the suspense short right away: this article is not about the Beijing Olympics. ...
For a few months now, the tide has been turning for influencers on social media. Until now, a round-trip to Dubai on a private jet was seen as a sign of “success”, as being a ...
Written by Gildas Véret In the 21st century, is it really possible to live in a developed country while emitting less than 2 tons of CO2e per year? A quick reminder: this step is essential ...
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You’re an ecologist and you’re on social media! You’re ecologist but you have an iPhone! The hypocrisy of ecologists, as usual!” Mention ecology and you will inevitably be confronted with this type of remark. Whether ...
Not a day goes by without you being confronted with it. You are the environmentalist of the family. The environmentalist of the office, or of the group of friends. While you think that global warming ...
After the best sources, books and podcasts to read about climate and the environment, here are the accounts to follow on Instagram! Like all social media, there is everything on Instagram: influencers who push to ...
COP26 (26th Conference of the Parties) negotiations have finally come to an end! Two long weeks during which speeches, promises, and negotiations intertwined to result in the Glasgow Pact. Following a COP is an enriching ...
“We’re screwed”, “It’s dead”, “It’s the end”… These reactions are daily and understandable: the environmental situation is really catastrophic. But fatalism is as dangerous as techno-optimism. In other words, believing that nothing can be done ...
“Is a carbon neutral airport possible? I have a doubt…is this greenwashing?” This is an important issue as we will be dealing with it regularly in the years to come. Indeed, announcing oneself as “carbon ...
After the best sources and books to read on climate and environment, it was time to list the best podcasts! To be interested in the environment and climate is to be interested in absolutely every ...
Announcements of carbon neutrality in 2050 have been pouring in since the Paris Agreement. One after the other, the leaders all declare themselves “for ecology”, for a “positive ecology”, with “historic advances and unprecedented announcements” ...
The question is legitimate: should we, in 2021, debate with a climate denier? Over the past few years, my response has evolved from “obviously, to deconstruct the arguments” to “no, waste of time and energy” ...
A few months ago, I asked Guillaume Martin (mobility consultant at BL évolution) if he was motivated to write a few lines about cycling to be published on Bon Pote. He came back to me ...
A few months ago, I asked Guillaume Martin (mobility consultant at BL évolution) if he was motivated to write a few lines about cycling to be published on Bon Pote. He came back to me ...
A few months ago, I askedGuillaume Martin (mobility consultant at BL evolution) if he was motivated to write a few lines about cycling to be published on Bon Pote. He came back to me with ...
A few months ago, I asked Guillaume Martin (mobility consultant at BL évolution) if he was motivated to write a few lines about cycling to be published on Bon Pote. He came back to me ...
A few months ago, I askedGuillaume Martin (mobility consultant at BL évolution) if he was motivated to write a few lines about cycling to be published on Bon Pote. He came back to me with ...
The IPCC report was released on August 9 and FINALLY, the media and politicians were up to the challenge! They have taken the measure of the gravity of the situation! The media has been talking ...
After several years of waiting (precisely 7), the new IPCC report is finally out! The Working Group I (WGI) report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system, bringing together the latest advances ...
Following this letter, which was addressed to parents and grandparents (and which could very well have been addressed to children, brothers and sisters…), I received the following remark: “and now, what do we do? Your ...
It’s not easy every day to be the little ecologist in the family. L’écologiste de bureau. The ecologist of the group of friends who has changed a lot, sometimes a little too much for the ...
We all know about job blackmail. The Covid was certainly the best time to practice. Thousands of people have heard phrases such as “we will have to cut your salary by 20%. It’s that, or ...
Wanting to limit global warming to +2°C and communicating this is a mistake. This is a mistake because the vast majority of the French (and even the world’s) population does not know what this means, ...
I started this article on toxic masculinity a little over a year ago, thinking I would never publish it. I thought this did not quite fit into Bon Pote’s editorial line. I was wrong: It ...
The IPCC synthesis work allows us to easily understand the link between human activity and climate change. We know today that there is global warming and that we are responsible for it. Yet, change is ...
“IPCC recommends nuclear power!” People love to make the IPCC say anything and everything, especially about the role of nuclear power. Pro- and anti-nuclear people do not hesitate to cherry-pick: to take the information that ...
I didn’t think it was necessary to do an article on the individual pool. That was before I looked at the numbers: I didn’t realize the order of magnitude at all. Indeed, with 3 million ...
For a long time I thought Linkedin was the ultimate in greenwashing. That was without counting on Instagram, where some companies and influencers are having a field day spreading their deceptive and misleading practices. Even ...
So that they don’t get lost in the meanders of social media, you can now find all the Bon Pote infographics in this article! They are very good complements to the articles and have many ...
Since the Citizen’s Climate Convention made its 150 proposals last summer, the expression “punitive ecology” has been used extensively, both by the press and by certain political figures. Its use is anything but random, and ...
Talk about sport and ecology and you will be compared to a dictator. Talk about football and boycotting the 2022 World Cup and you will be persona non grata in the evening. As we are ...
For the last few weeks, we had plenty of demands for a critical analysis on Kate Raworth’s “Doughnut Economics”, which had a rapid acknowledgement and incredible positive feedback in a short amount of time. But ...
I got a better idea of Elon Musk’s personality when I read some articles on Waitbutwhy and his biography by Ashlee Vance a few years ago. A visionary, idealist, passionate and hard-working, he fascinates millions ...
We often hear that flying is worse than taking the train for the climate… but which flight? Which train(s)? And the filling rate ??? What is the occupancy rate of a train to have the ...
It’s been two years since I started working on degrowth and the least I can say is that I don’t know a more overused term than this one. Every time I bring up the subject, ...
