by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | May 15, 2020 | Biodiversity
In its latest global assessment, the IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) showed that human activity has already altered 75% of terrestrial environments and 66% of marine environments. It also revealed that about a...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Jan 9, 2020 | Biodiversity, Sea & coast, Water
Environmental matters are more central than ever to issues surrounding the seas and oceans. In late 2018, the French government’s Strategic Contract for Maritime Industries placed particular emphasis on the decarbonisation of propulsion and on-board energy (‘green...
by Pollutec | Jun 6, 2019 | Biodiversity, Pollutec
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been assessing the overall conservation status of plant and animal species worldwide for more than 50 years. The IUCN Red List shows that one in four species of mammal, more than one in three amphibians and...
by Pollutec | Mar 13, 2019 | Biodiversity, Innovation, Pollutec
Pollutec, the open doorway to emerging concepts Even if Pollutec is known and recognised to have borne the emergence and acknowledgement of new and breakthrough technologies, the show has also been where methodological and conceptual discussions have taken place, on...
by Pollutec | Oct 11, 2018 | Biodiversity
The French biodiversity agency (AFB) was established on 1 January 2017. Under the aegis of the French Ministry of the Environment, its role it to monitor the environment and to be the first point of contact for the public and professionals. Do you know all the areas...
by Hélène Bouillon-Duparc | Sep 5, 2018 | Biodiversity
European Union commitments to the marine environment takes timid steps At the end of July the European Commission published a report on the assessment of Member States’ programmes of measures under the 2008 “Marine Strategy Framework Directive”(1). The least...