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If France has waited months under torrential rains before enjoying normal seasonal temperatures, this is not the case for all countries in the world. Quebec, Sweden, Japan… are currently crushed by unusual heat waves. The latter are accompanied by exceptional drought episodes, the last... Read More

Last summer, the OMPE launched its companion “STOP, that’s enough !” : a real warning signal about forest fires and the opportunity to request the holding of emergency states of general. This campaign has mobilized citizens and collected more than 25,000 signatures ! As a result, on October... Read More

In 1973, the show “La France défiguée” already alerted about plastic pollution. First TV news magazine about the protection of the environment in France, it presented that day its concerns about the arrival and development of plastic. Since the latter had considerably invaded every area... Read More

The month of June sounds the return of the summer and the beginning of the holidays for many French people. For several weeks, holidaymakers will have a great time: nearly six in ten French people will go on holiday this summer. Among them, 45% choose... Read More

In June 2018, the French government confirmed the construction of 6 offshore wind farms between 2021 and 2024. Driven by EDF Énergies nouvelles, Enbridge Inc. (a Canadian oil pipeline company) and WPD (100% renewable and independent electricity producer and one of the leaders in... Read More

The renewable gas makes its arrival in the future sources of energy say “green”. According to a study published by ADEME (French Agency for the Environment and Energy Management), it will be possible to cover 100% of gas consumption from renewable resources by 2050. But what... Read More

According to the latest study conducted and published by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the green economy would be job-creating… And not only a little because it could make work 24 million people in the world, before 2030 The fight to limit global warming, the... Read More

If we already knew that tourism was a worrying activity because of its environmental impacts, a new study published in Nature Climate Change shows that it is far too underrated. Tourism is today one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors in the world. France remains the world’s leading tourist... Read More

In a previous file on air, the OMPE had noted that air pollution spared no one and that its origins are multiple : industrial emissions, emissions from motor vehicles and air traffic (recall that 2 % of global CO2 emissions are emitted by airliners), household... Read More

While last July a 1000-billion-ton iceberg was coming off the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, a glacier now worries researchers and scientists alike. And for good reason : if it were to melt in whole, it could raise the level of the seas by 3 meters ! For several... Read More