In 2009, France organised “Grenelle de la Mer” (“Grenelle of the Sea”) – a multi-party round table on maritime issues based on the same framework as the “Grenelle de l’Environnement” (“Grenelle of the...
Alongside electronic communication and global positioning systems (GPS, Galileo), Earth observation is another key field of satellite applications. With applications ranging from resource management t...
Nowadays, 90% of all goods traded around the world are carried by sea, on an estimated total of 59,000 ships. The 10-billion-ton mark was reached in 2016. In France alone, a merchant vessel will dock ...
The OECD defines the ocean economy as ocean-based industries together with the natural assets and ecosystem services this provides(1). As such, the ocean economy encompasses established sectors (fishi...
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 ...
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 wh...
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 c...
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 th...
Act to protect and promote biodiversity Created in 2012 during the COP11 in Hyderabad in India, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) has 129 Sta...
