Resources & Climate

20 November 2025
To ensure access to critical raw materials, in the first half of 2025 the European Commission selected 60 strategic projects (47 within the EU and 13 outside the EU).
27 October 2025
Integrating environmental aspects into product design in order to improve their environmental performance throughout their life cycle, this is the major goal of ecodesign.
Agriculture and Climate Change in France:In this new episode of Pollutec Talks, agroclimatologist Serge Zaka helps us decode the major challenges of global warming and its impacts on our orchards, far...
11 December 2023
Demand for critical raw materials (base metals, materials and rare-earth elements) is set to increase considerably over the coming years due to the ecological, energy and digital transitions , as well...
24 September 2020
The number of organisations embedding an Environmental Management System (EMS) into their overall policy is booming. Standards that help with setting up this system are now being shared and evolve yea...
The concepts of “agriculture” and “environment” have been in conflict for several decades, even generations, whereas they should naturally go together. The many pressures exerted by the agricultural s...
19 December 2019
Faced with climate change, humankind has long believed that, given its capacity for inventing and deploying solutions to limit GHG emissions, when the time comes it would equally be capable of impleme...
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...
Though they’ve been talked about for quite a few years, most of us have a rather vague notion of what strategic and critical rare metals and rare earths actually are. Some of these concepts relate to ...
9 September 2019
While it remains too soon to assess the economic implications, the heatwaves of 2019’s summer have undeniably broken records and people have seen the direct effects at various levels. Now, we look bac...