SDSN Networks in Action 2020
<p>SDSN’s National and Regional Networks promote the localization and implementation of the SDGs, develop long-term transformation pathways, provide education for sustainable development, and launch
France
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French wine industry's love affair with pesticides blamed for worker health problems
Wenny Tari knows a thing or two about wine. She and her husband Gabriel have been making it since 1982, when they inherited a vineyard in France’s picturesque Languedoc region in the south of the country.
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French power providers face 11 pct rise in renewables surcharge in 2016
The rising cost of funding renewable energy means utility EDF and other French power providers face an 11 percent rise next year in a surcharge they pay that is used to subsidise the renewable sector,
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Global warming could be more devastating for the economy than we thought
A new study published in Nature by scientists at Stanford and UC Berkeley has made waves for its finding that thus far we have dramatically underestimated the damage human-caused climate change will do
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UK, Germany and France lobbying for weakened cap on toxic car pollution
Europe’s biggest countries are lobbying for a proposed EU cap on nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution from cars to be weakened in a vote on Wednesday, despite the VW diesel emissions scandal and revelations
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Life expectancy rising in China: studies
Life expectancy in China is rising and child mortality has fallen, according to studies of different regions in the country. The studies, published in the United Kingdom-based The Lancet on Monday, were
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Nigeria: COP 21- France Urges Nigeria to Submit INDCs
France has urged the Federal Government to submit its Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), a Climate Action Plans, to the UN few weeks to the climate change conference in Paris. Stephane
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Impact of climate change on groundwater in a confined Mediterranean aquifer
<p>This paper presents an inverse modeling method based on wavelet analysis, devoted to assessment of the impacts of climate change on the groundwater resources of a con- fined coastal multi-layer aquifer,
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All-blue skies in Paris as city centre goes car-free for first time
One-day scheme promoted by mayor Anne Hidalgo sees city centre mostly free of cars and lower speed limit in other districts With the eight lanes of France’s most famous avenue cleared of all traffic
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Paris to be free of honking horns and exhaust fumes this weekend as French capital goes 'car free'
Some of Paris' most popular tourist spots will be car free this weekend as the French capital takes drastic steps to reduce pollution. The move has been initiated by mayor Anne Hidalgo, titled 'journée
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Paris to be free of honking horns and exhaust fumes this weekend as French capital goes 'car free'
Some of Paris' most popular tourist spots will be car free this weekend as the French capital takes drastic steps to reduce pollution. The move has been initiated by mayor Anne Hidalgo, titled 'journée