On the occasion of our partnership with COP 26 that will occur in Glasgow this year, we present to you our selection from our culturethèque. You will find needful resources to have a better understanding of the main challenges of the climate crisis, and what will be discussed during the upcoming talks.
In order to understand what is causing the atmosphere to go haywire, the animals decide to send the dolphins around the world to gather information. In “Hot planet", cows producing methane (greenhouse gas) symbolise human activities. The investigation introduces young readers to the issue of ecological policies with humour.
HISTOIRE DE L'ÉCOLOGIE POLITIQUE 4/4 : QUAND L'ÉCOLOGIE DEVINT PARTI This podcast presents the history of the environmental movement in politics. In France, in the 1970s, a multitude of associations and local initiatives alerted people to the ecological crisis. Little by little, ecology gained ground at the national level and became a global political issue.
ONLINE VIDEO – CLIMATE IN 2100: FRENCH PROJECTIONS On 17 September 2019, the French climate modeling centers at the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace and Météo-France presented their new climate simulations. These projections will be a key point for the next official IPCC synthesis, scheduled for 2021.
SHORT FILM – IS THE ELECTRIC CAR REALLY GREEN? RTS Découverte tackles scientific, economic, geopolitical or cultural themes to put current affairs into perspective. The Questions-Answers platform allows Internet users to ask questions to experts from French-speaking universities. Regardless of their age, users can ask questions in many fields to academics who then answer them online. More than a hundred capsules have been created from these questions. About 2 minutes.
DIGITAL MAGAZINE – L'OBS – 07/10/2021 This french newspaper devoted articles to the challenges of wind power and its issues.
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