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Last Thursday, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has published its Global Environment Outlook: Environment for Development (GEO-4).

It indicates that the most serious threats to the planet, including climate change, the rate of extinction of species and the challenge of feeding a growing population are among the many problems that have not been resolved and put humanity at risk.

GEO-4 warns that we are living far beyond our means. The human population is now so large that "the amount of resources required to sustain it exceeds the resources ... humanity's footprint is 21.9 hectares per person while the Earth's biological capacity is, on average, only 15.7 ha / person ... "

" Our common future depends on our actions today, not tomorrow or some time in the future. "

" There were enough warnings since Brundtland. I sincerely hope GEO-4 is the last. The systematic destruction of natural resources has reached a level where the economic viability of economies is being challenged and where the bill we hand to our children may prove impossible to pay "," said Achim Steiner, Assistant Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director.

GEO-4 concludes that if "governments must be in the foreground, the others are equally important for success in achieving sustainable development. We better understand the current challenges and the time has come to act quickly to safeguard our survival and that of future generations. "

For more information:
1. The most serious problems persist on the planet, warns a UN report (UNEP)
2. Fourth Global Environment Outlook (UNEP)
3. Twenty years later, the world still in bad shape, according to UNEP (The World)

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France launches its ecological revolution



Thursday evening, Nicolas Sarkozy concluded three months of intense debate by a speech that lays the foundation of the green revolution for France desired. This speech was delivered in the presence of José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, and Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace, who hailed the originality and effectiveness that participatory and democratic process.

Nicolas Sarkozy called for "a revolution in our thinking, our policies, our objectives" . He said: "I want the Grenelle is the founding act of an ecological New Deal in France, Europe and worldwide. (...) Your proposals, I make my own, I will wear them, I implement them. (...) For a man like me take this speech is that France is changing, "

The main measures used are detailed here and are summarized here .

Note also those qui me semblent les plus emblématiques :
- Réduction de moitié dans les dix ans de l'usage des peslticides dans l'agriculture.
- Gel du maïs OGM Monsanto 810, dont la culture en plein champ a proliféré en France depuis son autorisation par Lionel Jospin (PS) et Dominique Voynet (Les verts) en 1998.
- Soutien des cultures biologiques, qui recevront 20% des commandes de la restauration collective publique.
- Bâtiment neuf : programme de "rupture technologique" pour tous les bâtiments publics qui devront être construits dès 2010 en basse consommation (50 kwh/m2/an). Pour le privé à partir de 2012.
- TVA à taux réduit sur tous les produits respect the ecological environment and biodiversity.
- Development of renewable energy to 20 million tonnes of oil equivalent by 2020.
- Prohibition on incandescent lamps in 2010.

Planning Act to implement the conclusions of the Grenelle Environment Forum will be proposed to Parliament this winter, in January-February, said Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Secretary of State for Ecology.

Well that's it! Nicolas Hulot gave all this a " 18 of 20, to leave some leeway . Not me, I give an outright 20 of 20. Because sitting around a table to the people he met, and obtain concensus on topics as conflict than that, he had to. And now, finally , we have a government that will take head on the real issues that concern us, and which also affect our children and our children's children. As

said American Indians: " We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children " .

I must say that all this makes me hope again in the future. Of course, we will not solve all these problems in a snap, while no government has wanted to address de front en quarante ans, de droite comme de gauche. Mais enfin, le coup d'envoi est donné, il n'y a plus qu'à se retrousser les manches tous ensemble. Le gouvernement va être l'objet de toutes les pressions venant de tous les lobbys, mais il faut que Nicolas Sarkozy tienne bon. Je pense qu'il le fera.

Tout d'un coup, l'avenir me semble plein de promesses. Ca ne m'était pas arrivé depuis très très longtemps.

Pour en savoir plus :
1. Le Grenelle Environnement (site officiel)
2. Rapport du rapporteur général (Grenelle Environnement)
3. Discours du Président de la République à l'issue des premières conclusions of the Grenelle Environment (Elysee.fr)
4. The main measures adopted by the Grenelle (Le Nouvel Observateur)
5. measures and proposals of the Grenelle (Liberation)
6. The "green revolution" of Nicolas Sarkozy (Le Figaro)
7. the "Grenelle", Nicolas Sarkozy made his "green revolution" (The World)
8. Borloo announced the freezing of GMO legislation in January (The World)
9. law to implement the proposed Grenelle this winter (Le Nouvel Observateur)

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Wildfires in California



For more than ten days, Southern California was ravaged by devastating wildfires.

During the summer of 2007, there was a record drought that has completely dried up the vegetation of the hills. And then, when the fires broke out, California, one of the most powerful states of the world, was powerless to deal with flames everywhere. Nor Greece in August .



He had ordered the evacuation of 500,000 people. There had so far five dead, 40 wounded and one thousand five hundred houses destroyed. Damage is estimated at one billion dollars.

One consequence of global climate announced the massive forest fires. The U.S. is trying to achieve.

For more information:
1. NASA Images of California Wildfires (NASA)
2. Fires in Southern California (Earth Observatory)
3. Wind fanned Wildfires scorch California, half one million evacuated (mercopress)
4. Fires were raging (Los Angeles Times)
5. Forest fires in Greece (Gaia)

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barrel of oil exceeds $ 85



barrel of oil reached 86.13 dollars last Monday in New York. As you can see from the chart above, it was 20 dollars in 2002 to 30 in 2004 dollars, 50 dollars in 2006, and now exceeds $ 80.

must know that world oil production peaks at present to 84 million barrels per day.
Here are the numbers for recent years (source: EIA ):
- 2003: 79.62 million barrels per day.
- 2004: 83.12 million barrels per day.
- 2005: 84.63 million barrels per day.
- 2006: 84.60 million barrels per day.
- 2007: 84.31 million barrels per day. (First semester)

As I wrote May 16, 2005: the peak of world oil production is this year, and the above figures prove it. Since 2005, the existing wells are drying up faster than new discoveries, and we can no longer exceed 84.6 million barrels per day.

It is happening in this world has already happened to oil offshore UK : we have passed the peak of production, and we began the slow decline in production.

As at the same time, demand from China is growing strong , $ 100 a barrel should not be long now.

For more information:
1. barrel of oil reached a new peak over $ 86 (The World)
2. Light Crude Oil (CL, NYMEX) (TFC Commodity Charts)
3. Other International Petroleum (Oil) Data (Energy Information Administration)
4. Towards the end of oil (Gaia)

Credit graphic: TFC Commodity Charts

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Al Gore and the IPCC are the Nobel Peace



The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), "for their efforts to collect and disseminate knowledge about climate change caused by man, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to fight against these changes. "

That, for me, probably the Nobel Peace most significant since this distinction is very honorable.

Indeed, global warming will bring tremendous changes, with dramatic consequences on water resources and food supplies. As noted by Nicolas Hulot, democracy is a luxury that can afford an affluent society. Once the main resources will begin to fail seriously, all these fine principles will quickly shatter, and democracy may become a distant memory.

access to energy sources, control of water supply, etc.. will perhaps create conflicts between peoples and states equally bloody border wars conducted by European nations in the nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

The Nobel jury has understood, and he wanted to launch a powerful message to governments around the world to the problems related to global warming are finally taken into account as they should be is to tell a priority.

Only if we get serious and massively to the rapid degradation of our environment we will be able to keep the peace.

For more information:
1. The Nobel Peace Prize jointly to Al Gore and the IPCC (The World)
2. Climate and peace (The World)
3. An Inconvenient Truth (Gaia)

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