Philippe Baret
@pbaret.bsky.social
Bioengineer PhD -prof UCLouvain Belgium in system analysis and agroecology. Research on Transition of food systems with www.sytra.be team. #agroecology www.philagri.net
Simone Bloch, son épouse, souffre de bronchite chronique, de pleurésie, en raison du transfert de la chaire de Bloch à Clermont-Ferrand. Bloch obtient Montpellier alors que son doyen est maurrassien; A.Fliche. Ce dernier demande à ce qu'il soit suspendu... l'enseignement par un juif serait néfaste.
"Je me sens en colère, démuni et las, de répéter les mêmes faits scientifiques et de constater que les mesures qui nous protégeraient [...] sont abandonnées ou emportées par des postures populistes." Les mots du climatologue @cassouman40.bsky.social 👇🏼 www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Christophe Cassou, climatologue : « Cet épisode de chaleur est un événement sans précédent, il a de l’ordre d’une chance sur 1 000 de survenir en mai »
Le directeur de recherche du CNRS à l’Ecole normale supérieure revient, dans un entretien au « Monde », sur les conditions climatiques qui permettent au pays de connaître des températures inédites pou...
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«Au sein de l’OCDE, 19 des 37 pays, dont la France, enregistrent aujourd’hui encore des salaires réels inférieurs à ceux de 2021, avant la guerre en Ukraine. En France, le taux de pauvreté est au plus haut depuis les années 1970» www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
Superprofits : les entreprises cotées multiplient les bénéfices record à travers le monde
Loin de se limiter à TotalEnergies, les superprofits se multiplient pour les entreprises cotées en Bourse. Les montants reversés aux actionnaires, sous forme de dividendes ou de rachats d’actions, exp...
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Wow. According to this analysis, 98% of the environmental commitments from meat & dairy companies involved some degree of greenwashing. 98%. We need to do much better, folks. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
Environmental claims, climate promises, and ‘greenwashing’ by meat and dairy companies
Animal agriculture has disproportionate environmental impacts relative to other forms of food production and accounts for at least 16.5% of all global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Many of the large...
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Payer 1,6 million d'euros pour obtenir la fin de ses soucis judiciaires, voici le faible prix payé par ING pour se dépêtrer de 22 années d'errance dans le dossier Reynders. En attendant la possible sanction de la Banque nationale.
Édito | Chez ING, 22 années de largesses chichement payées
lecho.be
Extremist is the death and destruction that Benjamin Netanyahu government brings on a daily basis. Extremist is them introducing the death penalty for Palestinians. Extremist is this apartheid, genocidal Israeli Government that our Government shamefully supports.
Truth to power. Let the truth come out, front and centre. It's time for changes, for big changes, and there's only one party that will do that. Please, use your vote. 💚
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9mo agoZack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration" "Migration is a positive thing for our country" "We need migration" "We need fair and managed migration" "And that's what will change this conversation" *huge clap* #BBCQT
To celebrate 5️⃣0️⃣ years of impacts, we will retrace IEEP's long history, highlighting key moments In this first blog, Honorary Fellow Nigel Haigh and our ED @antoine-oger.bsky.social talk about the origins of IEEP and reflect on the challenges to come ⬇️
From vision to impact: 50 years of IEEP - IEEP AISBL
This year, IEEP turns 50! To celebrate this formidable milestone, throughout 2026, we will retrace our long history, highlight key moments in EU policymaking, and showcase our influence and impact on some of the most critical events, with the support of current and past friends, colleagues, and supporters. In this first blog, Honorary Fellow Nigel Haigh and our Executive Director, Antoine Oger, talk about the origin of IEEP and reflect on the challenges to come.
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The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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ULiège opens its ‘Sustainability & Transition’ MOOC to the public. This free course involves over 50 experts and covers Earth systems, root causes, and solutions. Registration is open now; the course starts on 9 Feb 2026. @universitedeliege.bsky.social 👇
Durabilité et Transition
Face aux défis environnementaux et sociaux auxquels nous sommes confrontés, l’ULiège lance un MOOC gratuit pour aider chacun et chacune à comprendre les enjeux de la transition.
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In French updates, ex minister Duplomb resurrects its pesticides liberalisation bill which was killed by the supreme court. A doctored version will be added to the big farm lobby pleading bill of the new gov, alonside wolf killing, water theft, and other goodies.
Martin Dermine of Pan Europe: “We show that 85% of the apples have multiple residues, and we don’t know if they are safe for consumption or not". If the same apples were sold as processed baby food, 93% of the samples would be banned.
Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 7mo ago‘Pesticide cocktails’ pollute apples across Europe, study finds
Official confirmation of German participation in European troop deployment to Greenland. First Bundeswehr soldiers to arrive tomorrow. 🇪🇺 / NATO solidarity in action.
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
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Trump didn’t seek congressional OK before attacking Venezuela. We spoke with Sarah Burns @rittigers.bsky.social, who has spent years studying how presidents and Congress divide up the power to launch military action, and wrote a book on “The Politics of War Powers”.
Francis Hallé n'était pas seulement un immense chercheur en biologie végétale et un défenseur acharné des forêts et des arbres. C'était aussi un être humain d'une grande gentillesse et d'une grande humilité. Il savait écouter, partager et se mettre au service d'autrui. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
Francis Hallé, botaniste et infatigable défenseur des arbres, est mort à l’âge de 87 ans
Le dendrologue, spécialiste des forêts tropicales et de l’architecture des arbres, avait réussi, grâce à ses talents de pédagogue et à ses dons de dessinateur, à capter l’attention et la sympathie du ...
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La doctrine Monroe en action pour acter définitivement la fin du monde que nous avons connu. Le chaos est devant nous
Putting greenhouse gas emissions numbers into context can be hard. The numbers are large, unfamiliar, and not intuitive. That's why Project Drawdown and a team at the University of San Francisco collaborated to create a new web tool -- Carbon in Context. www.carbonincontext.com
Carbon in Context
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Putting the health-care system back together will take years. The WHO puts the cost at $7bn-8bn. In the meantime Gazans continue to suffer
Just 74 intensive-care beds remain in Gaza
The health-care system is shattered and no one is rebuilding it
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"Addressing the ecological crisis is not apolitical, in the sense that steps towards sustainable and ecologically desirable futures will inevitably disrupt existing power structures and confront vested interests" Great to see this understanding finally seeping into the ecology research community
Kevin J. Gaston@kevinjgaston.bsky.social · 9mo agoHow should the discipline of ecology and the community of ecologists respond to the ecological crisis? Is it time that these were put on something more akin to an emergency footing? www.cell.com/action/showP...
Farming exceptionalism: try doing this if you're protesting against a genocide or climate inaction!
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 9mo agoFarmers from across the EU are back in Brussels today to remind lawmakers that tractors don’t run on promises. While the European Commission insists it has bent over backward to meet their demands, the protesters say it’s still not enough. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/brus...
The UK has been warmer than the historical 'norm' for many weeks now. And greenhouse gas emissions, thus also CO₂ concentration in the atmosphere, keep rising... bsky.app/profile/keel... istheukhotrightnow.com
Is the UK hot right now?
See live UK temperatures vs average, with detailed stats, daily trends, and historic comparisons from official UK sites.
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426.40 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 14-Dec-2025 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Avec ma femme, on gère depuis 19 ans une petite boutique en ligne de cadeaux, Bird on the wire 🩵 Ce Noël est, pour la première fois, très compliqué pour nous... On aurait vraiment besoin de soutien, ne serait-ce qu'un petit partage pour nous faire découvrir. Merci pour votre aide ! botw.fr/shop/fr/
At #EUAgriFoodDays, MEP Elsi Katainen reflects on the post-2027 CAP proposal and what it means for farm subsidies, and flags the upcoming review of the #UTP Directive (Unfair Trading Practices) as a key priority to ensure farmers get fair and remunerative prices from the market.
If Britons were to look at Spain, they would see a rapidly growing economy with a relaxed attitude to immigration—in both respects a sharp contrast to their own land. Yet the two share similarities
Which country is most similar to Britain?
Clue: none of the ones its politicians obsess over
econ.st
Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.
🚨 Big Agribusiness has come to #COP30 – and it’s not here for #ClimateJustice. @desmog.com reveals 141 influence routes used by JBS, Nestlé, Bayer & others to greenwash their image, lobby for weak metrics & grab climate finance. 📖 Must-read: www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m... #FoodSystems
In the special collections exhibition at the KU Leuven Library, two 18th-century silk prints: one a graduation thesis and the other a congratulatory poem, both common subjects for silk printing at the time. @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social
La taxe Zucman mérite mieux que des invectives. Pour des raisons d’économie politique, alors que la France fait face à un ajustement budgétaire de très grande ampleur. Et parce qu’elle permet d’adapter le système fiscal aux transformations de l’économie. www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Taxe Zucman : il serait prudent de retenir, dans un premier temps, un taux de 1 %, par Jean Pisani-Ferry
Gage d’une meilleure répartition, elle permettrait d’atténuer la sous-taxation des ultrariches et de moderniser le système fiscal, plaide l’économiste Jean Pisani-Ferry.
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