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Planetoscope - Statistiques : Pêche et prises mondiales de poissons
▻http://www.planetoscope.com/eau-oceans/199-peche-et-prises-mondiales-de-poissons.html

Le total de la pêche mondiale représente 154 millions de tonnes de poissons, soit 4 900 kilos de poissons chaque seconde. En 2012 selon la FAO, 91,6 millions de tonnes de poissons et animaux marins ont été capturés, un niveau relativement stable depuis 20 ans. 40% de la production de poisson proviennent de l’aquaculture et 60% de la pêche de poissons sauvages. La pêche illégale représente presque un tiers de la pêche légale.

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Biodiversity is below safe levels across more than half of world’s land – study | Environment | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/14/biodiversity-below-safe-levels-across-over-half-of-worlds-land-study

The variety of animals and plants has fallen to dangerous levels across more than half of the world’s landmass due to humanity destroying habitats to use as farmland, scientists have estimated.

The unchecked loss of biodiversity is akin to playing ecological roulette and will set back efforts to bring people out of poverty in the long term, they warned.

Analysing 1.8m records from 39,123 sites across Earth, the international study found that a measure of the intactness of biodiversity at sites has fallen below a safety limit across 58.1% of the world’s land.

#biodiversité #écologie #destruction #écosystèmes

World’s largest carbon producers face landmark human rights case | Environment | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/27/worlds-largest-carbon-producers-face-landmark-human-rights-case

The world’s largest oil, coal, cement and mining companies have been given 45 days to respond to a complaint that their greenhouse gas emissions have violated the human rights of millions of people living in the Phillippines.

In a potential landmark legal case, the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (CHR), a constitutional body with the power to investigate human rights violations, has sent 47 “carbon majors” including Shell, BP, Chevron, BHP Billiton and Anglo American, a 60-page document accusing them of breaching people’s fundamental rights to “life, food, water, sanitation, adequate housing, and to self determination”.

The move is the first step in what is expected to be an official investigation of the companies by the CHR, and the first of its kind in the world to be launched by a government body.

The complaint argues that the 47 companies should be held accountable for the effects of their greenhouse gas emissions in the Philippines and demands that they explain how human rights violations resulting from climate change will be “eliminated, remedied and prevented”.

#Philippines #pollution #santé #plainte #multinationales

Why is the World Bank backing coal power in Europe’s youngest country?
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/20/kosovo-coal-plant-power-world-bank-investment-dirty-technology

After Kosovan elections in 2014, a leaked email written by a World Bank employee explained the need to “educate” the new administration on how to handle a single-bidder procurement process without falling foul of the law. It added that US government representatives within the country were strongly allied to the project and that domestic US political concerns about backing coal would be massaged by the fact that the only bidder was a US company, ContourGlobal.

#Kosovo #charbon #énergie #corruption #Banque_Mondiale