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Plastic pollution: towards a global treaty limiting production?

In Ottawa, negotiations aimed at signing an international treaty limiting plastic pollution moved in the right direction during a penultimate cycle, which ended Tuesday April 30. A summit placed under the aegis of the United Nations and attended by Marie-France Dignac and Jean-François Ghiglione, two researchers at Sorbonne University. The establishment is the first French university to be accredited by the United Nations Environment Program, allowing it to take part in international negotiations.

"DCFE" Department, “CoMIC” Team, “CReA” Team, “Ecosens” Department, “FEST” Team, “Sols_ZC” Department, Books, INRAE, IRD, Political commitments, Sorbonne University, Type of news
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A stressful life in the city affects birds’ genes

Great tits living in cities are genetically different from great tits in the countryside. This is what researchers have found in a unique study, where they examined populations of great tits in nine large European cities.

The researchers compared the city bird genes with the genes of their relatives in the countryside. It did not matter if the great tits lived in Milan, Malmö or Madrid: in order to handle an environment created by humans, the birds evolved in a similar way.

“EcoEvo” Department, “EPE” Team, Published!, Sorbonne University
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Urban Ecosystems: A dialog between Scientists and Paris City Managers

For more than 10 years, the City of Paris and the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris have been collaborating on various issues of urban ecology. From these multiform collaborations at the interface between fundamental research and concrete techniques for the management of urban environments, several advances have been made on both scientific […]

"DCFE" Department, “APCE” Team, “EERI” Team, “EMS” Team, Colloquiums, Département “IPE”, Events, Projects / Partnerships, Séverine Planchais, Sorbonne University
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