Bangladesh - Under an Emancipating Sun

Bangladesh has developed the largest individual solar panel programme in the world. 3.7 million solar cells have already been installed since 2003 on the roofs of houses in rural areas. By 2018, there should be 6 million. NGOs use this development of rural areas to push for women to work in a country (...)

Bangladesh : the great overflow

Before the end of the century, millions of Bangladeshi will be forced to leave their land because of climate change and its consequences. In the south west where populations are already affected by sea level rise and salinisation, the pressure becomes so strong that people who can afford it already (...)

Cape Verde Of light and wind.

Wedged in an escarpment of the volcano that hangs over them, the fishermen of Monte Trigo, a small village in Cape Verde, only have the sea as their horizon. There is no road, no other resource either between these steep and arid ridges.

This village, Africa’s most westerly, (...)

Cape Verde Of light and wind.

Wedged in an escarpment of the volcano that hangs over them, the fishermen of Monte Trigo, a small village in Cape Verde, only have the sea as their horizon. There is no road, no other resource either between these steep and arid ridges.

This village, Africa’s most westerly, (...)

China : The wrath of the yellow dragon

China is one of the countries where desertification has had the greatest impact. One-quarter of its area is already affected, and the desert is expanding by over 2,500 square kilometres per year. Longbaoshan is located in Hebei Province, just 38 kilometres northwest of the Beijing suburbs. It’s (...)

Indonesia - Sugar Palm Trees to Fight Climate Change

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the cultivation of sugar palm trees allows both the forest to be protected from deforestation, and the changing climate to be restored and the encouragement of wealth sharing at a local level. And it works! The farmers, who have organised themselves into a cooperative, (...)

Masdar - A Green City in the Land of Black Gold

In 2008, a groundbreaking city with a low carbon footprint emerged from the deserts of the United Arab Emirates. This urban laboratory, 30 minutes from Abu Dhabi, houses a university that is specialised in the research and development of the clean technologies of the future. .

For (...)

The Maldives – A Nation at the Water’s Edge

Seen from the air, it is first wonder. The world in monochrome blue, unless it is green, is flooded with the sun. Thrown as by chance from winds by a celestial sower, full handles of emeralds fell again in ring into the midnight blue ocean. Lagoons make the wave flush as so many pearls scattered in (...)

Tuvalu : a polynesian requiem

After long years of hesitancy, the eleven thousand inhabitants of Tuvalu ended up facing the facts: climate change condemns the existence of their islands, of their communities and of their culture. Within fifty to eighty years, the sea level rise combined with more powerful winds and longer droughts, (...)