On January 1, 2026, far from the media uproar surrounding the American tariff wars, Europe discreetly crossed a historic threshold by turning an invisible line into a customs reality. With the operational entry into force of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) — which applies, among other products, to agricultural fertilizers — the European Union has officially […]

9 février 2026 In recent weeks, Morocco has been hit by major, sometimes violent floods in agricultural areas that had just emerged from nearly seven years of drought. Morocco is not an isolated case: similar sequences of prolonged droughts followed by extreme rainfall have recently been observed in East Africa (Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia in 2023), […]

octobre 2025 A sweeping review by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Berkeley, and Oxford exposes the uncomfortable truth behind the booming carbon offset industry: Most carbon credits don’t actually offset anything. Across compliance and voluntary markets, offsets have overstated their climate benefits five- to tenfold, making them one of the most unreliable pillars of […]

31 juillet 2025 Dear readers, In this edition, we navigate through a mix of pressing challenges and encouraging signs for agroecology and sustainability. The latest SDG report and the data from the Global Footprint Network are stark reminders that we are still far from living within the planet’s limits. On a more mixed note, the […]

Beyond the hype During the last decades, industrial farming practices have largely prioritised yield over resilience, leaving around a third of the world’s soils degraded. Intensive tillage, combined with the massive use of chemical fertilizers and synthetic pesticides have considerably degraded the physico-chemical and biological properties of agricultural land. As a consequence, the soils aeration, water […]

Since COP3 and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, the long suit of the annual COP meetings has been more or less fruitful: COP 15 in Copenhagen saw China obstructing ambitious climate targets in 2009, while COP 21 led in 2015 to the Paris Agreement, the first universal climate agreement, aimed at limiting the increase in the […]

101 What are carbon markets? Photo by Tyler Casey on Unsplash Carbon markets are trading systems in which carbon credits are sold and bought. Companies or individuals can use carbon markets to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon credits from entities that remove or reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One tradable carbon credit […]

What has changed? As it starts with its recurrent warning about the insufficient pace and scale of climate action to tackle the rapidly growing adverse impacts of climate change, the latest IPCC report might give a feeling of deja vu. Some key differences versus the 5th edition are worth highlighting though : First, the approach for climate […]

Developing countries are predicted to bear the brunt of climate change impact despite having barely contributed to that.  This means that, by 2030, six out of seven people in the planet will be at severe risk of climate change impacts on food security and agriculture, water and nature, human settlements, oceans, and cities, among others. […]