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Climate change: Bio-technologies are facing a huge challenge. Why is climate changing? Control and measurement of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Soils at the heart of climate change. Between pollution and climate change, the survival of soil organisms. Modelling microbial degradation in soils to analyse greenhouse gas releases. A threat against plant health. The opinion of the seed industry. Truly living clouds. Language, the other stake of the struggle against climate changes

  • 1. Centre national de recherches meteorologiques, Meteo-France, Toulouse (France)
  • 2. Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement, UMR 8212 CEA-CNRS-Universite de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Service national d'observation ICOS-France, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 3. LabEx Biodiversite, agroecosysternes, societe, climat (France)
  • 4. AgroParisTech, UMR ecologie fonctionnelle et ecotoxicologie des agroecocosystemes, Inra-AgroParisTech, Thiverval-Grignon (France)
  • 5. IRD, UMR ecologie fonctionnelle et biogeochimie des sols et des agroecosystemes, Montpellier (France)
  • 6. LabEx Biodiversite, agroecosystemes, societe, climat (France)
  • 7. UMR ecologie fonctionnelle et ecotoxicologie des agroecosystemes, Inra AgroParistech, Versailles (France)
  • 8. Metaprogramme Adaptation de l'agriculture et de la foret au changement climatique, Inra, Champenoux (France)
  • 9. UMR ecologie fonctionnelle et ecotoxicologie des agroecosystemes, INRA AgroParisTech, Thivernal-Grignon (France)
  • 10. UMR 1290 Biologie gestion des risques en agriculture, LabEx Biodiversite, agroecosystemes societe, climat, AgroRarisTech, Inra, Universite Paris-Saclay, Thiverval-Grignon (France)
  • 11. Groupement national interprofessionnel des semences et plants (France)
  • 12. Institut de Chimie de Clermont-Ferrand, UMR 6296 Universite Blaise Pascal-CNRS-ENSCCF, Aubiere (France)

Description

As the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 decided to react to limit the irrecoverable global warming, this publication, through several articles, outlines that this issue has not progressed at all after 23 years on a political point of view, and has even regressed with respect to initially defined objectives, but has progressed in terms of understanding of climate change under the influence of our production modes, notably in the agriculture sector. Thus, the articles discuss or recall the origin and process of climate change, how greenhouse gas emissions are controlled and measured, how soil are impacted or play a role in climate change as the survival of soil organisms is at stake under the pressure of pollution and climate change, how climate change can be a threat for plants, how the seed industry perceives these issues, how micro-organisms present in the air and clouds are now a topic in atmosphere sciences. The last article discusses the importance of intelligibility of scientific publications on these issues

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Original title (French)
Changement climatique: Les biotechnologies face a un defi de taille. Pourquoi le climat change-t-il? Suivi et mesure des gaz a effet de serre dans l'atmosphere. Les sols au coeur des effets du changement climatique. Entre pollution et changement climatique, la survie des organismes du sol. Modeliser la degradation microbienne dans les sols pour analyser les rejets de gaz a effet de serre. Menace sur la sante des plantes. Le point de vue de la filiere semenciere. Des nuages biens vivants. Le langage, l'autre enjeu de la lutte contre les changements climatiques

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Biofutur (Paris)
Journal Issue
no.371
Journal Page Range
p. 18-41
ISSN
0294-3506
CODEN
BIOFEM

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