URBAN CANOPEE strives for resilient cities. URBAN CANOPEE puts forward solutions to fight global warming by developping vegetal canopies above cities to control heat islands and replace them with refreshing islands, restoring thereby urban biodiversity, providing numerous ecosystemic services, tackling air pollution, and improving the city dwellers’ quality of life.

Building is one of the most polluting industries in the world… in figures, building alonerepresents 40% of the world’s energy and resources. We must keep in mind that concrete is the second most widelyconsumedelementon our planet, justafterwater! And, its environmental impact deserves to be considered in order to findgreener alternatives. One of the best solutions […]

According to the Kantar study of 2020, 6,9 million christmas trees (natural and artificial) were sold in France for Christmas 2019, including 5,8 million natural pine trees. 84% of the trees were natural and 16% artificial : is this really detrimental to the environment while the business of natural pine trees keeps growing ? The French Organization for […]

Cleaning the rivers ofthe plastic pollution with bubbles. Every minute, the equivalent of one full garbage truck of plastic trash is dumped into our oceans. This is the equivalent of 1,440 trucks per day and in total 8 billion kilos each year, and 80% of those plastics come directly from land. The bubble barrier is […]

Electric Car versus petrol or diesel car, which pollutes the most ? Several recent studies show that the electric car pollutes less than petrol or diesel cars and it has a bright future. Figures prove that an electric car (battery manufacturing included) emits up to three times less greenhouse gas and even less air pollutants than […]

Ecological Innovation A solution to come to an end with disposable packaging. Although plastic disposable packaging is prohibited in France since July 2016, most of the packaging found in mass distribution is still made of plastic or cardboard. To address this issue, the greek designer George Bosnas has created Biopack:aquite special package to replace egg […]

The recent publication of the 5th Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO5) in September confirmed, with high confidence, that Aichi Target 10 — which concerns reducing pressures on coral reefs and other vulnerable ecosystems impacted by climate change or ocean acidification — has not been achieved. What's more, coral reefs have “shown the most rapid increase in […]

Global gross domestic product (GDP) has quadrupled since 1970, enabling immense progress, and lifting billions of people out of poverty. However, material productivity, defined as GDP relative to material and energy inputs, has stagnated since the turn of the century, tying any increase in economic growth to an equivalent increase in resource extraction. A global economy fuelled […]

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