This Thursday, January 11, environmentalist deputies are calling for an end to a “thermometer” policy on emergency accommodation, the NGO Care is publishing a ranking of the 10 least publicized crises in 2023, and a Greenland company is exporting iceberg icicles in Dubai.
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This Thursday, January 11, environmentalist deputies denounce the “thermometer policy” of the government which has just announced an envelope of 120 million euros for emergency accommodation for homeless people. They criticize a lack of anticipation, “a communication stunt and zero action behind it”. France has been experiencing a cold spell since Monday. Two homeless people died this week.
If the earthquakes in Turkey, the war in Ukraine or between Israel and Hamas have marked the year 2023, the NGO Care is publishing this Thursday a ranking of the most forgotten crises in the media. They all took place in Africa and, as in 2022, it was the humanitarian crisis in Angola that received the least media coverage.
In Greenland, a company exports pieces of iceberg 7,000 kilometers away, to Dubai, where cocktail bars turn them into ice cubes of pure water. “Even if they use boats rather than planes, the carbon footprint remains stratospheric,” laments glaciologist Heidi Sevestre.
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