Research in environmental sciences in France

With the depletion of the planet’s resources, preserving the environment has become one of the major challenges of French research and innovation. Those efforts are aimed at developing sustainable forms of growth and agriculture that will enable societies to meet their needs for food and adapt successfully to climate change.
Conserving resources and raw materials, mitigating climate change, and protecting air quality are the subjects of research efforts that bring together disciplines as diverse as ecology and natural milieus, water and biodiversity, green chemistry, ecosystems, the geosciences, land-use planning, and management of natural resources and wastes, as well as ecotechnologies, alternative energy, and clean transportation. The "Climate, Environment, Raw Materials" challenge is one of seven social challenges embraced by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program of research and innovation. More...