Environment

Since 2010, the BNP Paribas Foundation has been supporting research on climate change through its Climate & Biodiversity Initiative programme. The ultimate goal is to contribute to supporting the advancement of scientific knowledge on climate change, biodiversity and their interactions as well as the impact of their deterioration on our society. Since inception, the BNP Paribas Foundation has invested € 12M in scientific reseach projects through this tailor made programme.

1. Climate and Biodiversity Initiative: the challenge of preserving biodiversity
   Climate change and biodiversity erosion are two of today's most important challenges. In 2019, the BNP Paribas Foundation launched a new call for projects for the “Climate & Biodiversity Initiative”, its international philanthropy programme: until 2022, 9 new research teams will be funded with a total budget of €6 million. They aim at improving our understanding of climate and biodiversity interactions and their impact on society. Since its creation in 2010, the programme has already supported 18 teams of researchers, professors and engineers with a total budget of €12 million, and has reached more than 400 000 people to raise their awareness of environmental issues through lectures, exhibitions and other public events. Learn more about the Climate & Biodiversity Initiative here on youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Z7zfxo8Wg ...and on our website : https://group.bnpparibas/en/hottopics/climate-biodiversity-initiative Find out more about the BNP Paribas Foundation: https://group.bnpparibas/en/group/bnp-paribas-foundation Follow our latest news, as well as our partners', on our social media: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/FondationBNPP - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fondationbnpp/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/fondation-bnp-paribas"
2. 2 Olivier Dangles about the holistic approach to research geared towards the search for solutions
   Research: a transdisciplinary approach to develop solutions. Olivier Dangles, researcher and director of the ECOBIO scientific department at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), shares with us his perspective. Olivier Dangles leads a long-term collective reflection with the COVID-19 interdisciplinary and partnership-based scientific committee at IRD, as well as the LIFE WITHOUT ICE research project which aims at studying the consequences of glacier extinction for biodiversity and people in temperate and tropical regions. The LIFE WITHOUT ICE project is one of the 9 new laureate projects of the “Climate & Biodiversity Initiative”, the international philanthropy programme the BNP Paribas Foundation created in 2010. By 2022, the Foundation will fund these 9 projects with a total budget of €6 million. To learn more about the Climate and Biodiversity Initiative. https://group.bnpparibas/en/hottopics/climate-biodiversity-initiative/briefing
3. 3 Eve Miguel and the HUM-ANI project: eco-health in the fight against epidemics
   Emergence of infectious diseases: are climate change and biodiversity erosion responsible ? Eve Miguel, researcher in ecology and epidemiology at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), shares with us her perspective. Eve leads the HUM-ANI project which aims at identifying how the impact of climate change and biodiversity erosion modifies interactions between fauna, flora and mankind, and how it is linked to increasing infectious diseases’ threats and multi-hosts transmission in Southern African socio-ecosystems. The HUM-ANI project is one of the 9 new laureate projects of the “Climate & Biodiversity Initiative”, the international philanthropy programme the BNP Paribas Foundation created in 2010. By 2022, the Foundation will fund these 9 projects with a total budget of €6 million. To learn more about the Climate and Biodiversity Initiative. https://group.bnpparibas/en/hottopics/climate-biodiversity-initiative/briefing
4. 4 Climate & Biodiversity Initiative : BIOCLIMATE in a nutshell
   On World Environment Day, learn more about forests and biodiversity in the Amazon and how climate change affects these ecosystems. A discussion with Jos Barlow, Professor of Conservation Science, leading the BIOCLIMATE project. The BIOCLIMATE project will adopt novel and well established methods to understand the biodiversity and associated ecosystem processes within climate-affected and human-modified Amazonian forests. The focus will be on the Santarém region in Brazil, where BIOCLIMATE scientists have been working for the last 10 years. The BIOCLIMATE project is supported through the BNP Paribas Foundation's Climate & Biodiversity Initiative, an international programme which has been funding research on climate change and biodiversity erosion since 2010. The aim is to contribute to supporting the advancement of scientific knowledge on climate change, biodiversity and their interactions as well as the impact of their deterioration on our society. Since inception, the BNP Paribas Foundation has invested €18M in scientific research projects through this tailor made programme. Learn more https://group.bnpparibas/en/hottopics/climate-biodiversity-initiative/briefing
5. 5 Climate & Biodiversity Initiative, supporting climate research since 2010
   Since 2010, the BNP Paribas Foundation has been supporting research on climate change through its Climate & Biodiversity Initiative programme. The ultimate goal is to contribute to supporting the advancement of scientific knowledge on climate change, biodiversity and their interactions as well as the impact of their deterioration on our society. Since inception, the BNP Paribas Foundation has invested € 18M in 27 scientific research projects through this tailor made programme. The Foundation has also raised awareness among a community of 400 000 people since 2010.
6. 6 Climate & Biodiversity Initiative - Selection process
   The research projects supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation through its Climate & Biodiversity Initiative are selected through a call for projects every 3 years. The rigorous selection process of each call for projects has a specific governance. Indeed, the Foundation is backed by its Scientific committee composed of world-class researchers: they play a key role in selecting the most promising and outstanding research projects.
7. 7 Climate Initiative : how the scientific committee chooses the projects
   Since 2010, the BNP Paribas Foundation has supported climate change research through its Climate Initiative program. The goal is to understand and anticipate the impact of climate change on our environment as well as on local populations around the world. Every 3 years, its scientific committee chooses new projects presented by renowned laboratories. In November, 2016, it so held 8 new projects of European and international dimension.! The experts of this committee explain you the stakes in this essential support to the progress of the research ; how they establish the prize-winners: 8 reserved projects, on 228 application files... Explanation ! Discover all the Climate Initiative program of the Foundation BNP Paribas: https://group.bnpparibas/en/group/bnp-paribas-foundation/environment
8. 8 Facing climate change, what future for coral reefs?
   Coral reefs are home to the greatest marine biodiversity and provide many services to men: fishing, tourism, coastal protection. More than 500 million people depend on it for their livelihood. Problem: These oases are extremely sensitive to changes in the environment. Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 All our engagements on : https://group.bnpparibas/en/group/bnp-paribas-foundation
9. 9 Climate change: stimulating effective adaptation programs in Africa
   Join Attribution of Biopysical and Economic Impacts of Hydroclimatic Extremes. Today is no longer a question of whether or not anthropogenic global warming is a reality, but rather a question of how we adapt. What adaptation strategies will make us less vulnerable to warming of the planet ? What are the most effective responses and solutions ? The cross-disciplinary team of researchers led by Friederike Otto of Oxford University (UK) and Mark New of the University of Cape Town (South Africa) seeks to answer these questions in the case of countries in Africa. Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 Fore more information : https://group.bnpparibas/tempsforts/climate-initiative
10. 10 REIMAGINE: How to adapt to climate change?
    Re-imagining anticipatory climate governance in the world's vulnerable regions "A lot of opportunities to adapt to climate change fall through if there is no link between climate scenarios and political decisions at a national and international level." Joost Vervoort, researcher at Oxford University and professor at Utrecht University. Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 Fore more information : https://group.bnpparibas/tempsforts/climate-initiative
11. 11 SOCA: Soil carbon for tropicol subsistence farming
    In the program Climate Initiative, the BNP Paribas foundation is accompanied by partners such as: RFI, The Museum of Science and Industry, the CNRS ... On 1500 Giga tons it is the quantity of carbon stored by plants and alive bodies in the first meters of the ground. In 2015, the project " 4 for one thousand " is thrown(launched) to increase the organic carbon to counterbalance the surplus of Co2 and improve the agricultural productivity. The SOCA project resumes(takes back) a little the same principle, researchers want to understand(include) the dynamics of detention of carbon in the ground in the tropics to improve the practices agricultural and to contribute to the food safety. Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 Fore more information : https://group.bnpparibas/tempsforts/climate-initiative
12. 12 SENSEI: Sentinels of the sea ice
    In the program Climate Initiative, the BNP Paribas foundation is accompanied by partners such as: RFI, The Museum of Science and Industry, the CNRS ... The SENSEI project aims at fighting against the reheating of the poles which have drastic consequences on the sea ice (decrease of the surface of the sea ice in Arctic and in contrario increase in Antarctica). This rather fragile ecosystem remains underestimated and engender consequences on the alive species ... Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 Fore more information : https://group.bnpparibas/tempsforts/climate-initiative
13. 13 TROPICOL Project - Tracking climate change in the rain forest [EN]
    In the program Climate Initiative, the BNP Paribas foundation is accompanied by partners such as: RFI, The Museum of Science and Industry, the CNRS ... The depression of Colônia, at the heart of the Brazilian rain forest, is probably a crater due to an impact of meteorite making a geologic structure rare. That is why researchers' international team wishes to realize a drilling up to 50 meters deep. The objective of the project Colonia, is to reconstitute climate change and evolutions of the biodiversity of the rain forest. Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 Fore more information : https://group.bnpparibas/tempsforts/climate-initiative
14. 14 El Misterio de los tropicos que se Amplian
    En el programa Climate Initiative, la Fundación BNP Paribas es acompañada por socios(compañeras,compañeros) tal como: RFI, La Ciudad de las Ciencias, el CNRS(CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA)... Desde una cuarentena de años, la intensidad y la duración de período de sequedad aumenta en las zonas subtropicales. Estas regiones son dependientes de la Célula(Celda) de Hadley (movimiento atmosférico) que acaba de aumentarse. El proyecto Trópico va a permitir volver a trazar la evolución climática en el curso del último milenario y mejorar las simulaciones climáticas para el horizonte 2100. Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 Fore more information : https://group.bnpparibas/tempsforts/climate-initiative
15. 15 THEMES Project [EN] : understanding climate change in the subtropics
    In the program Climate Initiative, the BNP Paribas foundation is accompanied by partners such as: RFI, The Museum of Science and Industry, the CNRS ... Since about forty years, the intensity and the duration of period of drought increases in subtropics. These regions are dependent on Hadley's Cell(Unit) ( atmospheric movement) which has just increased. The Tropic project is going to allow to redraw the climatic evolution during the last millennium and to improve the climatic simulations on the horizon 2100. Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 Fore more information : https://group.bnpparibas/tempsforts/climate-initiative
16. 16 EAIIST: A first crossing of East Antarctica
    In the program Climate Initiative, the BNP Paribas foundation is accompanied by partners such as: RFI, The Museum of Science and Industry, the CNRS ... The EAIIST project consists in seeing how reacts the Antarctica in front of global warming. 12 researchers in total autonomy are going to leave during 60 days. Their objective: quantify the accumulation of past and present snow on the Antarctica. Follow the breaking news of the Foundation and all its partners ! On Facebook ☞ https://www.facebook.com/FondationBNPParibas/ On Twitter ☞ https://twitter.com/fondationbnpp Suscribe to our newsletter : https://www.tfaforms.com/331830 Fore more information :https://group.bnpparibas/tempsforts/climate-initiative
17. 17 Glabal carbon Atlas : a website to understand CO2 emissons
    This project is an online application created by scientists and research laboratories from around the world to publish all available data concerning CO2 emissions on a yearly basis.
18. 18 eFOCE
    Philanthropy for climate: the research programme eFoce, supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation.
19. 19 PRECLIDE
    Philanthropy for climate: the research programme PRECLIDE, supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation.
20. 20 eFOCE: Understanding the long-term effects of ocean acidification
    The objective of the eFOCE project is to develop, validate and implement experimental systems that enable scientists to investigate the long-term effects of acidification in situ on benthic marine communities – i.e. those organisms which live on or near the seabed. The project will be carried out in cooperation with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute MBARI, which has recently developed a number of prototypes, and in partnership with several European laboratories involved in two projects - EPOCA and MedSeA - being co-funded by the European Commission. Over a 3-year period, the aim of the project is to develop and test systems which can be used in relatively long experiments in the Mediterranean Sea. The ultimate goal is to increase the number of these systems and make them available to the international scientific community via an international network. Dicover the Climat Initiative programme !!! https://group.bnpparibas/en/hottopics/climate-initiative
21. 21 APT, Permafrost and climate change
    Climate change is starting to melt the portion of our planet’s soil that remains frozen year round. As a result, part of the carbon trapped in permafrost is transformed into CO2 and methane, a phenomenon that could release up to two times the amount of CO2 already contained in the atmosphere. The French-Canadian team working at the Takuvik laboratory will conduct a study over the course of several years to learn more about this process.
22. 22 CPATEMP: Better understanding climate change from the past to the future
    By studying the history of our climate, scientists intend to explore how the mechanisms of natural climate change, at times abrupt, may combine with climate irregularities tied to human activity. The European Center for Research and Education in Environmental Geoscience (CEREGE) pursues this mission by improving our understanding of biomarkers present in sediment layers of large lakes.
23. 23 SOCLIM: Understanding the Arctic ocean
    The Arctic ocean is one of the largest on Earth and the farthest away from land. Understanding it plays an essential role in regulating the climate on Earth. How does it work? What role does it have in the absorption of CO2? The SOCLIM teams deploy instruments and sensors on the spot to gather vital data to understand the ocean.
24. 24 FATES: Studying global warming over thousands of years
    FATES : Fast Climate Changes, New Tools to Understand and simulate the evolution of the Earth system. Human activity is altering the composition of our atmosphere and causing climate change. The FATES project aims to study the natural global warming process that took place at the end of the most recent glacial period (~20,000 to ~10,000 B.C.), which is associated with a rise in atmospheric greenhouse gases and sea levels.
25. 25 INVACOST: Preventing a massive insect invasion
    INVACOST = Invasive Insects and their Cost Following Climate Change Researchers know that certain organisms – both plants and animals – react to rising temperatures and change their behavior or usual habitats. A massive insect invasion will have far-reaching consequences. But what are the risks? To answer this question, the Université Paris Sud and the CNRS are studying twenty different insect species.
26. 26 CPATEMP in Cameroon: Past temperatures and continental variations
    Wouldn't it be great if Africa's history could answer our questions about the future of Africa's climate? It remains difficult to assess how climate change impacts the environment. We still have a lot to learn about the way the African climate works and how it will be disrupted by human activity. How has the climate changed? How have past climate-related crises affected the continent? How have humans adapted over the centuries? This is what the team of scientists at CEREGE and IRD (https://www.ird.fr/) led by Guillemette Ménot ¬- co-ordinator of the CPATEMP (Continental Past TEMPeratures) project supported by the Climate Initiative programme launched by the BNP Paribas Foundation in 2010 - is trying to find out.
27. 27 SUBGLACIOR programme and climate change
    Going back in time in the Antarctic thanks to a new core sampling technology.
28. 28 AAA : Access to climate Archives despite Asbestos
    Philanthropy for climate: the AAA research programme, supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation.