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AVEC L’ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES
2015
The press Echoed the Académie’s Advice Notes on Climate or Energy
The year 2015 was marked, for the Académie des Sciences
as well, by significant priority given to the climate and energy
transition, as the COP21 meeting was held in Paris in December.
The Academy's advice note on energy transition, adopted on 6
January 2015, had many echoes in the major press (
Défi, Les
Echos, Le Figaro
, etc.), and so did the proposals of the four French
and German Academies of Sciences and Technology calling for
closer cooperation between their two countries (July 2015). Its
advice note on climate change and the transformation of the energy
system (
Changement climatique et transformation du système
énergétique
,
3 November 2015) and its support to MicroCarb, the
French initiative space mission aimed at continuously measuring
atmospheric CO
2
concentration (8 December 2015) received
media coverage, especially from
AFP
.
Several initiatives were particularly emphasized by the press:
• The advice notes of the Académie
La science, école de citoyenneté
and
L’excellence pour tous
, as well as the twentieth
anniversary of
La main à la pâte
, while work was being conducted by the Conseil supérieur des programmes (CSP) [Senior
Council on Instructional Programmes at the French Minister of National Education ]; a debate on the place of science at
school, which was continued in the Financial Times and on RFI (
Radio France Internationale
), evoking the new approach,
notably in education, of evidence-based public policy, which was the theme of a colloquium (
La décision Publique fondée
sur la Recherche de Preuves
) organized by the Academy in September; AEF focused its attention on the discussions of the
colloquium on scientific training from three years before to three years after A-Levels;
• The advice note
Le financement de la recherche publique, un chantier urgent
(16 June 2015) received very favorable attention
from
AFP, Les Echos, Le Parisien, L’Express
, etc.;
• Pascale Cossart’s election as Secrétaire perpétuel of the 2
nd
division in July 2015, with
several portraits on the radio and the written press on top, in particular in newspapers
from the north of France, of which Pascale Cossart is a native;
• The report of the Académie des sciences
L’évolution de l’ozone atmosphérique -
le point en 2015,
presented by Académie Member Marie-Lise Chanin at a press
breakfast on 16 October 2015, covered by
AFP, L’Opinion, Le Figaro, France inter,
Canal plus,
etc
.;
• The creation of the Conseil National Consultatif pour la Biosécurité (National Advisory
Council for Biosafety), recommended by the Académie and set up on 30 November
2015 (
AFP, AEF, Les Echos, La Tribune, Le Parisien, Le Figaro, Le quotidien du
médecin, Enjeux, Le Point, Usine nouvelle
, etc.).
• The launch, on 2 December 2015, of a book devoted to the Académie,
Une compagnie
en son siècle
, published by the Cherche-Midi publishing house.
A new Partnership with the Press
Prompted by Académie Member Alain-Jacques Valleron, Delegate for Scientific Information and Communications, a partnership between the
Académie des Sciences and the Sunday newspaper
L
’
Humanité Dimanche
was agreed upon in July 2015: a monthly two-page feature would
be written by a member of the Académie on major scientific themes touching on social issues. The first three platforms have been linked,
COP21 oblige, to the theme of climate.
©Francois Daburon
Pascale Cossart
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