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New York was hit overnight Wednesday through Thursday by torrential rains and sudden and historic flooding that left at least 44 people dead in the region after the devastating passage of Storm Ida. In the American economic and cultural megalopolis, the police counted at least 13 dead, including several people probably trapped and drowned in their basements, rudimentary housing, and sometimes unsanitary, arranged at the foot of the buildings of Manhattan, Queens or Brooklyn. Firefighters have rescued hundreds of residents.
They were 10,000 delegates in Hawaii in 2016 at the last World Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2016. Heads of State, political leaders, economic actors, scientists, NGOs… Five years later, what constitutes the largest global forum for decision-making in environmental matters is laying down its suitcases
in Marseille for a new edition, from September 3 to 11.
And if the Covid-19 pandemic will necessarily lower the number of participants, this new World Conservation Congress – the first hosted by France since
creation of the IUCN in Fontainebleau in 1948 – promises to be crucial, in particular because it precedes the
COP15 15 Kunming biodiversity, in China, from October 11, and even
the COP26 on climate change in Glasgow (Scotland), from November 1st. For 20 minutes, Maud Lelièvre, at the head of the French committee of the IUCN, deciphers the stakes.
The striker of the France team Kylian Mbappé, affected in the right calf, withdrew for the end of the rally in September, announced the French Federation (FFF) Thursday. The Paris SG player had felt a “pain” in a calf during France-Bosnia (1-1) Wednesday night in Strasbourg in qualifying for the World-2022. He took exams on Thursday and was made available to his club before the departure of the Blues on Friday for Kiev, where they face Ukraine on Saturday before hosting Finland on Tuesday in Lyon. “He will not be replaced for the trip to Ukraine,” said the FFF.