To address climate change and biodiversity loss as paramount issues, France considers innovation one of the key answers. The challenges humanity faces are so huge that disruptive technologies are required.
Daily adjustments in individual behaviors are necessary but no longer sufficient. France launched a massive investment plan two years ago to change how we produce, how we travel, how we consume, and how we feed ourselves. Called “France 2030”, it aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and reverse the biodiversity loss curve. Investing in our future also requires revisiting the way we organize ourselves collectively.
In numerous schools, universities, and companies across France, citizens are trying to better understand the world and refocus on humanism as a core value. In this process, diversity is a key leverage. To imagine a desirable future, we need collective intelligence. To stimulate collective intelligence and achieve breakthroughs, nothing compares with diversity. Climate and biodiversity will ultimately be preserved by promoting human diversity, physical condition, gender, or origin! In 2024, what better example than the Olympic and the Paralympic Games to illustrate France’s commitment to sustainability and diversity?
Paris 2024 made an ambitious commitment: to halve the carbon footprint of the Olympic Games compared to the 2012 and 2016 games, which will offset more than will be emitted. In the great history of Olympism, these Games will also be the first to achieve full parity, with as many women athletes as men. Books are vital in this quest for a renewed humanism of the 21st century, in France and the Indo-Pacific area, in this fight to save our planet. They can nurture, raise awareness, and comfort us when needed. Thank you, TIBE, for choosing this powerful and crucial topic for your 2024 edition!
