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The Launch
Four days before the opening of the Farnborough Motor Show in England, Airbus officially inaugurated its Cseries program on Tuesday, July 10, which it took control of the Canadian Bombardier. His new name will be unveiled. US rival Boeing and Brazil's Embraer fought back on Thursday (July 5th) with the signing of a memorandum of understanding to create a joint venture, which the US aircraft manufacturer will hold 80%.
The Network
For its third edition, the Fab City Summit is being held in Paris from July 11 to 13. An initiative of the international network Fab City, which coordinates the actions of 18 cities around the world engaged in the promotion and development of an urban model based on local, circular and digital manufacturing and production. For the first time, the Fab City Summit is part of the annual Fab Labs International Meeting (FAB14 +).
The thorn in the foot
Wednesday, July 11, the Committee on Planning and Sustainable Development of the Senate organizes a round table on the management and storage of radioactive waste. The next day, Andra, the national radioactive waste management agency, will present the national waste inventory, updated every three years.
The report
Thursday, July 12, the Breton Senator Dominique De Legge (The Republicans) will present its budget control report on the availability of helicopters from the Ministry of the Armed Forces. Last December, Minister Florence Parly announced a reform of the operational maintenance (MCO) of aeronautical equipment, aimed in particular at alleviating the insufficient availability of aircraft. Currently, only one helicopter out of three is now able to take off … despite an increase of more than 56% of the credits devoted to the helicopter's MCO between 2009 and 2017.
Reunion
Wednesday, July 11, the social partners meet again. An unprecedented meeting of employers 'and workers' memories, among the eight issues of the representative organizations, at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council. An opportunity to get to know the newcomers, the day after the election of Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux to the presidency of Medef and the arrival of Pascal Pavageau at the head of Force Ouvrière. But also the opportunity, for the social partners, to regain control of the agenda of their meetings, without waiting to be convened by the state … The response of the Elysee has also not delayed: Emmanuel Macron will receive union and employer leaders on Tuesday, July 17, to discuss "social transformation" measures to be announced in September.
The drama
While NGOs filed an appeal against the prefectural decree authorizing the exploitation of the Total de la Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône), and that agricultural unions accuse the proportion of palm oil in French gasoline to have increased significantly in 2017, a draft national strategy against imported deforestation will be presented to the members of the National Council for the ecological transition Thursday, July 12. In parallel, the government is launching a public consultation from Tuesday 3 to Tuesday 24 July. Objective, to stop the import of forest or agricultural products contributing to deforestation, and to support sustainable palm oil supply by 2020.
The commitment
Enterprises for the environment (EPE) will launch Tuesday, July 10 in the presence of Nicolas Hulot Act4nature, an initiative to better respect biodiversity in economic development. This will be the central theme of COP 26 in Beijing. This will be an opportunity to present the commitments common to 65 companies. But two years will not be too much for some industrialists to turn the tide.
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