2023-12-25 20:05:49
By Adrien Briand
Published 19 minutes ago, Updated now
Élisabeth Laville SEBASTIEN SORIANO/Le Figaro
PORTRAIT – This board sports enthusiast celebrates the 30th anniversary of Utopies, the first French think-tank and firm specializing in sustainable development.
How far gone are the days when we could still sneer at the ecological worries of young people entering the job market, as if they were birds of doom. Élisabeth Laville knows something about this. At the beginning of the 1990s, during an interview with the number two of the National Center for Forest Property (CNPF), she said she was very inspired by François Lemarchand, the founder of Nature & Découvertes, a pioneer of responsible trade in France. His interlocutor smiles and reproaches him for his naivety. Laville assumes. His consulting firm, which has just been launched, will be called Utopies.
Three decades later, we are less sneering: global CO2 emissions have jumped by more than 60%, climate refugees already number in tens of millions and sea levels are in danger, as predicted by the most alarmist scientists, to increase by 30 centimeters by 2050. She tells us the story in front of a fruit salad and the warm decor of a restaurant…
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