Free, and accessible to all, the Climate and Biodiversity Tour, launched by the Climate and Weather association, offers the opportunity to discover the contents of its exhibition virtually, at your own pace, from home.
Thanks to arrows and clickable buttons on the screen, the visitor can navigate through the different spaces, which have been entirely captured by a specialized agency. He can choose to evolve independently or be guided by scientists, who intervene in video capsules.
The exhibition opens with a first series of modules brought together in a blue space. This is made up of several panels on which diagrams and texts – to be read or listened to in voice version, provide information on the mechanisms of the climate and the evolution of biodiversity with climate. The opportunity to review the fundamentals: the difference between weather and climate, the composition of the Earth or even the relationships of interdependence between species and environments.
Understanding the interactions between climate and biodiversity
Through the example of several species, the visitor also discovers how living beings face environmental changes (natural or human-induced). We thus learn that, to cross the Himalayas, the bar-headed goose has adapted over time and developed “more vascularized muscles and larger lungs” which allows it to fly between 8,500 and 10,000 meters of altitude and to resist the lack of oxygen.
The exhibition continues in a second space, identifiable on a map by its red color. The aim here is to better understand the “role of humans in current and future developments, and their consequences in the world and in France”. Several climate scenarios are presented.
For example, a graph makes it possible to visualize the effects of increasing temperatures on French forests over the coming decades, through a “high risk” scenario. We therefore discover that in 2100, “the southern forests could move towards the north and towards the east, and the mountainous and continental ones will have declined significantly”.
Downloadable in PDF, this information makes it possible to become aware of the determining role of human activities on theclimate changeand the transformation of the territory.
Keys to action
Just as telling, another diagram shows the evolution of temperatures from 1900 to 2020, and projects those that we could experience in 2100, using different scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions, ranging from the most “restrained” to the “highest risk” scenario.
Finally, a final part, in orange, addresses the solutions to be implemented to limit the scope of these changes, both on a collective and individual scale. A balance carbone allows you to measure your carbon footprint and identify the emission areas on which to act as a priority.
Both fun and educational, this course, which lasts between 1 hour and 2 hours, ends with the “solutions tree”. Visitors are invited to hang their proposals on its branches to fight against climate change and the erosion of biodiversity. A way to nourish thoughts and encourage action.
While 20,500 people have already visited the exhibition in 15 different cities since its launch in 2023, the tour intends to continue its journey to other cities. Several dates are coming in early 2025.
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