Emmanuel Macron announces the construction of a ship for the polar seas

A ship to help save the poles. Emmanuel Macron announced Friday, November 10, during the closing of a summit on the poles and glaciers in Paris, the construction of a French ship as part of a polar research effort in which France will invest a billion dollars. euros “by 2030”.

Based between Nouméa, in New Caledonia, and Hobart, in Australia, this vessel capable of navigating in the ice which blocks the polar seas and which can reach several meters in thickness, will be shared between the Western Pacific and Antarctica. It will bear the name of former Prime Minister Michel Rocard, who was the first French ambassador for the poles, said Emmanuel Macron.

In front of “the collapse” frozen surfaces of the planet, a challenge “unpublished” And “civilizational” for humanity, Emmanuel Macron pleaded for “an unprecedented level of cooperation” despite the “renewed geopolitical tensions”. The war in Ukraine “comes to weaken cooperation with great geopolitical and scientific powers”, he noted, in an allusion to Russia.