Yannick Jadot, presidential candidate in 2022, and environmental parliamentarians, led by deputy Matthieu Orphelin, plan to submit to the National Assembly, Friday, October 29, a motion for a resolution to phase out fossil fuels at the global level, “one of the main levers to fight against climate change”, which they will wear on the occasion of the COP26, which begins Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland, according to information gathered by franceinfo.
To do this, they invite the government to draw up an international treaty on the non-proliferation of fossil fuels aimed at “prohibit all exploration and new exploitation of oil, gas and coal” abroad. Only coordinated action, which can be spurred on by France, can make it possible to truly initiate the global phase-out of fossil fuels, just as it was possible for the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1968 “, indicate the ecologist deputies in their resolution.
“Fossil fuels must remain in the ground if we are to have any chance of achieving the objectives of the Paris Agreement to limit warming to 1.5 degrees at the end of the century”, added Yannick Jadot, during an online press conference Friday morning. “At the rate we are at, we will reach 1.5 degrees at the end of the decade”, he lamented, believing that “Today is the time to act on energy savings, energy management and the deployment of renewable energies”.
With this resolution, environmentalists also want to encourage the government to force financial players and investors to get out of fossil fuels. “There is no inevitability, we must get out of conformism and complacency vis-à-vis the lobbies that prevent us from having answers to the height of the climate challenge”, continued the MEP.
Yannick Jadot also plans, if he is elected to the presidential election, to end public subsidies for fossil fuels, to create a commission of inquiry at the National Assembly on “the interweaving of potential links between the State and the Total oil group”, to set up a “ISF climate” to encourage investment in responsible financial products and “divest assets that are harmful to the climate”. Finally, they wish to support the most fragile households in the removal of fossils, “in order to overcome the vagaries of fossil fuel prices, in particular through the renovation of housing and assistance in the acquisition of clean vehicles”.