There are those who have just returned from COP26, like Anne Hidalgo who returned on Wednesday evening, after four days in the United Kingdom. And then there are those who are getting ready to go. The delegation of France Insoumise – two MEPs, two national deputies – set off for Scotland on Thursday 4 November. Next week, it will be Yannick Jadot’s turn.
As the calendar is set, both will not meet in Glasgow. Not so much out of desire as because not everyone goes for the same reasons. Anne Hidalgo and Yannick Jadot for example are not there as presidential candidates, but the first as mayor of Paris and the second as MEP. And both are linked by the appointments made on the spot: with the members of the C40 for Anne Hidalgo. The C40 is the organization that brings together the mayors of more than one hundred metropolises committed to the climate. Organization that Anne Hidalgo led between 2016 and 2019. All these mayors – of London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Bogotá among others – were rather at the beginning of the week in Scotland.
Yannick Jadot, who is going there next week, argues the interest of being present when, he says, where begins “the real negotiation. “That which associates the European Parliament, of which it is elected:”As such, he is co-legislator“, boasts his team. Being in Glasgow next week is what will also allow him to have breakfast on Wednesday with the Green Family – the” green family “in good French – which brings together ministers, elected officials, personalities and environmental associations around the world To further structure a high-level international network.
The rebels for their part also plan to put the package on civil society, and to participate in particular in a demonstration organized in Glasgow on Saturday.
Among environmentalists, we insist on the fact that Yannick Jadot began to attend these conferences 15 years ago, during his commitment to Greenpeace. “It’s his DNA, it’s part of his political career, slips one of its supports. He does not go there to parade or take selfies, like in a Cannes festival of ecology“, tackle the same. Barely veiled allusion to Anne Hidalgo, who for her part recalls that she was host of the COP21 in Paris in 2015.”She stepped in the door for cities to be considered and listened to“in these conferences, underlines her entourage. And that, ultimate consecration, she will receive on November 10 a UN price rewarding her climate commitment.