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The President of the Republic spoke on Monday, December 7 at the Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) climate summit.
Staying the course on climate commitments, despite the war in Ukraine. This is the message hammered out, Monday, November 7, by Emmanuel Macron in Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt) during his speech at COP27. “We will not sacrifice our climate commitments under the energy threat from Russia”, he launched. The President of the Republic participates in the annual gathering of the international community to fight against global warming caused by human activities.
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On the energy side, he called once again to get out of coal, the fossil fuel that emits the most greenhouse gases, ahead of oil and gas. The strategy to follow is “energy sobriety, the accelerated development of renewables and (…) the acceleration of nuclear power”and the “change in our means of moving, of producing…”continued Emmanuel Macron.
The President of the Republic also insisted on the links between the climate crisis and the erosion of biodiversity, “two twin fights”. The term “biodiversity” includes all animal and plant species and ecosystems. They are victims of human activities and their destruction has accelerated in recent years. “Nature is our best ally to achieve the targets of the Paris Agreement”, he said, recalling that the destruction of certain ecosystems, such as peat bogs or mangroves, risked releasing enormous quantities of greenhouse gases. He proposed a mechanism to help countries that harbor these ecosystems to protect them.
Emmanuel Macron finally spoke on the issue of loss and damage, a sensitive subject. Thus, the least developed countries bear the brunt of the effects of global warming caused by the lifestyle of developed countries. The former claim damages from the latter, without success so far. The French president considered it a “fair debate” and sent back to a “group of high-level sages” care to offer “innovative financing” about this question.