At COP27, Emmanuel Macron asks the United States and China to pay their dues

He is in student “exemplary” of the fight against climate change that French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on Monday 7 November at COP27 in Egypt, before chaining meetings to show his environmental primacy, in front of activists already disappointed by this five-year start.

As the debate on financial aid to countries most vulnerable to COP27 grows, “Europeans pay” more “We are the only ones to pay” : “We have to put pressure on the rich countries outside Europe, tell them ‘you have to pay your share'” he said during an exchange in Sharm el-Sheikh with African and French youth committed to the climate.

Climate: it is not too late to act

“We must have the United States and China that are really there”in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and financial solidarity, he added.

“Get out of coal very quickly”

According to him, France and Europe are on the right trajectory in terms of reducing emissions. But the big emerging countries have to “get out of coal very quickly”he also stated.

The Head of State must defend financial solidarity with the poorest countries exposed to the devastating effects of global warming, but playing the “Concrete solutions”like the Great Green Wall in the Sahel, rather than the creation of a new fund required by many of them.

Climate: what to answer to those who say that lowering CO2 emissions in France is useless?

His intervention on the international stage will be followed, on Tuesday in Paris, by practical work on a national scale: a meeting at the Elysée with the industrialists who emit the most French greenhouse gases to encourage them to accelerate their “Decarbonization”.

At the same time, Emmanuel Macron undertook, in a video on Twitter, to personally answer the French’s questions this week about “The ecological challenge”:

First results proposed by the Elysée

After a first conflicting mandate on environmental matters, he promised in April, between the two rounds of the presidential elections, to go a step further. The second five-year “will it be ecological or it won’t be”, had launched in Marseille, in the south of France. This priority took the form of a goal, to go “twice as fast” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Valérie Masson-Delmotte, climate clock

The Elysée puts forward the first results and a series of announcements to show that the shares are at the appointment of the promises: to vote in the Senate the bill on renewable energy – even if its adoption by the National Assembly has not been acquired -, presentation of a text to accelerate the nuclear program, objectives of two million electric cars built in France and one billion trees planted in France by 2030, etc.

The sobriety plan, necessitated by the war in Ukraine, is already making it possible“Save 10% of our energy”a trend that will need “last all winter”it also welcomes a presidential adviser.

Not up to par, however, to respond in unison to opponents on the left and defenders of the environment.

Criticized by environmentalists

Last week, a decision thus illustrated, in the eyes of the left, the lack of real will on the part of the executive, when it put aside the amendments still adopted by the National Assembly to increase aid for the thermal renovation of housing.

“The government had a great opportunity to help the working classes” Clément Sénéchal of the Greenpeace association regrets this challenge.

These criticisms come at a time when Emmanuel Macron, who is opposed to all ecology “Punitive” or “degrowth”it is facing an increase in radical action.

If the accusation of“Ecoterrorism” carried out by its Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin after the incidents are not unanimous in the majority, the executive hopes to take this opportunity to demonstrate the balance of its policy.