In this episode of La Loupe, Xavier Yvon analyzes the new security threats linked to global warming, and the necessary adaptation of the armies, with Cécile Maisonneuve, president of the DECYSIVE cabinet, advisor to the Institut Montaigne and columnist at L’Express.
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The team: Xavier Yvon (presentation), Mathias Penguilly (writing), Marion Galard (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Credits: Europe 1, France Inter, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Marianne, The Sun
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Picture credits: The Express
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Xavier Yvon: Imagine the scene. On this day in June 2022, it is over 35 degrees in Madrid. In a gigantic air-conditioned convention center, dozens of world leaders are gathered. There we find pell-mell, Emmanuel Macron, US President Joe Biden, his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and many others.
This meeting brings together some thirty allied countries within NATO. We are four months after the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The war is of course in all discussions. But when the organisation’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, takes the rostrum, he insists on another equally dangerous threat to its member countries:
Jens Stoltenberg : “Along with a more dangerous and complex set of threats from terrorism, to disruptive technologies and climate change.”
Xavier Yvon : “Climate change”, in the long-term reflection of NATO, it takes on as much importance as the return of war to the gates of Europe, because global warming will destabilize certain regions of the world and our armies will have to learn to fight in increasingly extreme conditions. Are we sufficiently prepared for these new threats? That’s the question we’re looking at today.
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