Even if the creation of a “loss and damage” fund is a step forward, COP27 did not give new impetus to the fight against global warming. A few hours after the announcement of the agreement obtained in Sharm el-Sheikh, Emmanuel Macron therefore tried to regain the initiative.
On November 20, Emmanuel Macron announced in a tweet the holding of a summit in Paris before the next COP, scheduled for Dubai at the end of 2023, promising to work with European partners ” to a new financial pact with the most vulnerable countries “. A few hours earlier, on the sidelines of the Francophonie summit in Djerba, when the creation of a loss and damage fund had been recorded, Emmanuel Macron had estimated that the idea of a single fund was ” insufficient » and that we had to find a better answer « technical to help the most vulnerable countries deal with climate change. It is therefore in this sense that this initiative is inscribed.
At COP27, France and Europe reaffirmed their commitment to the climate. We need a new financial pact with the most vulnerable countries. I will work on it with our partners with a view to a summit in Paris before the next COP.
—Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) November 20, 2022
For the French president, the priority remains the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. A question that he also intends to address and on which the COP did not allow any progress.
The fight against climate change is a political priority displayed in the second term of President Macron, on which he is eagerly awaited on the international scene, but also nationally. He hopes to succeed in having the Parliament adopt important texts on renewable energies and nuclear power.
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