At the podium of the COP27, in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech on Monday, November 7, which was intended to be very mobilizing in favor of the fight against global warming. The French president called for maintaining the objectives, not to make the climate “ an adjustment variable of the war in Ukraine, and pleaded for rich countries to fulfill their financial commitments.
” The climate emergency is not for tomorrow “, said Emmanuel Macron to show that it remains the priority of priorities. ” We will not sacrifice our climate commitments under the energy threat from Russia. »
At the podium of the COP, the French president wanted to have a proactive speech, in particular by addressing the issue of climate justice
We must go to the end of financial solidarity. We are at 82 billion committed, we must in the next few months go to 100 billion, help convince the last rich countries which have not made all their commitments, but above all we must spend much more quickly and find mechanisms so that this money reaches the deep south.
The only solution so that the trust between countries of the North and the South is not broken, to hear Emmanuel Macron who wants to go further: “ We need a big shock of concessional financing. And it is at the heart of the debate that many have rightly put on the table, that of loss and damage. »
Emmanuel Macron wants to move forward on the issue of innovative climate financing. A way of recognizing that for the climate too, money is the sinews of war.
We must therefore urgently recognize a special status for these ecosystems and offer the States that shelter them political and financial contracts to help them preserve them. This is why we launched this morning, with several States present here – Colombia, Gabon, Rwanda, several representatives of indigenous peoples, the Philippines… with China, the United States and the Europeans – a initiative, to sort of set up these positive preservation programs.
Emmanuel Macron announces an initiative for ecosystems
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