The independent body also urges the country to regain internationally climate leadership and requires “operationalization” of ministries’ action plans.
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Faced with “huge challenges” related to the climate crisis, France must “accelerate” its actions “without waiting”, and make its climate plans “operational”. This is the new Call of the High Consultant for the Climate (HCC), Thursday, December 16, one month after the e World Climate Conference (COP26). The independent body, composed of thirteen experts, has self-planned to make recommendations on the implications for France decisions taken at this international summit held in Glasgow (Scotland) from October 31 to November 13. / p>
The COP26, which represented a major milestone in international climate negotiations, gave rise to “notable progress”, notes the HCC in its opinion. Many countries have adopted more ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, they have committed themselves to again upwards next year and more than 130 states have announced a target of carbon neutrality. The COP also made it possible to finalize the rules of application of the Paris Agreement, adopted in 2015. From now on, this treaty is “fully operating and has established itself as a frame of reference for international climate negotiations”, Welcomes Laurence Tubiana, one of the members of the HCC, also Director of the European Climate Foundation.
On the margins of the official process, 33 coalitions of countries, companies or institutions have also been launched to reduce methane emissions, fight against deforestation or reduce the extraction of fossil energies – including 18 joins by France.
Nevertheless, “These new commitments will not limit the climate warming to 1.5 ° C in relation to the pre-industrial era”, the most ambitious objective of the Paris Agreement, warns Corinne the Quré , climatologist at the British University of East Anglia and President of HCC. “The carbon neutrality scenarios of many states are very fragile and not credible because they repel the bulk of the effort after 2030 while the current decade must be that of action,” she says. The financing mobilized by developed countries to help developing countries have also not been up to the stakes.
The goal of reducing France’s emissions, currently – 40% by 2030 compared to 1990, “is no longer at the height of the issues,” says Corinne the quer. France will have to meet this objective in the context of a negotiation in the European Union. The EU has indeed endowed in December 2020 of a new objective of – 55% by 2030 compared to 1990. “The distribution of the effort between Member States remains to be defined and should be debated Under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2022 “, indicates the HCC, which does not make a new objective recommendation for France. The High Council calls on the government to decline future commitments in all issuing sectors, including internationally aviation and maritime transport – which are currently not covered by the French objectives.
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