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"Biden is 100% good news for the climate", welcomes Brice Lalonde

2021-01-21T18:34:39.503Z


Former Minister of the Environment and cousin of John Kerry, named "Mr. Climate" by Joe Biden, Brice Lalonde welcomes the return of E


Former Minister of the Environment from 1988 to 1992, Brice Lalonde was also French ambassador for international climate negotiations from 2007 to 2011. The cousin of former US Secretary of State John Kerry is now president of the association Balance of energies and at the head of the Water Academy.

Is the election of Joe Biden as head of the United States good news for the climate?

BRICE LALONDE.

This is 100% good news.

This is the first time in the United States that almost all of the people appointed by the new President are environmental activists.

It will be a government fighting on the climate.

I also know some such as Gina McCarthy, now the first national environmental adviser, who was previously administrator of the national environment agency.

And your cousin John Kerry will take care of the international climate action of the United States ...

These are questions he has always been sensitive to.

He also felt that the Paris agreement was insufficient.

He has been to all the UN conferences on climate change and I think he will be the conductor of the American delegation on this issue.

That Joe Biden chose former Obama's foreign minister for this strategic post is striking because he holds deep convictions on this subject.

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And Joe Biden, do you feel he's convinced?

In any case, he keeps talking about it.

You know, he is very religious and there is in the United States among some practitioners a kind of fusion between religious sentiment and the defense of "the work of God", some feeling like "shepherds of the planet".

Beyond that, it is no coincidence that Biden quoted in his inauguration speech President Carter, who was one of the most active American leaders in the field of environmental conservation and who was very concerned about the future of humanity.

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Is this a real turning point after the Donald Trump era?

With Biden, we are taking an extremely important turn because Trump was a real nightmare for conservationists.

He felt that anything that tended to constrain the economy should be swept away.

Suddenly, he saw no harm in going to drill in the Arctic or questioning global warming.

Will the return of the United States to the Paris agreement really change things?

Yes, because the United States is one of the countries in the world which emits the most CO2 per capita and their return will therefore strengthen the Paris Agreement and give enormous impetus to the next UN conference on the climate organized at the end of the year in Scotland.

But the biggest challenge in terms of credibility will be to show that they act at home, in the United States.

And you think that in the countries of big 4x4s, coal and excessive air conditioning, things will change?

Of course they will not change their lifestyle overnight and they have to put effort into the air conditioning and the enormous waste of water.

But if the USA is the country of big 4 x 4s, it is also the country where the 100% electric Tesla was born.

Today, a single American investor does not put his money in the coal-fired power stations that are closing one after the other.

Americans are a people of entrepreneurs and I am convinced that they will deposit to find techniques for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to adapt more quickly to climate change and to find chemical solutions to treat the CO2 problem.

Some companies are already working on techniques for pumping and reusing carbon dioxide.

Many cities and states like California are relying heavily on renewable energy.

There was even a movement of mobilization, the day after Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris agreement, dubbed “we are still in”.

Thousands of mayors, governors and heads of American companies wanted to signify that they were still mobilized for the climate.

Source: leparis

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