Emmanuel Macron spoke on Monday at the COP27 podium in Egypt.
"Even if our world is no longer the same", the climate objectives identified at COP26 in Glasgow "remain valid", declared the French president to the leaders and political leaders present in Sharm el-Sheikh.
"The climate should not be the adjustment variable of the war launched by Russia on Ukrainian soil," he said.
The Head of State recalled the need to put in place "energy sobriety" and indicated that the strategy to be followed should go through "the accelerated development of renewable energies", "the acceleration of nuclear power" and the abandonment of the use of coal.
On this last point, “we must help emerging countries to do so as quickly as possible,” he added, announcing that France was going to invest one billion euros to help South Africa get out of coal.
“We want to intensify that.
This is what we will do with Indonesia, India, Senegal,” he added.
"France meets its commitments"
Emmanuel Macron also pleaded for a “ban on any exploitation of the deep seabed”.
"The oceans must be what space was, basically, a few years ago: it's a new frontier for cooperation and multilateralism," he said at the COP27 podium. .
France, "meeting its commitments", "supports the prohibition of any exploitation of the deep seabed", he added.
“I assume this position, and will take it to international forums.
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In June, the French head of state had already defended, during the United Nations conference for the oceans, the development of a "legal framework to put a stop to the mining of funds in high sea and not allow new activities that would endanger ocean ecosystems”.
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French deputies of all persuasions and associations demanded at the end of October that France reflect this desire by committing to a moratorium of at least ten years on the mining of the seabed.
The elected environmentalist Nicolas Thierry tabled Monday in the National Assembly a resolution to this effect co-signed by 168 deputies.
They are calling for such a moratorium within the International Seabed Authority (AIFM), which meets until November 11 in Jamaica.
A “positive preservation program”
The French president also promised the establishment of a "positive preservation program" to protect "critical ecosystems - ancient forests, peat bogs, mangroves or wetlands".
"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," he said, adding that Gabon, Colombia and the Philippines had “joined” this approach during a meeting at COP27.
Emmanuel Macron also mentioned the establishment of a "group of high-level wise men" who will have to think about "innovative financing" intended for poor or "middle-income" countries affected by a climate shock.
"We have asked the IMF, the World Bank and the OECD to offer us very concrete solutions to activate these innovative financial mechanisms", indicated the Head of State, specifying that proposals were expected next spring.