The climate crisis has been "faster than expected", says Emmanuel Macron in a video in response to criticism of his wishes on December 31.
He then asked himself, facing the camera, “who could have predicted the wave of inflation thus triggered (by the war in Ukraine)?
Or the climate crisis with spectacular effects again this summer in our country?
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An exit that had angered many experts, NGOs and the opposition.
"Scientists have been saying it for decades, IPCC report after IPCC report", reacted in particular the national secretary of the environmental party EELV, Marine Tondelier.
“I was misunderstood”, assures Emmanuel Macron in the sequence broadcast on social networks.
“They wanted me to say that, basically, I would never have read any report from the IPCC, the IPBES, from all the experts and that I was discovering the year 2022 of climate change.
So I have a lot of humility, but we've been acting for years, ”he continues.
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The Head of State also announced on Tuesday that he would hold “before the end of January (…) an ecological planning council”, in order to “take stock of what we must do in the coming years and decades.