The report of the UN climate experts (IPCC), published Monday, August 9, testifies to "
the extreme urgency to act now
", reacted the vice-president of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, estimating that ' it "
was not too late
" to "
prevent an uncontrollable disorder
".
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This first assessment report for seven years, adopted Friday by 195 countries, affirms that humanity is "
indisputably
" responsible for climate change and has no other choice but to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, if it wants to limit the damage.
"
It is not too late to stem the trend and prevent an uncontrollable disruption of climate change, provided we act resolutely now and all together,
" insisted on Twitter Frans Timmermans, in charge of the European Green Deal.
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030
This report, which asserts that the planet should reach the threshold of + 1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era around 2030 (ten years earlier than previously estimated), is published just a few months from the organization in Glasgow (Scotland) of the COP26 on climate.
COP26 “
must be the time when the world says 'enough is enough!'
», Urges the vice-president of the European executive.
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In mid-July, the Commission proposed a vast arsenal of measures intended to cut European greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030 compared to 1990. This sprawling plan - which combines a carbon tax at borders, taxation of the kerosene, the end of petrol cars, but also the controversial extension of the carbon market to road transport and residential heating - must now be discussed by Member States and the European Parliament.
"
But this is a global crisis: maintaining global warming at +1.5 degrees requires carbon neutrality on a global scale, and a much faster deployment of policies to achieve it,
" insisted Frans Timmermans.
