Prepare for economic recovery without detonating carbon emissions. This is what the NGO WWF is claiming when France and the European Union (EU) are thinking about economic proposals in the face of the coronavirus epidemic. The association calls on Monday to take measures for "a revival (...) turned towards ecological transition", which does not worsen the climate crisis.
"The first impacts of this historic crisis are already beginning to be measured on the economy, employment and society and force us to think without waiting for the end of the crisis," the NGO said in a press release.
A resilient exit from the crisis
France has taken measures to cushion the shock of the crisis and a recovery plan is expected within the EU. Finance ministers will meet on April 7 to try to work out common economic proposals.
For WWF, it is necessary to achieve "a sustainable exit from the crisis, resilient to climatic and ecological risks, and which protects citizens from the effects of the triple health-ecological-socioeconomic crisis". The current health crisis is partly linked to "the pressures we exert on nature through our unsustainable consumption and production methods", recalls the NGO.
Conditioned aid
It proposes to condition public aid to large companies and banks to their contribution "to the ecological transition", to transform the agricultural sector, transport and energy, to allow territories to invest for relocation and adaptation to climate change.
Concretely, WWF proposes to reinforce the protein autonomy of France for farm animals, to redirect automobile production towards electricity, to prohibit the airlines which will benefit from a rescue plan from going into debt to increase their fleets or to cut prices to boost air traffic or to speed up the renovation of buildings, providing jobs.
“The question we must ask ourselves today is that of our relationship with nature. Because there is no man in good health on a sick planet ”, notes Isabelle Autissier, president of WWF France.
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