He was expected.

The report of the UN climate experts (IPCC), published Monday, 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 ".

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.

COP26 “must be the moment when the world says 'enough is enough!'

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"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.

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 l organization in Glasgow (Scotland) of the COP26 on the climate.

COP26 “must be the moment when the world says enough is enough!

+ ”, Urges the vice-president of the European executive.

Commission proposes measures

The Commission proposed in mid-July 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 kerosene, end of gasoline cars, but also very controversial extension of the carbon market to road transport and residential heating - must now be discussed by Member States and Parliament. European.

"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.

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