How to force leaders to do more about the climate?

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"Climate change is taking place now (...) It is progressing even faster than what the world's best scientists predicted," warned the UN Secretary General on June 30 in Abu Dhabi.

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By: Romain Auzouy

30 mins

Environment: when will world leaders become aware?

Joe Biden promises to "double" the international financial effort of the United States against climate change.

The American president spoke, this Tuesday, September 21, 2021, for the first time before the UN General Assembly, the day after a summit of leaders on the subject, and six weeks before the COP26 in Glasgow presented as decisive.

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"The world is on the catastrophic path of 2.7 ° C", warned the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, referring to the 2015 Paris Agreement which called for limiting global warming to less than 2 ° C at above the pre-industrial level.

The increasingly alarmist reports follow one another, the promises multiply but the situation does not seem to evolve.

What are the priorities ?

How to force leaders to do more about the climate?

To discuss it:

Sébastien Treyer,

Director General of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations

IDDRi

Pierre Cannet

, director of the

WWF

advocate

Samuel Leré

, advocacy manager at the

Nicolas Hulot foundation

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