In the spotlight: the climate alert at COP26 in Glasgow
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Heavy rains hit Glasgow as it prepares for COP26 Andy Buchanan AFP
By: Norbert Navarro
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It is indeed in the main city of Scotland that the world climate conference opens today. It is "
the COP of the last chance,
launches
Le Parisien Dimanche
.
The one which must finally, because there is no more time to procrastinate, put actions in front of the promises
”. BVA survey for the European Investment Bank in support, this newspaper indicates that 83% of French people think that "
climate change and its consequences are the greatest challenges facing humanity
".
Exactly. The COP26 is the opportunity in France for several figures of ecology, including the candidate of Europe Ecology-The Greens in the next presidential election Yannick Jadot, to launch, via a forum published by
Le Journal du Dimanche
, a call for "
a treaty on the non-proliferation of fossil fuels
". The signatories invite France to "
show the example
", denouncing in particular what they call "
the complacency with regard to lobbies riveted to their short-term interests
".
Exactly.
The COP26 is also an opportunity for the Apple company to communicate on its ecological virtues.
In
The JDD
, the vice-president of this American IT group ensures that Apple has "
reduced its emissions (pollutants) by 40% over the past five years
".
The France of the great warming
"
The energy is blazing and we are looking elsewhere,
" laments
Le Point
.
"
Because the fivefold increase in gas prices and the tripling of electricity prices on the wholesale markets in less than a year (...) threatens to break the recovery (with a) major social risk, reviving the specter of Yellow vests
”, and“
pushes to put mines and coal-fired power plants back into service
”.
This surge in energy prices results in particular "
from the rise in demography and urbanization
", but also "
from the emergence of the South
", explains
Le Point
. "
Far from being an exception, energy shocks are therefore expected to multiply,
" warns this weekly.
Climate alert, therefore, because, as assured by the weekly
L'Obs
, in France, "
one inhabitant in four now lives in a flood-prone area
"!
And this weekly to draw up an inventory of “
the France of the great warming
”, he formulates, and his readers will appreciate here the obvious allusive diversion of the so-called “
great replacement
”
thesis
dear to the still not a candidate for the next presidential election Éric Zemmour.
Zemmour, the target
Exactly. Once again, the troublemaker of the pre-election campaign in France is in the news this week, on the occasion of the release of a book-survey. Entitled
Le Radicalisé
, this portrait signed Etienne Girard (Seuil) earned Éric Zemmour the front page of
L'Express
(it being nevertheless specified that the author of this book exercises, in this weekly, the profession of journalist). Portrait of Eric Zemmour who sees himself treated as a "
not funny clown
", "
poison of the Republic
" and who embodies, according to
L'Express
, "
the sum of all hatred
".
Why such virulence in the load?
Because poll after poll, opinion polls indicate that "
its soaring poll is not a bubble,
" admits
L'Express
.
Weekly according to which "to
say who Zemmour is is also to avoid saying one day:" We did not see him coming "
".
Mexican stalemate at Les Républicains
At Les Républicains, a little over a month before the primary election for the nomination of the candidate of this right-wing party in the next French presidential election, it is always Xavier Bertrand who is leading the race. According to an Ifop poll for
Le Journal du Dimanche
, 39% of French people and 72% of Republican supporters “
say they are ready to vote for the president of the Hauts-de-France region in 2022 if he is the candidate chosen by the members. LR during their congress on December 4
”. Xavier Bertrand is ahead of the president of the Ile-de-France region Valérie Pécresse (31% of French people say they are ready to vote for her and 64% of LR supporters) and former European commissioner Michel Barnier (29% and 59%) .
The JDD
however underlines "
that the scores of Xavier Bertrand and Valérie Pécresse are down, respectively 3 and 5 points for all French people "since last September
".
It should also be noted that, in view of this primary election, the sarkozyste Brice Hortefeux, also in
Le JDD
, brings his “
full support
” to Valérie Pécresse
this morning
.
And when we point out to this former Minister of the Interior that Xavier Bertrand is leading the way, he recalls that at the end of 1994, “
Jacques Chirac was credited with 12% of voting intentions and Edouard Balladur by 29%.
This should encourage caution,
”said Brice Hortefeux to the
Journal du Dimanche
.
For him, therefore, it's her ...
Brice Hortefeux at the
JDD
on the Les Républicains congress: "
I give my full support to Valérie Pécresse
"
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