The Pays-de-la-Loire IPCC is made up of 20 members.

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F. Brenon / 20Minutes

  • The new IPCC of Pays-de-la-Loire met for the first time on Tuesday.

  • It brings together 20 researchers specializing in different disciplines.

  • The regional council will rely on them to adapt its public policies.

Convinced that the response to global warming "also plays out at the level of a region", the Pays-de-la-Loire regional council has decided to set up its own committee of scientific experts.

The Interdisciplinary Group of Experts on Climate Change (IPCC), which is obviously inspired by the famous United Nations IPCC, met for the first time on Tuesday.

Made up of 20 members, it brings together researchers working in specialties as varied as the coast, geology, weather, forest resources, finance and town planning.

Objective: to precisely assess the consequences of global warming, then to issue recommendations.

"They will help elected officials to make the right decisions"

"We are going to bring together experts with different but nonetheless complementary approaches," says Laurent Gérault, vice-president, with satisfaction.

They will give us an inventory, update it as and when.

They will thus help elected officials to make the right decisions to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

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This regional IPCC, which already exists in a similar version in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie, will meet every two months until the production of a report in spring 2021. “Too often the issues are perceived as a source of frustration .

It seems very important to us to be able to offer an account of what it is possible to do, ”comments Virginie Raisson, geopolitical researcher and president of the IPCC.

Without delay, the regional council presented on Tuesday a study on climate change in Pays-de-la-Loire, co-financed by Ademe.

It shows that the average temperature has increased by 1.2 to 1.8 ° C over the last 60 years and is expected to rise another 1.5 ° C by 2050. Sea level has risen by more than 3 cm between 1993 and 2014. The surface area of ​​areas affected by drought has tripled in Pays-de-la-Loire.

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