Invited on Saturday from Europe 1, Laurence Tubiana, president of the European Climate Foundation and one of the architects of the Paris agreement, believes that it is now necessary to "accelerate action against global warming".
“There are things that are falling into place, but it's going too slowly,” she said.
INTERVIEW
As the Paris Agreement celebrates its fifth anniversary, can the objectives of this historic text on global warming be achieved?
On Friday, the twenty-seven member countries of the European Union in any case agreed to raise their greenhouse gas reduction target by 2030, by giving the green light to a reduction in emissions from the continent of "at least 55%" by 2030 compared to the 1990 level, against a target of 40% currently.
A breakthrough, according to Laurence Tubiana, president of the European Climate Foundation, who believes "we must accelerate action".
Five years after the signing of the Paris agreement, and despite the resounding exit from the United States decided by Donald Trump, the "agreement has proved to be resilient", notes Laurence Tubiana, according to whom the text "remains the framework of benchmark for international climate action ".
"There are things that are falling into place, but it is going too slowly"
While the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Saturday called on the world to "declare a state of climate emergency", and to redouble efforts against global warming, Laurence Tubiana recognizes that "we must accelerate the action".
Since 2015, "we have not gone far enough", she agrees.
"There are things that are moving, but it is going too slowly," she said again.