President Emmanuel Macron asked Thursday to "accelerate the implementation of the commitments of the 2030 horizon" on the climate at the virtual climate summit organized by the United States.
Beginning his speech at the virtual climate summit organized by the United States on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron first "welcomed the announcement of the American contribution", President Joe Biden having unveiled a new American target for reducing polluting emissions almost doubled, during a recorded video declaration.
"It is a historic choice on the path that leads us to Glasgow" (the city which will host the COP 26 climate conference in November), added the Head of State.
"Accelerate"
"A single objective in the coming weeks and months: to accelerate. Accelerate on the implementation of the commitments of the 2030 horizon", he continued, asking "for an action plan that is precise, measurable , verifiable ".
"Basically, 2030 is the new 2050. It is this plan that the European Union put on the table in December, translated into a European climate law with the Green Deal to give it substance. It is therefore up to us now to mobilize all the levers at our disposal, innovation, transformation, regulation ".
"It will be at the heart of European action precisely in the coming months," he added.
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He also called for "a profound transformation of our financial system" and welcomed the fact that the summit he himself launched, the One Planet Summit, "made it possible to bring together sovereign funds, asset managers, private equity, for all to get involved behind this common methodology "of climate-friendly investment measures.
"France will take all its responsibilities in the coming months to go further on the subject of this finance in the service of the climate," he added.
Putting a price on carbon
He finally asked again to "put a price on carbon" by "integrating the environmental dimension into the cost of investments and into our trade relations", an allusion to the carbon tax that the EU wants to put in place at its borders.
He also cited the upcoming summit on May 18 in Paris on the sustainable financing of African economies and called for pushing public development banks to finance carbon neutral projects.
"We must massively raise the ambitions of each to be able to meet the objective of 1.5 degrees, had alerted the Elysee on Wednesday, stressing that the commitments on this date" put us on a rise in temperatures of more than 3 degrees with the risk of going to 5 degrees ".
France is one of the many countries behind on their commitments to reach 1.5 degrees, he admitted, but it has "an extremely strong ambition and is" in the process of accelerating ", especially in energy production offshore wind turbine and housing insulation.