Paris (AFP)
Left and environmentalists called on Monday to act radically against climate change after the worrying new report by UN climate experts (IPCC).
EELV national secretary Julien Bayou stressed that "every tenth of a degree counts" in an attempt to slow down climate change, noting in passing that "a government which does not act for carbon neutrality is disqualified".
"We should no longer influence decision-makers but replace them," he concluded.
"The inaction of governments has become criminal. Let us mobilize, bring together, act!", Urged the European deputy EELV Yannick Jadot, candidate for the ecological primary for the presidential election of 2022.
For one of his competitors in the primary of the Greens, the mayor of Grenoble Eric Piolle, "the challenge is to achieve as quickly as possible the neutrality of our greenhouse gas emissions. And that's good, we can choose our direction, "he said positively, judging" urgent that environmentalists exercise power ".
"Enough wasted time! Planning for change and total ecological bifurcation are the only keys to a common future", for his part urged LFI leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
For PS boss Olivier Faure, this report is "as clear as it is worrying".
"Confidence in science is also to hear its alerts", he added, while the deputy and spokesman of the PS Boris Vallaud castigated "ever more irresponsible inactions".
The ecologist Matthieu Orphelin criticized the political leaders who for thirty years "ignore and insult science, while shedding crocodile tears with each new report".
We need "a radical change of model", pleaded the deputy environmentalist at the mayor of Paris David Belliard.
On the right, the boss of deputies LR Damien Abad, defended "a positive ecology, which brings together and which believes in science".
"Global warming is accelerating, political actions must accelerate," he added.
For the Minister for the Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, "the world has only one possible choice: to accelerate the exit from fossil civilization. The COP26 (climate conference in November in the United Kingdom) offers us this opportunity", she estimated.
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