Less than two weeks after a new warning from UN climate experts and one month before the presidential election, demonstrations this Saturday call on the candidates for the Elysee Palace to take into account the climate emergency, which is largely absent from the electoral campaign.

According to the organizers, nearly 150 of these marches, called "Look up" in reference to the film "Don't look up", a metaphor for the climate crisis which was a hit on Netflix, must take place across France, supported by more 450 NGOs, associations or other collectives.

Unions and parties have also called for participation.

“Our future is at stake”

“In France in 2022, the greatest threat that humanity has ever known is passed over in silence in the middle of an election period, when our future is at stake. (…) Let’s not let our rights and our future remain hostage to those and those who lead us to disaster.

(…) With their irresponsible passivity, governments tell us that nothing more can be done.

This is false,” the organizers write in a “united appeal.”

"We want to bring an ecology connected to social issues", underlines Elodie Nace, spokesperson for Alternatiba and ANV-COP21, two of the organizing movements.

“The total absence of the climate in the electoral debate seems quite dramatic to us”.

"1.5% of speaking time in the media" between February 28 and March 6

According to a "climate barometer" set up by the NGOs carrying out the "Case of the Century" legal action, which obtained a condemnation from the State for its unfulfilled climate commitments, "climate issues have occupied 1.5% of speaking time in the media”, over the last week studied (February 28 to March 6).

A figure down on the previous week (2.8%).

"While the war in Ukraine has obviously focused media attention and rightly so, it should be noted that this minimal treatment of the climate emergency was already in place before the outbreak of the conflict", underline the organizers of the "Look up".

Several presidential candidates, such as the ecologist Yannick Jadot, or the socialist candidate Anne Hidalgo, are expected in the parades on Saturday.

In Paris, the procession will leave at 2 p.m. from Place de la Nation in the direction of Place de la République.

Another mobilization for the climate is planned between now and the presidential election, on March 25, at the call this time of youth movements within the framework of the “global strikes” initiated by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg.

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