• Asked by a listener about the IPCC report, Marine Le Pen gave her vision of the solutions to achieve carbon neutrality.

  • The efforts to be made to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 would be “in reality less than what was observed in 2020 due to the pandemic”, tells us Citepa, the official body responsible for measuring air pollution.

  • "We need a transformation, not a shutdown of a majority of the economy," explains Anne Bringault, program coordinator at the Climate Action Network.

What does Marine Le Pen propose to fight against climate change?

Not to follow the recommendations of the Giec, according to France Inter on Tuesday April 5.

The day before, the UN experts' report on climate explained the need to change the paradigm, because "humanity has less than three years to reverse the curve of greenhouse gas emissions".

Questioned by a listener, the candidate of the National Rally gave her vision of the solutions.

To respect “the objective of carbon neutrality in 2030, she said, we would have to be in the situation of the year when we were totally in confinement because of the Covid, i.e. the stoppage of a majority part of the 'economy.

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If Marine Le Pen says she agrees “with the strategy which consists in lowering carbon emissions”, she indicates that she does not have “the same means as the IPCC.

She prefers to choose the path of nuclear and hydrogen to decarbonize "totally our energy".

It also wants to renovate the thermal strainer housings and electrify the heating as much as possible.

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Contrary to what Marine Le Pen indicates, the objective set to limit global warming to 1.5°C is to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050 and not in 2030. In 2030, France will have to have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 40% compared to 1990. The trajectory of carbon neutrality by 2050 is included in the Paris agreement and was translated in France into the Energy and Climate law, in 2019 .

In 2020, with confinements, France reduced its emissions by 9% in one year, tells us Citepa, the official body responsible for measuring air pollution.

Forty million tons of CO2 equivalent (Mt CO2e) were thus avoided, and France emitted that year, in total, 396 Mt CO2.

To achieve carbon neutrality in 2050, it would be necessary "to emit 'only' 80 Mt CO2e, the carbon sinks making it possible to capture an equivalent quantity", continues Citepa.

If we carried out a continuous reduction from 2021, “the effort to be made each year would actually be less than what was observed in 2020 due to the pandemic: by 2050 it would be around -10 million tonnes CO2e per year, i.e. – 2.7% per year”, explains the organization.

Much less than the 40 million tonnes of CO2e saved in 2020 therefore.

"We need a transformation, not a shutdown of the economy"

And above all, the method envisaged by the IPCC to achieve this is not that of spring 2020. "We need a transformation, not a shutdown of a majority of the economy", explains Anne Bringault, program coordinator at the Action Network climate, for which the situations are not comparable.

“We are really in a different situation from the Covid, she continues, since we would not be on confinement, but on global transformations.

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She mentions the solutions proposed by the IPCC: more sobriety, electricity produced from renewable energies, cleaner mobility with electric vehicles, public transport, investments in rail, a reduction in the consumption of animal products.

Marine Le Pen, who is proposing a moratorium on wind and solar energy in her program, “tries to scare people, believes Anne Bringault, but, above all, she shows her total ignorance of the subject because there are solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions rapidly.

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