This two-hour meeting, ten days after his re-election, is part of a campaign where he pledged to make ecological planning a pillar of his action.
His next Prime Minister, whom he is in the process of choosing, should be directly responsible for this.
This ecological planning - a concept he took over from his rival Jean-Luc Mélenchon - aims to "accelerate our collective efforts to fight against climate change", insists the Elysée.
The HCC has repeatedly ruled that France was not on the right track to meet its commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
"It is important that our community, with its different sensibilities, bears witness to the urgency. Emmanuel Macron has made a lot of promises, we must now see how we go from these promises to concrete things", declared Jean Jouzel at the end of the meeting.
"The next five years in terms of respecting the commitments will be essential. It is far from over and it is not easy. It is good that the scientific community is involved in the decisions", he added .
Emmanuel Macron said during the campaign that he wanted to go "twice as fast" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, compared to his first five-year term.
French paleoclimatologist Jean Jouzel at the end of a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and climate experts at the Elysée Palace in Paris, May 4, 2022 STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN AFP
This meeting came on the day the government defended its climate record, in response to the Council of State which urged it in July 2021 to take additional measures within nine months to meet its commitments in the Agreement. from Paris.
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