In its annual report published Thursday, the organization responsible for assessing the climate policies of France points to a trajectory that skids and a glaring lack of governance at the top of the state.
“Relaunching climate action in the face of the worsening of impacts and the weakening of management” : The annual report of the High Consulting for the Climate (HCC) published Thursday falls stepped. At a time when France has just undergone an exceptional heat wave, the organization responsible for assessing the climate policies of France notes that the news recalls how urgent it is to act. “This type of heat wave illustrates that can be touched in certain cases to adaptation limits”, estimated at a press conference the president of the HCC, Jean-François Soussana, also director of research at INRAE. He notably cited the need to renovate schools unsuitable for heat waves to prevent them from being “Thermal kettles ”.
The report of the High Council for the Climate first draws up the assessment of the year 2024, the warmest ever measured in the world (+1.52 ° C compared to the pre-industrial reference period, 1850-1900). In France where this warming …