He responds to criticism. Emmanuel Macron claims in a video Tuesday evening that the climate and biodiversity crisis has been “faster than expected”, in response to those who had criticized his wishes of December 31 during which he wondered “who could have predicted” this crisis, yet widely described by climatologists.
“There is a part of these wishes where I was misunderstood (…) They wanted me to say that, basically, I would never have read any IPCC report. What did I just mean? It is that basically it was even faster than expected, ”said the President of the Republic in this sequence broadcast on social networks.
“It’s not very credible as an attack”, “we’ve been acting for years”, pleaded the head of state, who nevertheless ensures “hearing criticism, always”, and says to share “the pressure to Do more “.
An ecological planning council before the end of January
“Who could have predicted the wave of inflation thus triggered (by the war in Ukraine)? Or the climate crisis with spectacular effects again this summer in our country? “, had declared Emmanuel Macron during his televised wishes of December 31, attracting the wrath of experts, NGOs as well as opposition.
Emmanuel Macron seemed “far from history when he told us, for example, that no one could predict the climate crisis. Scientists have been saying this for decades, IPCC report after IPCC report,” reacted the national secretary of the environmental party EELV, Marine Tondelier.
The Head of State also announced on Tuesday that he would hold “before the end of January (…) an ecological planning council”, in order to “take stock of what we must do in the coming years and decades. »