Emmanuel Macron urges not to make “small decisions” and to do “the maximum” two days before the end of the COP 15 in Montreal.
Two days before the end of the COP 15 on biodiversity, Emmanuel Macron published an appeal on Twitter this Saturday evening, saying that we “must do everything we can to protect our biodiversity”.
“My message to our partners is: let’s not make small decisions, let’s do the maximum! Let’s reach the most ambitious agreement together. The world needs them,” he wrote on the social network.
Before we continue: “We have protected 30% of the land and oceans in France. 33% of our territory already enjoys protected status and we have created the second largest marine protected area on the planet. Let’s make it global.”
France doubles its aid
“The most vulnerable countries harbor treasures of biological diversity. We must increase our funds to support them, give everything! France will double its aid, up to 1 billion euros a year. COP 15 Actors: Join Our Side! ‘ the head of state announced.
There was an air of optimism at COP 15 on Biodiversity this Saturday, where a compromise agreement seemed to be taking shape, although the financial issue remained unresolved.
“I am very confident that we will be able to maintain our ambitions and reach an agreement,” Chinese Environment Minister Huang Runqiu, president of COP15, told reporters on Saturday.
The goal of this COP on biodiversity remains to seal, by December 19, a deal on biodiversity as historic as that of Paris for climate in 2015. In the absence of leaders at this summit of the decade, which is of vital importance to humanity and the planet, environment ministers have been working hard for the third and final day in a row.
Clément Boutin Journalist BFMTV