France Is "Not Ready" to Face the "Dangerous" Consequences of Climate Change
The council said heatwaves could rise fivefold by 2050 and urged faster emissions cuts and stronger adaptation funding.
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Paris, 9 Jul (EFE).- The High Climate Council (HCC) warned this Thursday that France is not prepared to address the growing impacts of climate change and urged the Government to accelerate adaptation and emission reduction policies urgently. In its annual report, published today, the independent body considered the current measures to achieve carbon neutrality insufficient by 2050 and alerts to a gap between adaptation needs and resources destin…
French climate policies remain "insufficient", both on decarbonisation and adaptation, alerts the High Council for Climate (HCC) on Thursday 9 July, which considers "urgent" to "change scale"...
While heat waves have been on the rise since May, the High Council for Climate has released its annual report on Thursday. With one question: are we ready for the future in the face of climate change? Not really, answer the specialists. - "We are clearly not ready": France is not on the right path to adapt to climate change? (Environment).
In France, the body responsible for evaluating the State's climate action is releasing its 8th annual report this Thursday, July 9th. While it unsurprisingly notes that the visible effects of warming are accelerating and reveal the country's delay in preparing for the "bundle of climate characteristics," it also formulates several dozen recommendations, half of which are already old.
In its latest report, the High Council for the Climate believes that France must "change scale" in its adaptation to climate change, judging that its "economic activities and socio-cultural practices have developed or been sized in a climate that no longer exists".
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