In Marseille, Emmanuel Macron promises to better protect the French seas – archyde

“It is urgent to make people understand that the battle for the climate is a twin of the battle for biodiversity. We are lagging behind in biodiversity, we have to catch up. “ It is with this affirmation, long hoped for by those involved in environmental protection, that the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, opened the congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) , Friday September 3, in Marseille. “We must hear the noise of mega-fires like the silence of birds in our countryside”, also launched Audrey Azoulay, the Director General of Unesco.

While climate change may have eclipsed the erosion of biodiversity, this issue is gradually starting to rise to the same level of priority on the global agenda. Above all, the calls not to deal with these two threats separately are increasing. In June, fifty of the world’s leading experts in both themes underlined, in an unprecedented joint report, the urgent need to jointly address these crises in order to hope to resolve them.

“When we protect whales, not only do we save magnificent animals but we also participate in the fight against global warming because they capture tons of carbon. [en se nourrissant de phytoplancton notamment, elles accumulent du carbone qu’elles piègent au fond de l’océan quand elles meurent] ! “, insisted the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde.

Mobilize for crucial meetings

“Putting biodiversity at the level of the climate is the least of things, reacted Allain Bougrain-Dubourg, President of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO). If this means that identical energy and comparable means will be implemented, it becomes interesting. “

Before the United Nations international conference on the climate (COP26) scheduled for November in Scotland and that on biological diversity (COP15) scheduled for spring 2022 in China, the IUCN congress intends to generate a strong mobilization for these meetings. you crucial. In China must be adopted the new global framework to halt the erosion of biodiversity by 2030. With the holding of the first One Planet Summit devoted to biodiversity in January 2020 in Paris, “France is at the initiative of two highlights” intended to arouse “Alliances and commitments”, stressed Emmanuel Macron.

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