lThe National Group (RN) is not moved by the difficult negotiations of the 29thmy The Conference of Climate Parties (COP29) went into extension on Saturday, November 23 in Baku, Azerbaijan: the far-right party has long rejected the principle of climate diplomacy and its recognition has not changed anything.
Looking ahead to COP29, the RN and its European allies tried, through amendments, to influence the European Parliament’s resolution – in a way the mandate of its negotiator – to eliminate the objective of reducing methane emissions, minimize the weight of agriculture sector in greenhouse gas emissions or eliminate the target “a treaty on the non-proliferation of fossil fuels”.
The fund to help adapt to global warming in emerging countries, the main topic of COP29, does not escape Lepenist skepticism: “Global ecology creates new financial products that are not necessarily happy, that circulate throughout the planet and end up in dark systems without their usefulness being verified”accuses Mathilde Androuët, MEP and one of the few in the RN who follows environmental issues.
The latter estimates that a “Technophobic philosophical background” AND “hostile to economic development” underlies all current environmental policies and denounces the contradictions of what it ironically calls “the green religion” : the import of gas from Azerbaijan or liquefied natural gas from the United States, free trade agreements that accelerate global trade and associated emissions. The discourse, on the surface, is well established and sometimes reflects the recriminations of non-governmental organizations. But the argument, hesitant, always returns to the same two proposals presented as a universal remedy: drastic reduction of international trade and conversion of the planet to nuclear energy.
RN’s software relies on imperfect knowledge on issues such as France’s share of global greenhouse gas emissions or, more worryingly, man’s total responsibility for global warming. “Warming is indisputable but man’s role is not very clearly determined: the IPCC [Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat]in itself, it ignores what is anthropic and what is cycles”says Mathilde Androuët. However, the most complete summary on the issue, the IPCC’s latest summary report, published on March 20, 2023, is clear: it irrefutably attributes all current warming to human activities.
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