the absence of many heads of state, including Emmanuel Macron, is “regrettable”, judges Laurence Tubiana

The director general of the European Climate Foundation believes that these absences prevent “an easy success at COP 30” next year in Brazil.

The absence of many heads of state, including Emmanuel Macron, at COP29 which opens Monday in Azerbaijan, is “regrettable”, judge Laurence Tubiana, Sunday November 10, on franceinfo. The Director General of the European Climate Foundation explains that “many leaders have chosen to devote themselves to the G20”, whose next summit will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18 and 19.

“It’s regrettable for COP29, because it’s an important COP,” estimates Laurence Tubiana, who was one of the architects of the Paris climate agreement in 2015. With these absences, “we cannot easily succeed at COP 30 [l’année prochaine au Brésil] which is, 10 years after Paris, a very important anniversary”, she continues. It will be “the time to accelerate climate action, to implement this Paris agreement, a crucial step”according to her.

Furthermore, the general director of the European Climate Foundation believes that the second presidential term of Donald Trump, newly elected in the United States, will be “a test since it’s a second shock in a fairly difficult moment for climate action”. The president-elect of the United States continues to want to get his country out of the Paris agreement. The United States withdrew from the agreement in 2020 at the request of Donald Trump, before rejoining it in 2021 after the election of Joe Biden.

“This is even more urgent, because we now see the impacts of climate change, we see that it is not for tomorrow or for other times or in 30 years, it is right away”, asserts Laurence Tubiana. She hopes that other countries will unite against “this immense cost for the economy, then for people”.