LThe National Rally (RN) is not moved by the difficult negotiations of the 29e Conference of the Parties for the Climate (COP29), entered into overtime, Saturday November 23, in Baku, Azerbaijan: the far-right party has been rejecting the principle of climate diplomacy for a long time, and its recognition has changed nothing. .
Ahead of COP29, the RN and its European allies attempted, through amendments, to influence the resolution of the European Parliament – in a way the mandate of its negotiator – to remove the objective of reducing methane emissions, minimize the weight of the agricultural sector in greenhouse gas emissions or remove the objective “a treaty on the non-proliferation of fossil fuels”.
The fund to help adapt to global warming in emerging countries, the main issue of COP29, does not escape Lepenist skepticism: “Global ecology creates new financial products that are not necessarily happy, which circulate across the planet and end up in obscure systems without their usefulness being verified”accuses Mathilde Androuët, MEP and one of the very few in the RN to follow environmental issues.
The latter estimates that a “technophobic philosophical background” et “hostile to economic development” underlies all current environmental policies, and denounces the contradictions of what she ironically calls « religion seeing you » : the importation of gas from Azerbaijan or liquefied natural gas from the United States, free trade treaties accelerating 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 comes back to the same two proposals presented as a universal remedy: drastic reduction in international trade and conversion of the planet to nuclear power.
The RN software is based on imperfect knowledge of the subject, such as France's share of global greenhouse gas emissions or, more worryingly, man's total responsibility for global warming. “Warming is incontestable but the role of man is not very clearly determined: the IPCC [Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat]itself, ignores what is anthropic and what is cycles”says Mathilde Androuët. The most complete summary on the issue, the latest IPCC summary report, published on March 20, 2023, is nevertheless clear: it irrefutably attributes all of the current warming to human activities.
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