Five years after the signing of the Paris climate agreement, emblematic places in Poitiers and Bordeaux are lit with bright red lights. Green municipalities want to “alert the general public to the climate emergency”.
They chose red to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement to fight against global warming. Poitiers and Bordeaux light up some of their emblematic buildings in this color, both a symbol of anger and urgency.
With Tours, Grenoble and Lyon, the ecological municipalities of the region recall, in a press release, that “November 2020 sets a new record: that of the hottest month of November ever recorded in the world, bringing the year 2020 closer to the record of 2016 “.
Since Wednesday, Poitiers Town Hall has been illuminated in bright red, signaling a call for general awareness of the climate emergency. Bordeaux is preparing this Thursday to illuminate the Porte de Bourgogne, entrance to the city center located near the Garonne, of the same color.
November 2020 is the hottest month on record in the world.
Elected officials, including Léonore Moncond’huy, mayor of Poitiers, and Pierre Hurmic, mayor of Bordeaux, recall that the objectives of COP 21 “to keep the climate change at an increase of less than 2 degrees” will not be achieved. If they consider that they are working in favor of respecting the commitments made during the Paris Agreement through initiatives in their territories, “in all areas, from organic farming to housing, mobility to the economy of tomorrow, solidarity with culture through health “, they call on the State” to act at (their) sides and support (their) initiatives “.
Green elected officials take as an example “the contempt displayed by the government for the work of the citizens’ convention for the climate”, a “betrayal”, according to them, “made to this commitment”.
[????#UrgenceClimatique] On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the #AccordDeParis, the Town Hall of #Poitiers is lit in red until December 14 to symbolize the state of climate emergency.
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– Poitiers.fr (@poitiersfr) December 10, 2020
The UN also warns
Currently, according to UN data, the planet is moving towards a warming of 3 degrees Celsius, far from the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
The UN explains that to keep any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5 ° C, greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by 7.6% per year, each year from 2020 until 2030 ( while emissions have increased by an average of 1.5% per year over the last decade, reaching a record in 2019 of 59.1 gigatonnes, or 2.6% more than in 2018.
If the UN estimates that the current pandemic, with the shutdown of part of the world economy for several months, has resulted in a sharp drop in greenhouse gas emissions, the impact will be negligible in the long run. term. She hopes that the pandemic will serve as a lesson to implement a real “green recovery”.
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