In the fight against global warming, Emmanuel Macron has found Poland to blame. In an interview with the le Parisien, the French head of state mentioned the Paris demonstration on Saturday, September 21, which had gathered 15 000 people to march against climate change. According to him, “marching to say that the planet is burning, it’s nice, but that’s not the problem,” he said, urging the demonstrators to rather “protest in Poland”.
This remark did not please Poland much, including its embassy, located rue Talleyrand in Paris. On social networks, the embassy responded to the head of state. “Poland is one of the few EU countries which, with such a dynamic economic development (currently averaging 5 percent per year), has significantly reduced its CO2 emissions between 1988 and 2017 (around 30 percent). We wish our partners similar results!”
The embassy also noted that the Paris Agreement had “worked” primarily thanks to the “Katowice Rulebook” adopted at COP24 in Poland.
La Pologne 🇵🇱 est l’un des rares pays de l’UE qui, avec un développement économique aussi dynamique (actuellement en moyenne 5% par an), a considérablement réduit ses émissions de CO2 entre 1988 et 2017 (environ 30%). Nous souhaitons à nos partenaires des résultats similaires!
— Ambassade de Pologne (@PLenFrance) September 23, 2019
The special climate action summit is currently being held in New York and the leaders present will be addressing the issue of carbon neutrality by 2050 – a topic that is debated in the European Union.
But Emmanuel Macron has been blaming some EU member States, including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Estonia. “The truth is that there is one that blocks everything, it’s Poland. My goal is to convince other countries to move,” said the president in Paris, calling for “someone to come and help move those that can not evolve”.
For this reason, Emmanuel Macron believes that “we must enter into a form of collective action”. He concluded: “I prefer that [in France] we do big clean-up operations every Friday on rivers banks or Corsican beaches.”
Asked about the Yellow Vests movement, Emmanuel Macron said that those who have demonstrated against the increase in fuel taxes are not enemies of the ecology. “It would be dishonest to say Yellow Vests oppose the climate transition,” he explained to le Parisien.
“People have expressed social suffering but also, for some, a real ecological conscience. They simply told us, ‘do not leave us in an impasse’. They said ‘we have the right not to have the means to change our cars and be sensitive to the climate issue’. It is up to the country to adapt, and we must give people the means to make this transition. That’s our job,” he said.
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