Question 13702 — climate

Summary

Ms. Muriel Ressiguier questions the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, about the natural disaster that occurred in Aude. The dramatic floods that occurred in Aude which caused the death of 14 people and left 75 injured must raise questions about the climate changes that are taking place and the means to limit their effects. In Trèbes, on Monday October 15, 2018, the equivalent of six months fell of precipitation in one night, and the Aude rose from 1 meter to 7.68 meters in six hours. This is an unprecedented flood since that of 1891 in the valley, according to Vigicrues. In the south of France in particular, these violent weather episodes called “Mediterranean episodes” have been getting worse for around fifty years. Combined with the progression of land artificialization (rampant urbanization, development road infrastructure) which waterproofs the soil, reduces water infiltration to groundwater and increases runoff, this creates catastrophic flood situations like the one that has just been experienced. These abnormal phenomena bitterly echo the warnings of scientists. The latest IPCC report published on October 8, 2018 is damning. It confirms that the global climate has warmed by 1 degree since the pre-industrial era. It attests again, if necessary, that the cause of this warming is indeed attributable to human activities and their greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, he explains that global warming already has visible consequences on certain ecosystems or global natural phenomena such as the melting of ice, the rise in sea levels, but above all the increase in events extreme weather conditions such as cyclones or floods. And in the summer of 2018, we just learned of the cracking of the Greenland ice shelf in its oldest layers, a phenomenon never observed until now. In 2017, 15,000 researchers from around the world signed a joint forum to send an alarm to humanity about the cascading consequences that this destruction of the environment will cause, one of which is the increase in climate refugees. During the climate agreements signed at COP 21 in 2015, France committed like 197 other states to limiting the effects of a 1.5°C increase in global temperatures. On the eve of the next COP 24 which will take place from December 3 to 14, 2018 in Poland, what commitments does it intend to make, concretely, to limit the production of greenhouse gases on French territory? To promote a transition energy towards sustainable solutions? What ecological planning does he intend to put in place? Does the President of the Republic, recently crowned “Champion of the Earth and Champion of the Climate” at the last One Planet Summit, intend to use his new influence to convince his American counterpart, President Donald Trump, to return to the Paris Agreement, which unilaterally left on June 1, 2017? Finally, what will he put in place concretely, and on a financial level, to help the inhabitants of Aude affected by the floods and the first victims of these climate disruptions? She finally asks him how he is going to support the farmers whose fields have been ransacked and remain uncultivable for several months.

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