Question 6493 — biodiversity

Summary

Mr. Bruno Millienne alerts the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to the impacts of climate change on fauna and flora. On Wednesday March 14, 2018, WWF published a most alarming report, announcing that an increase in average temperatures of 2°C on a global scale would result in the loss, for a large number of priority ecoregions, of a significant proportion of species [nearly 25%] who live there due to an environment that would become “climatically unsuitable”. Furthermore, if global warming turns out to be greater than 2°C - the upper range retained by the signatories of the Paris Agreement - the consequences could be even more disastrous. Indeed, in a hypothesis of +4.5°C, nearly 50% of the species currently inhabiting the ecoregions would be threatened with extinction by 2080. Besides This erosion of biodiversity, these changes would impact entire ecosystems, which today provide a vital balance to human populations. By 2080, global warming could therefore threaten between a quarter and half of the species in 33 regions of the world richest in biodiversity. Reducing the exploitation and consumption of fossil fuels is a necessity, and fundamentally rethinking the model of energy consumption of contemporary societies and the relationship between Man and nature an emergency. He would therefore like to know what role France, through its Government, intends to play in leading the European and international community in the adoption of strong measures and actions (for example: climate refuges, protected areas, nature reserves) for threatened ecoregions and their natural habitats including preservation must be part of a shared and ambitious global objective to combat global warming.

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