How to adapt France to a global warming up to 4 ° C at the end of the century? Monday, March 10, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, presented the final version of the third National Plan for Climate Change (PNACC), a Document of fifty-two measures. Among them, the adaptation of housing to the risk of hot weather or improving the resilience of agricultural holdings, infrastructure and transport. In a Opinion published Thursdaythe High Council for the Climate assesses this plan and makes twenty-four recommendations for its success. Interview with its president, Jean-François Soussana.
With this plan, is France ready to face the impacts of the climate crisis?
PNACC is an important first step, which goes in the right direction, but France is not yet ready to deal with the impacts of climate change. This plan offers incremental adaptations, that is to say adjustments of practices, which come up against limits. However, we need systems transformations. It would be, for example, to change culture systems rather than sowing dates, to develop the solutions based on nature and the withdrawal of activities in the face of the risks of sea submersions rather than building dikes. The PNACC does not arise, moreover, not enough between what you want to protect at all costs and what you can lose. What buildings can, for example, be submerged? You have to think about it.
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