The NGO Oxfam France denounces in a report the lack of adaptation measures to global warming in France. In this report entitled “Climate change: we are not ready”, which brings together dozens of studies on global warming, the NGO, which fights against climate change and inequalities, estimates that, in the absence of measures, global warming will reinforce inequalities.
To cope with rising water levels on the coasts, floods or more frequent fires, the needs are immense. Oxfam reminds us that we would need to devote seven billion euros to the construction sector, one and a half billion euros to agriculture so that it maintains its yields, and 100 billion euros to our electricity network so that it withstands warming of four degrees.
According to the author of the report Quentin Ghesquiere, in Europe, “20% of the richest are more adapted than the 20% of the poorest”. The expert assures that the two French plans for adaptation to climate change are not restrictive enough. “The State, in its adaptation plans, does not at all take into account the fact that climate change does not affect people in the same way,” indicates Quentin Ghesquiere. For housing threatened by “heat waves or floods”, he wonders what “people who are not owners, or who do not have the means” do.
The report considers that half of our fundamental rights, access to housing or health, are in danger. Oxfam recommends that the government allocate tens of billions of euros in public measures to adapt to the climate crisis immediately. A plan that could be financed by fairer taxation.
The executive’s third French plan for adaptation to climate change was suspended due to the dissolution of the National Assembly.
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