French President, Emmanuel Macron, has served a reminder on world leaders about the need to achieve carbon neutrality at the global level by 2050.
He made the call in a post on his official Facebook page.
“+2.7°C by 2100. This scenario is dramatic.
+2.7°C: Island states realise what this means for their future. No country will escape unscathed. This summer’s fires in the Mediterranean, Russia, California and the Amazon are yet another illustration,” he wrote.
“The time for awakening is behind us. We must give ourselves the means to achieve carbon neutrality at the global level by 2050, by reducing our emissions, by getting out of coal and fossil fuels,” he added.
“The most ambitious target we set ourselves in Paris in 2015, 1.5°C, is still possible if we all act, now. And let us not be ashamed of the legacy we will leave to our children,” Mr Macron said.
“Ecology is the fight of the century. Europe will be there. But Europe cannot do it alone. Each State must live up to the commitments made in Paris in 2015. This is the message that I brought to the States gathered by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.”
His post was later apparently removed from Facebook
