Huge wildfires in Gironde, in the Landes and in the Var. Repeated heatwaves across the country. A major drought severely affecting agriculture. This summer, France has been put to a severe test by the elements.
Already last winter, the country went through several months marked by a series of weather fronts and storms (Goretti, Ingrid, Nils, Pedro), causing serious flooding across France.
With only a few months to go before the next presidential election, environmental issues are expected to take on unprecedented importance in the political debate. Historically championed by the left, the issue has now become unavoidable, pushing the right and the far right to take it up.
Because today, "Faced with the delays and the seriousness of the situation, France no longer has a choice: it has to adapt, and quickly", warns the association Réseau Action Climat, which challenges the record of the last successive governments, which "have not taken the necessary measures to adapt the country to the effects of climate change".
And yet the warnings have been sounding for several years. As early as 2013, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) stated that "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the changes observed are unprecedented over decades to millennia".
