Emmanuel Macron: Broken promises

MACRON EMMANUEL

A lot of promises. Emmanuel Macron has explained his plans and promises on fighting this world wide crisis, even throughout the Covid-19 pandemic he was still thinking about global warming and sticking to his ‘plans’, but a lot of people (especially world leaders) are saying they are just empty words and that he hasn’t physically done anything to help the planet.

French environment campaigners have warned Emmanuel Macron is doing too little to combat climate change and must radically rethink his environment policy if he is to honour his promise to “make this planet great again”.

Although Macron did not make environmental issues a major part of his election manifesto last year, he later attempted to push them to the forefront as a symbol of progressive politics and to counter Donald Trump’s decision to take the US out of the Paris climate accord.

“France will be active and mindful of peace, of the balance of power, of international cooperation, of respect for the commitments made on development and the fight against global warming.” [Ludovic Marin]

Addressing the US Congress in April, Macron told American lawmakers: “There is no Planet B.” Macron, though disappointed by Trump’s earlier Paris decision, has also paradoxically been one of its largest political beneficiaries, seizing the symbolic climate leadership position vacated by the United States. Climate has offered Macron a relatively low-cost, popular, way to raise his profile as an international player, early on in his presidency. After visiting a melting glacier in the French Alps, he is now calling the battle against climate change and environmental destruction “the fight of the century”. But President Emmanuel Macron’s tour of the Mer de Glace glacier and an ice cave carved into it near the mountain town of Chamonix was condemned as an electoral stunt by environmental campaigners; used as a photo-op to encourage people to believe his care for this world issue.