Acknowledge the urgency, commit the resources - High Council on Climate, Annual Report 2023

Human-induced climate change has had profound impacts on France in 2022, exceeding the current capacity for prevention and crisis management. The year 2022 was emblematic of the intensification of the effects of climate change, and illustrates the need to acknowledge the urgency of the situation and commit the resources required to intensify action on adaptation and decarbonisation in France, Europe and internationally. Emissions continue to decline in France in 2022, but at a rate that remains insufficient to achieve 2030 targets. The framework for public policy action on climate change is strengthening, but so far it has not been accompanied by an overall economic policy sufficient to trigger the necessary acceleration. The adoption of the regulations in the European Union's Fit for 55 package must rapidly be translated into concrete measures and new sources of funding in both France and Europe. Adaptation must move on from the currently prevalent reactive mode to become transformative, based on knowledge of the consequences for France, including for seasons and extreme events. At a time when the proliferation of public policies at an international level is beginning to curb global emissions, France's response to climate change must be scaled up on the basis of its growing strategic framework for action. France must now systematise its operational implementation, commit the necessary resources and funding, support the most vulnerable in a spirit of a just transition, avoid maladaptation, and work to support the European dynamic and revive the international dynamic in the run-up to COP28