An executive director, a head of studies, a communications officer, an intern… and that’s it! On the first floor of 20, avenue de Ségur, in the superb Art Deco building which was once the ministry of the PTT, the High Council for the Climate (HCC) displays a small mine. Bringing together some of the best scientists working on the subject and assisted by a small team of project managers, this organization aims to assess France’s climate policy – a kind of “committee of wise men” on global warming. But, at the start of 2023, the Areopagus is faltering – as evidenced by the stunted workforce of its secretariat.
THE report 2022 was adopted in pain, its four analysts were pushed out, the director was the subject of an administrative investigation and voices are worried, including internally, for his independence. Scheduled for June, the publication of the next annual report – the raison d’être of the High Council – remains uncertain and it could come out in a reduced version, for lack of small hands to write it. To believe that the climate emergency can wait…
The photo was beautiful, though. Flashback. This November 27, 2018, the Head of State receives at the Elysée the thirteen members of the brand new institution. The “yellow vests” crisis has just erupted and Macron, who does not yet know that he will have to abandon the carbon tax, presents the HCC as a way to defuse the debate. By Laurence Tubiana, one of the architects of the accor
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