The Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis attended the 28th UN Climate Conference in Dubai last weekend to present the mission on sea level which Emmanuel Macron entrusted to Christian Estrosi.
Sea level rise is one of the many consequences of climate change. As the atmosphere warms, the glaciers of Greenland and Antarctica melt, the temperature of the water increases, and it expands.
Between 1901 and 2018, the sea level rose by 20 cm, and the pace of this rise is clearly accelerating, according to the IPCC’s 6th assessment report. Overall, between 2006 and 2018, the sea rose by 3.7 mm each year.
And this rise will have a direct impact on the human population. By 2050, one billion people will be affected. According to the climate experts group, the sea level will have increased by one meter by 2100.
Agnès Rampal, deputy mayor of Nice, delegated to the Euro-Mediterranean region, was present at COP28, which runs until December 12 in Dubai, to represent the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis. Her purpose was clear: to present the mission titled Ocean Rise & Resilience Coalition.
A coalition representing 1 billion people
The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, entrusted this mission to Christian Estrosi in anticipation of the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference to be held in Nice in June 2025. It consists of forming an international coalition to address sea level rise and the adaptation of coastal cities and regions to this phenomenon.
The aim is ambitious. Christian Estrosi is responsible for “bringing together a large coalition of municipalities, hosting more than a billion people on all continents, and structuring their action around three axes: scientific cooperation and natural disaster prevention, decentralized cooperation between local authorities, allowing the intensification of solidarity actions from the wealthiest cities towards less developed areas, and the mobilization of multilateral and private funding to finance necessary actions to tackle this challenge“.
“This approach is part of the organization, for the first time ever, of a Summit of Coastal Cities and Regions of the World on the sidelines of the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference, UNOC-3, in Nice in June 2025”, declares Christian Estrosi.
