Macron to lure US climate scientists to France with multi-year grants
‘You will develop projects, enrich research, because we’ve decided to recognise what you are doing’
Paris — Emmanuel Macron plans to award multi-year grants for several US-based scientists to relocate to France, his office said on Monday on the eve of a climate summit hosted by the president to raise finances to counter global warming. Macron unveiled the Make our Planet Great Again grants after President Donald Trump in June said he was pulling the US out of an international accord to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that was brokered in Paris in 2015. Macron repeatedly tried to persuade the US leader to reverse his decision. In a statement, the Elysee Palace said 13 of the initial 18 grants would be awarded to scientists based in the US. "You will now settle in, develop projects, enrich French, European research, because we’ve decided to give even bigger resources and to fully recognise what you are doing," Macron said in a speech at Station F, a start-up incubator in Paris. Macron was addressing the winners of the grants, some of whom attended his speech. Prominent US universiti...
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