Climate researcher Vimeux criticizes France's slow adaptation to wildfire risks

Paris - 29 July 2026: Climate researcher Françoise Vimeux believes France is adapting too slowly to the growing threat of forest and vegetation fires. Research has long warned of the consequences of global warming, she told Franceinfo. High temperatures, lack of rainfall and dry vegetation encourage the outbreak and spread of fires. Vimeux primarily calls for forests to be managed in a more resilient way.Her criticism comes at a time of heightened fire danger during the summer. The Ministry for Ecological Transition assumes that climate change will intensify the risk, ...