Following Emmanuel Macron's victory in the French presidential election on 7 May, the video that the En Marche! candidate had posted on his Facebook page on 10 February began circulating online once again. On that occasion he had made an appeal to American researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs working on climate change, inviting them to come to Europe to work alongside their European and French colleagues in the wake of the inauguration at the White House of United States president Donald Trump, who in a short space of time declared himself a sceptic and decided to cut climate funding. The appeal was also made in the lead-up to the March for Science on 22 April.

President-elect Macron then delivered two messages: one to reassure French researchers of his conviction in wanting to tackle the threat of climate change, by increasing public and private investment and thus honouring the Paris Agreement; the second was addressed to American researchers, inviting them to relocate to France in order to inject new energy and build a team of "innovative" people who genuinely want to address global warming: "France is your nation."

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The message Macron had sent on climate change