French President Emmanuel Macron said that the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine should not distract the world from tackling climate change and poverty, AFP reports.

In an op-ed published in the newspaper Le Monde, Macron proposed a new global climate pact and reiterated his calls to reform global financial governance to better involve emerging countries.

He said that the Israel-Hamas conflict as well as Russia’s war in Ukraine “must not make us deviate from our priorities”.

“We must accelerate the ecological transition and the fight against poverty at the same time,” Macron said.