The subject is thorny in the short term. The challenge is socially explosive in the future. For several weeks, in the shadow of the heat waves, some French people have begun to question their behavior, but also to observe those of others. In the spring, the Instagram account @laviondebernard began to publish all the private jet journeys of LVMH boss Bernard Arnault, third fortune in the world, pointing to the release of CO2 of his device. For example, Geneva-Nice (1.5 tons), then Nice-Paris, on September 3 (3.5 tons).
Monday, September 5, to a question about his team’s private plane journeys, PSG coach Christophe Galtier smiled, looked up and then pinched his nose in front of his star Kylian MBappé: “We are trying to see if we cannot move around in a sand yacht. » Suddenly, BFM-TV invited the boss of the sand yachting federation to get his reaction and Greenpeace offered this beach machine to the trainer. “The PSG video shows how far we still have to go in terms of awareness…estimates Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Energy Transition. But the reactions also prove the great sensitivity of the French to this issue. Three years ago, this kind of response would not have provoked so much emotion. »
The choice of incentive
These signs of hypersensitivity to the risk of climate “separatism” among the wealthiest categories of the population come at a delicate time for the government. With the energy crisis, a consequence of the war in Ukraine among other things, the executive is forced to once again play the national solidarity card to achieve its sobriety objective – 10% reduction in energy consumption by 2024 – and avoid load shedding this winter. “We all have to move! »launched Emmanuel Macron, Monday, September 5, before asking his fellow citizens to “put the air conditioning and heating a little less strong than usual”. In front of the Medef, Monday August 29, Elisabeth Borne for her part called on companies to take their part.
To obtain the “mobilization” of all, the government has chosen to be in the incentive and not to make any differentiation between social categories, even if “Obviously, the French people in fuel poverty are not the ones who will have to make further efforts”, underlined the Prime Minister, on August 29. Throughout the fall, citizens will therefore be invited to reduce their consumption with “eco-gestures”. The Ministry of Energy Transition, in charge of the sobriety plan, has also created nine working groups (State, industry, transport, housing, etc.) to reflect with administrations and companies on how to reduce their consumption. Mme Terminal having warned before the Medef that companies would be the first concerned in the event of a cut, everyone plays the game. But no more global response with constraints is planned for the moment.
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