2023-09-19 13:59:20
Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, during the presentation of the ecological planning project to the National Refoundation Council, September 19, 2023. EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP
While the rise in prices is at the heart of concerns at the start of the school year, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, defended, on Tuesday September 19, ecological planning, which she considers necessary to “protect purchasing power”.
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“Some fear that the ecological transition will be synonymous with a drop in purchasing power. On the contrary, it is the absence of transition that would lead to it, because we would be eternally subject to shocks on prices and therefore on purchasing power.affirmed the Prime Minister before the National Council for Refoundation. “Protecting purchasing power therefore involves phasing out fossil fuels, renovating housing and relocating. This involves controlling electricity costs (…) In a word, this involves ecological planning”added the head of government.
Agriculture, biodiversity, buildings, energy, industry, transport, communities: Ms Borne detailed the distribution of the additional 10 billion euros which will be committed to the ecological transition, seven of which will be spent in 2024.
Request for “much more concrete” measures
A subject of tension, the question of the connection between ecology and purchasing power was brought up in the meeting held on the subject with the political parties on Monday in Matignon. Several party leaders have called for “very strong regulation” of the price of electricity, according to Matignon.
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“The poorest households (…) are those who pollute the least, but who are the most impacted by pollution” and that “are the least equipped to face this transition”, underlined at the end of the CNR Noam Leandri, president of the Alerte collective which brings together thirty-four associations fighting against poverty. He calls for measures “much more concrete” in their favor.
Community representatives requested “adapted means” to this transition, reported, for the Association of rural mayors, Yvan Lubraneski, while, for the U2P (Union of local businesses), Michel Picon called for « temps » pour s’adapter.
In July, the government postponed the presentation of this roadmap, in particular because of the riots and the reshuffle. He promises a plan “very concrete” et “very operational” in order to “to be at the European meeting” of the 55% reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions in 2030, compared to 1990, and of “project towards carbon neutrality in 2050”.
Emmanuel Macron is due to speak on the subject on Monday, before the presentation, on September 27 in the Council of Ministers, of the draft budget for 2024.
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