2023-09-28 18:54:01
Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in Saint-Malo, September 28, 2023. (Photo by Damien MEYER / AFP) DAMIEN MEYER / AFP
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, launched Thursday, September 28, before the presidents of the regions of France, the principle of “regional COPs” on the ecological transition, based on the model of the United Nations party conferences. Action plan ” sharing “, “by summer”.
These “territorial COPs” will be responsible for “bring together national work and territorial feedback”et “because the regions are the leaders in territorial planning, the level for strategic thinking and planning”announced the Prime Minister to the Régions de France association, meeting at an annual conference in Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine).
These regional COPs will be accompanied by a tour of France of the regions by the ministers concerned and should allow “a collective awareness of the steps to be taken, to succeed in the ecological transition, at all levels”she emphasized.
“Our objective is to arrive at an action plan shared with everyone from here [à] next summer “ pour “achieve our objectives of reducing emissions, deploying renewable energies, or even preserving biodiversity”insisted the head of government, also responsible for ecological planning.
The COPs will be “co-hosted by the presidents of regional councils and regional prefects”. “State and regions, together, we will decide on the form, sequences, method and modalities of debate”, detailed Elisabeth Borne. She will sign a circular on Thursday September 28 specifying the terms of deployment of these COPs, which will be based “on the existing”.
An announcement against a backdrop of renewed tensions between the Elysée and the regional presidents
Ms. Borne again pleaded for a « dialogue » constant with regions based on the triptych “consultation, trust, differentiation”while the relationship between Emmanuel Macron and the regional presidents is experiencing renewed tension because of the recent outings of the Head of State on transport and fuels, proof of a lack of dialogue according to local barons.
The president of Régions de France, Carole Delga, also socialist president of the Occitanie region, was pleased to have obtained “confirmation that the COPs would indeed be regional” and would not “not to the small cut” on territories “irrelevant”referring to departments. “The link for a real energy policy, the real link for a definition of agricultural land consumption, is the region”she added.
Recalling that the two main sources of greenhouse gas emissions are transport and buildings, Ms. Delga hoped that there would be, at the level of the regional development plan, “a global vision of which territories are being built, which are being densified, which are the compensation territories which are being renatured”.
As for transportation, “it’s the regions that are in charge”specified the elected official, who asked the Prime Minister for “transport foundations” to overhaul the State’s railway policy and find new sources of funding for the regions.
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