2024-01-29 17:41:48
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal traveling on January 26, 2024, on the operation of a cattle breeder at a place called Saint-Martin in Montastruc-de-Salies (Haute-Garonne). VINCENT NGUYEN / RIVA PRESS FOR “THE WORLD”
This Tuesday, January 23, there is no longer a place in the wooden stands of the Verniquet amphitheater of the National Museum of Natural History, in Paris. Many personalities have gathered to reflect on the consequences of a France at +4°C.
Paleoclimatologist Jean Jouzel meets local elected officials, the CEOs of water and waste management specialist Veolia and insurer MAIF discuss the “insurability” of the world to come. On the stage, researchers, glaciologist Heïdi Sevestre or ecologist Sandra Lavorel, gold medalist from the National Center for Scientific Research 2023, discuss the challenge of adaptation.
At the turn of a sentence, Jean-Marc Jancovici, media apostle of energy decline, recalls that the CO2 emitted in Europe knows no borders and contaminates the entire atmosphere. “A small detail which had also escaped [au premier ministre] Gabriel Attal when I saw him two years ago, I hope that since then he has updated himself”, quips the president of the Shift Project. Laughter from the room. Sitting in the front row, Christophe Béchu, the minister of ecological transition, does not flinch.
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The projection is nevertheless cruel. Not long ago, Gabriel Attal, now “responsible for ecological and energy planning”, therefore did not know one of the basic notions of climate science. The anecdote further reinforces the doubts about his real interest in this challenge with very many issues. Since his appointment, the head of government has hardly spoken about it, only mentioning, during the transfer of power with Elisabeth Borne, the imperative of “guarantee the future of our planet”. Extremely vague words.
The first catch-up session is scheduled for Tuesday, January 30. The Prime Minister should devote one of the four “blocks” of his general policy speech to ecological planning, a strategy supposed to put France on the path to carbon neutrality in 2050. He worked on this part of his speech with his advisor Antoine Pellion, also general secretary for ecological planning (SGPE).
Very strong shaking
But, in the middle of an agricultural crisis during which he has already announced ten “simplification” measures directed against environmental law, will he be able to adopt an ambitious tone? “It absolutely must reflect the height of the stepsays Anne Bringault, director of programs at Réseau Action Climat. Because there is an increasingly visible temptation to camouflage it, as if the executive said “it’s okay, we did the job”, and everything will happen naturally. »
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