This is a vast project whose start was awaited by many environmental defense associations and professional networks of civil servants. On Tuesday, October 11, the government officially launched the ecological transition training program for state executives, i.e. 25,000 senior executives in the state civil service by 2024. Should follow, by 2025, 41,000 executives from the three public functions (State, territorial, hospital), then, before the end of the five-year term, the 5.6 million agents.
It was during the back-to-school seminar, on August 31 at the Elysée, that the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, after having assured that “the first battle is the ecological transition”had announced, this ambitious training plan. The entire government then listened to climatologist Valérie Masson-Delmotte explain the challenges of the fight against climate change, a quick update of some thirty minutes.
All the ministers will therefore have to come back to it in the coming days, as well as the 220 directors of the central administrations. In a letter dated October 7 addressed to the latter – that The world was able to consult –, the Minister of Transformation and Public Service, Stanislas Guerini, and that of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, Christophe Béchu, specify the first phase of “this training campaign, the first beneficiaries of which, for the sake of setting an example, efficiency and the ripple effect on all the teams, will be yourself: the directors of central administration”.
Twenty-eight intense hours
Tuesday, in front of a chosen audience of representatives of associations, administrations, trade unions, in the premises of the National Institute of Public Service), the two ministers, as well as the Minister for Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher (“presents on video screen), and that of higher education and research, Sylvie Retailleau, extolled at length the merits of this future training, and underlined the essential contribution of the many scientists who were associated with the design of this program. .
Among them, the climatologists Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Corinne Le Quéré, the director general of the Foundation for research on biodiversity Hélène Soublet, Céline Guivarch, economist and member of the High Council for the climate, Robert Vautard, meteorologist and climatologist, Emmanuel Hache, doctor in economics, the professor of ecology Luc Abbadie, member of the scientific council of the Ecology and Environment Institute, or even the hydrologist Emma Haziza. Some of them will take part in the training of central administration directors which should begin on October 20 and should be completed before the end of the year. In January, it will be the turn of prefects and diplomats.
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