These most deprived sectors facing the imperative ecological transition

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2024-02-06 19:09:01

The very manufacturing of the material, a mixture of limestone and clay, emits a lot of carbon. A formidable challenge for the sector. 216004215/Kalyakan – stock.adobe.com

DECRYPTION – Farmers, fishermen, cement workers, road hauliers… So many professions which do not yet see how to get out of it.

In recent years, public authorities have clung to the idea that a cocktail of technological innovations, carbon tax, sobriety and public subsidies would allow all companies to find, with more or less success and financing, their decarbonization path. In recent months, the diagnosis has changed. “We are starting to realize it. The energy transition is going to be very painful: certain sectors will not get through it. a senior executive at Bercy was thus alarmed recently. The anger of farmers in recent days retrospectively proves him right.

In the demonstrations, breeders expressed their anguish at being sacrificed for the benefit of ecology. To reassure them, Gabriel Attal decided to suspend a number of green standards and to renounce the extinction of tax advantages on non-road diesel. Before returning there by another route? Probably not for years. In the same way, the “yellow vest” movement…

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