Fuel discount, price shield… Insufficiently targeted aid in the face of soaring energy prices?

The government must better target aid in favor of purchasing power and rely more on sobriety in the face of tensions on the energy market caused by the Ukrainian crisis, think tank experts estimated on Thursday, deciphering the announcements of Elisabeth Borne.

The Prime Minister promised Wednesday in her general policy speech radical responses to the ecological emergency, whether in our way of producing, housing, moving, consuming and a battle plan for the ecological transition. This speech brought impatience and the benefit of the doubt concerning the government’s future actions to meet France’s climate commitments and succeed in this transition, commented Thursday Xavier Timbeau, principal director of the French Observatory of Economic Conditions (OFCE ), during a press briefing.

Next winter must be prepared from this summer

Regarding the energy crisis, we are in a form of expectation where next winter must be prepared from this summer, noted Phuc-Vinh Nguyen, researcher in European and French energy policy at the Energy Center of the Jacques Delors Institute.

This crisis stems from a lack of programming, particularly in the context of our investments, he added, regretting that sobriety is not currently mentioned enough in the public debate and that Elisabeth Borne’s speech has revealed a lack of concrete understanding of this lever.

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If the promises of energy renovation of buildings made at the Grenelle de l’Environnement in 2009 had been kept, we would have been independent of Russian gas from 2020, underlined Lola Vallejo, director of the climate program of the Institute for Sustainable Development of International Relations (IDDRI).

Lack of targeting and proportionality,

Regarding the aid put in place to deal with soaring energy prices, such as the pump rebate of 18 cents, they lack targeting and proportionality, noted the researcher. We must invest for better targeted protection but also to prepare for the resilience of tomorrow, she added.

Damien Demailly, deputy director of the Institute for Climate Economics (I4CE), said he was impatient to see what was going to happen in the government’s first budget and how the measures announced would be transcribed there, while saying that the Prime Minister did not mention adaptation to climate change.

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