A plan for winter or the first stage of the world after? In conclusion of the presentation of the sobriety measures unveiled Thursday, October 6, Elisabeth Borne did not procrastinate. “The reduction in energy consumption must be part of the long termsaid the head of government. It’s a new way of thinking and acting. It is not a matter of principle or ideology. Our ecological transition depends on it. » A direct consequence of the war in Ukraine, the “sobriety plan” is an emergency solution to avoid cuts. But also the first march of the stated ambition of Emmanuel Macron’s second term: to put in place ecological planning to lead France towards a crucial end point, carbon neutrality in 2050.
Far from the dream of the “start-up nation” of 2017, macronist ecological planning emerged on April 16, in Marseille. White shirt, sleeves rolled up, the outgoing president is bifurcating his campaign towards another horizon. “We must reconcile the whole country through a paradigm shifthe launches on the heights of the Pharo. The policy that I will pursue in the next five years will therefore be ecological or it will not be. » And the president-candidate gives substance to his ambition. To win this “fight of the century”his or her next prime minister “will be directly responsible for ecological planning” because “it’s the politics of politics”.
Right between the two rounds, observers and his opponents see it as a maneuver to recover the votes of the left while Jean-Luc Mélenchon has been defending this idea for ten years. In fact, the term ecological planning was already present on page 15 of his program. And the idea had been on the way since 2019. A few months after the “yellow vests” crisis and at the end of the great debate, the former pen of President Jonathan Guemas had surveyed several climate actors on this subject. During his wishes, on December 31, the Head of State had then sketched out a multi-year strategy for “reduce our emissions” while reindustrializing. This will lead to the creation of the High Commission for Planning, on 1er September 2020. A first step.
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Since then, the architecture desired by Macron and long suggested by figures of the majority (former Minister for Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, MEP Pascal Canfin, etc.) has been put in place. Matignon oversees the planning in conjunction with two ministries: that of energy transition and that of ecological transition.
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