Climate convention: "some" announcements next week, says government

The first “ regulatory ” measures linked to the proposals of the Citizen's Climate Convention will be announced next week, before a bill at the end of the summer, the Minister for Ecological Transition said on Monday, July 20.

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The 150 citizens of the Convention proposed 149 measures with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from France, of which 146 were selected by President Emmanuel Macron, on a wide variety of subjects, from housing to food, through artificialisation of soils or transport.

" Now, all the work will be a work of elaboration on the different types of measures: those of a regulatory nature on which we will make some announcements next week, and on the legislative process which will take a little bit of time " , said Barbara Pompili after a meeting between representatives of the 150 and Prime Minister Jean Castex.

"Bill at the end of the summer"

" The idea is to present a bill at the end of the summer, that is to say at the turn of September-October and that the text can be examined in session at the beginning of the year 2021 ", added Marc Fesneau, Minister Delegate in charge of relations with the Parliament and Citizen Participation, assuring the " will to go fairly quickly ". “ Going from proposals to action, this is our mission, ” commented Jean Castex on Twitter. In this perspective, citizens will be involved in this development work, with a first deadline on July 29.

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" On July 29, it will be a meeting to initiate the follow-up ", with a meeting between citizens, parliamentarians, representatives of local authorities, social partners and the government, explained Grégoire Fraty, co-president of the association " the 150 ”. " The mandate of the citizens will not be to negotiate on our measures, it will be to present them, to explain them (...) We have a duty of responsibility to support our measures because we do not want them to be misguided, distorted, appropriated by some and not by others, ”he added.

" We are really keen to go to the end and not to distort what has been proposed, " replied Barbara Pompili. But " the citizens have understood that there will inevitably be adjustments because the concrete reality, we must all rub shoulders with it, us as the citizens ". Some climate advocates fear that the environment is not the priority of the new government.

Jean Castex " is true to his reputation for wanting to go into execution ", commented on Monday the activist Cyril Dion, one of the guarantors of the Convention, leaving the meeting. “ I reminded him that the Grenelle de l'environnement had made a lot of noise, with a lot of announcements, but we had ultimately had few results. And the idea is not to go back to a similar process. "