No to terraces heated to all winds, ban on new oil or coal boilers ... This Monday morning was held at the Elysee the fifth ecological defense council. Responsible for giving a first concrete translation to the citizens' convention for the climate, before the laws being drafted planned for 2021, this restricted Council of Ministers has opted for measures that can be implemented by regulatory means - decree or decree - quickly.
They emanate from the 149 proposals formulated by the 150 citizens of the Convention, among which the President of the Republic has retained 146.
Fight against thermal strainers. Energy performance will be one of the criteria for the “decency” of a home, from January 1, 2023. The tenants concerned - who consume more than 500 kWh per m2 per year - may require the owner to do work. If he refuses, a judge may suspend the rents.
Towards the end of oil or coal boilers. There are still 3 million oil or coal boilers in France. Those that break down will have to be changed from January 2022 by a more virtuous boiler. Their installation will be prohibited in new housing. The most modest households will be able to claim aid of up to 80% of support.
Aid already exists, it will be reinforced, continued Secretary of State Emmanuelle Wargon: the budget of the device "My prime renov", today € 800 million, will be increased by 2 billion "while still opening up to owner-occupiers and donors ”.
Two additional regional natural parks. Two national parks will be created, at Mont Ventoux, in Vaucluse, and in the Bay of Somme, in maritime Picardy. The Robertsau forest, in Alsace, will become a national nature reserve. "I signed the decrees during this ecological defense council," said Barbara Pompili. With these new perimeters, 30% of French territory will be under protection.
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No more heating the terraces. To fight against energy waste, outdoor heating in public spaces will be prohibited. It will also be necessary to close the doors of heated or air-conditioned buildings open to the public, "ecological aberrations", ruled the Minister for the Ecological Transition. "We cannot, for the simple comfort of not having to open the door, air-condition the whole street", she summed up. But the restaurateurs having been "very tested" by the covid crisis, it is left to them next winter to make the few necessary adjustments.
Building on wasteland and less and less on farmland. A platform of available wastelands will be put online. A circular will be sent to the prefects asking them to fight against the artificialization of soils when they authorize new commercial operations. The goal: "to halve the concreteization objectives".
A support measure for the railways must also be announced in the afternoon by Jean Castex, during a trip.
Some of the measures proposed by the convention, such as the moratorium on shopping centers or the development of clean transport, should be included in the government's recovery plan which will give rise to a bill at the end of September. In a column published on Sunday by Ouest-France, Prime Minister Jean Castex defended "a field ecology" based on dialogue at the level of a territory, which he opposes to an ecology " moralizing, even sectarian ”.
A pious wish, it seems, since the Minister for the Ecological Transition assured that the local elected officials would be the relay of these decisions.
