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Bénédicte Peyrol (LREM): "The green budget is not an object of communication"

10/4/2020, 9:32:42 PM


INTERVIEW - Specialist in green taxation, the member for Allier has been working since the start of the five-year term on the greening of the budget.

LE FIGARO.

- For the first time, Bercy presents a “green budget” in parallel with the PLF.

Beyond the communication exercise, what does this change?

Bénédicte PEYROL.

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Its origin dates back to Emmanuel Macron's first One Planet Summit in 2017. Since this commitment, we have moved forward step by step.

For the first time last year, the budget contained a “yellow”

(an annex, editor's note)

detailing all the expenses and revenues favorable to ecological transition.

This year, we are going further, with a real green budget that points to the lines favorable to the environment, but also “brown” spending, which is more harmful.

The principle behind this exercise is simple: while we ask the French and companies to be exemplary, the State also has a duty of consistency.

The green budget is not an object of communication.

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Now that this revenue and expenditure qualification work has been done, how do you plan to take it?

First we have to debate,

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