A police cordon and a fine.
The director and guarantor of the Citizen's Convention for the Climate, Cyril Dion, the former minister, Cécile Duflot now at the head of Oxfam, the deputy (ex-LREM) Matthieu Orphelin, a European deputy, among others, were all fined this Wednesday in Paris for "unauthorized demonstration".
In the bitter cold, these twenty personalities tried to pose in front of the Elysee with their sign "SOS law in distress", while the bill resulting from the proposals of the Citizens' Convention was presented to the government in the presidential palace.
On leaving the Council of Ministers, Barbara Pompili defended the ambition of the law renamed “Climate and resilience”: “It is not only a question of changing the engines of our cars or the machines of our factories.
It is about changing culture, civilization, way of life, ”insisted the Minister of Ecological Transition.
The demonstrators denounced, them, the text which appears to them as a “dilution”, even a “betrayal”, compared to the proposals formulated by the 150 drawn lots of the Citizens' Convention.
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“Everyone agrees, this law is not up to the stakes, up to the National Council for Ecological Transition, or the Economic, Social and Environmental Council who are not disheveled activists!
insists Cyril Dion, black anti-Covid mask on his face.
It absolutely does not make it possible to respect the Paris Agreements, and we do not have years to lose!
Yet it is this activist who, with the help of Marion Cotillard, convinced Emmanuel Macron to adopt the principle of drawing lots for 150 citizens, an unprecedented democratic exercise to make proposals capable of reducing our gas emissions. Greenhouse effect.
Make energy renovation compulsory
Wednesday morning, Matthieu Orphelin, deputy's tricolor scarf on the chest, listed the points to be reinstated as a priority: "With only five more measures, the law could be nearly four times more effective," he assesses.
For the moment, the project is nice but very insufficient, the measures having the most impact have been knowingly rejected.
In the first place, it would be necessary to make compulsory the global energy renovation for housing, that is to say a saving of 15.9 million tons of CO2, against 2 million tons with the text of the government which provides only for the ban of thermal strainers from here 2028 ”.
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Agnès Catoire, one of the citizens drawn by lot, had come, bonnet screwed on her head and accompanied by her daughter, to repeat that "it is now or never that we must act and be up to the task!"
"" The democratic exercise of the Convention is successful, but its translation into legal terms is a failure!
This bill is in contradiction with the legal obligation to achieve our goals by 2030, ”said Chloé Gerbier, from the Affair of the Century, leaning in front of her sign.
Last week, his association had the state condemned for failure before the administrative tribunal of Paris.
These climate activists now hope to move the battlefield to parliamentary terrain. "We are now discussing with deputies and senators by videoconference, they seem interested.
I hope they will be able to enhance the ambition of the text, ”Agnès Catoire confided.