Climate law: a call to demonstrate on Sunday before the text arrives in the hemicycle

They want "a real climate law".

Very critical of the government text, environmental associations are calling for demonstrations on Sunday, on the eve of the start of the debates in the Assembly Chamber, where the presidential majority wants to defend a “balance” bill and “Everyday ecology”.

Difficult to measure the extent that these ecological "marches" will take in the current health context, but the appeal of these NGOs and members of the Citizen's Climate Convention aims to put the pressure, before three weeks of heated discussions at the Palace Bourbon.

MEPs tabled more than 7,000 amendments and the session promises to be highlights with hotly debated measures such as the abolition of domestic flights in the event of alternatives of less than 2:30 by train, or the ban on the rental of thermal strainers in 2028 (F and G).

"Lively debates"

The right, which is trying to build its own “field” ecological software with a view to 2022, intends to step up to the niche against “punitive ecology” and the “judicialization” of environmental issues, in particular by opposing the new crime “d 'ecocide'.

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The left and green elected officials like Delphine Batho and Matthieu Orphelin, on the other hand, will relay the disappointment of the Citizen's Climate Convention, whose work inspired the bill but was "unraveled" according to them.

"Yes, the debates will be lively and that's good, it's important" at a time when "the health crisis takes precedence over everything", notes the general rapporteur Jean-René Cazeneuve (LREM).

Bike, conversion bonus, advertising ...

In committee, the deputies reinforced certain measures, such as the development of bulk in supermarkets, and watered down others, such as the article suggesting the development of the deposit for glass bottles which raises the concern of recyclers and the spirits sector.

Several key debates were returned to the meeting, pending delivery of reports and assessments.

The majority promises "progress" on the thermal renovation of housing with a "financial trajectory" and "accompanying" measures, in the wake of the recent Sichel report.

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The government is offering a partial loan guarantee system (known as “advance transfer”) to facilitate access to credit for low-income households wishing to renovate their homes.

Measures in favor of cycling, including the extension of the conversion premium, are also expected.

As for the advertising component, MEPs could define more precisely the “greenwashing” of companies, in order to better sanction it.

A torn majority

For vegetarian menus in canteens, a subject that has recently been controversial, Matignon obviously does not want to go beyond the simple "experimentation" of a daily vegetarian choice in voluntary communities, provided for in the text, according to reports. parliamentary sources.

Within a majority torn between its liberal wing and a more ecologically compatible fringe, the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili defends a path of “crest” between ecological “ambition” and “social acceptability”.

The LREM deputies keep in mind the crisis of yellow vests, born of a fuel tax, or the sling of “red caps” against the heavy goods vehicle eco-tax, under François Hollande.

The specter of the ecotax

This caution was visible in committee on sensitive measures such as the gradual elimination of the tax advantage of diesel for road carriers by 2030, or the possible establishment of a regional eco-tax for heavy goods vehicles in communities that wish.

It is "not an ecotax", but a "specific contribution" demanded by certain regions in a logic of "differentiation", we insist in the majority, by listing the "stages" before its possible implementation.

But the "subject is likely to rise", agrees Marie Lebec, responsible for ensuring that the balance of the LREM group on this text is respected and who is delighted with a "peaceful debate" so far.

In addition to the background, the profile of Barbara Pompili, ex-EELV and on the left wing of the majority with her party In Common, tense some liberal marchers.

"I'm regularly worried, but she hasn't done any Trafalgar shots" so far, slips one of them.