“We have ten years to halve our greenhouse gas emissions.
We will not be able to achieve the objectives that we have set ourselves.
The Climate law is being played out now, but it will decide the next ten years.
This is what we have to fight for now!
For Félix as for many demonstrators, the hope aroused by the work of the Citizen's Convention for the climate was quickly showered by the climate bill, deemed unambitious and not up to the challenges.
"The mountain gives birth to a mouse," annoys Marie-Hélène, a retiree disguised as a bee for the occasion.
We believed a lot in these citizen meetings, I sincerely believed in the good will of Macron, and of those who had made this decision.
What emerges is disappointing.
"
READ ALSO>
Inscription of the climate in the Constitution: between abstention and a vote against, the right is divided
In detail, the absence of several flagship proposals of the Citizens' Convention crystallizes the frustrations.
“SUVs for example, it seems like a colossal aberration to continue to advertise them,” exclaims Marie-Hélène.
“The crime of ecocide is a message, it is a symbol.
I do not understand why they did not retain that, it would have been a strong symbol ”, annoys Felix, professor of mathematics.
"The measures concerning aeronautics are very limited ....", adds Camille, student.
More than 180 gatherings of the same type were planned across France in order to "revive the citizen dynamic", according to Elodie Nace, from Alternatiba, one of the organizing movements.
Dozens of NGOs, unions and parties have called for demonstrations, in particular to ask deputies to "improve" the government text.
Several parliamentarians were present at the start of the Parisian procession including the leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the president of Generation Ecology Delphine Batho, the former LREM deputy Cédric Villani.
The Minister of Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, for her part defended the text once again on Sunday, assuring France Inter that it would remain as "one of the greatest laws of the five-year term".
Asked about the demonstrations against her text, she believes that "the steps for the climate, it is very good that they exist".
"I am happy that this concern is still there."