More than 110 hours of discussions, a thousand amendments ... At the end of weeks of passionate debates, the National Assembly adopted on Tuesday the Climate and Resilience law, praised by the majority as a "marker of the five-year term" but criticized by the environmentalists for his “inadequacies” in the face of the “climate emergency”.
The text, voted this late afternoon at first reading by 332 votes against 77 (and 145 abstentions), is expected in the Senate in June.
Inspired by the work of the Citizen's Convention for the Climate (CCC) wanted by Emmanuel Macron, this text includes a battery of measures, including the elimination of certain domestic airlines in the event of alternatives of less than 2:30 by train, the creation of an ecocide offense or the ban on the rental of thermal sieve housing in 2028.
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In the hemicycle, the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili, former EELV, defended a text of “practical ecology” and “common sense”, “a real global cultural shift”.
However, the government finds itself at odds with members of the Citizens' Convention who consider their proposals "unraveled" and some of whom participated in demonstrations in favor of a "real climate law" on March 28.
Despite "some progress", NGOs like Greenpeace and the Climate Action Network denounce a "tremendous mess" and "climate cynicism" with a "bill to pretend to act".
Earlier today, activists from Extinction Rebellion carried out symbolic action in front of the National Assembly. As MPs debated, 12 activists chained themselves to the building's gates. The 12 keys to free them were given to deputies and ministers, including that of the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili and that of Transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. A symbolic gesture, to show that elected officials and members of the government had "the keys" to their future "in their hands".