The bill resulting from the Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC) is "finalized" and should arrive for discussion in the National Assembly at the end of March, said Matignon on Friday (January 8th).
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End of the rental of thermal strainers in 2028, ban on advertising for fossil fuels, ban on domestic flights if there is an alternative by train in less than 2:30 ... The government had already unveiled in early December the outline of the text whose finalization has been postponed several times.
The presentation to the Council of Ministers is now scheduled "at this stage on February 10", for a start of discussions in the National Assembly at the end of March, as part of an "accelerated procedure" (only one reading per Chamber), indicated Matignon.
65 items
The “finalized” bill which is in the process of being sent for mandatory consultation to several bodies, including the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) comprises 65 articles divided into six titles, said Matignon.
These six titles are the 5 themes on which the 150 citizens of the CCC have worked for months (consuming, producing and working, moving, housing, eating) plus one on environmental justice.
While the Convention had called for the creation of a crime of ecocide, Emmanuel Macron promised to defend this issue at the international level.
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On the other hand, the Ministers of Justice and of the Ecological Transition Eric Dupond-Moretti and Barbara Pompili announced in November the creation of an “ecocide offense” with sentences of up to 10 years in prison and 4, 5 million fines.
This maximum sanction must be found in the bill, according to Matignon.
The draft constitutional law to add the defense of the environment and the climate in the Constitution, on which the president has proposed a referendum, must be presented to him in the Council of Ministers on January 20.
According to the government, about fifty of the 149 measures proposed by the citizens had already been taken up by decree or in the finance law, and this new text should take as many.
Ambition
NGOs dispute the figures, believing that many of these proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 have been gutted.
The Climate Action Network thus deplored on Friday “the flagrant lack of ambition of this text which sets aside many of the proposals of the Citizen's Climate Convention, relies mainly on voluntary commitments and postpones the most structuring measures. ".
He thus called on parliamentarians to "restore to the bill the initial ambition of the measures of 150 citizens".
Defenders of the climate are calling in particular, as the citizens had proposed, the obligation of energy renovation of buildings by 2040. At this stage, the bill provides for this obligation, by 2028, for housing intended for hire.
But it could be completed depending on the results of the mission entrusted this week to Olivier Sichel, director of the Bank of the Territories, on the "massification" of the renovation of energy strainers, assured Matignon.
