The text continues its legislative circuit.
Five weeks after being adopted by the National Assembly, the climate and resilience bill, sponsored by the Minister for the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, and inspired by the 149 proposals of the Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC), has been adopted. arrived in the Senate on Monday.
Presented as one of the last major projects of the five-year term, he has already been criticized for a lack of ambition when he leaves the Lower House.
Examined for two weeks by senators, with a majority on the right, it should be increased on certain points and reduced on others.
Ecology will be combined with
"pragmatism".
In any case, this is the line of conduct that several senators have set for themselves.
“The climate law must be understandable, readable and socially bearable.
People must understand the law, otherwise it will contribute to violence and the fracturing of society, ”
warns
the LR president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher,
to Le
Figaro
.
“We all have a responsibility,” he
adds.
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To prepare for these discussions, the Upper House called on its standing committees.
This work is already showing progress, such as the reduction of VAT from 10% to 5.5% on train tickets, as demanded by conventional members.
It is also about
“reconciling ecological, economic and social transitions”
and
“setting a clear course to commit our economy to the low carbon transition on a long-term basis”.
Respect for the European objective
"Ecology has never stopped at the gates of the Senate",
insists Marta de Cidrac, elected LR of Yvelines and rapporteur of the law.
“The challenge here is to simplify and clarify the text,” she
adds. In this spirit, the senators also voted in committee to abolish the offense of ecocide, initially wanted by the Convention members in the form of a "crime". Within the environmental group, we welcome an
"open"
debate
.
Ronan Dantec, co-author of a counter-bill, hails
"a senatorial right which was not caricatured in committee". “Gérard Larcher took care of it,”
says the elected official.
"I think we will listen to each other during the debates,"
he rejoices.
Proof of this shared enthusiasm: some 2,000 amendments have been tabled.
"
It's rare, we can see that it is a text on which everyone looks with seriousness and interest",
underlines Marta de Cidrac.
An amendment common to all the groups should also open the discussions.
It aims to register, through a preliminary article, France's commitment to respect the European objective of at least 55% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2030.
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For Ronan Dantec, the ecology practiced in the Senate remains
"liberal". “The right remains the right. We know that we will not go far on certain subjects, such as advertising. In the end, the text will always be insufficient, ”
laments the elected official. On the side of the conventional, enthusiasm is also moderate. The rewriting of the constitutional bill - supposed to enshrine in the Constitution the guarantee of the preservation of the environment - has had the effect of a cold shower for some of them.
"It made me quite cautious",
testifies Grégoire Fraty.
“I hope that the Senate will go further than the National Assembly on certain points, but I believe I have fallen into disillusionment. I admit I'm no longer very optimistic, ”
sighs the former member of the CCC.
