It is adopted.
Gathered overnight from Monday to Tuesday, parliamentarians from the Joint Joint Committee (CMP) agreed on a common version of the Climate and Resilience Bill, supported by the Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili and inspired by the measures of the Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC).
The text, which had been adopted in very different versions when it left the two Chambers, should be promulgated this summer.
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Few elected would have bet on it.
"
This CMP will never pass
", we laughed until recently even in the ranks of the majority.
Against all expectations, the deputies and senators who formed the commission nevertheless found an agreement.
The exercise promised to be difficult: after its passage in the Senate, the Climate Bill had emerged improved on certain points but also unraveled on others.
The Republic in March had then announced its "
red lines
" - points to which it would not retreat.
"Record time"
"
We encouraged our majority to find a compromise without crossing these limits,
" we explain to Matignon.
“
The Senate has gone back on all the red lines decreed by the government.
At the same time, the text has been enriched by their progress
”, we are now pleased.
Without failing to underline a text “
fruit of an unprecedented democratic process initiated by the proposals of the CCC, edited in record time and enriched by the work of the two Chambers.
"
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“
The night has been long
, concedes, however, Senator LR Marta de Cidrac, co-rapporteur of the text for the Upper House.
It was sometimes complicated and tense
”. After nine hours of "
negotiations
", the elected Yvelines is delighted that "
each has taken a step towards the other
". “
What was important was that the things we cared about were preserved,
” she says. "
They were not embarrassed
", nuance all the same the senator by evoking the "
recurrent attacks
" on the part of the government and LREM. "
I believe that the Senate, on the environmental subject, does not have so many lessons to learn from the presidential majority.
We showed that we were there,
”she continues.
"It honors bicameralism"
"
I can not say that everything went smoothly
", abounds the general reporter LREM of the text, Jean-René Cazeneuve.
Despite two weeks of preparation for the commission, the elected official admits having doubted the process until the end.
"
It's rare enough to be noted, we entered these negotiations without knowing how we were going to exit, it was really not played,
" he says.
And to add: "
It rather honors bicameralism, it shows that we were able to get along.
"
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Basically, the text stands out with around 350 articles - around 20 of them having been deleted. Concerning the “
red lines
”, points such as vegetarian menus and the energy renovation of buildings returned to the formulation of the Assembly. On the artificialization of soils and areas with low greenhouse gas emissions (ZFE), “
compromises
” were found, combining the “
ambition
” of the Assembly and the “
advances
” of the Senate. A means of reconciling the two Chambers, just a few days after the announcement by Jean Castex of the renunciation of the constitutional bill, for lack of agreement between the parliamentarians.
