Parliament will adopt the climate law, under fire from critics

Faced with

, Parliament will definitively adopt the iconic climate bill on Tuesday, an

touted by the government but strongly criticized by NGOs and the left for its

”.

In the afternoon, the Senate and the Assembly will successively vote on this dense text, inspired by the work of the Citizen's Climate Convention.

A compromise was found between the two chambers after long night negotiations a week ago.

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According to the Minister of Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, this law represents a

,

of

and

thanks to measures such as the removal of domestic airlines in the event of alternatives by train of less than 2 hours 30 minutes, or the ban on the rental of

, classified G and F housing, in 2025 and 2028. Members of the Citizens' Convention and environmental NGOs point out the

of their proposals.

Steps for

have been organized in recent months, and a new demonstration is scheduled for Tuesday near the Assembly.

Presented in early 2021, the bill reflects part of the 146 proposals of the Convention that Emmanuel Macron had retained.

The constitutional aspect, in order to engrave the climate in the Fundamental Law by referendum, was abandoned for lack of agreement between the two chambers.

Associated with other laws and the recovery plan, this climate bill

France

of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990, we assure the Ministry of Ecological Transition, which is counting on rapid promulgation.

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But the High Council for the Climate, an independent body, and the Council of State, the highest French administrative court, express serious doubts about the capacity of the State to respect its commitments of the Paris Agreement of 2015. The Council of State gave him nine months to take

. And the state is threatened with a fine of 10 million euros per semester if it does not do more in the fight against air pollution. Especially since the French trajectory should be even more demanding, with the new climate package unveiled by the European Union. The Commission, which aims to reduce the continent's emissions by 55% in 2030 compared to 1990, calls forban on the sale of combustion vehicles from 2035 - a French law from 2019 targets 2040.

There have been no miracles and the law remains far removed from climate objectives and citizens' expectations.

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WWF France

In the meantime, the French bill has already given rise to numerous showdowns with the sectors or between parliamentarians.

Against a

, the senatorial right has scrapped to the end in an attempt to delay the deployment in 2025 of low-emission zones, without polluting vehicles, in towns with more than 150,000 inhabitants.

Senators have stepped up certain aspects such as advertising, with the 2028 ban on advertising for the most polluting vehicles, in order to prepare consumers for the end of their marketing.

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Marked by the

, born from a fuel tax, the government has regularly underlined the need to combine

and

. The possible implementation of a heavy goods vehicle eco-tax will be limited to voluntary regions, even border regions such as Alsace. On the agricultural side, a tax on nitrogenous fertilizers is only

if the emission reduction targets are not met.

Overall, in the eyes of WWF France,

.

The left and environmentalists have relayed these criticisms.

On the right, the LR were concerned about the multiplication of

or a

of environmental issues, opposing in particular the offense of

provided for in the law.

The text will be voted on a few days after deadly bad weather in Germany and Belgium, and three weeks after a record heat in Canada, presented by many experts as manifestations of climatic upheavals.