To carry out the fight against global warming, do you necessarily have to be a specialist in ecology?
By appointing Agnès Pannier-Runacher Minister of Energy Transition, without much experience in this area, Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne have decided.
A position that the minister fully assumes, questioned on this subject on BFMTV this Tuesday morning.
The former Minister of Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher affirmed "to assume to be a technician" in charge of the climate within the government, best profile according to her to succeed in "getting France out of fossil fuels", while the duo that she forms with Amélie de Montchalin does not really appeal to climate NGOs.
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“I assume to be a technician, to work a lot, to know my files, these are complicated subjects which cannot be entrusted to people who are only in the slogan or in the words, you have to be in the actions “said the minister, in response to some criticism from environmental activists.
Following the reshuffle, Greenpeace tweeted that "the personalities chosen" to oversee climate issues within the new government had "no specific experience of their subject or vision of global issues other than a blind belief in the chimeras of green growth and technologies that do not exist”.
The personalities chosen are devoid of political weight.
They and they do not have specific experience of their subject, nor vision of global issues (except a blind belief in the chimeras of green growth and technologies that do not exist).
— Greenpeace France (@greenpeacefr) May 20, 2022
“Everyone has a green streak, because the subject is to save the planet,” said Ms. Pannier-Runacher on BFMTV.
For the Minister, the issue is not so much ecological as industrial: "I think the simplest thing is to say that my mission is to get France out of fossil fuels", she summarized.
Support the industry
According to her, her mission consists above all in continuing to support industrialists, as she did during her previous position: "What I am building is an energy policy that makes it possible to do without fuel, to do without oil, to do without natural gas and therefore to rely on other modes of energy production, ”she said, without specifying deadlines.
Ecology, "this is not a new subject for me", affirmed Ms Pannier-Runacher citing examples of her climate commitment in her previous functions: a report on socially responsible finance and ecological finance in 2002, or the implementation of benchmarks on green investment on behalf of Caisse des Dépôts, a major public investor.
"Thanks to the action I took in the previous government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sites" and the recovery plan, France has "reduced 3.6 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent its emissions, she added, also citing "the strong ecological content" of the France 2030 investment plan, and its work on the "simplification of procedures" for deploying new renewable energies.
Amélie de Montchalin also defended a form of "efficiency" favored by Emmanuel Macron and Élisabeth Borne for her appointment to Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion, also criticized by climate NGOs.
“I never had my card at EELV but I have very strong convictions on global warming and on biodiversity because I am part of a generation that has seen all these changes become concrete,” he said. she insured on France Inter.
Both call for being judged on results.
