A “major consultation” under the aegis of the National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP) will be launched on France's energy and climate strategy, Matignon announced on Friday.
“A major consultation will be launched under the aegis of the CNDP (…) which covers all of the two plans, both PPE (multi-annual energy programming) and SNBC (national low carbon strategy)”, said Matignon told the press, the day after a meeting during which Prime Minister Gabriel Attal made this announcement to environmental NGOs.
The consultation will focus on the one hand on the PPE, France's energy roadmap (which energies, nuclear and renewable, by 2030 and 2035), and on the SNBC, the plan to reduce carbon emissions.
“The referral letter will be sent soon,” said Matignon, without further details on the timetable or the organization.
“What we are now waiting for is political support for this consultation by the Prime Minister and for there to be a commitment to take it into account in the final documents,” Anne Bringault, transition manager, commented to AFP. energy of the Climate Action Network.
“Find new consensus”
Announced in the Council of Ministers for the beginning of February, the energy bill was ultimately cut in January from its energy production and carbon emissions reduction objectives, before disappearing from the radar, against a backdrop of difficulty for the government to form a majority in Parliament around energy issues.
However, these guidelines appeared in a 102-page government document published in the fall, the French Strategy for Energy and Climate (SFEC), with conclusions largely based on work carried out over several months by a wide range of stakeholders ( associations, industrialists, energy companies, etc.).
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To explain this postponement of the programmatic aspect of the law, Bercy had highlighted the need to “finalize the consultation work on our energy and climate strategy” and “find new consensus”.
Today the bill is postponed to an unknown date, in any case it is not on the parliamentary agenda until the summer.
A first online consultation on the SFEC was organized following its publication.
His report has not been published.