Ecological planning: Macron is “not at the right pace”, environmentalists denounce

The President of the Republic explains "that basically, with technological solutions in 10, 20 or 30 years, we will begin to solve the problems", explained the former Europe Écologie-Les Verts presidential candidate on France2, accusing Emmanuel Macron for wanting to “trick with climate change”.

"He tells us 'finally, we're going to get through the drops' (...), the problem is that it's no longer drops today, it's torrents of mud," he said. added, regretting that he did not announce measures in particular to adapt housing to climate change.

The heat pumps that the Head of State wants to mass produce by 2027, "if homes are not insulated, there will be very heavy energy bills", recalled Mr. Jadot, elected to the Senate on Sunday.

"I was waiting for them to say 'our big project which will bring us together, it will be this climate challenge' (...), and we will not be interested in it in 10, 20 or 30 years", insisted the brand new senator from Paris.

Evoking an “extremely interesting planning exercise” and a “fairly lucid, unprecedented” diagnosis, EELV national secretary Marine Tondelier regretted on Public Senate that “people are not in the plan” of the president. “Ecology in the end is not for the economy, it is for the people,” she recalled.

She particularly pointed out the absence of a plan to limit highway projects, mega-basins or even factory farms and more generally livestock farming. “We are told that 12% of the country's CO2 emissions are linked to meat, livestock farming or the consumption of meat” and “there is nothing on this subject, hold on, in the plan. “Planning is good, meetings, communication, but you need action,” she said.

Beyond that, she regretted that "the billions, (we) hear them all the time, everywhere", but "we don't know what to do about", recalling the environmentalist proposal for a green ISF. It would also “make it possible to free up a lot of financial margins” to “do something very simple: more happiness for people, to ensure that they live better, that they eat better, that they move around better, ( ...) that they breathe better air, it’s a very simple project.”