The government wants to train 3.000 state executives per month in ecological transition from September

Eleven months after the announcement of this training plan, the objective remains to train some 25.000 state civil service executives in ecological transition "by 2024", and the 5,7 million public officials by the end of Emmanuel Macron's five-year term in 2027.

To achieve this objective, it was imperative to accelerate the pace of training, which has so far only benefited 200 central administration directors and a handful of senior state officials in the Auvergne Rhône- Alps.

“Here we are at the time of the transition to scale”, therefore affirmed Thursday the Minister of the Public Service Stanislas Guerini in front of an audience of ambassadors who came to the Parisian premises of the National Institute of Public Service (INSP, ex-ENA ) to start training in the ecological transition.

"We are going to move on to the industrialization of our training: from September, 3.000 executives of our administration will be trained every month", assured the minister.

The roughly hundred ambassadors and permanent representatives of France present Thursday in Paris then attended a conference by hydrologist Emma Haziza, before dispersing into small groups to participate in workshops.

The training offered to senior civil servants, lasting 28 hours, is structured around three stages: understanding the "three crises" (biodiversity, climate, resources), workshops to identify the means of action and finally declination of the achievements training in the
authorities.

On track in the state civil service, this training took longer to start in the territorial civil service, where 12.000 senior civil servants are to be trained by 2025.

"The ministry is working with the CNFPT (the professional training body for communities, editor's note) to strengthen the synergies" between the training courses for the ecological transition which already exist in the territorial public service and those of state and hospital executives , tells AFP the entourage of Stanislas Guerini.

The CNFPT also undertook in March to train 100.000 territorial executives in ecological transition within three years, insists the ministry.

In the hospital public service, where 6.500 executives must be trained by 2025, the training plan was launched in mid-July by Stanislas Guerini.

The minister finally indicated on Thursday that a vast "plan for the ecological transformation of the State" would be unveiled in September, on the occasion of the Council for Ecological Planning, scheduled before the summer but postponed until the start of the school year due to reorganization of the government.

This transformation plan will include measures on the thermal renovation of public buildings, responsible purchasing or the greening of the state's car fleet, listed Stanislas Guerini.

It will also aim to bring together the multiple sobriety plans announced since the fall, relating in particular to the reduction of gas, electricity and water consumption.