In order to accelerate the ecological transition, the recovery plan concocted by the executive plans to invest eleven million euros in transport, half of which in railways and everyday mobility.
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Prime Minister Jean Castex must detail this Thursday, at the end of the Council of Ministers, the 70 measures and 100 billion euros in aid from the recovery plan.
The ambition is to regain by the end of 2022 the level of wealth that we had before the crisis, we repeat to Matignon.
But also to prepare France for the challenges of 2030.
This then leaves room, in this plan, for the ecological transition.
The executive even makes it one of the three pillars and allocates 30 billion euros.
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A little more than 6.5 billion euros in youth employment, to help those who are preparing to enter the labor market in this degraded context;
1.9 billion on vocational training;
500 million on digital development in the territories;
150 million for the renovation of shops in the city center ...
We stop there, because the list is long.
This Thursday, at the end of the Council of Ministers, Jean Castex will present in detail the recovery plan concocted by the government to raise the country from the health crisis of Covid 19. The exercise should resemble the enumeration of a long list of numbers.
Those of the amounts associated with the 70 measures which should make it possible to regain, by the end of 2022, the level of wealth that we had before the crisis, we repeat to Matignon.
Preparing for 2030 and the greening of the economy
In total, there is 100 billion euros in aid spread between 2020 and 2022. The stake is twofold, we resume in the entourage of the Prime Minister.
These 70 measures must both allow economic activity to be revived in the short term, but also be part of long-term priorities and prepare France for the 2030 horizon.
This then leaves room, in this plan, for the ecological transition.
The executive even makes it one of the three pillars, alongside the consolidation of our production base and our sectors of excellence [in non-technocratic jargon: the reindustrialization of the country] and the strengthening of our social cohesion [otherwise said, this stimulus package must benefit everyone!].
Of these three pillars, it is the ecological transition that the executive puts forward.
Or at least present first.
The government first announced that it wanted to devote 20 billion euros out of the 100, before finally raising the bar to 30. A figure confirmed on Wednesday.
There would be enough to allow an unprecedented acceleration of the ecological transition, say one in the entourage of Barbara Pompili, Minister of the Ecological Transition.
The general spirit displayed is to open up all the fields of this transition, starting with those which emit the most greenhouse gases today: transport, the energy consumption of our buildings, industry and 'Agriculture.
Train, energy renovation of buildings, hydrogen ...
Eleven billion euros will thus be devoted to transport, more than half of which will go to rail and everyday mobility (public transport, bicycle, etc.).
Nearly 7 billion euros will be injected into the energy renovation of buildings, including a large chunk (4 billion euros) for public buildings (school, university, etc.), but also another 2 billion for housing.
On this aspect, the executive intends to make “MaPrimeRénov” its main tool to accelerate energy renovations.
Launched this year, this new aid was previously intended for households with modest incomes.
It will be extended to all French people on January 1, 2021, according to Barbara Pompili's entourage.
If we continue, 1.2 billion euros will go to the agro-ecological transition, in particular via aid for healthier, more local food.
Finally, another 9 billion are planned to support the ecological transition of companies and invest in technologies that should allow France to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050. Among this is hydrogen, potentially carbon-free energy if produced. from renewable energy.
This is precisely the ambition displayed in this recovery plan: to develop a green hydrogen sector in France.
A plan of 100 million euros had already been launched last year in this regard.
This time, we are going to change scale, since 2 billion euros will be allocated to the take-off of green hydrogen in France, we announced to the Ministry of Ecological Transition.
"Look at the recovery plan as a whole"
All that enticing?
Arnaud Schwartz, president of France Nature Environnement, like Meike Fink, responsible for "just climate transition" of the Climate Action Network (RAC), are not so sure and invite to look at this recovery plan as a whole, and not just in focusing on the “ecological transition” pillar.
"What is 30 billion euros if, alongside, France continues to strongly support fossil fuels, provides in its recovery plan 20 billion euros of reduction in production taxes over two years without environmental compensation? , allocates 300 million for nuclear?
“Asked Arnaud Schwartz last Tuesday during an exchange with the press, thus pointing to a lack of consistency.
"We had requested that there be a study of the environmental impact of the measures of the recovery plan before and after its execution," he continues.
This is not the case.
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Meike Fink awaits the presentation in detail of this recovery plan, this Thursday, to get a more precise idea.
But she already points to another concern: "The announced aid will stop in 2022. What will happen on that date?" She points out.
It is not a detail.
One of the keys to a successful ecological transition is to ensure long-term visibility for businesses, citizens and communities on the aid they can benefit from to reduce their environmental impacts.
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