Members of the government during a meeting with citizens of the Climate Convention, September 30 in Matignon.

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The citizens of the Climate Convention called on Monday for the “formal and public commitment” of Emmanuel Macron, in a letter which deplores the absence of “clear support” from the government for their proposals and a “lack of general ambition ”For the ecological transition.

While concerns are mounting about a unraveling of their proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the association of participants in CCC “The 150” has decided to “personally and directly challenge” the president in this published letter. online, to let him know about "difficulties encountered".

"We have the feeling of lacking clear and defined support from the executive whose positions sometimes appear contradictory", they write.

"In a period when communications openly hostile to our proposals are formulated by certain professional actors, discordant ministerial statements on the subjects of air transport, advertising, the deployment of 5G, the reduction in VAT relating to transport railway, or others, come to reinforce the disorder and obscure the presidential word ”, they added.

A lack of ambition denounced

"We are attentive to the constraints and aware of the challenges raised by the implementation of our recommendations, but we cannot continue to defend each of them when we are struggling to find in the actions of the government the general ambition of 'an effective ecological transition,' they still denounce.

In this context, "we therefore ask you to reaffirm your formal and public commitment in favor of the unfiltered examination of our proposals", they plead.

Emmanuel Macron had committed in June to take 146 of the 149 proposals of the Convention, while releasing three "jokers".

Faced with statements by ministers seeming to rule out additional measures and accusations from NGOs blaming the government for unraveling the proposals, the representatives of the “150” were received at the end of September by Prime Minister Jean Castex and Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili to try to reassure them.

A few days later, the executive itself admitted to considering postponing certain measures, justifying it by the recession due to the Covid-19 crisis.

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