The Citizens' Climate Convention hands over its work to Emmanuel Macron

Emmanuel Macron in front of the members of the Citizen Climate Convention in Paris on January 10, 2020. Yoan Valat / Pool via REUTERS

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In France, the 150 citizens of the Climate Convention drawn by lot worked for 8 months, and this Monday, June 29, they are submitting to Emmanuel Macron their proposals for measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40%, by compared to 1990, by 2030. The president who had committed himself at the beginning of the convention to transmit them, "without filter", to the various authorities.

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Accommodation, consumption, production and work, food, these are the themes that are treated in the proposals of the convention.

“  In fact, all of society is impacted by our proposals. At the highest level of the state, ecological transition must be a political or an action engine because otherwise we are going into the wall. The economy must be at the service of the energy transition,  ”says Hugues Olivier, one of the citizens.

But taking into account all the measures proposed by the convention and changing priorities could be expensive, some will retort. This is not the opinion of Benoît Leguet, the president of the Institute of the economy for the climate (I4CE), because if measures cost money, others bring back.

"  We made a calculation of these measures," he explains. We arrive at a total annual cost of 6 billion euros per year for public finances for citizen measures. And for these 6 billion that citizens offer, it is ultimately to have benefits, that is to say a reduction in greenhouse gases, it is reduced air pollution, it is comfort sometimes higher thermal, etc. And then there may be employment in the key. In the end, we see a very modest cost. We are not on a Marshall plan, we are on a surgical plan and we just have to implement it. "

For the citizens of the convention , the work does not stop with the submission of the proposals to Emmanuel Macron, they have created an association, "les 150", to ensure monitoring and promotion.

Read also: Ecocide, car, food: the Citizen's Climate Convention makes its proposals

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