Emmanuel Macron during the meeting at the Elysée with French Tech players, September 14, 2020. -

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Will the Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC) give rise to a binding law or simply remain at the stage of ideas?

Doubt is in order while the application of its proposals is already creating a stir, between disputed “consultations” and statements by the president referring worried 5G about 5G to the “oil lamp”.

The 150 members of the CCC had also called for a moratorium on 5G in the 149 proposals submitted to the president in June.

Emmanuel Macron then undertook to take back 146 of them, without saying which ones would go by the wayside.

The declarations of the Head of State on Monday in front of French Tech players made it clear that additional time for the deployment of new mobile technology was to be forgotten.

Too long delays

The timeframe for the implementation of ideas is also a problem.

Certain proposals, such as the energy renovation of buildings, were to find a place in the recovery plan, others in a specific bill.

Initially announced for the end of the summer, it is now "by the end of the year", according to the Ministry of Ecological Transition which has just launched a series of "consultations" to prepare it.

On eight themes - ranging from ecological renovation to agriculture via advertising, they bring together administration, actors from the sectors, NGOs and representatives of "citizens" who worked nine months to propose solutions aimed at reducing "by minus 40% greenhouse gas emissions (…) in a spirit of social justice ”.

But divisions quickly took over on certain proposals, less consensual than energy renovation or the promotion of cycling.

Like road and air transport, big polluters but also big employers and very weakened by the crisis.

The professional organizations of the road transport of goods thus denounced after a meeting Saturday “a meeting without space of concertation” and “unsuitable measures”, in “out of step with the requirements of competitiveness”.

Djebbari stir up tensions

The meeting on air transport is being held this Wednesday, after being postponed for several days.

But environmental NGOs, an ultra-minority in the 40 or so guests, decided on Tuesday evening to boycott "a biased process".

They denounce in particular an impact study "dependent", insisting for example on the estimate of 70,000 jobs and 3 billion GDP that the ban on domestic flights would cost if there is an alternative in less than four hours.

The exit of the Minister Delegate for Transport Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, estimating Monday on Europe 1 that the measures of the CCC would "complete a sector already on land", was particularly noted.

Above all, for the Ministry of Ecological Transition, there is no question of committing to the transposition as such of the CCC proposals in the future bill.

“The president said from the outset that there would be adjustment work.

In the end, it is the government that will decide, ”assumes the entourage of Barbara Pompili.

Even though the climate is very tense, all is not lost.

The CCC is now waiting to judge the law on documents.

It will then meet for the last time, as planned from its creation, to publicly assess the authorities' response to its proposals.

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