The Council of Ministers (illustration).

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It is this Wednesday that the government in the Council of Ministers is considering the Climate Bill.

Long-awaited, the text comes from the proposals of the Citizen's Convention for the Climate and represents, one year before the presidential election, a real test for the credibility of Emmanuel Macron's environmental commitments.

The government assures us: this text called “Climate and resilience” will make it “credible” the achievement of the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 compared to 1990. With its 65 articles, this law "ambitious and rich whose government has nothing to be ashamed of", "anchors ecology in French society and makes the last kilometer of the ecological transition", one declares to Matignon.

"Why settle for so little?

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An assertion that is however far from unanimous, as shown by the rain of critics who accuse the executive of unraveling the 149 proposals of the Climate Convention.

Criticisms from environmental activists, but also from certain citizens themselves.

“The law is so lacking in muscle that I no longer even recognize our Convention goals.

Where is the big victory for the climate?

Why settle for so little?

", Was carried away on Twitter William Aucant, one of the 150 citizens.

Apart from the three measures rejected from the outset by the Head of State, such as the demand for a moratorium on 5G, the government ensures that all the other citizens' proposals are implemented (75) or in the process of being implemented. work (71), including fifty in this bill, a privileged tool for their deployment.

In committee in the Assembly in March

But if the measures presented are "generally relevant", they are often "limited", "deferred", and "subject to conditions such that one doubts to see them implemented in the near term", ruled the Economic Council , social and environmental (Cese).

The many criticisms point especially to “watered down” measures, in particular on the demand for the creation of a “crime of ecocide” which has become an offense in the bill.

Given the scope of the areas covered by this law, from education to finance through local communities, a special committee of the National Assembly should examine the text in March, before going through the hemicycle in April.

Citizens must meet for the last time officially at the end of February to judge the response of the executive to their proposals.

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