The LREM deputy for Yvelines, Aurore Bergé.

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Jacques Witt / SIPA

The deputies validated Tuesday evening in committee the establishment of environmental labeling on products, a "carbon score", in the form of an experiment with a view to an obligation, an insufficient measure in the eyes of environmentalists .

The deputies gave the first green light to this article 1 of the climate bill, examined in a special committee before its arrival in the hemicycle at the end of March.

Elected environmentalists like Delphine Batho consider the experiment insufficient and too long, with a maximum duration of five years before obligation.

“When will an environmental labeling finally come into force in France?

Environmental labeling has been the subject of successive laws for twelve years now without ever succeeding, she pointed out Monday evening.

The co-rapporteur Aurore Bergé (LREM) defended these "experiments", a measure of "flexibility" which "does not prevent going faster for the sectors which are ready".

No criteria on human rights or health

On the right, Jean-Marie Sermier (LR) wondered about the “criteria” of this environmental display, “far from relying on indisputable technical elements.

I wonder if we are not creating an ultimately counterproductive gas plant ”.

Several left-wing deputies tried in vain to "enrich" the carbon score, with criteria on human rights, transport or environmental health.

"To want to multiply the ingredients too much, we will just kill the readability of this indicator," warned the general rapporteur LREM Jean-René Cazeneuve.

During the debates, the deputies adopted in particular an amendment of the socialist Gérard Leseul specifying that the posting relates to “the environmental impact”, and not to the simple “environmental characteristics” of the good or the considered service.

Another from Aurore Bergé specifies that the display will take into account greenhouse gas emissions, and any damage to biodiversity and the consumption of natural resources.

A derivative of a proposal from the Citizens' Convention

For agricultural, forestry and food products, an additional amendment provides that the display takes into account the “environmental externalities of production systems”, Aurore Bergé explaining that they could be “negative”, but also “positive” for biodiversity. or landscapes for example.

The Citizen's Climate Convention had proposed "the implementation of a reliable C02-score by 2024".

The Ademe (Ecological Transition Agency) has already launched a voluntary and experimental “environmental display”, in the wake of the law against waste of February 2020, which provided for the testing of such a device for eighteen months.

The climate bill aims to strengthen the measure, with the principle of a term obligation.

The first sector to experiment with the approach is clothing, a particularly polluting industry.

Furniture, hotels and electrical and electronic products are also among the pioneering sectors.

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