The Constitutional Council on Friday largely dismissed an appeal lodged by deputies concerning the climate-resilience law, deemed insufficient against climate change, because their grievances were "excessively general", but without commenting on the compliance of the law with respect to it. to the Constitution.

"The appeal challenged the law taken as a whole", judging that it is part of "" the spiral of inaction which led to non-compliance with France's trajectory in terms of reducing greenhouse gases " "And does not guarantee" the right to live in a balanced environment which respects health, enshrined in Article 1 of the Environmental Charter, "recalls the Constitutional Council in a press release.

"The applicants only develop a general criticism"

"The applicants only develop a general criticism (...) of the insufficiency of the law taken as a whole and therefore do not criticize, in order to request censorship, any particular provision", notes the press release.

"The Constitutional Council deduces from this that their grievance can only be dismissed."

Once the law is in force, there will remain the possibility of contesting its content via the procedure of the priority question of constitutionality (QPC).

More than sixty deputies - PCF, LFI, PS - had seized the Constitutional Council at the end of July concerning the climate-resilience law.

This law, inspired by the work of the Citizen's Convention for the Climate (CCC), and associated with other texts and the recovery plan, will allow France to fulfill its commitments and to "strive towards the objective of -40% »Greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990, assured the Ministry of Ecological Transition when it was adopted by Parliament on July 20.

For many, the account is not there

But many believe that the account is not there, at a time when the group of climate experts of the UN, the IPCC, underlines in their latest report that the climate is changing faster than expected because of human activities.

"We believe that this law deprives legal guarantees + the right to live in a balanced environment and respectful of health + enshrined in Article 1 of the Environmental Charter", said La France insoumise in a press release, to explain referral to the Constitutional Council.

Governments urged to move faster

In Germany, the Constitutional Court last April censored part of the government's climate law, deeming it too unambitious.

The judges ruled that the legislation was "not in conformity with the fundamental rights" of the younger generations, thus forcing Berlin to raise its targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to -65% by 2030 compared to 1990 .

In France, the Council of State ordered the government in early July to do more to meet its greenhouse gas reduction commitments.

Seized by the municipality of Grande-Synthe and several associations, he gave him until March 31 to review his copy.

The High Council for the Climate (HCC), an independent body responsible for evaluating France's climate policy, also considers the efforts made by Paris "insufficient".

Not to mention that the European Commission now wants to reduce EU emissions by 55% by 2030, which will lead to an increase in France's commitments.

Greenpeace France had submitted an "external contribution" to the Constitutional Council (informal legal note) also requesting "the global censorship of the climate and resilience law, in particular because of its lack of effectiveness with regard to the objectives of reducing gas emissions. greenhouse effect and therefore in the face of climate change ”.

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