The Ministry of Ecological Transition is one of those who could see their budget increase in 2022. By 1.5 billion euros, to reach 49.9 billion.
This makes the Hôtel de Roquelaure say that we have never invested so much in ecological transition.
This increased budget will already make it possible "to put a brake on the reductions in the workforce of the ministry", it is said in the entourage of the minister, Barbara Pompili.
And even to create 20 full-time equivalents in national parks.
Support systems for ecological transition will also be strengthened.
This is particularly the case with “MaPrimeRénov '” for the energy renovation of buildings.
But it's not all a question of amounts, we say to the Climate Action Network.
Almost 50 billion euros… 49.9 to be precise.
This is the amount allocated to the Ministry of Ecological Transition in the 2022 draft budget presented this Wednesday.
A budget that devotes a "spending euphoria", we attack in the opposition.
At this stage, the government is forecasting a reduction in state spending of 34.5 billion euros (- 7.9%), with the reduction in emergency and stimulus support.
But the so-called “controllable” expenses, which correspond to the actions of the ministries, will increase by nearly 12 billion euros, AFP said.
The ecological transition benefits greatly.
With 49.9 billion euros, therefore, its 2022 budget "will increase by 3%, a little over 1.5 billion euros," said the Hôtel de Roquelaure.
"This is its highest historical level, and this amount is in addition to the 30 billion euros of the recovery plan dedicated to ecological transition, of which 70% must be committed by the end of 2021, the remainder at the start next year, specifies an adviser to the minister, Barbara Pompilli.
This portfolio, which may have been the poor relation of public action during the previous five years, is now among the best endowed.
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Job creation in national parks
These additional funds will already allow "to put a brake on the reductions in the workforce of the ministry", insists one at the Hotel de Roquelaure. The ministry has been greatly affected on this point in recent years, in the name of controlling public spending. With decreases of an average of 1,200 full-time equivalents per year, we remind you at the Hôtel de Rocquelaure. These will be limited to 350 in 2022. "For fifteen years, the water agencies have lost 2.5% of their staff each year, we put an end to it in the 2022 budget", illustrates Barbara Pompili in a press release . The staff of the French Biodiversity Office and the Coastal Conservatory will also be made permanent in 2022, after the decreases in recent years.
There will also be job creation.
Twenty, in particular, in national parks.
"Ten assigned to the Champagne and Burgundy National Park [the last to have been created, in November 2019], the other ten reinforcing the ten existing parks", details an advisor from Bérangère Abba, Secretary of State for Biodiversity.
This will bring the numbers of these national pars from 803 to 823 agents.
My PrimeRénov 'in the big winners
These additional allocations will also go to strengthening the mechanisms put in place to accelerate the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
In detail, 5.9 billion euros are devoted to ecological transition (+ 13% over one year), 17 billion to housing (+ 7%), 8 billion to transport (+ 3%) and 1.8 billion looking.
Among the big winners, there is “MaPrimeRenov '”, launched in January 2020 to replace the Energy Transition Tax Credit (CITE), which has existed since September 2014. The idea remains to encourage French households to undertake renovation. energy efficiency of their homes. No longer by a tax credit, but by an open premium, at the beginning of 2021, to all owners regardless of their income. In spring 2020, the recovery plan allocated 2 billion euros to MaPrimeRenov ', with the ambition to reach 400,000 renovation files by the end of 2021. This objective was exceeded this summer, and the government plans to reach over 800,000 cases by the end of the year. An unexpected success which pushes the executive to perpetuate this device in 2022 by granting it an additional 2 billion.“We need to give visibility to households and the sector,” explains an advisor to Barbara Pompili, recalling that the building sector represents more than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in France.
Announcements welcomed by environmental NGOs?
"It is certainly good news that the allocated budget is increasing," notes Meike Fink, just climate transition manager at the Climate Action Network (RAC), a federation of NGOs.
But today we are in the “hard” part of the ecological transition, we can no longer be satisfied with “light green” policies… The work of I4CE (Institute of the Economy for the Climate - NGO specializing in the economy and finance) have shown that we are far, in terms of public spending, from a path that will allow us to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030. ”
"Better orient MaPrimeRénov aid" "
Nor is it all just a question of the amounts allocated. "Ecological transition aid programs must be well targeted," Meike Fink recalls. This is the whole problem of MaPrimeRénov ', which therefore benefits from an increasingly important budget, but is not oriented towards efficient renovations; 80% of the 500,000 cases initiated concern a single type of work, mostly boiler changes. We are very far from what should be done to improve the energy classes of our housing stock. "
The Cler-Réseau association for ecological transition, a member of the RAC, therefore called for "a rapid reorientation of MaPrimeRénov 'towards efficient renovations aimed at low consumption building (BBC)". This implies to encourage as much as possible the overall renovations of housing, not in spurts. "In this context of inexorable increases in energy prices, achieving the BBC ambition will reduce consumption and bills and will significantly and durably protect households, particularly those in energy poverty," said the Cler.
However, “there are already aid mechanisms that allow more ambitious renovations,” continues Meike Fink.
Since this year, MaPrimeRénov has included a comprehensive renovation package - a bonus boosting aid for the largest projects.
The just climate transition manager at RAC also cites the “Better living” program.
"It targets low-income households living in precariousness and sets up real support in their renovation work, with an obligation of result in the energy performance achieved", she explains.
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