So the Medef called for a moratorium on environmental rules, Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of Ecological Transition, assured, this Tuesday on Franceinfo, that it would not yield "anything", advocating on the contrary the ecological transition as "better strategy" to end the crisis.
"I say it very clearly, I will not yield anything to those who would like to go back on environmental standards and I refused any moratorium," said Elisabeth Borne, estimating that "opposing ecology and economy is totally out of date".
"Measures that combine economy and ecology"
"I am convinced that ecological transition is the best strategy for creating jobs after the crisis," she insisted. In the midst of a health and economic crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic, Medef asked the minister at the start of April in a letter to a "six-month moratorium" on the implementation of a series of environmental measures .
The employers' organization aimed in particular the application of the new law on the fight against waste and on recycling but also the National Low Carbon Strategy or the planned establishment of low emission zones (ZFE) to limit pollution of air by road traffic. "I am working on measures that combine economy and ecology," insisted Elisabeth Borne Tuesday, referring in particular to the possible creation of "hundreds of thousands of jobs in the thermal renovation of buildings".
A plan for setting up “charging stations for electric vehicles”
She also hoped that telework "could become a common and massive practice to reduce travel" and indicated preparing a "major plan to establish charging stations for electric vehicles". In terms of mobility, she also assured that the government would "maintain the CO2 emission standards for cars".
"We are no longer in 2008 and today, on the contrary, we must support the hundreds of thousands of companies that are engaged in the ecological transition", in particular the car manufacturers who have invested in electric vehicles, she said. yet declared.
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