"I would like Emmanuel Macron to launch the first recovery plan aligned with the Paris agreement," said Pascal Canfin, LREM MEP and chairman of the Environment Committee of the European Parliament. The former EELV member, number 2 on the "Renaissance" list in the 2019 European elections, believes that "the government's decisions are going in the right direction". But according to him, "the global package is missing: it is necessary that 25 billion euros, in the next two years, be dedicated to the ecological transition".
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Indeed, "the president would gain, before the summer, by explaining the overall vision by saying that for the first time in French economic history, our investment plan is part of the trajectory of carbon neutrality "explains Pascal Canfin, adding that" this public money will come, among other things, from the European recovery plan "intended for post-pandemic economic recovery.
"It's time to have a supply and demand shock on the bike," he explains, citing the massive creation of cycle paths. He also requests that the State allow investment in the train by paying off the SNCF debt and that "the conversion premium for diesel and petrol cars" "cannot benefit buyers of SUVs".
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In unison with almost all of the left and environmentalists, he wanted "a big plan for thermal insulation of buildings" and "get out of glyphosate in late 2020". Asked about his dialogue with the French executive, he said he spoke with Emmanuel Macron and assured that "the ecological transition contract with Air France is directly the result of discussions with Bruno Le Maire".