France: home stretch for the Citizen Climate Convention

The 150 citizens drawn for this Citizen Climate Convention meet from Friday to Sunday to vote on about as many proposals, developed over the past nine months. RFI / Agnès Rougier

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This Friday, the seventh and last session of the Citizens' Climate Convention begins. For three days, the 150 French men and women will complete the mission entrusted to them: to identify measures making it possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by 2030 compared to 1990 "in a spirit of social justice ”.

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The program is loaded. The 150 citizens drawn for this exercise in participatory democracy unprecedented at the national level in France will once again amend their proposals and take the last decisions, explains Mélanie, one of the participants: "  We will also vote on everything that is funding. The vehicles we want to use, are we going to hold a referendum, etc. And after, Sunday afternoon, it will be the official delivery of the measurements, she continues. We do not know who will come again, we do not know if it will be the president, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne [Minister of the Ecological and Inclusive Transition]. Here.  "

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President Emmanuel Macron had promised that citizens' proposals would be submitted without filters, either to a vote in Parliament, to a referendum, or to direct regulatory application. Politicians need to take over the work of the Convention, said Alexia, another participant. "  We will start to cross our fingers so that it can be done at the government level. Then normally, in September, October, we will have an answer on our proposals.  "

These members of the Convention therefore cross their fingers, but they do not stop there. A large number of them have already founded an association to continue to lobby after the work is completed.

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