France: the Citizen Climate Convention adopts a large number of measures

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In France, the work of the Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC) started this Friday extends until Sunday with the adoption of measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, drawing a "social project" to which Emmanuel Macron will respond at the end of June and which could lead to a referendum.

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The 150 members who participate in the work of the Citizens' Convention will be called upon to decide on the inclusion of the fight against global warming in the Constitution and a whole series of concrete measures.

On the menu in particular: numerous bans which range from advertising screens in space and public transport to the end of the use of GMO seeds and to a higher taxation of nitrogen fertilizers, but also the ban on heated terraces or lighting of stores at night.

Other measures also in sight: limiting speed on motorways to 110 km / h or banning the sale of the most polluting vehicles by offering assistance with the purchase of clean cars.

Other proposals that emerged during the Covid-19 health crisis are, here, at the heart of debates such as the promotion of short circuits and organic food, the development of telework or the limitation of domestic air flights .

So many proposals which, on behalf of the executive, will be validated at the end of the work by the Minister for the Ecological Transition, who has already expressed support for the idea of ​​a referendum.

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