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The results of the Citizens Climate Convention will be known over the weekend. After being drawn, the 150 citizens who compose it worked for nine months on as many concrete solutions to fight climate change. The final session began Friday at the EESC (Economic, Social and Environmental Council) in order to vote on the proposals they will submit to the executive on Sunday. Emmanuel Macron pledged himself Friday to come back to them on June 29 to inform them of his arbitrations. Europe 1 takes stock of the next steps to come.
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For a "countrywide" deliberation
The President of the Republic had decided to organize this Convention after the crisis of "yellow vests" in order to propose a new form of direct democracy on environmental issues which have become omnipresent in public debate. He had declared in January, during exchanges with members of the Convention, that he undertook that "strong decisions (be) taken" on the basis of these proposals, with the possibility "on some measures, (d) appeal to a referendum. "
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Guest of Europe 1, Friday, Cyril Dion, the guarantor of the Citizen's Climate Convention, environmental activist and documentary filmmaker of the film Tomorrow, recalls that the goal is that "this plan goes before the rest of the French people with the referendum or before the national representation in Parliament or both - most likely it will be both - so that this deliberation can take place across the country. " He also underlines that Emmanuel Macron "is committed to passing the measures without filter to Parliament, to the referendum and to the regulatory application".
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The 150 citizens therefore expect a lot from the executive. "We want strong positions from the government to accept our proposals," said Héloïse, 17. "We have been asked to work, we have fulfilled our mandate. Today we are awaiting responses from this executive who has made promises to us. We really want things to happen," she said.
Ready-to-use legislative proposals
Friday morning, the 150 citizens began by examining the proposals concerning transport. For example, lowering the speed to 110 km / h on the highway or banning domestic flights if there are alternatives of less than four hours. Among the other proposals, we should also note that of banning the advertising of the most polluting products. A total of 150 proposals will therefore be reviewed, a record of which Michael is proud who says he is "satisfied" with the work accomplished by the Convention. "We did not think, nine months ago, to get there. It seemed so huge the work to be done," he recalls.
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Some measures have been translated into ready-to-use legislative proposals. "The citizens have worked with lawyers so that these proposals can go directly to Parliament or to the referendum and they have even worked on financing. They will tell the government how it can do to finance them," explains Cyril Dion. For the guarantor of the Convention, this is the time when ever to talk about money. "The question is what type of economy we want for the future: do we want to continue as before or set up an economy that saves us from going through an even more serious crisis than the coronavirus with climate change ? "
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At the end of the weekend, the 150 citizens will therefore submit their final proposals to Elisabeth Borne who declared herself Friday in favor of a referendum concerning the proposals of the Convention. "A referendum is possible if citizens demand it," said the Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition on Franceinfo Friday. "Personally I think it would be a very good referendum on ecological issues," she added.