"I expect seriousness and honesty," said in an interview with the Sunday Journal Laurence Tubiana, the president of the European Climate Foundation, who co-chaired the governance committee of the Convention which brought together 150 responsible citizens to think about a package of solutions in the fight against global warming. The Convention must be received Monday by Emmanuel Macron.
"Amazing to dwell on details"
"I find it mind-boggling to dwell on details, such as this so-called emblematic measure of limitation to 110 km / h on the highway. I hope that there will be no hostage-taking of all the work that they have accomplished on some measures of this kind, "she adds, while President Macron is due to deliver initial responses to these proposals on Monday.
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"Today, we are mobilizing significant financial means for emergency and recovery plans. We must take advantage of this to steer the French economy in another direction. (...) We are living in a rocking moment. So yes it is a turning point and it must be taken ", she continues, saying that it was necessary to act" immediately "," in the amending finance law for 2020 and in the budget for 2021 ".
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"We need a political awakening"
"There is no miracle, it is not a sector that will do everything. For example, we have a national low carbon strategy led by the Ministry of Ecological Transition. But not only is it not shared by the government and in addition it is not sufficient ", still believes that which was the linchpin of the Paris Agreement of 2015." Agriculture, housing, transport ... all ministries must get started. an awakening of the politicians. The citizens, they understood, "concludes the economist.
The CCC adopted on June 22 a series of proposals and notably called to submit to referendum the introduction of the fight against global warming in the Constitution, and the creation of a crime "of ecocide".