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Coronavirus, economy, employment of young people ... Emmanuel Macron made a series of various and varied announcements this Tuesday during his interview with Léa Salamé and Gilles Bouleau, as part of a completely new July 14th. But what about ecology? The President of the Republic mentioned several measures, such as his desire for a "massive redevelopment of rail freight, night trains or small lines", the reminder of his ambition of a major program of energy renovation of schools and Ehpad, or his desire to include the fight against global warming in the Constitution "as soon as possible". But that still remains far from the account, according to certain environmental defenders.
July 14: what to remember from the interview with Emmanuel Macron
"We are still too vague"
"For the moment, we are still too vague about the part that this ecological transition can occupy in the way out of the crisis, and in this construction of a new path", comments on the microphone of Europe 1 the deputy Matthieu Orphan, ex-walker and close to Nicolas Hulot. On an interview of 1h20, he calculated the time spent by Emmanuel Macron to talk about ecology, and according to him, it is only seven minutes. "It is going in the right direction, this is the beginning. There are still a lot of subjects on which we can do much better," said WWF France President Isabelle Autissier.
"An exceptional shooting window"
A guest of Europe 1's "Big Evening Newspaper" a few hours after the president's interview, she said that France "has an exceptional window of fire" to initiate a real green transition. "We are putting hundreds of billions on the table [to revive the economy], but this money must not be used to remake 'the world before'. It would not save us from the next crises." According to his association, it is "a million jobs by 2022" that could grow in France with a successful ecological transition, or "double what we have by reviving the world of before".
As for the request of the Citizens Convention on the climate to include "as quickly as possible" the fight against global warming in article 1 of the Constitution, the ex-navigator admits that it is " a significant advance ".
The fight for climate in the Constitution? "A very good sign"
A point of view also shared by Grégoire Fraty, one of the 150 citizens of the Convention. "It is a very good sign for us," he explains to the microphone of Europe 1. "We are still talking about asking all French people on a Sunday morning to speak out for or against the protection of biodiversity, of the climate, and the fight against climate change. "
All believe that the President was not concrete enough, but hope that the speech of general policy of Prime Minister Jean Castex, scheduled Wednesday in the National Assembly, will meet their expectations.