The first “regulatory” measures linked to the Citizens' Climate Convention proposals will be announced next week, before a bill at the end of the summer, said the Minister for Ecological Transition on Monday.
The 150 citizens of the Convention proposed 149 measures with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from France, of which 146 were selected by President Emmanuel Macron, on a wide variety of subjects, from housing to food, through artificialisation of soils or transport.
"Introduce a bill at the end of the summer"
"Now, all the work will be a work of development on the different types of measures: those of a regulatory nature on which we will make some announcements next week, and on the legislative process which will take a little bit of time" , said Barbara Pompili at the end of a meeting between representatives of the 150 and Prime Minister Jean Castex.
"The idea is to present a bill at the end of the summer, that is to say at the turn of September-October and that the text can be examined in session at the beginning of the year 2021", a added Marc Fesneau, Minister Delegate in charge of relations with Parliament and Citizen Participation, assuring of "the will to go fast enough".
"Putting proposals into action is our mission," commented Jean Castex on Twitter.
Moving from proposals to action is our mission.
Three weeks after their discussions with @EmmanuelMacron, I receive in Matignon the members of the #ConventionCitoyenne pour le Climat with @BarbaraPompili and @MFesneau. https://t.co/5FiD14xXAe pic.twitter.com/q7CSjCIKWv
With this in mind, citizens will be associated with this development work, with a first deadline on July 29.
"We have a duty of responsibility"
"On July 29, it will be a follow-up engagement meeting", with a meeting between citizens, parliamentarians, representatives of local authorities, social partners and the government, explained Grégoire Fraty, co-president of the association " the 150 ”. "The mandate of the citizens will not be to negotiate on our measures, it will be to present them, to explain them (...) We have a duty of responsibility to accompany our measures because we do not want them to be misused, misrepresented, appropriate by some and not by others, ”he added.
"We really want to go all the way and not distort what has been proposed," replied Barbara Pompili. But "the citizens have understood that there will inevitably be adjustments because the concrete reality, we must all rub it, we as the citizens".
Some climate advocates fear that the environment is not the priority of the new government.
Jean Castex "is faithful to his reputation for wanting to go into execution," said activist Cyril Dion, one of the guarantors of the Convention, on Monday, leaving the meeting. “I reminded him that the Grenelle de l'Environnement had made a lot of noise, with a lot of announcements, but we had finally had few results. And the idea is not to start again in a similar process ”.
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