Invited Monday from Europe Midi, Jean-Marc Jancovici, member of the High Council for the climate, estimated that the economic policy of the government contradicted the stated objectives in terms of the fight against global warming, especially in the absence of lasting solutions for combine growth and ecology.
INTERVIEW
Will the measures recommended by the Citizen's Climate Convention find a legislative transcription that spares both the demands of environmentalists and concerns about economic growth?
At the microphone of Europe 1 Monday morning, the Minister of Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, assured that 40% of the proposals made would appear in the Climate Bill, while the arbitrations must be made this week.
"I am waiting for a consistency of the State, between what it says it wants to do on the climate part and what it does in other areas", declares for his part at the microphone of Europe Midi Jean-Marc Jancovici, member of the High Council for the Climate.
"I am not sure, unfortunately, that the law resulting from the work of the Citizens' Convention will lead the government to resolve its own contradictions", nevertheless considers this energy and climate specialist.
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Few comprehensive solutions to the climate and environmental problem
In his view, most of the solutions implemented by the government to try to respond to environmental issues raise as many problems as they solve them.
He cites in particular the construction of new housing to fight against thermal strainers.
"Should we continue to build new, knowing that individual new is urban sprawl? Should we continue to create commercial areas on the outskirts of the city?" Asks Jean-Marc Jancovici.
"If the new one is good, it doesn't deal with all the problems."
He also cites the example of hydrogen, a sector in which the government intends to inject seven billion over ten years, while its manufacture still depends very largely on fossil fuels.
"We still do not know how to invent low-carbon growth"
"We are trying to do exactly the opposite of what we say we want to do," he continues, citing the recovery plan for the aviation sector, whose traffic has been strongly impacted by the health crisis, "and that the 'it is difficult to make it compatible with a sharp drop in CO2 emissions. "
The eco-tax recommended by the Citizens' Convention on Air Transport should also be postponed to 2024.
"Today, we still do not know how to invent low-carbon growth", summarizes our specialist.
"Growing the economy means increasing the number of machines that work for us, but reducing the CO2 emissions of these machines, nobody knows how to do it!", Deplores Jean-Marc Jancovici.