"Climate and Resilience", here is the name of the bill resulting, in part, from the proposals of the Citizen's Convention for the Climate (CCC), which was presented Wednesday to the Council of Ministers.

If the government defends a breaking text, for environmentalists and associations, the latter lacks ambition and the measures are still insufficient. 

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The government's “Climate and Resilience” bill, which reflects part of the 146 proposals of the Citizen's Climate Convention (CCC), was presented to the Council of Ministers on Wednesday.

The text has sixty-nine articles, or a third of the proposals, on different themes widely studied by the citizens drawn by lot.

Consumption, food, housing: environmentalists and associations recognize positive points, but this bill is still not up to the climate emergency according to them. 

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For its part, the executive defends a text of "rupture", with strong measures.

The end of energy sieves by 2028, the ban on certain domestic flights when there is an alternative by train of less than 2.5 hours provided several times a day, or the end of the sale of thermal vehicles that emit the most in 2030, for example. 

Watered-down measures for environmentalists and associations

For environmentalists and NGOs, these measures are insufficient.

They criticize the bill for a lack of ambition and watered down measures compared to the proposals of the members of the Convention made public last June.

The creation of a crime of ecocide has been replaced by an offense.

The measure in favor of the ban on advertising of the most polluting products is limited, with this bill, to the ban on advertising for fossil fuels.

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"The account is not there at all. The government and the president made their market: they sorted, they removed the most impactful measures", reacts the deputy Matthieu Orphelin, ex-LREM.

"The law will hopefully save 13 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030, where it would rather be 50 or 60 million tonnes of CO2 [savings] by then. is how we can improve the actions and ambition of this law. " 

Presented as one of the last major texts of the five-year term, the bill arrives at the Assembly in March for debates which are already promising to be tough.