Climate: from the promise of "filterless" to parliamentary debate

The deputies begin this Monday, March 8 in committee the examination of the emblematic climate bill (illustrative image).

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Text by: Valérie Gas Follow

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In France, the “Climate and Resilience” bill and that which should allow the introduction by referendum of climate protection into the Constitution are being examined this week in the National Assembly.

Barbara Pompili, the Minister for the Ecological Transition, will be on the front line to try to convince that they keep the promises of the Head of State in the face of the Citizen's Convention for the Climate.

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Two and a half out of ten is the average that the members of the Citizen's Climate Convention attributed to the measures proposed by the government.

A severe note at the height of their disappointment in the face of the hopes that Emmanuel Macron had aroused by promising them to transmit their proposals "without filter".

This is the story of a " 

basic misunderstanding

 ", explains a minister for whom the proposals could not be written as they are in the law: "

 We have digested part of it, Parliament will digest another

.

" 

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To read also: Citizen's convention for the climate: the “150” fail the government

A digestion and arbitration faced with which the Minister for the Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili wanted to reassure by declaring that she would

not

accept " 

any drop in ambition 

".

" 

Clumsy 

", estimates a member of the government when the President of the Assembly Richard Ferrand recalls that "

 Parliament is sovereign in the development and the vote of the law 

".

The work in committee therefore promises to be complicated, all the more so as the debate on the referendum proposed by Emmanuel Macron to include environmental protection in Article 1 of the Constitution will take place.

A political coup by the president which appears to be a trap for the right-wing opposition.

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See also: “Climate and resilience” law in France: insufficient with regard to the emergency

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