Climate law: the Sages reject the appeal of the deputies, without commenting on the merits

The Sages of rue montpensier ruled out on Friday the appeal of several left-wing deputies and environmentalists concerning the climate-resilience law.

The EELV candidate for the 2022 presidential primary, Sandrine Rousseau, reacts to the microphone of Europe 1 to this news.

For her, the law is not ambitious enough. 

The Constitutional Council on Friday largely dismissed an appeal filed by deputies concerning the climate-resilience law, deemed insufficient against climate change, because their grievances were "excessively general", but without commenting on the compliance of the law with respect to it. to the Constitution.

"The applicants only develop a general criticism (...) of the insufficiency of the law taken as a whole and therefore do not criticize, in order to request censorship, any particular provision", notes the press release.

"The Constitutional Council deduces that their complaint can only be dismissed."

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"I would obviously have preferred that they take a decision acknowledging the lack of ambition of the law", reacts Sandrine Rousseau, EELV candidate for the primary for the presidential election of 2022 at the microphone of Europe 1. "The appeal challenged the law taken as a whole ", judging that it fits" in the spiral of inaction which led to the non-respect of the trajectory of France in terms of reduction of greenhouse gases "and does not guarantee" the right to live in a balanced environment that respects health, enshrined in Article 1 of the Environmental Charter, "the Constitutional Council recalls in a press release. 

"France must absolutely pass a course"

For Sandrine Rousseau, the climate-resilience law, "does not make it possible to achieve the objectives that France has set itself for reducing greenhouse gases".

The candidate EELV in the primary for the presidential election of 2022 also recalls that the country is "behind" compared to other European nations in the fight against climate change.

"Today, France absolutely must pass a course", she assures.

Before adding: "it is in France that the historic COP 21 agreement was signed and it is in France that we must set an example."

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Once the law is in force, there will remain the possibility of contesting its content via the procedure of the priority question of constitutionality (QPC). More than sixty deputies - PCF, LFI, PS - had seized the Constitutional Council at the end of July concerning the climate-resilience law. This law, inspired by the work of the Citizen's Convention for the Climate (CCC), and associated with other texts and the recovery plan, will allow France to fulfill its commitments and "tend towards the objective of -40% "greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990," assured the Ministry of Ecological Transition when it was adopted by Parliament on July 20. But many believe that the account is not there, at a time when the group of climate experts of the UN, the IPCC,underlines in their latest report that the climate is changing faster than expected due to human activities.

Hurry up

In Germany, the Constitutional Court last April censored part of the government's climate law, deeming it too unambitious.

The judges ruled that the legislation was "not in conformity with the fundamental rights" of the younger generations, thus forcing Berlin to raise its targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, to -65% by 2030 compared to 1990 In France, the Council of State ordered the government in early July to do more to meet its greenhouse gas reduction commitments.

Seized by the municipality of Grande-Synthe and several associations, he gave him until March 31 to review his copy.

The High Climate Council (HCC), an independent body responsible for evaluating France's climate policy, also considers the efforts made by Paris "insufficient". Not to mention that the European Commission now wants to reduce EU emissions by 55% by 2030, which will lead to an increase in France's commitments. Greenpeace France had submitted an "external contribution" to the Constitutional Council (informal legal note) also requesting "the global censorship of the climate and resilience law, in particular because of its lack of effectiveness with regard to the objectives of reducing gas emissions. greenhouse effect and therefore in the face of climate change ".