Between green growth and radical ecology, five presidential candidates presented their very different solutions on Sunday for France to respect its climate commitments, during a major oral organized by NGOs on the Twitch platform.

Of the 12 candidates in the first round of the presidential election, the ecologist Yannick Jadot, the LR candidate Valérie Pécresse, the communist Fabien Roussel, the candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party Philippe Poutou and the socialist Anne Hidalgo each had 30 minutes against the political streamer Jean Massiet and journalist Paloma Moritz of online media Blast.

Announced, the candidate of France Insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Mélenchon, did not show up at the last moment.

He proposed by tweet to the organizing associations, Oxfam, the Foundation for Nature and Man, Notre affaires à tous and Greenpeace France, to "stand" at their disposal "in the coming days".

While the theme of the climate emergency is largely absent from the campaign, the show, dubbed the “debate of the century” in reference to the “deal of the century” which had the State condemned for its insufficient climate action, was mainly intended to "explain the programs".

Climate protests on Saturday

It came after the mobilization on Saturday of thousands of demonstrators in many cities in France, demanding that the climate be better taken into account by the contenders for the Elysée.

Other demonstrations are also planned for April 9, on the eve of the first round.

Agriculture, food, transport, but also democratic decision-making, and the role of communities, all these themes were addressed, in the absence of immediate topical subjects such as fuel prices or energy dependence on Russia.

The candidates had to answer the question "what will the life of the French people look like in 2030?"

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The most liberal of the five, the LR Valérie Pécresse has rolled out its program of “ecology of solutions” providing in particular for 200,000 electric charging stations, the development of a market for used electric vehicles and “sustainable reindustrialization”.

She insisted on the holding of a new "Grenelle de l'environnement", bringing together members of civil society, administration and companies to reach "consensual solutions", as during Nicolas Sarkozy's five-year term.

At the other end of the political spectrum, Philippe Poutou advocated a “radical ecology” (…) “under the control of society and the population” providing for the “expropriation” of large groups and a socialized agriculture “in the hands of the small peasantry.

A “not painless” transition

Between the two, the ecologist Yannick Jadot admitted that the ecological transition would be “not painless”.

But he proposed a series of measures including the reduction of VAT on organic products, a vast plan to install 100,000 young people as farmers on small farms without pesticides, by eliminating the debt of peasants thanks to the redirection of aid the Common Agricultural Policy (9 billion euros) and national aid (4 billion).

Eat less meat?

By evoking a "more social and fairer" ecology, and the restoration of a climate ISF to finance the energy transition, Anne Hidalgo also promised "a great land law" to allow young people to settle.

Communist candidate Fabien Roussel, who has become known to the general public for his love of "good meat and good wine", sets the goal of reaching 500,000 farmers by 2030.

Asked about meat consumption, he said that it was necessary to “eat less, but better”: “it must be produced in France and respectful of health standards, in grasslands preserving the meadows which absorb carbon and we "must put an end to the importation of meat" produced according to methods prohibited in France, he said.

On the subject, Valérie Pécresse took up the defense of Puy lentils "dying compared to the lentil "made in Canada" with pesticides banned in France".

Two candidates, Yannick Jadot and Anne Hidalgo, have promised recognition of the crime of “ecocide”.

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