The executive's climate roadmap unveiled. Transport, boiler change and decarbonization of factories are among the first items targeted by the government to accelerate the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the France, according to a draft presented Monday, May 22.
The action plan unveiled by Elisabeth Borne proposes for the first time quantified objectives for the major sectors of the economy by 2030.
To comply with the European objectives developed over the past two years on the path to carbon neutrality by 2050, the France wants to reduce its emissions by 50% by 2030, compared to 1990, to reach 270 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year (MtCO2e/year), against 408 million in 2022, which implies reducing them at a rate twice as fast as today.
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The transport in question
This plan, which still has to be discussed with the sectors and go through a climate-energy law in Parliament, counts in particular on the electrification of cars and carpooling, but also on an effort on logistics (electrification or transition to hydrogen of vehicles, transfer to river and rail ...) in a context of boom in home deliveries.
Transport is the territory's largest source of emissions (about a third of the total) and traffic continues to increase.
The project presented by Elisabeth Borne also counts on the gradual disappearance of oil-fired boilers, in the tertiary sector as well as the residential, as already provided for by the law that prohibits new equipment... But also, novelty, it aims at the elimination of new equipment in gas boilers, according to modalities not yet defined. An annual saving of 26 MtCO2e is expected.
In industry, the plan aims for a gain of 24 MtCO2e in 2030 thanks to the decarbonization of large sites, and a decrease of 11 MtCO2e on the rest of the industrial fabric.
This panorama was established by the Prime Minister's services, which since 2022 have a general secretariat for ecological planning, headed by Antoine Pellion and composed of about fifteen advisers.
An upcoming "ecological planning council"
To meet the French objective of -50% of emissions in 2030 compared to 1990, while the France is only at -25%, an effort will be asked of all: "no one will be able to hide", we say to Matignon.
But "we ask a little from small and a lot from big", with about half of the emission reduction efforts carried by companies, a quarter by households and a quarter by communities, it adds.
According to Matignon, half of the levers identified are already committed (support for the purchase of electric cars, the greening of industry, law on renewable energies ...).
For the rest, after the publication on Monday of this project, a series of thematic meetings is planned between ministers and stakeholders (energy, agriculture etc.), to refine this plan by the end of June and the holding of an "ecological planning council" around Emmanuel Macron.
Because the major question of financing will arise, whether to encourage the purchase of electric vehicles or the replacement of boilers in homes.
With AFP
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