Consume less fuel and energy, reduce food waste... The French executive details its plan for the "ecological transformation" of the State on Thursday March 28 in Paris. This roadmap is made up of 15 commitments from ministries in favor of the ecological transition.

Organized at the National Museum of Natural History, the event "will make it possible to take stock of the measures undertaken in terms of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and to open up a period of broad discussion around the commitments of the State's ecological transformation plan", explains the Ministry of Civil Service in a note to the editorial staff.

In addition to Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, Ministers Stanislas Guerini (Public Service), Sylvie Retailleau (Higher Education and Research), Agnès Pannier-Runacher (Agriculture) and Thomas Cazenave (Public Accounts), will be present, as well as regional prefects, scientists, associations and groups of public agents.

Announced a long time ago, the state's "ecological transformation" plan was published in January in the form of a circular, in the midst of a government reshuffle. It sets a series of numerical objectives to be achieved by 2024 and 2027, the last year of Emmanuel Macron's mandate.

Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5% per year until 2027 

The State wants, for example, to reduce its fuel consumption by 5% in 2024 (compared to 2022), and by 10% by 2027. Between 2023 and 2024, it hopes to reduce food waste by 10%, a target increased to 25% for 2027.

The energy consumption of certain state buildings will also have to fall by 10% between 2022 and 2024, and by 25% by 2027.

In total, the State wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 5% per year until 2027.

As all of these objectives are already public, the challenge for the government is to detail on Thursday how they will actually be implemented.

“There is a telephone number opposite each of the measures” of the “transformation” plan, insists the Ministry of the Civil Service. “We have fifteen measures and behind each action, there is the contact of a person who responds” in the event of difficulties in their deployment, we add from the same source.

After the ministers' speeches, discussions with officials responsible for deploying the plan on the ground are also on the program for Thursday.

With AFP

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