THE ESSENTIAL
- Emmanuel Macron speaks this afternoon starting at 4:30 p.m. after an Ecological Planning Council. This speech, mentioned between the two rounds of the last presidential elections, has been postponed on numerous occasions. Our article.
- During an interview on Sunday afternoon, the Head of State announced that he wanted to get France off coal before 2027, without setting an exit date for oil. Our article.
- True to his line of a “non-punitive” ecology, President Macron should increase the number of messages to show that he intends to encourage rather than prohibit. Therefore, diesel boilers will not be banned. Our article.
- Environmentalists are eagerly awaiting the Elysée announcements. Last June, the High Climate Council asked Emmanuel Macron to “recognize the climate emergency” and accelerate “insufficient” actions.
A speech that comes after one of the hottest summers in France
Emmanuel Macron’s speech comes against the backdrop of an acceleration of global warming.
With its late heat wave, the summer of 2023 was the fourth hottest measured in France.
France has already been condemned twice for climate inaction by the Council of State since the election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017.
Macron refuses to completely ban gas boilers
Faithful to his line of a “non-punitive” ecology, Emmanuel Macron promised this Sunday afternoon to “support the most modest households” in their own ecological transition.
As in the case of new homes, gas boilers would be prohibited. But the government finally changed its mind so as not to penalize rural areas.
However, the deployment of heat pumps will be “supported.”
Here we summarize the problems behind gas heating.
Macron announces that he wants to exit coal in 2027 after mentioning the date of 2022
The head of state declared on Sunday that France would abandon coal in 2027, converting its last two plants.
Emmanuel Macron had already promised to close all power plants fired by coal, an extremely climate-damaging fuel, before the end of his first five-year term. In one of them, in Cordemais (Loire-Atlantique), a conversion project has already been carried out.
But the Saint-Avold plant, closed at the beginning of 2022, was used again last winter to guarantee the country’s supply in a context of energy tension.
We explain everything to you here.
The head of state calls for an end to dependence on oil, without a specific date
During an interview this Sunday afternoon, Emmanuel Macron asked to get out of oil. This fossil fuel is “the most polluting,” said the president, although he did not indicate any precise date of commercialization.
The head of state, however, pledged to continue with the electrification of vehicles, producing at least one million electric vehicles before the end of the five-year period and also more batteries, with four dedicated factories.
Find our article here.
Faced with the climate emergency, Macron asks to “change gears”
The ecological planning agenda, announced between the two rounds of the last presidential elections by Emmanuel Macron, has continued to be postponed.
“We must completely change course and the nature of our efforts” to fight global warming, however, admitted the tenant of the Elysée during an interview with HugoDécrypte at the beginning of September.
Last June, the High Council for Climate asked the Elysée to “declare an emergency” and accelerate “insufficient” actions.
The independent body considers that France has been overcome by the climate events that will hit it in 2022.
Emmanuel Macron presents the ecological planning agenda
Good morning to all of you,
Welcome to this live political broadcast to follow Emmanuel Macron’s speech this afternoon at 16:30 after an Ecological Planning Council.
This agenda, which aims to reduce French greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, has been months in the making.
Elisabeth Borne had already revealed the first ideas last Monday, such as an additional 7 billion euros in the 2024 budget for the ecological transition and the financing of the metropolitan RER.
Here we summarize what has already been announced.
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Source: BFM TV
