The two ministers, respectively appointed to the ecological transition and territorial cohesion, as well as to the energy transition, highlight their desire to act and to be judged “on the results”.
Le Monde with AFP
Four days after their appointment within the new Borne government, Amélie de Montchalin, Minister responsible for ecological transition and territorial cohesion, and Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister of Energy Transition, tried on Tuesday, May 24, to respond to the illegitimacy accusations formulated towards them.
Several environmental organizations have expressed their skepticism, as to the profiles and the capacity to act new names, at The Greenpeace . The non -governmental organization considered that “the chosen personalities” to supervise climatic questions “have no specific experience of their subject or vision of global issues, if not a blind belief in the chimeras of the green growth and technologies that do not exist “.
To defend their appointment, the two ministers, experts in economics but without experience on the environment, have highlighted the card of “efficiency” and ecological conviction, failing to be able to testify to a commitment Passed in the matter.
will “to be judged on the results”
“What is true is that I have never had my card to Europe Ecologie-les Verts. But I have very strong convictions on climate change and biodiversity because I am part of ‘A generation that is the one that has already seen all these changes become concrete, “said M Me of Montchalin, former Minister of Public Transformation and Function on Tuesday at the microphone of France Inter. She continued, explaining:
I am a woman of efficiency and the choice of the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, as they presented me the mission they entrusted to me, it is not to send a signal Politics with an electorate, it is not to do political ecology, it is to conduct an ecological policy which provides the French with better living.
Criticized for having voted against an amendment aimed at banning the use of glyphosate in 2018, the ex-deputy defended his choice: “If I do not regret one thing, it is to have considered that this subject was European. (…) Yes, as a member of parliament, I had made a completely assumed choice: we cannot make a horseman alone for any area whatsoever, otherwise it is our economy, this are our producers, it is our farmers that we leave in the panade “. “I can tell you the will is there, the conviction is there and above all me, I want results and I want to be judged on the results we will have,” she concluded.
For her part, Agnès Pannier-Runacher wanted to demonstrate on Tuesday on BFM-TV, that ecology was “not a new subject” for her. In support, she invoked her action as Minister of Industry “in the previous government, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from industrial sites”. The former minister also recalled that thanks to the recovery plan, France “reduced by 3.6 million tons equivalent co 2 ” his emissions. She also mentioned “the strong ecological content” of the France 2030 Investment Plan, or her work in Bercy on the “simplification of procedures” to deploy new renewable energies.
“I assume to be a technician, to work a lot, to know my files. These are complicated subjects who can only be entrusted to people who are only in the slogan or in the words. You have to be In the acts “, retorted, the one whose roadmap is” to get France out of fossil fuels “.
Monday, on the occasion of an express but symbolic visit to the natural history museum in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, accompanied by the two ministers, also wanted to give defenders to defenders biodiversity. She said that each of the ministers of her government will receive a “roadmap” by September to decline the environmental transition, depending on the portfolio.